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Goodbye January.

Hello February!

Please treat me right this month. I need need need to get my life back on track. All the drama in January shouldn't be brought into this month!

Plus tonight i re-open the online store, www.ohsofickle.com.sg! Please let everything go smoothly~ less Cheats around!!! Better still, none at all!

Also, in January, C & I had many :( days! We have a calender on his cupboard and everyday we put our mood that day either a :),:( or :|! There were like 7 :( i think?! That's 1 week of sadness?! Please let Feb be filled with :)s! Moreover, Valentines' Day & CNY's in Feb!!! My 2 most favourite occasions~

Back to the Grid But With Plans

Always have your plans, gotta make some money today though, get back to my fashion collection when I've got a gap of time available. trying to develop some plans with a friend from US of Africa and take care of my kids and my sick cats. One of the kittens have swollen front paws and diarrhea and I don't even have grocery money let alone vet fees to spend on him. I'm trying some ground black seed though, it's apparently a powerful anti-microbial and immune support. And mustard seed powder, you may not know this but it contains the now coveted selenium, anti-cancer agent as well as other things. I'll start a new blog for my cats and herbal log there.

Yeahh! Got My Sketch Work Done For My Collection!

Okay, now we're talking, I've got all the sketch work done for my new collection, I've taken pictures of all of them, I have to load them up to my computer now from my camera so I can do the color work on them and other stuff, flats and so on.

The other day I went on apparel search.com and tried to find out where my collection would be well received, Europe is almost a sure shot. Well I was talking to my husband about it when he called and he was asking me afterwards "how do you know you can have a job like that? wonder if you can't keep having those wonderful ideas?" His seeming lack of faith in my imagination and ability really kicked me but I told him something really valuable I've learned over the years thanks to reading Julian Seamans books, there are no original ideas, and no such thing as artists block. When you need ideas for a new collection, you don't necessarily look for inspiration to come from your own head, ideas, concepts, nothing. What you need to do is be yourself, cultivate a love and appreciation for everything visual, art, architecture, history, all cultures, museums, landscape, past fashion, so called futuristic fashion, movies and so on, even cultivate the ability to appreciate the visual elements of things you don't like or rather be able to spot whatever there is about them that is worth something of note.

You love everything, so what next? Okay, what you've got to do now and this is where being yourself comes in, anything that speaks to you, think about it, look for what ever things you've seen you'd like to combine in different ways to produce some interesting, functional, wearable and beautiful ideas for garments, that's simply what I do. It's true you don't do this very well if you don't culture a love for visual elements everywhere from pretty much everything, but that is something you can learn. Don't forget to learn about different design elements, garment cuts for example so that you've got a variety of them as well that can be combined with your visual chemistry's.

While your putting things together like that you've also got to keep current fashion trends in mind, see if some of them can be thrown tastfully into you collection's design and also be aware of color trends to for what ever forward season you're designing for that way you're collection will be up to date. Have fun!

Every Step Brings You Closer

I watched 'Signe Chanel' again on youtube, I love french documentaries especially about fashion, got to find some more. I've got a little more than half my sketches left to do on my collection before I can get them on my computer for finishing. When I'm done I want to do three things

1. put together my fashion design/art resume
2. post my new collection on all the free portfolio/fashion portfolio sites
3. send my links over to all the Turkish and Kuwait and whatever other clothing manufacturing companies that I think may be interested in my work.

Sounds like a plan, I want to see if someone will hire me to design even without me knowing patternmaking. Also I've got to remember that I should draw up the flat images of the garments to accompany the illustrations. Those are for the patternmakers there to understand the garment better so they can make a pattern that will re-create the depiction of the illustration. See? My mind is thoroughly on my dreams.

Any way though, I've got to get back to my writing work, just had to drop in and let everyone know that I am still in the fashion design hopeful sling. I'm just stuck like the pig in the mud of life. Wait Till The Summer! Oh God, I plan to be done with my new collection way before that, and I think I'll make it the trend cast colors for this coming fall and winter navy blue and brown. Well that's a wrap, back to the grind folks.

NOTICE

I'll be away from Wed-Thur! Will be meeting my supplier (overseas) to discuss some stuff! Will be back on Fri to send out all outstanding packages, settle refunds as well as reply all the unreplied e-mails.

Tiffyiffy

My new favourite Youtube singer!



p.s Yowwww can you quickly get your covers done~~~ so the world can hear you? Hahaha.

Hachiko

Have ya'll caught Hachi?

If you haven't go watch it!! Beautiful story that'll tug at your heartstrings. If Marley & Me made you cry, this one will surely make you cry 10 times more. I didnt think of watching it until C briefly told me what it was about...

It's about the loyalty of a dog. The dog walked his owner to the train station in the morning and then picked him up from the train station at evening time everyday. Then there was this one day, his owner never came back cus he died of a heart attack. However, he still faithfully waited at the same spot at the same time everyday for 9 years till he died. Read more (here).

Oh! Did i not mention? 'm having 2nd thoughts about driving...ever since my 3rd practical lesson. Have a very bad feeling. Like what everyone says, i'll prolly kill whoever who's in my car? Y'know up till today, I cannot even brake properly!! So much for being so enthu when it came to passing my theory. The theory part was supposed to be the hardest part of it no?? At least i thought it'll be since I'm such a "hands on" person?

Ugh....but i shan't give up cus i really want to drive a pink car. If you've been reading my blog since i started, the following pictures would be familiar as hell cus this is like the 3/4th time posting about it! IT'S BEEN MY DREAM SINCE 14!

Previously it was about how i can't wait to get my license~ Now...when i can get it already...SIGH. As long as it's a beetle and pink - any shade of pink! I don't care if the car is lousy or what!







I know if i don't get a driving license i'll NEVER get to get it...don't think my boyfriend would wanna drive this just for me? Hmm....or maybe he would...? ;) HAHA.


Ok maybe it's too soon to give up....imma go book my next lesson. Shall decide after that.

p.s i'm SO sick and tired of explaining myself. even if i do, people will still make their own fucking assumptions. will prove to those who listen & to those who still want to talk shit, go ahead. i don't live to please the world. believe i've said my piece, taken the blame and acted responsibility for what's not entirely caused by me. apologised umpteen times and did all i can to resolve the mess. plus, i wouldn't last this long if i've been cheating my way up. think about it.