Up to Catch or Just Catching Up

Where do I start?

First, Hello! How are you? I hope you are doing well and thank you for being here, reading this update.

Not only am I ready for summer to be over (this heat!) but I'm kind of ready for 2015 to be over. It's been a rough year for so many of us, whether it be from heartache or job stress or health issues. There have been many hours of holding each other up in friendship and many hours of quiet suffering.  

Some days I feel like the momentum of life is callous to our pain, insistent on moving forward at a pace we are often unprepared. But then there are other days where the gift of focusing on something outside of myself feels like a soothing trance of perfect rhythm. 

I wouldn't say that the rough patches this year is entirely to blame for why I have been more and more absent from this sweet space of my blog.  I've been contemplating a lot of changes, changes in theme and content and focus. 


My original goal for Fragrance Obsessed was to blog consistently for one year. You might have noticed that I have a tendency to be the most excited person about a thing for roughly two weeks, real estate license dream - I'm looking at you. Sometimes Often, I have lofty goals with poor execution and follow through.  It's one of my flaws that I consistently work on, for about two weeks at a time. 

Blogging about scented wax has almost come to an end for me. I've exceeded my desire to blog for a year by an additional year, and even though I wasn't able to grow my readership to what I wanted, I have loved talking about and being a part of the wax community. I know it's time to move on because the words don't come as easily and my pictures are starting to all look the same. 

I find that the oil that runs product driven blogs is hauls. Lots of hauls. Second is product reviews. The larger the hauls, the greater the response. Also, the most critical and honest reviews when a product is not liked, brings in the best stats. 

Purchasing scented wax gets expensive quickly. I was getting a little too caught up in buying for the sake of having something to blog. It was starting to become a problem.

Fortunately, I haven't come across too many vendors that I've felt compelled to express dissatisfaction. I'm proud though, that you can find in past posts, my honest and often hard to say opinions when I have not liked a product or other aspects of a vendor's business. There's a difference in sugar coating a consistently poor performing product by saying 'these didn't work for me but I'm sure everything else is great' versus 'these have all sucked and I'm pretty sure you shouldn't waste your money'.  Don't we all want to see the latter sometimes? Not for drama but as an affirmation that not everything a blogger buys or is given is impossibly liked. 

This is all to say that a change is coming. I still want to blog but not for Fragrance Obsessed.  I know many of you are here because of my presence in the Facebook wax groups when I first started. That was over two years ago and some of you are still reading -- I wish I could show you how grateful I am without crying big, mushy tears. According to my stat counter, most of you have googled something wax related and continue to return -- more sloppy tears for you. 

Another statistic that I pull from that stat counter is what you, my present readers, want to read. Wax, wax and more wax. If (when!) I post my most recent custom Rosegirls haul, that post will more than quadruple the amount of hits that say, this post will get. I'm okay with that. You guys are mostly here for the wax hauls/reviews and I know I will loose a significant amount of readers when I switch to the new blog. Knowing that doesn't make me less grateful for Fragrance Obsessed in any way.

While I'm transitioning over to a new blog, I have more than enough hauls backlogged to keep me busy here for a couple of months. Even with the new blog, I plan on having a very small section dedicated to scented wax. Because, let's face it, I will probably always love making my home smell delicious. 

Enough of all that! Let's talk about life. Like, I could be moving to the East Coast part time. I hated the ending of this season's True Detective. Sugaring - I'm addicted. Finally tried the cotton candy grapes - a bit sweet but interesting. I'm running out of quality TV to watch, I need something to obsess over. 

I hope you are having a great week!