Indie clothing, indie lifestyle and indie fashion

Moving into a new house can be exciting, depending how you look at it. If you are into furnishing and home decorating, then you will enjoy the process of getting a place, furnishing it and designing it to your liking. Since different people embrace different styles, it all depends on your personality. Surely someone leading an indie lifestyle won’t choose designs that are conventional and old fashioned. You expect a free approach and creative input in the choice of colours and designs.

When we were furnishing our home ten years ago, we visited a few warehouse sales for our furniture and kitchen fixtures. We managed to purchase a couple of Franke sinks at superb prices and everything else was bought at a discount. We kept it as indie as possible with some DIY touches on furnishings. Simplicity was our focus and we decided to keep it as clean and friendly as possible.

In less than a year’s time, we would need to furnish our second home. Hopefully I can find some artisan collections during the decorating process since we like to continue our indie lifestyle. Bringing indie touches to a home can be real fun when you are open to look at the options out there.

This year, DH and myself will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary. After a few rounds of discussion, we’ve decided to take a trip to Hong Kong for a short celebration. Looking back, the ten years seem like yesterday. It’s amazing how time flies!

I was wondering if I should get him to bring me to a jewelry store where I can view and pick something that sparkles. Like they say, diamonds are every girl’s best friends. It sounds like a cliche after a while but some women really hold on to this truth so dearly. They may not be part of an indie lifestyle but diamonds can be nice to behold and dear to cherish. I suppose it’s more meaningful when diamonds are given as a gift to someone you love. It’s tagged with love, appreciation and value.

But diamonds or not, I’ve chosen to take a trip to shop for the things I like. I’m not sure if I can find any indie shops to visit but if time allows, I’ll be checking them out.

These days, people are going for wireless connection to get information no matter where they are. Even those in the indie fashion industry are reaching out to the media via social networking and you simply can’t reach your customers easily without technology!

Whenever I’m out in the cafes, I will whip out my iPhone and checked out the latest news in town. I get lots of indie fashion updates and finding out where else to read fashion news. I know that people are actually shopping online with their mobiles… I mean, how mobile and high tech can one be in the 21st century! In the past, I used to carry a camcorder when I attend fashion shows and with today’s high tech gadgets, I only need my iPhone or my digital camera.

Well, I’m searching for new ideas for my indie fashion store this week. Somehow, it’s hard to find the right items to promote as there aren’t many indie labels in the worldwide web. I hope that there will be more indie designers coming on board to the fashion scene and share their passion in life to others.

The weather is taking a toll on my body and I haven’t been able to think straight last few days. With the challenges of parenting surmounting, I feel like taking a few weeks break to pursue some of my indie interests.

One of the things to get my mind off things is to take a break in the library and read up some fashion magazines. I gather alot of ideas from these magazines and that gave me inspiration to design some stuff of my own. Creativity to me is more than just drawing and designing, it’s about the process of arriving to a thought and idea. I love concepts and how things arrive to where they are. Even by looking at advertisements on billboard such as insurance advertising, I take the opportunity to think of the idea behind the picture and the message that lies within.

I am looking forward to the weekends ahead and hoping to design some overdue cards for a few friends whom I miss. Making simple cards is as indie as I can be even in the midst of this tiring schedule. Yet, I like moving forward and looking ahead of what lies beyond.

One of my favourite hobbies is to design and create my own handmade greeting cards for friends on special occasions. I used to do them alot in the past but it’s been hard to find time to do it these days. Making indie cards can be meaningful and inspirational. Recently I received one with a photo mosaic on it, I thought that was kinda cool.

For those who don’t know, a photo mosaic is a photo made up of many smaller photos. To say it another way: A photo mosaic is a photo that has been divided up into small squares or rectangles. Each rectangle is the replaced by a separate photo that closely approximates the color the rectangle was. One of the first creators of photo mosaics, Robert Silvers, patented the production of and name photomosaic. However, there are many companies around the world using various methods and technologies to legally create photo mosaics.

Well, perhaps I may need a pair of safety glasses if those mosaics are real pieces of ceramic! Imagine a mosaic painting dropping and falling down!! But don’t get confused… these photo mosaics are just coined by the little sizes and not those mosaics you see in kitchen table tops and walls!