Peace.
I haven't posted in a while. Not because I haven't been sewing... I have... for other people but not so much for me. It's not that I don't have plans to sew for me, but the other people thing takes precedence. It seems like other people refuse to get a garment to you unless they need it the next day. But... I did want to ask y'all a question....
Stashes??? I don't really have one of fabric. I will purchase patterns... on sale... like crazy. But not fabric. How do you know how much fabric to buy if you aren't making something specific? I'm not saying I don't have fabric. I do. But it's only a drawer full. I have more fabric in the quilt pile which is my extra fabric after a project. My so-called stash is me changing my mind or not getting to something. I see y'all with shelves and shelves of fabric. Y'all are making me feel inadequate. I want to go into a fabric store and buy all fabric I like. But when I try that, I'm at a loss because I don't know how much to ask for. And then the notions? Should I buy some? Especially when I don't know what I'm making!
My process is as thus... (1) I get inspired. (2) I decide on a pattern (3) I buy the fabric and notions necessary for the garment. And (4) I make said garment. How do you get a stash from that???
Now if you don't mind, I'm a need for y'all to answer quickly. I'm going to the fabric store this weekend on a full paycheck. I don't know when that will happen again. And I'm a want to buy UP the store. So tell me the hows and why you have a stash because I WANT ONE TOO!!!! When you're buying random amounts of fabric just because you like it, how do you know how much to buy??? How do you know what the fabric wants to be?
Peace!
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Who am I?
Peace.
This blog gets NO LOVE from me. I have a lot of blogs and this one seems like the one that specifically doesn't fit what I'm generally doing. But I didn't want to delete it, because it reminds me of what I want to get back to. I want to embrace and manifest my inner hippy....
Last night I re-watched for the umpteenth time one of my favorite movies: Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. It's about a woman whose mother was a textbook definition of a hippie and her daughter rebelled and became a straight laced lawyer. But when the lawyer's husband asked for a divorce, she took her children and went to visit her mother. And her mother welcomed her with open arms. The lawyer chick had 2 children, one of which was in college and the grandmother had never met them.
Now yes I have Mommie issues... but this movie speaks to me because I want to live a hippie life, but in degrees. I want to live on a farm and I want to have chickens, I want to be creative in my own way, have a simple yet comfortable home. I want to wear sundresses and I want to dance naked under a full moon.... But I also want to have internet, live near a real city though not right in it, have lots of money in the bank and travel the world. I want my hippiness to come in degrees.
When I walk passed mirrors or store windows and see my reflection.... It doesn't speak to the person I am striving to express. I look like a soccer mom. A friend of mine said I look like a teacher with 3 children. (why 3 children?) The only thing I was missing was a minivan. That hurt... A lot. That is not who I am and it isn't the impression I want to give people. I admit that I have a hard time expressing myself. I hate explaining myself to people who aren't entitled to the information. I don't like to give people extra information. So to a lot of people I appear stand offish and quiet. I'm not those things... but I do have... and maintain... boundaries. It is what it is. The bottom line is I want to be a Bohemian... sounds cleaner than a hippie.... but I'm not at this present moment.
So.....
What is my definition of a Bohemian? Well I don't live in Bohemia. “Having informal and unconventional social habits” is one dictionary's definition. I think the most apropos definition is the one from the Urban dictionary... “somebody who leads an alternative lifestyle, they are not hippies because they can have an extremely wide range of different tastes in music, fashion, art, literature etc they are usually very creative people. they are above all optimists, even if they can be very cynical too(it does make sense...sort of). they like wearing a mixture of weird clothes and mix different fashions together just for the heck of it. they like weed. Generally very laid back and relaxed. “
That's me for the most part. I have never smoked weed... but let that shit become legal in Georgia... I will have a new hobby.... I'm alternative and unconventional. I read a lot. I listen to different types of music... though my favorite is HipHop...I am not a xian.... I have pagan tendencies but not truly religious pagan.... I'm a 5%er..... I observe 3/4th which includes a headwrap.... and I celebrate alternative holidays. All sounds very bohemian to me. But to look at me or my lifestyle you wouldn't think so.
So a question I'm developing is.... am I hiding? I'm not sure. Like I said previously, I don't like folks in my business, but I want it out there that I'm not like most folks... but I also want it out there that I'm not down to play in the reindeer games. So... I'm going to work on adjusting my outside to suit my insides.
And this blog is going to be a REAL reflection of who I am. Not a politically correct me. I'm a curse here. I'm a use ebonics over here. I'm a be me here. I keep a few other blogs. I have my righteous blog in Serenity's Cipher. I post builds there striving to show 5%ers as educated thoughtful individuals. I think I'm rather successful at it. I post only the truth. I have my sewing blog, the refine-ista. I showcase my sewing talents there and my 3/4ths of it all. I have my healthy blog at Within/Without where I showcase all the healthy stuff I do for and to myself But no place to I have to just sit down... chill... and drink some brown liquor. I'm a do that at this site. So if that is too much for you to handle... or if you some eavesdropping... agent type individual looking to accuse me of some shit... You need gwan on someplace else. I'm a be me here. And if I need to lock the doors.... I'll do that too.
I'm a go as I came.....
Peace
This blog gets NO LOVE from me. I have a lot of blogs and this one seems like the one that specifically doesn't fit what I'm generally doing. But I didn't want to delete it, because it reminds me of what I want to get back to. I want to embrace and manifest my inner hippy....
Last night I re-watched for the umpteenth time one of my favorite movies: Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. It's about a woman whose mother was a textbook definition of a hippie and her daughter rebelled and became a straight laced lawyer. But when the lawyer's husband asked for a divorce, she took her children and went to visit her mother. And her mother welcomed her with open arms. The lawyer chick had 2 children, one of which was in college and the grandmother had never met them.
Now yes I have Mommie issues... but this movie speaks to me because I want to live a hippie life, but in degrees. I want to live on a farm and I want to have chickens, I want to be creative in my own way, have a simple yet comfortable home. I want to wear sundresses and I want to dance naked under a full moon.... But I also want to have internet, live near a real city though not right in it, have lots of money in the bank and travel the world. I want my hippiness to come in degrees.
When I walk passed mirrors or store windows and see my reflection.... It doesn't speak to the person I am striving to express. I look like a soccer mom. A friend of mine said I look like a teacher with 3 children. (why 3 children?) The only thing I was missing was a minivan. That hurt... A lot. That is not who I am and it isn't the impression I want to give people. I admit that I have a hard time expressing myself. I hate explaining myself to people who aren't entitled to the information. I don't like to give people extra information. So to a lot of people I appear stand offish and quiet. I'm not those things... but I do have... and maintain... boundaries. It is what it is. The bottom line is I want to be a Bohemian... sounds cleaner than a hippie.... but I'm not at this present moment.
So.....
What is my definition of a Bohemian? Well I don't live in Bohemia. “Having informal and unconventional social habits” is one dictionary's definition. I think the most apropos definition is the one from the Urban dictionary... “somebody who leads an alternative lifestyle, they are not hippies because they can have an extremely wide range of different tastes in music, fashion, art, literature etc they are usually very creative people. they are above all optimists, even if they can be very cynical too(it does make sense...sort of). they like wearing a mixture of weird clothes and mix different fashions together just for the heck of it. they like weed. Generally very laid back and relaxed. “
That's me for the most part. I have never smoked weed... but let that shit become legal in Georgia... I will have a new hobby.... I'm alternative and unconventional. I read a lot. I listen to different types of music... though my favorite is HipHop...I am not a xian.... I have pagan tendencies but not truly religious pagan.... I'm a 5%er..... I observe 3/4th which includes a headwrap.... and I celebrate alternative holidays. All sounds very bohemian to me. But to look at me or my lifestyle you wouldn't think so.
So a question I'm developing is.... am I hiding? I'm not sure. Like I said previously, I don't like folks in my business, but I want it out there that I'm not like most folks... but I also want it out there that I'm not down to play in the reindeer games. So... I'm going to work on adjusting my outside to suit my insides.
And this blog is going to be a REAL reflection of who I am. Not a politically correct me. I'm a curse here. I'm a use ebonics over here. I'm a be me here. I keep a few other blogs. I have my righteous blog in Serenity's Cipher. I post builds there striving to show 5%ers as educated thoughtful individuals. I think I'm rather successful at it. I post only the truth. I have my sewing blog, the refine-ista. I showcase my sewing talents there and my 3/4ths of it all. I have my healthy blog at Within/Without where I showcase all the healthy stuff I do for and to myself But no place to I have to just sit down... chill... and drink some brown liquor. I'm a do that at this site. So if that is too much for you to handle... or if you some eavesdropping... agent type individual looking to accuse me of some shit... You need gwan on someplace else. I'm a be me here. And if I need to lock the doors.... I'll do that too.
I'm a go as I came.....
Peace
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