Day 4

What an exciting morning!!!

(This is day 4, but fall asleep last night without having started on day 3, never mind this is just a far too exciting morning to beat myself up about leaving a day out from the blog!)

This morning while I prayed (I am a Christian indeed) and gave thanks for The House with the Garden and the opportunity to be able to go to university and for my old job at Marks and Sparks something happened.

`Faith understands that today`s pain is likely to be tomorrow`s triumphant story.` Audrey Jeanne Roberts. I read a Don`t Quit card every morning. I got this from Katharina, when last time she stayed with me in London. She also got me a wooden cross, I am wearing around my neck. How thoughtful! I really value her reaction for me being a Christian, she didn’t try to talk me out of it, neither she tried to start one of those conversations about Catholic priests and the undeniable truth in the Da Vinci Code or why there is so much suffering in the world, then if God is so good. She has just acknowledged my faith. Thumbs up!

While I prayed I remembered my very own triumphant story. My teacher told me when I was 14 in our little village during the communism that I shouldn’t even consider to do A-Levels, because my mum and dad are only dressmakers and farmers and I shouldn’t try to aim higher than them. I should become a nurse like the other good girls in the class. I really cannot stand blood! I could have not imagined worse than being locked in a nurse uniform for life in a hospital where the daily contact with blood is almost necessary. Yak! None of the girls who did the nursing course ended up as nurses, either. Not because of the blood I suppose. Well, maybe one of them became a nurse, I can`t remember. Most of them ended up in the local shops and pubs serving customers. This assumption of worker`s children cannot be bright enough for further education was not true in my case and I am sure in many others either. I happily graduated with a 2.1 from London College of Fashion as a product design and Developer for the Fashion Industry in 2008. And now I am indeed the only person from our old village school who gained a degree from England and who had the wonderful opportunity to do a Master`s Elective at London Business School! How cool is that!!! From nurse-forced-to-be to a potential-postgraduate from Fashion and The Environment! Yay! (I take my hat off to all the nurses and carers in the world though! I couldn’t do their job!)

Anyway, this is not the reason while this morning is so exciting. While I prayed I remembered one of the projects I did on BA about a scarf dress and all the complements I got when I wore it. (I always tried to design and make things I would and could wear.) I have been interested in the further development of this scarf dress concept since 2007 and suddenly this morning I was flooded by ideas. Yesterday when I started rereading the research material I came across the quote I wrote down from the Fashioning The Future Summit at LCF 2008 from the Luxury Breakout Group whilst talking about redefining the meaning of luxury: `Luxury is having time off!`

Do we spend time with our own clothes? Do we stand in the mirror and try to make our dress look unique? That would be a great USP for Vondores products. Spending time with your dress by customising it in front of the mirror!