I've been away. This is why...

hello and welcome or welcome back to my YouTube channel my name is Andrea I have been selling on Etsy for eight years almost nine years um and this YouTube channel is just where I share things that I'm learning things that I've learned in the past strategies and also just day in the lives of what it's like to be a Etsy seller so that is what we talk about on this channel the video I'm going to share about today is just a little bit differently different than what I would normally share um this past December probably a little bit of November too I'd have to check I have been M.I.A on this channel and this video is going to explain why that has been the case uh why I have been kind of not ghosting but just posting way less frequently than I'd normally be so this video is just going to explain that okay so I feel like all the way up through like mid-november I had intentions of vlogging A Day in the Life during my busy season so if you are not a normal subscriber to this channel uh my particular Shop sells monogram clothing and accessories and our busy season we have a heavy heavy emphasis on our busy season being like November and December we do about half of our revenue for the entire year in the last quarter so what I mean by I had big intentions was like I had been saying on this channel when I had shared Vlogs like I'm gonna take you guys for a day in the life during my busy season because our busy season is quite different than normal like the other 10 or 9 months throughout the year and so I had really really big intentions of bringing my camera along and showing you guys what my shop looked like throughout busy season so my plan was to bring my camera basically like every single day I was so excited to share those videos and then in the best possible turn of events the most exciting thing is that my husband and I found out that I am pregnant so I am so excited of course uh this is a huge huge blessing to us we recently had a miscarriage and so this is just something that like I feel so lucky to say because I'm 12 weeks and so it's just it feels unreal so I'm so so excited it's the best possible thing and the best possible excuse for not posting on a YouTube channel is that I found out I was pregnant um and so if you've ever been pregnant before or you are or not you might be like okay that's great but why does it have any bearing on whether or not you were able to post on your YouTube channel like why why does that mean you weren't posting like happy were you but why were you not posting and the biggest reason why I wasn't posting was that one like busy season is already a lot it's every single day from eight or nine to five of like active work so I understand that everybody works not everybody but a lot of people work on nine to five but this is like truly active work the whole time um and it kind of overlapped with my worst morning sickness perfectly wrong um obviously incredibly grateful and to be honest with you my morning sickness was not it was pretty mild for what most women experience or maybe not most women but what but what some women can experience my morning sickness was very mild I just felt nauseous and was really tired all day I'm just tired throughout the day um and so it was pretty mild comparatively but it definitely made it to where handling the shop at busy season and being able to get like some joy and rest at night and not just like grind grind grind through the first trimester this pregnancy it made it to where something had to fall off like something had to become um so there's this like I don't know if you've ever heard this I'm getting this is long-winded but um basically there's this idea this concept that someone come up with it's like everybody is juggling balls and they switch from glass to plastic and so glass ones are things that you can't drop and plastic ones are things that can drop and throughout your life certain things switch from glass to plastic then black to back to Glass and so I felt like getting rest and just enjoying the pregnancy as much as I could and like and filling all the Christmas orders were two glass balls and this YouTube channel which would normally be a glass ball flipped over to plastic for those couple months so that we could do what we needed to do for the glass balls I was telling my husband that I feel like this is just an intro into motherhood as I am certain that when we welcome her in July at some point we will be definitely a lot of things that used to be glass or like glass balls to juggle will become plastic and obviously a something that we've never had to juggle which is the life of a child will become a very very important glass ball and so it's just I feel like it's an intro into motherhood of like okay your priorities shift whenever you have a child we are Beyond excited I literally can't even tell you how stoked we are um yeah so just the the busy season overlapped kind of perfectly like as soon as we started to get busy whenever I started to feel kind of nauseous and tired and then pretty much as soon as our deadline orders were um filled is when I started to have a little bit of motivation again so you guys are catching me at a time whenever I'm feeling so motivated and just more awake than I was and this is not at all meant to be a complaint it was I'm we are truly truly so so grateful and excited and I know that sometimes announcements like these can be met with negative emotions for people who can't get pregnant or have have experienced more than one miscarriage or even just a miscarriage I know this can be really hard so I don't I just know that I am thinking about people in that situation if you're in that situation I'm thinking about people like you all the time and I'm just I'm very sorry if that's your case but we are really really really happy and excited um one big Saving Grace that I wanted to talk about just because um hold on one second to check my notes one of the big things I wanted to talk about that made busy season way more I'm not I'm gonna say doable because it would have been doable definitely but just made it to where I could rest at night and like made it to where it was enjoyable I guess was hiring my sister so my sister came over one day she was killing time between doctor's appointment she is also pregnant and I was like mentioning to her that I really wanted to hire someone just for like the month of December to help me just help me get orders out the door um and so whenever I said that she was like I'm kind of looking for a gap before my baby comes um like a like a a job that could fill the gap between now and when I have my baby if you if you want to hire me and I was like heck yeah I always take the opportunity to hire a sister I mean I would I love all my sisters so that is like a an easy yes in my opinion and so from then on she just started to come and work she learned how to hoop how to ship how to answer combos basically she got like the 101 knowledge of how to do everything that needs to get done in the shop and and really really helped in being able to send out a lot of orders and that was especially fun because as you guys know I've told you guys on this channel before that my mom helps me with shipping order well she doesn't help me with shipping she helps me with my shop um it's a fun thing that we do together and so also then we added another sister and so basically throughout the month of December for like three or three days a week probably maybe even four days a week we would be hanging out like me my mom my sister and then obviously my other two sisters were here but two sisters and my mom were hanging out making orders and getting to spend the day together which obviously we were all working but it was really really that was cool like I I really liked being able to have my sister there and it's been it was so helpful and obviously that was a fun way to to go through busy season to have family at the shop so all that being said all the busy season orders were uh sent out on time everything for the Etsy Shop was done on time and the ability to go home and rest and just be with my husband at night after five when we were both off of work was taken advantage of and that is why I've been gone so I wasn't I really liked that I when I got home I wasn't worried about because I like I had to truly decide like okay this isn't happening right now and that is great and I really liked that I was able to go home and not worry about editing a video or anything like that I had previously planned on bringing my camera like every day and I didn't even bring it at all throughout the whole time and so obviously I'll try and do that next year but it didn't happen this year and that's just gonna be and that's just what it is and we are and it was like the best possible trade-off of course because we're so excited um but yeah I just made it to where I didn't have to get home and worry about editing a video especially because Vlogs are a little more time consuming and just calling through all the footage and all that kind of stuff I just got to be home and rest and that was awesome all that being said like I mentioned I am now 12 weeks which means I'm kind of inching out of my first trimester and just feeling really really excited and grateful and ready for this year to come this 2023 year I never set goals for my business or my life until pretty well into January I think the earliest I've ever done it was like January 10th um I don't I don't do that mostly because busy season keeps me so busy throughout throughout the year throughout December whenever I feel like a lot of people are setting goals in December and thinking about the new year so they can start hit the ground running on January 1st but to be 100 honest with you that has never been an option for me with my business because busy season keeps me all the way tied up until like December 20th and then obviously at that point I am worn out and wanting to spend time with my family and so we never dedicate the time to set goals until pretty well into January and this year is no different I do not have any um specific goals set other than to have a child uh that which is obviously a huge goal um I don't have any specific goal set for my business really or my life all I know for sure is that it will be changing a lot all aspects of our life will be changing of course um and so that's really all I know my one goal that I have like a loose idea of is that I want to bring you guys along so my YouTube subscribers people who watch these videos I want to bring you guys along for more of the process I think in the past I've shared more like how to's and tutorials and you guys have overwhelmingly told me like when I share a vlog or a day in the life or I don't know whenever I share more of the behind the scenes you guys are like this is what I want this is what I want to see like overwhelmingly that's the response that I get um and so that just tells me that that kind of like real life real life videos about what it's like to be an Etsy seller are are are lacking in the content world and so I want to be able to share that with you guys um and so that is one idea that's stirring in my head for 2023 is that on this channel I want to share more of the process um and I just want to take you guys along as we navigate changes to our business and um obviously our personal lives but mostly I'll be talking about the business on here and just yeah so throughout the next couple months probably the next like January and maybe into February I can't remember how far I have like my content calendar like planned out I do want to bring you guys along as I set goals all that sort of stuff so something that I would normally do just by myself with the camera off which is like goal setting and just decisions that I'm making I want to bring you guys along for what that Journey would look like and how I would do that and just sort of just actually share a real life look at what the process is of being a Etsy seller rather than like a highlight reel or just tutorials so I hope that is beneficial for to you I do think that you guys will see a noticeable there still will be some tutorials but a noticeable difference in the content shift of like How To tutorial this is this is exactly what to do and more like hey this is what we're learning right now this is what I'm doing these are the decisions that I'm making and share the more of the process with you guys so that is one thing that's like kind of cooking in my mind obviously there is more but I don't nothing is like set on paper by any means and I do plan on bringing you guys along for that sort of process whenever I actually do set goals okay so I think that's all I had to say this video feels kind of like it was pieced together um like not pieced together but like a little bit choppy I think that's all I had to say um we are so excited that's why I've been away the best possible reason um yeah I think that's all I had to say and I'm gonna share more of the journey with you guys um yeah I think that's everything if you are new to this channel uh clearly this is a video for people as like an update for people who subscribe to me normally if you are new to this channel normally we clearly talk about Etsy and day in the lives and I will be sharing more of the process with you guys this year of just what it's like to be an Etsy seller thank you so much for watching we are truly truly so so excited uh so thank you so much for watching and joining me along my Etsy journey I will see you guys in the next video foreign [Music]

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Length: 14min 28sec (868 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 06 2023