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Loving life right now – the weather is warm and today is a public holiday! My lovely sister Jemmi sent me this pretty Chloe top from London around a year ago, which of course I promised to send photos of me wearing for her to see. Did I do it? No… Bad sister huh?!
So better late than never, this is for you Jemmi xx
Top/Chloe, Shorts/Vintage Levis, Shoes/Choies, Necklace/Gift from Dad
Well that certainly got your attention didn’t it?! Sorry to say but I won’t be giving you some enjoyably cringe-worthy rhetoric on my love life and how to find it. I am referring more to how hard it can be to find content I love enough to post about. Most weeks, I am bursting with ideas and inspired by almost everything I happen to come across, and other weeks I am scouring my go-to sources in a panicked state. And really, when will you ever find anything in a state like that?
This week has been one of those weeks… Feeling rather lackluster, which may have something to do with the fact that everything I touch either seems to go wrong or stop working, I have been struggling to feel that hint of exhilaration when you discover something truly special. Don’t worry, it’s not you, it’s me… it really is.
So in an attempt to get brainstorming I stepped back and…
a. Poured through the pages of Sibella Court’s ‘Etcetera‘
b. Reminisced over travel photos
c. Bought my first sketch book and pencil set and began sketching ideas
d. Re-opened one of my favourite books – Recycled Home by Sally and Mark Bailey
e. Indulged in some retail therapy
f. Hell, I even bought some neon thread just because I liked the colour
I wouldn’t exactly say I am cured from my failure to see brilliance yet, but things are on the up. It got me thinking though, how many of you lovely fellow bloggers have similar days or weeks? Or is it just me? Do you wait patiently until that inspiration comes back or do you have rituals, places, or things that help? I’m off to style a Summer wardrobe today – let’s see what the day will bring!
xx
I met a friend yesterday who, with that look of sheer apprehension and fear across her face, told me about her upcoming plans to visit India. It kind of made me laugh, as I momentarily relived the utter terror and excitement I had felt as I departed for Mumbai. What is it about India that sends people into a panic? Is it the filth, the poverty, the overwhelming chance that you will indeed get sick? And yet, many of us take it on; almost thrilled by the chance to be awoken, with an equal probability that this will occur in a good or bad way. When I consider my reasons for riding this crazy rollercoaster, I remember longing to feel something, anything… numbed by the monotony of my life, I was desperate to be shocked, challenged, roused, energized. To that end, my wishes were fulfilled, as I witnessed 3 year olds sleeping alone on the pavement, dead bodies being burned along the ganges, palaces and forts dripping with excess, slums filling every free space, the most saturated colours I have ever seen, men grabbing and touching anywhere they please, beggars so deformed I could not even make sense of their bodies, feasts of oh so delicious food, and the searing heat of the desert that made my own jewellery burn into my skin like an iron.
So to my dear friend, about to undertake her own journey – you will be awe-inspired, you will wish you could come home at times, you will cry, you will laugh so hard it hurts, you will need the toilet (a lot), you will be changed forever, and you will most certainly go back.
Here are my first impressions – taken in the first 24 hours of arriving x
I find the first days of Spring so magical… New life, flowers are blooming, and finally the end of Winter is in sight. I took these yesterday as I was enjoying the sunshine x
