And, this is why I blog

I have found so much of what inspires me through my favorite bloggers, that the creative person in me thought it might be appropriate to give it a try at some point - appropriate, like in the way that we say that we will eventually do something but never actually get around to doing it.  I don't even know how long I was talking with my friends about starting a blog before I finally had the courage to do so. 

And then... Pinterest came along.  If you've visited my boards, you will know that I am a bit excessive enthusiastic with my pinning at times.  After pinning some several thousand images (I'm not kidding), I realized that blogging is not necessarily that much more difficult.  It also allows you the freedom to express your thoughts and personal images a bit more clearly.  So - once I quit my job to figure out life, I no longer had any more excuses - et voilà!

I'm still very much in the experimental stages here, and I'm still figuring out what I'd like it to be - but everyone has to start somewhere, no?  Garance said it so clearly in her most recent post that I would like to share it with you here.  It's bloggers like her who encourage me to try something like this, even if it's not the most polished thing at first.  Maybe one day I will be the professional she has become, maybe not.*

So please, have patience with me.  I will never stop envying understand how people in their early twenties can already be so successful in their careers!  Of course it's easier if you're wealthy, but I'm talking more about having such clear vision that enables you to be determined enough to succeed at such a young age.  How does anyone know what they want at 22?  At 26, I'm realizing that the more I learn makes me realize how much much I don't know, that ignorance would obviously prevent me from making the wisest decisions, how I still have the whole world in front of me but don't know what I want, that I don't know what I want for lack of knowing what is worth my having - and it goes on and on.

Perhaps it's easier if you start your career earlier, but then I wouldn't have read all of that English and American literature, I wouldn't have studied as much history, or practiced as much French.**  I like to think that it will somehow inform my future creativity, haha!  Alexander McQueen was quite the academic, wasn't he?  Maybe I'll have a show organized for me at the Met someday??  OK, OK - I know that's enough; I'll stop being dramatic.

But, in short - I'm finding myself stuck somewhere in the middle between the day dreams I had in college and the disillusionment that came with working in the real world as a corporate designer.  Are my dreams merrily a symptom of my unfitness for the fashion industry of today?  Or, are they a hint of what might be to come?  To push for something different (and possibly better), one cannot simply be happy with the status quo.  Like Garance said in her post:

Everything still has to be invented, and to invent it we must try.

So! - I will keep trying.  Maybe if I keep posting irregular things as they come to me, it will be something like my approach to decorating a space.  If, instead of looking for something to furnish a space for the sake of it or being so concerned that everything you buy matches, rather focusing more to choose items that really speak to you in some way (minding of course that you don't get something like 12 rugs just because you like rugs), you will find that in the end, your eclectic assortment of odds and ends somehow speak to the different elements of your personality, consequently allowing your space to look more naturally furnished - and thankfully, without that contrived look that so many model homes have.

Maybe nothing will come of it, but then again - maybe something will.  :)

xx,
Kathrine



*I can tell you now that unless I can (1) get over my laziness to carry around a heavy camera with me in lieu of my iPhone, (2) learn how to be French in that je ne sais quoi kind of way, (3) hunker down long enough to improve my illustration skills, and (4) find a famous blogging/photographing/fashion editing boyfriend, I will never (ever) be in her league.

**I also wouldn't have learned so much about film history from Robert Osborne...any other TCM fans out there??