Hello, my elflings! IT HAS FINALLY HAPPENED. Welcome to the new Musings of an Elf! (Even though it’s no longer called that, but details.) The wait is over and it is HEEERE. I’m a little excited, if you can’t tell.

I’m kind of in love with my new space, if I’m being honest. It’s so much cleaner and better put together than ol’ Musings of an Elf (at least I hope so?). Don’t get me wrong, I LOVED my old blog, and will forever be fond of it, but it’s nice to be on a more professional platform.

STILL. I can be extremely nostalgic. I could have redirected the URL of my old blog over to here, buuut I’ve decided to just keep Musings of an Elf as is. I blogged over at the place for EIGHT. YEARS. Through it I made countless friends, learned so, so much, and just had the best time. It’s been one of my greatest blessings. So the URL shall stay put. (I also maaay have deleted some particularly old and embarrassing posts on this blog, but they’ll forever sit in Musings of an Elf. I just couldn’t delete them forever. EventhoughIshould.)

But enough of that, let’s talk about the NEW PLACE!

MY NEW BLOG

 
Whew! It’s been a job. Though importing my blog over was as easy as a few clicks, the designing, fine-tuning, fixing formatting, and learning WordPress took aaaages. And, in fact, I’m still working on some of that. I feel like after as many articles I’ve read and how-to YouTube videos I’ve watched, not to mention just a bunch of poking around and hands-on learning, I should have a degree in computer coding by now. HA! Juuuust kidding. I still have no clue what I’m doing.

WITH THAT SAID. I have some things to address…

When I imported my blog, it changed the formatting of like…all of my posts. Meh. I’ve been going through them and fixing them up, as well as placing them in proper categories. But I haven’t gotten far, so old posts may look a little wonky for a bit, some links in them may lead back to my old blog, and the category sections don’t lead to everything yet. I have over 300 posts to go through. Heh. Bear with me. XD (Although the formatting may just have to stay wonky on some forever. Such is the price of switching blog platforms. My perfectionist self is dying inside, but I’m tryyying to get over it…)

Like I said, I’ve spent a lot of time learning WordPress but, gracious, it’s an infinite source of possibilities, and I have no clue if I’ve done everything right. So if you find ANYTHING that looks off, if links don’t work, if things act strange, etc., PLEASE LET ME KNOW. Seriously. I welcome input and critiques.

Since I’m not redirecting the old URL to here, you’ll need to re-follow me. I’ve got two options: SUBSCRIBING BY EMAIL or FOLLOWING VIA WORDPRESS’ DASHBOARD. You can find both things right on the side bar there. I’m using Mailchimp for the email subscribers annnd that was again something that required a whole lotta learning, and I’m still not sure I did it all right. #RealLife SO. Again, if the “New Post” emails you get look weird or the links don’t work or you just don’t ever get the emails at all, please, please, PLEASE tell me. Same with following me on the dashboard. If my posts never show up, let me know! I’m not even going to pretend to know what I’m doing. XD

Lastly, yes, my URL is christinesmithAUTHOR. No, I am not, in fact, a published author, and have no clue when I’ll be. Buuut I wanted to go ahead and claim that URL. Hopefully that’s not weird… But I 100% plan on being published ONE DAY. The URL is more a less a promise to myself. *grins*

Despite the maaany headaches and hours upon hours of work, I don’t regret the switch one tiny bit. I’m ecstatic to have a more professional and permanent place. I’ve seriously wanted to do this for YEARS now. It’s such a relief to have finally taken the plunge! I AM PLEASED.

I realize this post is coming at you on a random Saturday evening, instead of my usual Monday mornings. I have good reason for that. Next Monday is when…FAIRY TALE CENTRAL LAUNCHES. I had hoped to have this blog established a week or two before then but lolololol obviously that didn’t happen. Thus this thrown together post on a Saturday. But Monday I’ll be back here with alllll the details about FTC, plus another fun thing or two, so do be sure to subscribe. *wink, wink* *nudge, nudge* And if you do subscribe, you’ll be getting my usual Monday posts. Because YEP. The hiatus is officially over! My posting schedule maaay change a smidge, as I get used to posting here and on FTC, but, for the time being, I’m planning on sticking to my usual every-Monday-post.

One last thing. Musings of an Elf turned EIGHT on March 14th. I honestly can’t believe I’ve been blogging for eight years. I simultaneously feel like I’ve been blogging my whole life and just geting started. TIME IS WEIRD. I’m totally cheating though and, instead of doing a proper celebration, I’m calling switching my whole blog over the celebration. I’ve just been toooo swamped to properly celebrate. But hey, completely changing my blog over and bringing you guys a new, shiny fairy tale blog is pretty big, yeah? We’ll pretend that counts. Eheheh.

ALL RIGHT. Enough of my ramblings! I’ve got a fairy tale blog to finish planning. STAY TUNED.

LET’S TALK!

I want to know ALL your thoughts! What do you think of my new space? Anything you think should be tweaked? (Input is my favorite, so have at it!) ARE YOU EXCITED ABOUT FAIRY TALE CENTRAL??? And how was your March? I can’t wait to connect with you all again! (Don’t forget to subscribe. *grins*) I’ll be back Monday!