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Well

It has been a long time since I did a post, and seeing as it is the holidays, and I have a lot of spare time, I thought it was right that I would make one.

I am a lazy person. I know that, my family knows that, so pretty much it's a well known fact about me. Getting my laptop and writing up a post just felt like something I couldn't do/couldn't be bothered  to do for a while. I was stuck on what to post and I felt as if I lost my passion for a while. After over a month of procrastinating (one of my many talents), I realised that all the hours of work I had put into this blog was potentially about to be flushed down the blogging drain. Passionately, I have worked up the right attitude to dedicate myself back to my blog. I am going to get back onto my one post a week schedule and commit to it. I apologise to everyone who regularly read my blog and expected a post from me of which I couldn't deliver.

Now with all the deep things out of the way, I think it would be a good time for a bit of an update.

About 2 months ago I was told something that literally meant quite a lot to me. Although it wouldn't mean a lot to anyone else, this made me feel so warm and aspirational. During one of my art lessons last term, my teacher came up to me, picked up my drawings and stared at them. I'm making this sound like a dramatic scene in a movie aren't I? Anyway. She told me that my drawings were nice or something which was such a compliment, but the thing that really stood out for me was this. My art teacher told me that I was a designer in the making. Literally after I typed that my tummy got a weird feeling hahahah. Becoming a designer or working somewhere amongst the fashion industry is a dream I have literally had all my life. Even when I was little my Mum would notice the little details and things I noticed in clothing or even just a sign on the side of the street. When I was little my Mum would often take me to Pumpkin Patch because I was probably nagging her about it. She said I always knew exactly what I liked and what I didn't and that I had a large fascination for the shoe section. I think I can say Pumpkin Patch was one of my favourite places in the world during that stage of my life. From then on to yr 7, when I would draw myself living in Paris with a baby blue Vespa and running my own label, to now when I'm regularly designing any little thing that comes to mind on a free printable from google images, I think this dream has been a part of me for as long as I can remember. Although I do not take fashion design at school there is a reason for that. As strange as it sounds, and as argumentative as it could be, I didn't think I needed to "learn" fashion at school. I do REALLY want to go to design school, and maybe not taking fashion was a bad idea in some aspects, but I think starting off a business with no academic experience can be just as successful. As mean as this sounds, learning how to design with people who didn't actually aspire to be in fashion industry didn't appeal to me and still really doesn't. Fashion is a part of my life I feel so passionately about and I'm sure is the same with millions if not billions of other people in the world. I think the only people that realise my admiration for fashion is my parents. My parents show a lot of trust in my opinion when it comes to fashion. They will often ask me "do I look good?", "Does this look alright?" or even just straight up "WHAT SHOULD I WEAR?". It makes me feel happy knowing that my parents trust me to know what looks good and what doesn't. But anyway, when my teacher told me this, I can't say that I could reply to her with anything other than "aha thank you" as well as a subtle blush on my cheeks. But I know now that what I could reply to her with is something similar to this paragraph if not, more.

That got long oh my gosh. 

On a bit of a less deep note, I'm currently in Wanaka on a skiing trip. The snow hasn't been so good, but my skiing has! I'm am so proud because I can confidently go down blue runs with parallels now which is such a big deal for me. People who ski will probably laugh at that but who cares. The past week of skiing has been a lot of fun and I can't wait to go to Telluride in January as well as L.A (!!!). 

Im trying to think of things to update you on and I just remembered something. I'm thinking of organising some outfit posts soon, so hopefully I will get around to doing that! Stay tuned...

I think this is around the end of this post, but I just want to apologise one more time for my lack of efforts towards blogging recently. As Maya Angelou said, "All great achievements require time".

Xx