If you're happy, then you're successful

So, I've finally started to organize myself.

I've got a facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/eclecticollection)

and twitter (@Eclecticollecti) up and running! Yay!

Now, I don't know if you remember this post:
http://misskemble.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/to-climb-steep-hills-requires-slow-pace.html
where I said I had a shirt I wanted to make into something?

I have made it into something! Denim pants. Yay!

What dya think?

I'm afraid it's just a short post today. I have to go sort some other things out

Those who tell the stories, rule the people

I've been glancing at the trends for autumn/winter and I've seen some of the usual cropping up again: oversize, layering and military. A few new ones like cobalt and the orient.

But, I admit I'm not one for following trends and am fully on board with Peruvian and Navajo styles. Not the 'tribal' standard stuff that was all over the high street in summer; rather the fashions that took the colours and other characteristics to channel the spirit.

I have a beautiful bit of Peruvian style fabric which I want to use, so I've been looking for items to inspire me

It is never too late to be what you might have been

So, I feel I should apologize for the lack of blogging recently. I've been here there and everywhere meeting people and being creative. Fingers crossed I'll get a few new posts up in the next week!


Now a few of you know I'm going to start my own business. I thrive off challenges, experimentation and making mistakes so I can learn from them. I have bags and bags of old clothes and fabrics just waiting for me to make a masterpiece... And nearly as many bags full of mistakes and clothes I may not be able to salvage but I'm keeping them just in case.

Well, since most of my ideas are based on recycling or upcycling, I figured I'd start with using recycled business cards.

For some reason, before I had a car, I was obsessed with collecting the train tickets I used. Turns out they may just be quite useful for me: