I was inspired yesterday. I watched as my mother worked and thought: I’d love to do something equally as inspiring ☺. She’s a fashion writer and it was fairly easy to imagine myself doing it because I adore clothing and have plenty of opinions about each piece. Therefore, I particularly enjoyed watching her work. Not only does she need to have opinions about clothing, but, she must know what works best on different body types. That part does seem particularly daunting to me. For sure I could help people with bodies built similar to mine, no problem, but other body-types —whew, good luck. That’s a huge learning curve of mine. Not to mention: the colors they prefer and what shades look good on them. I mean I certainly am aware that my blue eyes look good with other blues as well as orange and red (OK I love red so weather that’s just a favorite of mine or looks particularly good on me ☺ we’ll never know).
Granted, my feelings about red have certainly changed recently, as it’s also the color of blood, outside of the body at least, which makes me very queasy. Blood has even made me faint before! So in 2 extremely different ways, I have a very strong reaction to red. My recent accident certainly didn’t help this. It only acerbated it. It’s funny – I thought perhaps being around plenty of blood would alleviate my phobia but it didn’t ☹ it actually had the opposite effect. I guess this is the definition of a phobia, after all. But back the topic at hand; it was very fun to watch my mom work today. On one side, there’s the clothing and on the other there’s the writing. The writing takes a different skill set. I presume the fashion one is more of a gut instinct, a feeling and perhaps the writing has more rules—grammatical rules, for instance. Either way, I feel quite inspired.