Even though it is only Tuesday, this is already
feeling like a very hectic and long week. At the moment I feel like I don’t have
enough hours in the day and am setting myself extensive to do lists
every night in attempt to cram everything in before a relaxing weekend
away in Newcastle. I don’t currently plan on taking my camera with me, so I may be skipping over an outfit post next week.
At the end of last week I went fabric shopping
to check on some stock for custom orders and grabbed the last bolt of
scale fabric for the “Mermaid Scale Sweater.”
I still have enough to
make a couple of more so if you are interested in
one please email me at hipbonesandheartbreak@hotmail.com . I am thoroughly enjoying sewing again and next
year I really want to get a bit more focused with it and start making
more garments to sell a bit more regularly.
A cool thing happened over the weekend, I woke
up on Sunday and noticed a bit of an influx of followers on my instagram
and was trying to work out where my new pals had come from. I received a
comment from a lady from lookbook.nu saying
that I had been posted on their instagram! I was pretty chuffed about
this, especially considering I was wearing a top that I had made. I went
to check out the post and my excitement pretty quickly turned to hurt
feelings when I read some of the things people
were saying. I’ve never experienced negativity directed towards me
online and I guess it caught me off guard. I am making this sound a lot
worse than it was, there was maybe 3 or 4 nasty comments amongst really
lovely ones, I am not sure why we do this as
humans but I instantly focused on the negative ones. I’ve never been a
person to say unkind things on the internet. If I see something I don’t like I just keep scrolling, or if I dislike
it enough, I unfollow. I think I find it really hard to relate to why
someone would take the time out of their day to be nasty and negative,
why bother? Or if they value their time so
little that they are willing to waste it, maybe they could hand me over
a few hours! If I see someone wearing an outfit that isn’t my taste or
doesn’t make sense to me, the thought process is more along the lines
of, if they love what they are wearing and
feel good about themselves, good for them.
Luckily I had my boyfriend visiting for the
weekend and he managed to get me to refocus on the positive of the
situation, he is incredibly talented (*embarrassing proud girlfriend)
and makes drumming you tube videos and has experienced
“internet meanies.” He told me some of the silly things people had
written about him and put things into perspective, we had a giggle and I realised that I wasn’t going
to let a couple of nasty comments take away from something I was happy
about.
I know that everyone
is entitled to their opinion and having an opinion is exactly what I am
doing with this post but I think that some times in the technology age, people forget that there is a real person behind the image they are commenting on. Just because you have this space (the Internet)
to put every single thought you have out there, doesn't mean you
shouldn't do it with out a bit of thought and care, or maybe not put it out there at all because it really isn't adding but rather taking something away .
Well now I've got
that little bit of my chest back to this weeks outfit post. For the
last outfit post for spring I had to go with a bit of a floral theme xo
Diamante Flower Necklace - Vintage
