Training Days 1

Exciting things are happening! I registered for a basic course in pattern-making, design and cutting. My dreams are coming true and now I can sew like the best of them! Ha ha ha. I've just attended two classes but my hopes are high yet. My journey to entrepreneurship, that I have been dreaming about since 2005, is finally taking off and I'm not stuck with "free hand". I registered with GZK. She's an amazing teacher and very patient. I have been looking around for long, and apart from Instituto Di Moda Burgo Nigeria, there's no other place I would rather train. Er, maybe with Mai Atafo but I fear I would be ogling him in class all day. I will learn zilch, nothing.

I Made It!

Now, two classes later, I can make a basic bodice block.
I tried unsuccessfully to do that online for weeks! Nothing beats a small, interactive learning environment.
Now is to start counting the days till Emmy Collins comes to Lagos to give that talk on fashion. I missed it in December, it happened in Abuja this February but I made him promise me on twitter not to cancel the Lagos comeback in April (nor May, I think). I can even attend any of Mai Atafo's 'Fashion Conversations' without fear that I won't understand a thing.
I have hopes blog, very soon you will be advertising my good works because I am going into 'ready to wear'. Can't stand the thought of sewing ankara all my life or waiting for someone to walk in to discuss what they want for hours before we can get a move on, no. Already researching my favourite materials, you need to see @Designersmuse's fabric collection! Chai! Lovely, lovely fabrics that I have been dreaming about since I went there... They are lovely, I tell you.  Hope!

Happy New Year! 

Chrome InspirARTion Again

I think I'm going to be stuck on working with this application for a while, I love it that much. I wish I had discovered it earlier. The first picture I uploaded, I had used all the three settings under the symmetry button. This particular picture, I created by locking my moves down on both horizontal and vertical positions (just click on symmetry and click both positions together). Then I used brush type 4 (I don't know if there are names for them but I just click and decide if I like them as I use) and zing!
Notice how it seems two people are sitting on blue balls in the edges of the pictures. They have black bodies and blue heads but I don't know how they got there. They just appeared as I waved my wand around, see as the lightening bolts are still hyper-active. If you also look at the picture upside down, they are still there. I love this inspirARTion app gaan. I will call them....Big Bang Theory because I love the sitcom and because I don't know how they got into the picture. Here you are:

Big Bang Theory

InspirARTion

This is my first time playing around with InspirARTion, a Google Chrome app. I love it and I am surely going to be working /playing more with it. 

Kaleidoscope

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Trophy Husband

That you became mine should have got me suspicious
Yet giddy I thought it my due
Thought it my reward from a life unfair
Sharing its goodies with its teeth
Lesson learnt

Now you are with another
My bed a scorned place
Not even the knowledge of my Toyota
Budges you from her bed
Lesson learnt

I have learnt in four long seasons
What my father would tell in five minutes
That this dandy is not simply fashion-conscious
This dandy's palm shakes too softly for a man
but I would not have him discourage me

Winner of my left-over
Still in cloud nine?
Still reveling over your win?
Still giddy this hunk is yours?
Are you still eagerly transferring to his account?


It is your Mercedes 450GL, not you
It is your post at work, not you
It is that you are ready to open your purse, not you
Not you, your failing beauty, your saggy bosoms
Not even your cooking feats


May my missive meet you sober
Else it will be in vain, I know

This one is won only by the highest bidder
His abilities in bed, his beauty honed for that reason only
May your trophy husband be with you long

Heartbreak

Its all lost, ship is sunk
Innocence vanquished
Regret for each love ballad, each desire expressed
O to be free of this burden called life
Life that binds, Life that gags, Life that frees
Perpetually on repeat.

To stay is to grief, otherwise is agony
Happiness lies in staying and so does pain
My lament I raise to the skies
For there it seems my kind dwell
My lament is for the cold bed
Only the wall breaks my rolling.

September Sunset Ikorodu