I have always been fascinated by handmade products, as well as being appreciative for those coming up with leading creative blogs and for those posting nice photographs of their gorgeous work. Although I never really had any plan or project in my mind, which could put me among those creative people, one day something unexpected happened.
Honestly, I‘m a person who grew up in a family where having a sewing machine wasn’t anything unusual; my mom was sewing for me and my brother when we were kids. Therefore, I‘ve always considered sewing as a quite handy skill to know and always planned that, one day, I would learn this as well. That “one day” happened to me few years ago, when I was expatriated abroad and had a bit of a difficult time at the very beginning of this new adventure. I didn’t know anybody in the new country and was intensively looking for some activity that I could perform during the weekends, instead of “enjoying” my loneliness. So I bought my first sewing machine and my first sewing book, then told myself that this was probably the right time to start bringing this creative idea back to life… funny how sometimes life creates adventures that we wouldn’t anticipate… 🙂
I think that we live in an amazing world, where you can find all kinds of handcrafted activities (as well as all kinds of tutorials) on YouTube and across the internet, easily accessible inspirations on Instagram or Pinterest…it’s just incredible! However, due to my nature, I’m a person who really enjoys learning new things and, therefore, I was looking for some kind of education which could validate the knowledge that I already had in this field. Fortunately, I found a 3-year long distance fashion stylist/design learning programme, originating from Paris.
To tell you the truth, I do not regret my original choice of education degree that I chose when I was at the university, because I‘ve always believed that languages are very important and that they open doors everywhere. But I consider that my growing interest in a more creative discipline (and supported by my Parisian studies) truly showed me how different it felt to study something that encourages a creative vision, compared to a classical university education that we are used to.
We are lucky enough to live in this digital and internet age, where we can become almost anything we wish for, whether this wish is driven by a passion, by a personal pleasure or by a real professional commitment. Elisabeth Gilbert, in her book Big magic. Creative Living Beyond fear, couldn’t have said it better:
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