First of all, sorry that I haven’t post anything the past week. I am planning to post 2/3 days a week and also want to try to start a fashion related channel on youtube.. so what do you think?
Last week I finally started with my intership for school. And it’s pretty nice here, I like it. But as soon as I started with my first day, I’ve got the cold..
A few weeks ago I cleaned my closet and thought I do have a lot of clothes.. 50% of it were clothes that I haven’t wore in YEARS. And ofcourse for the prettier pieces I can give it to my cousins and nieces. I’m glad I did that! The pieces they’ve choosed are the ones i loved. And that was probably 15% of my closet? I still have some left for my other nieces and for the other part i thought let’s just sell it! I remembered one day a friend asked me about “Ij-Hallen” and I never really heard about it before, but it did sounds like something for me to go. And there I was at Ij-hallen, early in the morning with all my clothing, shoes and accessories Oh and some clothing and shoes from my two sisters!
I was lucky that the weather was nice that day, but it wasn’t crowded maybe because on the same day it was “Dam tot Dam loop”. But still got some money in my pockets!. One of my sisters came to help me out and it was really fun to do it.
I wasn’t only selling my old clothing but also some t-shirts that i’ve made in my first year of graphic design. I only had 10/12 T-shirts and 3 canvas tote bags. Everytime when someone was looking at it, I told them it was my own design and made it by myself. Now here comes the nice part of it!
One woman saw the tee and i said that i made it by myself. And she really like it. Because she’s a pianist and my design has music notes and piano keys on it. with a description of ” A cup of melody? -Life is like a piano.” And we also told her that we’re playing piano too and were the inspiration came from. So she asked me if I had a business card, well to be honest I don’t. BUT I had cute little small cards where I wrote my mail, portfolio site and this blog. It was good to do that.=) So she said, maybe we can work together someday, because she stands at festivals. I’m very excited to work together with her.
(you can see the design above, but the tee and the canvas tote were black and white)
For a long time, I’ve been thinking about my selling my own designs on tees and canvas totes. But i always thought, it can be hard or maybe people won’t buy it or like it? And now I think it’s time for me to do it! (after researching on everything of course)
After a while of standing, I went to walk a bit to look around. I saw a lot of nice stuffs, vintage bags.. clothing or an old pop art painting AND old vintage cameras. I just couldn’t help myself but to look at the camera’s and to buy one. I was holding myself back with the clothing and the bags. (pretty proud of it) But then shoes… So there were two old woman standing next to me. And they had the same problem as us, small sizes. One of the old woman came a bit later and she brought a nice pair of shoes. Everyone who wanted them had a bigger size. My sister and I were looking at it and I thought WAUW! I just want them. But to tell you the truth, I’m not really a person who wears a animal print, I don’t like them. But sometimes I just love them, only on nice shoes.
I know it’s weird to ask if I could try them on.. but couldn’t helped it. So I tried them on and it looked so nice on me. I just had to buy them! And it was never worn before for 10 euro’s! later I found out that it was from the invito of 15+ years ago! Now that’s what I call vintage.
And just before we had to wrap up everything an other woman who was standing on my left side, gave me three CC creams from Tony moly, holika? and another korean brand. A total of four korean skincare products. That was so nice of her.=)
So when I came home I told my mom about everything and about the vintage camera’s. And she was like, “we have an old camera too from years ago!” I was like “what, why didn’t you tell me!?” So she showed it to me, and it was an old version of the Lomography Lubitel? A Yashica.
It was a nice day!
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