This is it!

This week I landed my first real, full time fashion job! I have been trying to make this happen for quite some time and was beginning to lose hope that it was ever going to happen. After many flaky, unstable and even mind numbing jobs I have done it. Starting Feb. 4th, I will be the new design assistant at Fashion Click. I will be working side by side with a great friend, Brianne. We will be working on line called Olivia Moon which sells in Nordstrom. Im super excited about this opportunity to learn and grow as a designer. I won't be designing yet but its a big step in the right direction.

Im also quite excited to hopefully in the very near future purchase a real mattress. For the last year and a half (almost) I've been sleeping on a crappy futon mattress. Yes, I truly am a hoodrat and my new job is fairly close to my house so I will most likely continue living in the hood for a while. However, I would like to at least move up to a crappy mattress.

Relationship Advice

I started working a pop up cart (kiosk) for Ban.do, the accessories company I intern for this week. Its at The Grove which is an outdoor mall. The cart was slow this morning so I was spacing out when a teenage boy approached me for advice. I was thinking it was going to be something like "what should I buy my mom or which color looks best on me?" He proceeded to tell me everything that's happening between him and his girlfriend and how she wants to go on a break and not have any contact with him out of nowhere. He wanted to know what he should do, what was acceptable and what wasn't. I gave him the best advice I could, I felt so bad for the kid. It was his first relationship and well, first heartbreak. After getting my advice, he realized that it was kind of odd for him to have told me, a complete strange, all of that and got a little embarassed but I assured him it was fine.

It was so unexpected the entire time he was talking I was expecting him to yell punk! or something. I truly hope it all works out or he moves on because really he sounds like a pretty sweet guy and she not so sweet. Im not sure why he chose me or why he would go to a mall to ask anyone for advice but I guess I feel pretty happy I got to be the one he asks because I actually listened and tried to help even though I started out skeptical. A broken heart sometimes make you go a bit kooky and do weird things I guess...poor kid.

My first blog post EVA!

I am just a girl trying to be a girl and get paid for it. This blog will be a combination of many things like my works of art, fashion and things I just think are great. Crafting and creating are what I really like to do with my time but turns out it doesn't always bring in the bucks. My creations are all on made on a very small, almost non-existent budget which often makes them more interesting. I skrimp hard and have a lot of fun! I guess what I'm saying is, Im at a point in my life- right out of college with a fashion design degree without a "real" job and feeling a little lost living in LA la land. Creating things is how I try to stay sane. I will be posting the things Im making and possibly some weird and hopefully funny stories that come along with my art and life.

I currently have been doing some water color paintings in the evenings. With a bit of wine and a broken heart as inspiration, I have created some oddly proportioned figures that are kinda quirky. I will be posting photos very soon!

-Kfeist