Attention, please! I have an announcement: This is a toy and collector blog! Formerly known as: The Glittery Toy Box.
I n 2017, I created a blog to share my collecting hobby and it turned into a space to share all of my fandom-adventures! I started blogging about my cosplay and cons (fan conventions) that I attended. However, Time got the best of me and I lost track of my blog. A major issue I ran into was image hosting. Starting in high school, I had always used PhotoBucket, but in the early 2010's they changed their policies. To this day a person will have to pay in order to use their service. The policy change was actually a huge stress on me, because I was relying on their services for 4 different blogs. Prior the change, a person had a max limit on photo storage and the amount of bandwidth used each month, which I rarely had an issue with as a small blogger. As my life became busier, I decided it wasn't worth the hassle and took a break from blogging altogether.
Over the years, I have missed blogging and the connections that it brings. So, I'm back and ready to blog!
Moving
When I decided to make a comeback with this hobby and passion of mine, I knew some changes needed to be made.
First, I had to address the image hosting problem. I wanted a space I could grow with. This may be a small hobby now, but I want the option to be able to make bigger moves. I had recently moved my personal website over to WIX and liked the building platform they provided. I discovered that I could use up to 500mb for image hosting, so I decided to move all of my blogs over to WIX.
Combined
After moving all of my blogs over to WIX, it dawned on me! Why not just combine all of my collector blogs into 1 place? And so, Magical Bun Bun's Play Site was born!
I have separate blogs for my Hello Kitty & My Little Pony collections and fandom-adventures.
Transferring
Over time, all of the old entries from the Blogger blog will be uploaded here. Old links will no longer be clickable, but all of the words and images will be intact. The older images will still read the copyright label of "GlitteryToyBox", to keep their history. They will be listed under the category of Blogger.
Direction
Unlike a lot of my other blogs that I feel totally lost their true meaning at some point, I don't have too much I want to change about this blog. I still want to share my adventures at cons and of my cosplay. I also want to share my collections and collectibles with you all. I just hope to do it all on a more consistent basis.
Future
I'm not entirely sure what the future holds for this blog, but I would love for it to be a part of a positive collectors community and a place where people, mainly adults, feel safe to express their joy in toys and collecting.
New
One new aspect that readers can look forward to: I want to start blogging about topics and issues within collecting and the collectors' community. Sharing actual collections is fun, but I also think that it is helpful and therapeutic for us to be able to share and gain new insight on topics that go beyond the products themselves. I can't express enough how much I will work to keep this a safe and judge-free zone!
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I will definitely check it out! I will not guarantee a follow if it is based on a collection I'm not interested in, but I will definitely take a look!
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