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Not only am i excited about treating my ears to some amazing musical bleeps and bloops (and of course not forgetting becoming reacquainted with some much missed old faces), but i'm also itching to get out of this country and swamp myself in buckets and buckets of lovely inspiration. My creative self hasn't been putting the effort in lately and over the past week i've decided to give her a good, stern talking to to try and find out just exactly what the problem bloody well is. Turns out that creative self doesn't thrive well when working a full time day job and being tired. She also isn't a fan of routine and certainly isn't impressed by spending too much time in the same place wondering what the point in expressing your creativity is when you don't even have time to appreciate and develop your own work, let alone have the hours to promote your lovingly crafted goods enough so that other people can appreciate it.
And that's precisely it, i've become a bit cynical and a bit 'meh' about everything recently and i don't want to be that person, i have so much stuff to be excited about! After having numerous long distance chats with the boyfriend (god bless that boy, he has the patience of a saint and superb listening skills, well even if he's not really listening, he does a very convincing job of making me think that he is!) and a good, long chin wag with my friend Ellie over a bottle of Bulmers in our local last week, the proverbial fog has lifted. It seems it's not just me that's feeling this way. It's easy to forget that bearing the weight of reality on our shoulders, whether it's family pressure, money worries or working too hard, makes us forget the bigger picture. I get so swamped down that i sometimes feel like i'm the only one in the world that feels that way and i become lazy and my motivational skills run off into the sunset never to be seen again.
Anyway to cut my mammoth story short, Ellie and i have decided to become a team. When one of us is slacking off or feeling sorry for ourselves, there's someone there to kick the other up the arse and tell her to sort it out (think 'sort it aaaawwwt' Peggy from Eastenders style mockney accent) and also to share the load. Both of us have felt we're struggling in the creative department recently, me because the thing i love to do is make things/drool over vintage anything/sew stuff/write about the aforementioned subjects and generally touch/do/make/talk about anything crafty. I loath website talk/ HTML/can't use design software/even if i did love computers i don't have time to do computer jazz as well as making cool stuff.
Ellie, on the other hand, wants to get started with a creative project, she is one of those girls who takes to new technology (jesus it's 2011 not 1981, i am so slow on the uptake) like a psychotically hoarding bag lady to a carboot stall. So with her technology and marketing skills, my craftage & our combined obsession with all things vintage, we're starting work on a new project. Still the same old handmade ethics of 'Girls Wear Pink', but with a little extra vintage sprinkled in & a super cool new website. I will keep you posted and stop being quite so cryptic as we make progress, however let me put it simply:
There will still be lots of this:
Definitely as much of this as possible (however, unfortunately probably not quite so Parisian as this):
.....but from now on there will be a heck of a lot more of this:
1 comment:
love that gameboy brooch so much. have fun at the festival
Bow Dream Nation xx
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