Bringing Creative Fantasy Into Everyday Reality

I have written the explanation of what my blog is about back to front. As you get to know me you will realise that this typical of my upside down way of thinking! So please bear with me while I try to mostly explain what my blog NOT is about, and in my next post I will mostly explain what blog IS about. I have my own unique perspective on many 'bloggy' things:

• hair 
• fashion
• beauty
• make up
• food
• shopping
• home style
• craft
• family
• film
• art
• music
• books

What I Am Not

So what? There are millions of blogs out there about all these things. Yawn. What is so special about me? Well those blogs/vlogs were my starting point. I loved reading/watching them for inspiration. However that was all they could do- inspire me a bit. Designer brands, expensive products, the latest must have merchandise and seasonal throw away fashion hauls... Then there's the trips to fancy restaurants, bespoke dressing rooms and wardrobes, 'what's in my suitcase for my fancy trip', etc etc. I have never taken a quick selfie of my new bang on trend shoes outside my Chelsea apartment. They were a dream world away from my reality.It doesn't feel authentic to my lifestyle. I don't want to feel like an deficient, underdog, spectator in my creative life.

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you- BANKSY

I don't want to be a cog in a machine I believe is broken. Do we really need to be spending all this money money money on trying to fix how we feel about ourselves? There is a fine line between hiding behind a mask of a carefully choreographed media clone and richly expressing your own original and unique sense of artistic style. I want to go deeper into the roots of my creativity, finding my own new styles and ideas not just what I am fed by the media.

*Deep breath*... I am, and have been for many years... 'affluently challenged'. There, I said it. I am 'poor' and I have been pretty much all my life. However 'Necessity is the mother of all invention'. There will be more about this is my next post

So in a nutshell if you are looking for unique and creative lifestyle ideas that won't break the bank then follow this blog! Hope you have an amazing day day and here's som.e music that I love that expresses what this post is about Morcheeba- Way Beyond

Love Toria