This Year is NOT Over!

Keep Chillin pants w/ "Do Whatever I Want" top

This year has truly been a trying time for every single person that has been blessed with God's breath! This is my personal account of how, I feel this year affected me. This is also my first blog post since 2017. You are probably thinking to yourself, "..since 2017? she is not serious about her craft…?" I get it, and I have been procrastinating, and justifying why I had not been blogging, nor posting my designs on social media as often as I should have been. Well, this is my "b.s." reason: I simply became incredibly disappointed.discouraged, and had my share of depression moments.

I was so ready for the year 2020, the year of a new decade. It was supposed to be the year that I was going to come out of my introverted shell and reveal more of myself as a personal brand and make loads of gorgeous clothing for every women. I was so sure that I was going to "take over the world!" LOL, Apologies, just being silly. On a serious note, I really felt like my business was really gong to make some financial ground this year. I finally had funds to create a custom website, acquired custom business cards, and showcase my designs in the Reno, Nevada Fashion show. I had so many hopes, and when this COVID 19 virus reared it's ugly head, I didn't even formally launch my website on my social media sites. I asked myself , "what for? " and didn't even pursue marketing my website or myself. It is funny how our minds can go toward the negative so quickly, and ignore the small wins that had been accomplished before hand. It isn't until now, that I have cleared out all of the negative thoughts and clearly see all that I have accomplished toward my business and who is the head of my life, The GOD Almighty (my Heavenly Oseme) who never gave up on me and pursued the relationship we had; revealing to me that this year is NOT over yet!

With this revelation in the forefront of my mind, I first sought to strengthen the relationship I had with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In retrospect, I had started this rebuilding in September of 2019 by leaving a managerial position with Dillard's and revisiting a past relationship that revealed why the holy spirit compelled me to leave the relationship in the first place. Then in this year, the spirit lead me to let go of a church ministry I helped to launch a couple years back, and this was not an easy decision. I believe, it was because I was had been thinking that it was time to leave the ministry earlier than I did and was feeling guilty for not doing so. I prayed about this decision for months before even letting anyone know. Looking back, I was supposed to help launch that ministry and it helped me grow a lot as a leader in God's kingdom. I was very blessed to have worked with my fellow ministers and our mentor. I truly know now, that my i do have a ministry and it is to encourage others through fashion and song…but we are going to focus on the fashion ministry, because this is a fashion blog, aha!

So, welcome to my fashion blog, reimagined! In this blog I will talk about fashion and show some love to my heavenly Oseme (father in uhrobo) in future blog posts to come. I am excited for this next chapter, and again, this year is NOT over yet! This year has pushed me to appreciate the small wins and at least start on something, as long as we choose to keep pushing through our distress there is light at the end of the tunnel. " Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning" (psalm 30:5).