Missing Writing

(Stationery Love by brimalotke)
One of the things I think I've been missing in my life recently is just writing for me. I used to write all the time, whether it was my blog, a journal, or poetry. I'd write all the time and whenever I could. Recently between my jobs and starting to get back in shape and stuff I've kind of quit writing for fun.

I started a bullet journal to help pull me back into writing. My bullet journal isn't quite the typical version, it's very much me. It's a lot of collages, notes, pictures, and bits of stories from my days. I'm keeping track of habits and schedules (work, gym, cooking) as well as goals and ambitions. For my goals, I have reading lists and healthy goals (think gym time and food habits). As for my ambitions, they're more long-term goal related and further into the future. If I wasn't limited by location, where would I want to work and if I could plan out vacations and more traveling where could I go in the next few years; just things like that and other ideas. Overall I would say my bullet journal isn't really a bullet journal, but it's more like short diary entries, a lot of lists, a lot of collages, and just ideas and thoughts. In the end, it's something I love and it's definitely helping me get back in touch with writing. 


I'm considering trying to write a book of some kind. At first, I thought poetry, but now I'm thinking short stories or something in French. We'll see what happens! Always an adventure.

Velvet Shoes

Velvet Shoes by brimalotke

Harley Quinn

Harley Quinn by brimalotke

Update!

It feels like I haven't posted in forever, but I've been insanely busy with costumes for Oklahoma!

We open the first week of August and we're trying to do fittings with EVERYONE this coming Saturday. However, because of my work schedule I won't be able to be there and since I work Friday as well all of the costumes I've been working on need to be dropped off tomorrow morning...so I'm feeling a tiny bit of pressure. I've had the costumes since Monday morning but I haven't really had a chance to work on them between work and unpacking in my new apartment. I'm sure I'll get it all done it's just a matter of how late I'll be staying up or how early I might need to wake up to finish...

As of now I've seam ripped some ribbon trim, a lace ruffle trim, and 2 sleeves. 

Next I'll be cutting and sewing the 2 sleeves on to the blue dress. Then I'll probably go ahead and sew the purple gingham skirt back together (My boss had seam ripped all the seams so that they could be sewn to make the waistband a little bit larger). After that I will either sew this ruffle thing on the bodice of the 3 look or cut and sew the ruffle for that look. After that it'll just be a matter of closures/trim. So overall I feel pretty good about my time and where I'm at with these projects. I'll post some pictures when I get a chance (probably Saturday/Sunday since I close tomorrow).

Reverie & Shoes

Forever dreaming. Dreaming of sunshine and beautiful places. Dreaming of travels and friends. Dreaming in French of adventures not yet taken and of experiences waiting to happen. Dreaming. Dreaming. Dreaming. Hoping that someday, at some point, they'll come true. Dreaming and hoping that I'll soon be practicing my French with native speakers and sipping coffee while enjoying a fresh baked pastry from a colorful patisserie with friends. Dreaming so much that I'll just have to find a way to make them all true. Forever dreaming.

For the French (hopefully correct in grammar) version of my poem, scroll down and read the red version.

Rêvant toujours.

Rêver de soleil et de beaux endroits.

Rêvant d' voyages et amis. Rêvant en français d'aventures pas encore prises et d'expériences en attente de se produire.

Rêver. Rêver. Rêver.

En espérant qu'un jour, à un moment donné, ils se réaliseront.

Rêvant et en espérant que je vais bientôt pratiquais mon français avec des locuteurs natifs et en sirotant du café tout en dégustant une pâtisserie frais cuit une pâtisserie colorée avec mes amis. Rêvant tellement que je vais devoir trouver un moyen de les rendre tout à fait vrai. Rêvant toujours.

Ghost Adventures Look 4

The fourth look int his ghostly series of posts is inspired by the Lady in White character that is in quite a few haunted stories and episodes. Typically the Lady in White is a woman who was in love and died because of some sort of heart ache. 

For example in one episode of Ghost Hunters there is a Lady in White who haunts these tunnels because she was murdered in them. She had been on her way to meet up with a man she was in love with, but was met instead by laughter from these guys who had actually written the letter to her to trick her. She got angry, threw some pebbles, and they returned by throwing pebbles and rocks. One of the guys threw a rock and hit her head, killing the Lady in White. 

Ghost Adventures Look 4 by brimalotke

This look is a flowy silver dress, metallic heels, and lots of silver jewelry. Long silver earrings, bangles, a moon ring, and a pendant necklace. All of these would make me feel like a modern day ghostly lady in white.