Fashionista!

I see still no takers on my blog. Oh well, I'm not easily discouraged, thank goodness. So here I am again on this fine Wednesday morning. I am done with my self inflicting crap about not selling my products right now. It's time to move on and it is a beautiful day. I sat down to the Secret already and now I'm ready to go. Yes, I follow the Secret, it helps me stay aware of the thoughts I am emitting. I have a friend that calls it a cult movement and though it maybe, the laws of attraction are part of something much bigger. The 7 Hermetic Principles of the Universe. I have known these laws for some time as do many of us. We just don't realize we are using them. I explained that to my friend and she stopped calling it a cult for a wee bit.
So I was thinking about fashion this morning because I know this young man close to me looking to break into fashion. It got me thinking about fashion in reference to myself and people around me. My mum dressed her butt off when I was a little girl. All my friends envied me as a children when they saw my mum strutting up the street. She dressed my big sister in the current fashions when we were growing up too. My sister was very cool to look up to. She worked in the fashion district as a buyer for a wee bit before tiring of it all together. As for me, well mom dressed me very different and she had more control on what I wore; hand me downs, second hand clothes John's Bargain store. It was no wonder I would dress more like boho/gypsy and feel very comfortable. Of course being an artist has it's advantages, too. This bought another thing to mind, our brain. Now I get why they held Michael Jackson brain for so long, creativity. Someone once asked me how it works to be a right-handed person and I paint and write. It works just fine for me. The funny thing is creative people are creating all the time in their head. We can't shut it off. That is why we are looked at as strange, crazy, not all there, weird, lost touch with reality, different or eccentric. We are all of them and most of us go crazy after a while. Michael Jackson and Mozart were musical genius, need I say more. Look at Van Gogh and Pollack, need i say more. To be an artistic individual is to be a little eccentric. Our view of the world is very different from the norm and we see nothing wrong with that. We don't go out of our way to be different than the rest, our creative process just is.
Back to fashion, look at Betsy Johnson, she is phenomenal. Is she creative? Yes. Is she eccentric? Yes. Is she an artist? Most definitely yes. To be a designer in today's society you have to be a little eccentric, a little out of touch. We revamp everything and give it a brand new name; 1950's Pedal Pusher became the 1990's Capri's, the 1970's mini-skirt became the 1990's Squirts and the 1970's Hip-huggers became the 2000 butt-crack exposer. I love movie's and t.v. show's like Sex in the City, The Devil Wears' Prada, The Women and Project Runway were they are showing fashion in the making. Not all fashion trends start with famous people. They are not always in the magazine, they just get credit for something, someone, somewhere wore to work, or to a party or club. So all you fashionista's going to work, stay at home mom's, teenagers, college students or whatever. Go on a strut your stuff, make the sidewalk your runway. You are the designer of your own collection.

A Supportive Boost

I went into the city to see a friend of mine. She has been helping me with the manuscripts for my novels I've written. It's a scary place to be, trying to get your products out to the public and hoping it will catch. I have a few friends with their own business and they are doing the best they can holding their business down. I have friends that took a chance to find themselves and left the comfort of a permanant job to pursue their dreams. You go out their and take chances and hope for the best. Most of us don't always have the money to reinvent ourselves or start our own business. My girlfriend reminded me why I do what I do. We always tell ourselves a year from now we will look back at this moment and laugh. I am not laughing right now but I definitely look forward to it. Thanks Banel for cheering me up.

Taking chances

I was thinking this morning of a few things; 1) Will anyone look at my blog? 2) I wonder when the movie August Rush will come back on again. 3)I want the movie An American in Paris on dvd for my birthday.
It was very cool that the movie August Rush was on this morning, so I am watching and listening to it now. Unfortunately, no one look at my blogs but I won't give up yet. This blog is about being yourself and yes I have two blogs. It was an accident but now I will just make them both work. I thought about my father this morning, thinking about bow much I miss him. I wonder if he is proud of me. I took a huge chance this year. I got layed off of work twice and I took it in stride. Each time I went to work, it kill my creative child inside. I was punchy because I was creating and losing works of art in my brain. I couldn't find real time to create and when I did, it seemed I was always trying to do alot in a small amount of time. Even though, I was producing good stuff it could have been better and more if I found the time. So, whenever I went back to work, a voice inside kept saying, "The time focus on you." I didn't listen and when I got layed off again, the voice repeated the same thing. It wasn't until the third time that I decided to listen and I have been so scared. I am painting, creating wearable art, writing my books and nothing has really become of it but, I'm happy. I'm not afraid to face the critics, even though I know they maybe brutal but a true artist never let's go of there dream. In the background I am listening to the final song in the August Rush movie and it brings tears to my eyes because the average person doesn't know what it means to live and breathe your natural gift. To be true to yourself when everyone around you thinks you're mad for giving up your job that was slowly killing you inside. The mechanics in the work place is to churn work out and not care about the little guy that is giving up their dreams to make the grade. For so long many people look at what I do as a hobby. It's not a hobby, it's who I am. They say a real artist does their work for themself, that to be validated. That is why so many of us are on the street corner or open fairs trying to get a leg up. What should it cost a person to be true to themself?

Following your dreams

How many people hesitate in doing what they love. We are raised to believe we can do whatever we want to. Many of us set out to do just that until life gets in the way. I believe there are many people out there in the world unhappy because they didn't follow their dreams. I am an artist by trade and it is a natural talent I have. I recently decided to focus on my craft of art. There is a reason why they call us starving artist. It is because we starve to practice our craft and follow our dream. It is an expensive gift to have and you have to do it because you love it. I know when I am not creating or when outside work becomes priority, I die inside a slow death. It seems more and more people are taking the chance to start their own business. It is labeled, reinventing yourself. Since I started focusing on my craft, I can't say it has been fruitful but i can't stop creating. I wonder if we could start a whole new Bohemian movement. An American in Paris is my favorite all time movie. It is an artist and fashionistas dream movie. I have always been surprised it has never been recreated on Broadway. The artist movement in Paris in the late 18 hundreds thru the 1940's or 1950's was a great time for artist. The life of the city was free and romantic. So many artist, writers and musicians from the states were drawn to Paris for that reason and it still gives off that aura. When I decided to follow my dreams and take a chance, I came up with the idea of reproducing my art on an Eco-friendly tote bag as an advertising technique. Some may say it is not original but it has to start somewhere.
Let's open up dialog. What are your thoughts?