Running on fumes.

''Even dust, when accumulated, turns into a mountain.''

27 hour days aren't fun. I wanted to let you know just in case you were planning on making a colossal mistake in the near future. It goes without saying, some sleep is better than no sleep. I've always been more of a functional person when under the influence of sleep deprivation, but on this occasion I may have just shot myself in the foot. with six 7:00am starts and stupid o'clock finishes coming up, I could have done with taking all the sleep I could when I had the chance.

Anyhow, It's all about powering through. I know that once I've made it in the world of fashion I will look back on these hard times and the days of struggling and miss it. Knowing it was the best time and the most fun. it's all about the journey and not the destination, after all.

Meanwhile, in those rare spare hours I've been working a lot on a dirty pink chiffon shirt with a beaded design of a symmetrical pattern I drew up of a dead cherry blossom tree. Oh the labour! and of course I chose the smallest beads in existence. Put just a bite too much on my plate AGAIN perhaps?

They're the size of poppy seeds.

400 beads down, roughly 98 lost to the floor, approximately 10,000 to go...

I will be at this for days.

I will be grouchy. 

I will want to give in with some tears.

I will have fingers covered in pin pricks.

I will loose sleep.

But I will finish it and I won't stop until that is the case.

Think not? Watch this space.

Japan.

Travel broadens the mind

In all my 20 years of living I have never left the country. Well, there was the year six school trip to France where we stayed at a PGL camp for 8 days and visited a couple of bakeries, chocolate factories, saw the Eiffel Tower from half way up and spent half a day at Disneyland Paris. In the grand scheme of the world, not quite the eye opening culture shock experience I was expecting.

I've always been fascinated by Japanese heritage and history. In photographs, beautiful and captivating.....how naive. To shake this ignorance, I must leave England and jump in at the deep end.

36 images of mount Fuji by Katsu Hokusaiushika

The plan!

I think it also important to mention that I am a a designer, still working on making my name in the industry. It's tough, is it not, fellow dreaming designers!? This trip to Japan with my boyfriend, Harry, will be the groundwork to my next BIG collection. First, a pre-Japan collection, filled with the naivety you have and the knowledge you THINK you have from hearing the word of another and seeing some nondescript photographs. Then after/DURING my trip there will be some enlightenment on the horizon. perhaps even some disillusion!

Lets wrap it up

This trip was meant to be a one man show. People would say 'You're going alone? Blimey, that's brave'........hmmmmm....maybe? Although I must say I'm thrilled to be accompanied by my boyfriend and 'bestest bud'

There will be constant updates, photographs, perhaps even some videos. Watch this space..

P.S Watch this space? I guess, I am that guy.