The Dress Maker

The gap in my posts has once again been noticed and so am going to try and write this blog without thinking to much of its content.

Its a really struggle to be honest. I guess when you just have no passion for something the best thing to do is leave it because I'm a great believer in doing something whole heatedly not half heatedly.

I once knew a dress maker who had a passion for material and fashion. he made wedding dresses as a hobby and and his attention to detail was amazing. He could have been a top designer and made a fantastic living with his skills.

When ask why he never went into making dresses full time for a living he answered ''I love what I do and do it because I enjoy it, If it was my living then it would become a thing I had to do and I would lose the enjoyment and passion''

The fact was the dress maker could put his tools down at anytime and his mortgage and way of life wasn't dependant on it. he had a day job that paid the bills and if dress making took over that it would then become a must do rather than a want to do thing. Stuff like dead lines and Invoicing would take over stuff like textures and colours.

So many things can pull us down in every day life. For me at the moment it seems I get over one thing only to be dumped with more stuff to deal with.It is then you have to stop and put your hands up and walk away.

Frank Spencer was a classic example of back luck, I remember watching one scene where he tried to stop a china vase from falling to the ground. as he went to stop it from smashing he knocked over something else then almost like a domino effect everything started to go wrong.

If he had just stood and watched the vase fall and smash into pieces he would have been left with a bit of sweeping up to do but instead he tried to stop the vase and ended up in a place where nothing was left in one piece.

When we are left with nothing we have a blank canvas to work from. I found there's no point in fighting a lost battle you ll just lose more of your armour. retreat and admit defeat then maybe you ll live to fight another day.