UP UP and AWAY

After a few dull years, it seems that things are starting to look up... 

I have always been intrigued by the saying "if you do a job you like you never work a day in your life" or something to that effect.. anyway I have been dreaming of being in that position... to wake up wanting to go to work, and to not want to leave work! God does that make me a bit of a workaholic? i am glad to report that this has FINALLY happened to me... well, it really is only just a foot in the door, but nevertheless I feel like I am finally on the right track. 

As always I have many ideas racing through my mind, and grand schemes that I am sure I will be working hard to achieve. 

Over the years one thing has not changed, I LOVE DESIGN, all kinds of it, and one of my big dreams is to one day collaborate with a big name on a design, I feel I have a bit of work to do before I am ready for such a step but I will get there.

But for now here is a list of what I would like to achieve (and by that mean, have the world know that i did this work):

1- shoes... shoes... shoes... 

2-  a light fixture

3- a piece of furniture

4- a piece of clothing 

I am not going to put an 'Interior' as Im currently working on that one and who know soon the world (or at least the world of design) might get to know my work.

its not really a big list at all! no really! I should be able to get that done... with alot of hard work and a bit of luck... because it seems if being in the right place at the right time, is a huge factor in most success stories!

That's my little rambling for today..

M.

The year of the BLOG!

Well this is rather embarrassing!! Two posts in  2011!, well I don't know how 2011 is over this fast! it feels like I haven't done anything last year! even though it has been such an eventful year! I survived a disastrous earthquake, I had a gorgeous baby girl, traveled around the south Island (New Zealand) in a camper van! and before the year ended I started a fabulous design job!

And now its 2012

I have BIG plans for 2012.. and blogging about it is very high up on my list!
I have done one painting last year! yes just one! so that's another thing that I would like to do more of!
I also now own a DSLR so (I have been saying this for a few month now) I will learn to use it on manual... it is not a point and shoot camera!

Well I guess my new year resolution(S) are still in progress!

let the ramblings begin!

So there hasn't been much ramblings that has gone on this blog! nevertheless the ramblings are continuous in my head!

So much so that I cant sleep well at night... well being pregnant might have something to do with it... but racing thoughts do keep me up till the wee hours of the morning too!

I am still not sure if I want to be sharing my thoughts in the big world of cyber space, but a part of me want to put everything out there who know what could come out of it right?


Right now I am in a bit of limbo ... AGAIN... and there isn't much I can do about it. sporting a lovely baby bump has not helped at all in the search for a career beginner!

So right now I am forcing myself to enjoy staying at home... and brainstorming, researching, compiling ideas so when the time comes to launch one of my ideas I could hit the ground running.

I am struggling to keep my mind off what I will wear to a friends wedding next month! not very easy to decide when I dont even know what size I will be!! i will be 7 month pregnant by then!! I will try to pop on here and add a few posts on designs I like maybe sketches of what I would like to wear..

till then
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Abandoned! no not forgotten... I'm back!

Well I did not realise that I have not posted here since November!.
This blog seems abandoned!
I suppose it is explainable though, Nov, Dec, Jan I spent on the couch nauseous and exhausted as I battled through the first trimester of this pregnancy! which is exciting and different from my first one.
Februry... Oh February you never disappoint always interesting!
My birthday is in the first week of February, this year the first week saw me move to a fabulous home and starting an internship in an awesome company, the first step to starting a dream career, also the perfect opportunity to get into my high heels and make the most of my wardrobe before I sported my 'bump'. I spent 3 weeks there, there was even talk of a permanent placement. it was bliss I do not think I've been that happy in a very long time.
Then on Tuesday 22 Feb after spending all morning doing a measure up job (My first), I returned to the office with a bounce in my step thinking "I so have this", sat down to have my lunch... and then My world shook and shattered! literally!

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake ripped through the city I watched as the walls around me swayed, twisted, cracked and tilted, glass door shattering all around me, alarm sirens blasted throughout the city center, everyone was shocked at the magnitude of the disaster (now seems small compared to the devastation in Japan).

So now I am back to where I was back in Nov! and I guess that is why this blog might see a little more action.
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Finally some paint at the end of the tunnel

Well after what seemed like forever, I picked up a brush and pallet knife, squeezed some paint out of those tubes, looked at that canvas and suddenly I was liking what I was seeing.
I think I also learnt something interesting about myself today! I didn't have anymore blank canvases around, so I went today and bought a couple, and when I got home it felt like this block I had just vanished! so I think that I couldn't finish that painting I was working on because I couldn't start a new one. So from now on i have to have at least one extra blank canvas.

Now what? To style or design?

So lately I've been doing a lot of thinking about what my next move should be.. career wise that is! Since I discovered that being an architect is not really for me I've been contemplating weather I should pursue a career as a stylist or a designer! I am a creative person and I don't think I've found my medium yet! Maybe fashion design is that medium. I've studied Graphic design and Interior Architecture, and I think I I'm ready for the next step... FASHION design, So I'm thinking about enrolling in fashion course next semester. This is really exciting... eeeeeeeeeeeee! 
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whale vomit is the new scent!

I came across this article this morning on style.com...

Another 13 is a new fragrance made for Another magazine. This eau de parfum includes a particularly unusual ingredient, a sweet-smelling and quite pricey extract from the vomit of sperm whales! ... they wanted fruity notes mixed with “something dirty”

You have got to go  read the article, its actually quite interesting...

On ANOTHER note I think the bottle and the packaging is genius, then again I'm a sucker for typography on cardboard.
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