Oh life...

So I've made my way back to FIT after 6 years! Pretty crazy that it's been six years already, but I am so so sooo happy to be back. Seeing the city skyline still gives me butterflies and makes me extremely happy just as much as it always has. I have some bizarre extreme love for this city. It inspires me and fills me with energy, with so much chaos and movement I somehow feel less stressed, almost relieved when I am there. I feel more home than anywhere else, I feel like it's the missing link to my being when I am not there. SO not only has finally putting my talents to use and learning more excited me, but being in the city regularly has too. Everything feels so right this time around, probably because I am doing something that I really want to do and am genuinely good at. I can bust out a line of accessories so quickly it's insane. Never in my life did I ever plan or even think that I would be an accessory designer. I just fell into it, it just gradually started to happen it's so bizarre. At some point I consciously stopped trying to live so much according to how I planned it should be at what age and what I should have been doing. Instead, I just followed life much like driftwood on the ocean. I've been going wherever the waves push me and eventually i'll arrive on the shore of where I should be. It's amazing how much easier life starts to feel when you start paying attention to signs and opportunities and going with them instead of working against them or not taking them just out of fear. I get so anxious for classes all the time because it doesn't even feel like class. I'm so eager to learn all these new things about accessory making and I love sitting in class just designing things. I just entirely love it so much, I'm so passionate about it and bringing my own vision and style to the fashion industry. I could go on and on, I just feel really great about my life and the direction it's been going in. My hard work is paying off and I love seeing the results of it.

Once again...

It's been a long time away. I have been completely engulfed in work. I busted my butt with Killa Luxe the whole summer and have sold so many pieces it has entirely blown me away how much success I've had with it so far. I've also been working a lot at the boutique and now classes have started as well. Saturday I am attending an after party for fashion week and I am absolutely thrilled to be on the guest list. I am however so baffled about what I might even wear, too exciting! I have so many ideas for great outfits I just can't decide on which way I want to go with it. I have always been extremely ambitious my whole life and although people like to tell me I have pipe dreams nothing I have wanted has been a dream thus far. I think everything is possible, and as long as you want it you can achieve it. Just have to be focused and actually attempt your goals. A lot of people believe they are pipe dreams because they are extreme, and the intangible but that's only true if you let it be. I make attempts at what I want and I don't stop until I get what I want. I live my life the way I want to, and no one can stop me from achieving my dreams. Not one person. Go as far as your dreams take you, and magic will happen. I promise you this.

Love Love,
DH

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress..."

That was said by Frederick Douglass. I've been in super inspiration mode and looking for things that will keep me focused and on track with my goals. I've come to realize a lot in the past few weeks about goals and your dreams. I've realized that really nothing is out of grasp. No dream is too big, or too extreme to become a reality. What matters is to work for it. Work hard. Things are not just given to people because they really want it. Opportunities present themselves frequently but sometimes people are not open to them, or they don't see them. You must be present with yourself and your surroundings, keep your eyes open to find those doors open to you and your goals. Sometimes (and most of the time) you have to start from the bottom up. That makes the goal that much more rewarding when you finally get there. I've realized that fear can get in the way of your biggest dreams. The simple fact that you might fail at what you want to do is discouraging, but if you keep working at what you want, and teaching yourself what you need to know, meeting people involved with what you want to do, you will get there. Sometimes you're so much in a rush to be at the finish line that you're passing up every opportunity to make it happen. You have to be fearless in order to succeed, and that is with anything you do in life. Everything you do, that you are passionate about, put your best foot forward, and work as hard as you can for it. It will come, just be patient and KNOW that it's going to happen. Knowing it's going to happen is a lot different than wanting, or thinking it will happen. You must know that it will happen, and it will. Think about the pyramids, do you see how much of a great achievement that was for the Egyptians? There were so many times that those people must have felt it was impossible to finish those massive creations, but centuries later, they're still standing, and they're finished. They had to do that relying on only their own strength, they didn't have machinery to help like we do now. Not only that, they've created more than one. When you feel like giving up think of great achievements like that from our predecessors. You really can do anything you put your mind to.

Believe in yourself and in your dreams.

As you all might have already known...

I've always had a fascination with Andy Warhol, since I was about 12. But,I just wanted to share this and blurt this out because I think it's extremely amazing and it makes me happy in a strange sense I can't explain. I've always had this huge strong attraction to Union Square, I've always brought my sketchbook there and always drawn out inspiration from sitting there and watching my surroundings. But I found out that Andy Warhol's studio after he had the factory was at 33 Union Square West! I always find these funny little things in life, things are a lot more connected in ways you sometimes might never get to realize. Like they say, things are never by coincidence. I believe that, and I just felt truly inspired and amazed by this. I've always had such a intense pull to Union Square and I love knowing this little fact that this is where he looked out his studio window and painted some of his greatest pieces. Little things like this can make my day.

Love Yourself...

I just stopped by Gildas Blog, and she had a quote that Sheryl Crow said that had inspired her post and by reading her post it inspired me. I think everyone should see this:

"I used to take my body for granted, but I have a stronger sense of my own feminine power and sensuality now! [crow is a breast-cancer survivor]. The sexiest thing to me is knowing and embracing who you are. Not changing yourself to look younger but honoring every stage of life and the wisdom that goes with it. The stuff that stressed me out in my 30s I feel liberated from in my 40s. With that comes a sense of joy and a youthfulness that’s real, not manufactured."

I thought I should pass this on, because I feel sometimes ( a lot with people I know even) that people worry too much about how they look to other people, or their own friends and family even. The only person you should worry about is yourself. If you're happy with the person you are than that's all you need. If you want to wear a tutu because that's the mood your in, do it! Who cares about the strangers? You'll never see them again anyways, live in the moment. I own everything I do all the time. I know I'm the only person that will ever be responsible for my happiness, where my life is going, and who I have in it. So today make that your priority and own who you are. You will always be happy with your life when you take charge of your own happiness. No one else can do it for you. Don't be one of those strangers that look at people who choose to look the way they want, because they do own themselves and they are happy with the way they are. They're living their life they want to and that should be inspiring to you instead. It is extremely empowering to love yourself, it'll do wonders in your life and will make it a lot more fulfilling. I hope this was as inspiring for you as it was for me.

Thanks Gilda for the great quote and inspiring me as well. We should keep this going. <3