Talk About A Clothes Relationship..........

Ever felt like you lost a part of yourself? because I've been there and I feel ya.

I'm not sure what this says of me by admitting this, but.... I lost the hat of my life yesterday. It was the first thing I bought in Ireland on my Spring break trip last year--handmade and simply me. I saw it and new we would start a great relationship together, and that we did. When that hat covered my head, it brought out a certain part of me and made me feel a certain way. Our relationship was unique and made me feel unique. For we are all unique. That uniqueness feels as though it is lost. And maybe it is, or maybe I'm crazy and make a big deal out of things. But that hat made me feel a certain way because it was a one of a kind. Only that hat could ever make me feel that way.

Just like with people. Certain people make me feel certain ways and vice versa. Turning a relationship into something unique and cherish-able. Relationships become a part of me, because there is always a give and take, it is shared. That is the same relationship I have with my clothes.

I've learned something from this, something I've also learned from Orange is the New Black (lols). That like a mandala, everything is temporary. You've just got to make the best of it. And when it's all gone, you know you can say it was worth it and be grateful for what it was and how it made you feel. That is the perspective I take on losing my hat. Although it felt like a part of me was lost, it is not because it happened to me. I experienced it and I did make the best of the time me and that hat shared. That hat will always remember me and I always remember him. Now the next person who finds it, will be able to have the same experience I had wearing it.

All I can do is cherish the moments I had with that hat. Same with the most memorable moments I have and had with the most memorable people I have met. And now I have an inspiration to recreate that hat and finally start sewing!

The loss of this hat has given me inspiration to create! Sometimes finding inspiration in your biggest losses is exactly what you need to find a new part of you!

In loving memory of the hat of my life.