Pssst!
I'm back...sorta. I've started micro-blogging at The LN♥too at Tumblr. No words, just images. I've been collecting random style snapshots on my phone and decided that they needed to be shared. I think it strikes the right balance of what I need in my life. No pictures that I have to set-up and edit and no words, just impressionistic phone shots of my style.
One more thing (a BIG, BIG THING!), my first attempt at this new surface pattern design career actually resulted in amazing success. I have a sock design that is being put into production at Sock It To Me! It should be available in mid-July. I'll pop back in once it's listed for sale and let you guys know the details. I'm pretty excited, if you can't tell. I was jumping up and down, giggling, and squealing for several minutes when I got the email. The design thing, it's really great and it's really happening! I have a few prints I'm prepping for Etsy. I'll also let you know when those are available. Things seem to crawl slowly since I'm still doing the whole full-time stay-at-home mom things, too, but they are still progressing and I haven't once dropped my enthusiasm. I think I finally found it. I found that thing that's for me. Does that make any sense?
One more thing (a BIG, BIG THING!), my first attempt at this new surface pattern design career actually resulted in amazing success. I have a sock design that is being put into production at Sock It To Me! It should be available in mid-July. I'll pop back in once it's listed for sale and let you guys know the details. I'm pretty excited, if you can't tell. I was jumping up and down, giggling, and squealing for several minutes when I got the email. The design thing, it's really great and it's really happening! I have a few prints I'm prepping for Etsy. I'll also let you know when those are available. Things seem to crawl slowly since I'm still doing the whole full-time stay-at-home mom things, too, but they are still progressing and I haven't once dropped my enthusiasm. I think I finally found it. I found that thing that's for me. Does that make any sense?
Closing Time
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
Yep, the title means just that. After three years of fashion blogging, I'm ready to move on. I really enjoyed building this blog, but I'm also not really sad about moving on. I would sometimes think about this day, wondering what would lead me to stop blogging on The Laundry Narrative. Funny that I always imagined it would be age factors, even though there are some awesome women in their golden years rocking their style online. I always imagined the end being sad because I always thought of it as an end instead of making way for a new beginning.
I'm going to leave the blog up so you can access my archives. I also might drop in every once in awhile to announce any exciting things going on with my new venture. Which leads me to...dun dun da duh: fiafia, my new surface pattern blog! I'll be posting my design inspiration and my work there! So for those of you who follow this blog for me and not just my style, feel free to join me over there. It's a little slow going right now because I'm building it from scratch, so mind the "dust." I would love to have you visit. Best of luck to all my fellow fashion bloggers. I'm still following many of your blogs and will definitely be using all your creativity for inspiration in my design work. Goodbye.
Love,
Fia
Daily: 310
secondhand dress, too old to remember cardigan, F21 leggings and belt, Steve by Steve Madden boots via Ideeli
I found this dress at Goodwill and fell in love with how the print on top is made up of bows that create geometric shapes in the negative space. I also like the vintage cute of the dress, but the sheerness gives it a modern twist. However, the sheerness means I need to add another layer underneath. I thought a black tank and black leggings were perfect even if I feel very much like maybe I should be in a modern dance performance.
*I tried getting better pictures of my feather extensions (as opposed to the Photo Booth pictures I took for this post), but I realized my hair was a little flat because it's time for a shampoo.
In With The New
By getting rid of the shoes in my last post, I had no qualms welcome these three pairs into my closet! I've already been getting a lot of wears out of each pair, sometimes switching it out in the middle of the day!
Out With The Old
Parting with things is always a part of moving for us and lately, I've been on a kick trying to get rid of some things. I've been holding on to these shoes for nostalgia and a touch of maybe for Halloween, but for some reason it just feels right to let them go now. I wanted a better photoshoot, but in the madness of moving, I just snapped some quick shots with my phone. (I started this post two days several weeks a month ago! Oh dear, seems like I'm easing back into blogging instead of jumping in. Oh, and I just took a sip of a new tea I bought: Cocoa Chai! Yummy!)
*I thought about titling this post "Bye, Nice Knowing You." Then I realized how cruel that would be just coming off a long hiatus.
The Clown Shoes
The Goth Boots
The Go Go Boots (or something)
*I thought about titling this post "Bye, Nice Knowing You." Then I realized how cruel that would be just coming off a long hiatus.
The Clown Shoes
The Goth Boots
The Go Go Boots (or something)
A-Ha
I promise I'm not giving up on this blog. Doth the lady protest too much?
When I took my break, it was because I was feeling overwhelmed with life, had been feeling overwhelmed with life for awhile. I stepped back from almost everything that it was possible to step back from and just focused on getting right with myself. I'd already been talking to a therapist and I think working out some of my issues made me realize that I needed drop some things and to heal before I continued on. So, I stopped blogging. I started doing some cliched soul searching. What was missing in my life? What part of me needed to be fed?
I started another blog that is public but I have really publicized or shared the link with anyone save three people. You could probably find it if you tried hard enough. I've been using it to truly journal and giving things that have been banging around in my head a place to live in the world. I needed to get these ideas out even if no one else sees them.
For a long time, I've known that I'm not a standard mold. I don't fit. Most people don't fit, but they can make themselves fit well enough with only a few tweaks. But I really don't fit and trying to make myself fit always leads to...to where I was a few months ago. I've been there before.
And it always comes back to becoming comfortable with WHO I AM. With being okay that I'm not like most people and realizing that who I am is not a judgment on others and that most people probably don't see it that way anyway.
And then, I had my a-ha moment. Which is somewhat unrelated to all these issues that I have been working through, but by getting past the baggage, the enormous weight of learning self-acceptance (all over again) on my back, I had some clarity. I was in an aisle in Michael's craft store picking out paper for a few Christmas decorations that I was DIYing this year. I spent a long time running my eyes over the papers, flipping through enormous books of decorative papers, taking in all the designs. After an hour in the store, I headed to Starbucks and sat for awhile just contemplating life and then it hit me that I really should be designing again. Only instead of graphic design, which is what I was doing pre-child, I'm interested in surface pattern design. (See here.)
To be honest, I didn't even know it existed. How did I get through a degree in graphic design without even hearing about this career? First my thought was, I could design scrapbook/craft paper. Then I pulled out my phone to do a search for what type of designer that would be and 40 minutes later, I was home spouting off ideas and dreams to my husband with appropriate title (surface pattern designer). So, you can now blame my lack of posts on the fact that I'm working on a few design projects. We are going sett up our office up after the holidays, so that I have space to pursue this new career. But it will also make it more convenient to photograph my outfits and make posts. (I've been creating some excellent outfits! Sorry I haven't posted them.)
The thing is surface pattern designers are also responsible for all the great prints you guys are wearing, so staying connected to the fashion blogging world will definitely provide me with tons of inspiration. Besides, you guys are such a fun crowd and I'm not ready to leave the party!
When I took my break, it was because I was feeling overwhelmed with life, had been feeling overwhelmed with life for awhile. I stepped back from almost everything that it was possible to step back from and just focused on getting right with myself. I'd already been talking to a therapist and I think working out some of my issues made me realize that I needed drop some things and to heal before I continued on. So, I stopped blogging. I started doing some cliched soul searching. What was missing in my life? What part of me needed to be fed?
I started another blog that is public but I have really publicized or shared the link with anyone save three people. You could probably find it if you tried hard enough. I've been using it to truly journal and giving things that have been banging around in my head a place to live in the world. I needed to get these ideas out even if no one else sees them.
For a long time, I've known that I'm not a standard mold. I don't fit. Most people don't fit, but they can make themselves fit well enough with only a few tweaks. But I really don't fit and trying to make myself fit always leads to...to where I was a few months ago. I've been there before.
And it always comes back to becoming comfortable with WHO I AM. With being okay that I'm not like most people and realizing that who I am is not a judgment on others and that most people probably don't see it that way anyway.
And then, I had my a-ha moment. Which is somewhat unrelated to all these issues that I have been working through, but by getting past the baggage, the enormous weight of learning self-acceptance (all over again) on my back, I had some clarity. I was in an aisle in Michael's craft store picking out paper for a few Christmas decorations that I was DIYing this year. I spent a long time running my eyes over the papers, flipping through enormous books of decorative papers, taking in all the designs. After an hour in the store, I headed to Starbucks and sat for awhile just contemplating life and then it hit me that I really should be designing again. Only instead of graphic design, which is what I was doing pre-child, I'm interested in surface pattern design. (See here.)
To be honest, I didn't even know it existed. How did I get through a degree in graphic design without even hearing about this career? First my thought was, I could design scrapbook/craft paper. Then I pulled out my phone to do a search for what type of designer that would be and 40 minutes later, I was home spouting off ideas and dreams to my husband with appropriate title (surface pattern designer). So, you can now blame my lack of posts on the fact that I'm working on a few design projects. We are going sett up our office up after the holidays, so that I have space to pursue this new career. But it will also make it more convenient to photograph my outfits and make posts. (I've been creating some excellent outfits! Sorry I haven't posted them.)
The thing is surface pattern designers are also responsible for all the great prints you guys are wearing, so staying connected to the fashion blogging world will definitely provide me with tons of inspiration. Besides, you guys are such a fun crowd and I'm not ready to leave the party!
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