Where does the time go ...?

20th November, 5 weeks to Christmas, October long gone and still no sign of a business :-o

I promised myself to have all the boring administrative part of the set up done by January. But seeing how things are going and how little I did, I can't promise to meet my deadline.

I NEED A BOOST AND A GOOD PLAN OF ATTACK !!!

Back to ....

Temperatures are going down, the cars are horning in the early morning while the kids are running down the pavement....here it is, back to school or other call it "La Rentrée"

Yes, unfortunately the summer holiday is over and it is time to start seriously setting up the business.
Already you might say, well, yes I know the summer was short, I don't know about yours, but mine was good.

It started about mid July with a nice and romantic trip to Croatia with my other half

then went back in childhood for a crazy weekend in a Casa Rural with friends

to later turn 30 and surprisingly celebrate it nicely in family and friends,


then later had to pay London a visit, and fortunately met with friends and shopping treats up there (still love London Fashion !!), visited places I have never been in the 6 years I lived there, like Hampstead Heath...

then finally enjoyed The Costa Brava and its Parks, Nature and fantastic beaches.....

Ahhhhh it was nice...now it is a little hard to set the mind in working mode, but no worries, bit by bit, I will get back to business

YOLO (You Only Live Once) !!

So What's up folks?! How have been your beginning of the year so far ?

Mine, I can say, it has been quite busy and strange. I have been having mixed feelings, excitement, frustration and surely exhaustion.

First, I am still juggling work and school classes, but from a different perspective. I started working from home last month. It is quite a change. I still need to adjust myself but I quite like the fact that I don't have people watching over my shoulders every 5 seconds to see what I am doing. It doesn't mean that I don't work..I do work, I actually work that fast that sometimes, I don't have anything else to do, so after looking for an hour another activity, I end up doing stuffs for the master. So it is quite good.

On the other hand, how is the master going?

Ummmm !! I start feeling a little disapointed by the lack of organisation of the whole course and the poor consistency of some of the classes we have to follow this trimester. It is quite frustrating as we tried to flag that up to the Course Coordinator, but it seems that they believe this is fine...Talking to a dead wall here :-S
Never mind, I believe that if they can't solve it out (or refuse to do so) then I will just take whatever I can from the class, learn whatever I can and hopefully get the Degree at the end.
Talking about the Degree, we finally got the dates of our last assignment/exam/presentation...or call it like you want and it will be right in a middle of July. So I am not looking forward to May and June as I will probably be working like crazy to get the project finished and dusted. Yes....long hours of work coming !!
But we do say "YOLO !! You Only Live Once "  (like my sister Le Blabla de Salsita told me the other day on whatsapp), so no regret on anything I have done so far, even if I feel very tired and quite exhausted right now (awake since 6 am). I am convinced that I am learning from every steps I have been taking and this is life: it is not meant to be easy.
So far, I have been doing quite a lot of work which I never thought I could be able to do and which I can be proud of. I have learned to use Illustrator, some parts of Photoshop, I have drawn my first digital mini-collection, and I started to go through the fundamental structure of a business....You may judge from yourself here.

Extract from Mini Collection 60´s

Moodboard Inspiration Mini Collection Stone Island

I am currently working on setting up my brand/business model, and that will probably be my next post, but for now, please leave me a comment, tell me anything my work makes you think of.

Ciao.