How to develop personal style?

No, I don't have an answer. I am asking you.

To be more specific: how do you actually follow up on what you love?

Years ago I have solved some of my issues in style by two simple decisions:

The guy from Starbucks

Just so you know what frame of mind am in at the moment:
About 2 weeks ago am meeting Milla (of Not Just another Milla) at Selfridges. I decide to come early and sit in the Starbucks across the street as Starbucks usually has the highest traffic of people  therefore a lot of faces to chose from. So I sit in one of those comfy chairs they have there with a kinda-all-right-soya cappuccino and this guy asks if the seat next to me is free. I say yes, he sits down and starts reading. Am super happy about this...  because am thinking

Am moving back home

This is the big change happening in my life at the moment.
This is the reason I've been "finding" all this old drawings. I've been packing. My place looks like a mess for weeks now with things half packed, shoes in boxes, dust everywhere...
There are completely legitimate reasons for this: I have some ideas / goals / plans that require certain amounts of money. I am working on ways to earn more money too but as I have some time frames I need to work around, I need to save up as much as I can. Off course due to my being careful / superstitious I can't say what those plans are just yet. So there...

Ever been curious at what my day looks like? Here is one

I am still under a mountain of workload.
Which is more or less fine, unless you have a blog and you need a life you can talk about. As I don't have that, I have nothing else but to write about my day.

Irony of avoiding the hard stuff

There's been some minor developments in my life (nothing very exciting, don't get your hopes up) about which am gonna report on in another post, but one of the consequences is that am packing up. So I have to go through my drawings. I sift through them every time this happens to throw away the ones that don't need to keep on living so there is less stuff to move. And I always come by some interesting stuff. It has a feeling of reading someone else's diary... not sure why.

What's your damage Heather?

I did something reaaaally cool last weekend.
Two illustrations of Kinder Aggugini's collection for Spring/ Summer 2013 he just showed on London Fashion Week for Amelia's Magazine.
So yeah, it's true, when it rains it just pours!

I really loved doing the illustrations. First of all they are really cool off-beat pieces. Like a grungy Martha's vineyard girl. I feel like she could have been Winona Ryder's character at one point, something that blends together Heathers, Edward Scissorhands and Age of Innocence. And second, I was on such a creative roll, all pumped up on Fashion fringe adrenaline they just poured out of me.
To be honest, I still am, but I have so much catching up to do on my day job, I don't have time to doodle, much less to draw.

So yeaaah... There is some pasta arrabiatta coming up so am off.

P.S. In case you are on the younger side, here is the explanation of the heading.

How did Fashion Fringe go you ask

Well let me tell you... and will start with the bad part:
- In some weird twist of fate they didn't have hot pink tights anywhere on Oxford street. I know should have goon to Camden, but after that energy vampire of Oxford street sucked the last drop of my energy I was left a broken woman. A very irritable zombie. So purple ones it was. Which was okeyish I guess...
- Somehow I got the one slow girl in Hershesons to do my hair which kind of moved everything to be last minute. Then I started walking down Regent street trying to hail a cab but this was not happening. I ended up walking all the way to Somerset house with wind "playfully" messing up my hair and undoing the last 45 minutes of brush, hairdryer and Elnett work resulting in me coming to fashion week with messed up hair. NOT how I imagined it.
- Unfortunately the postcards that Shopstyle provided us with for the sketching wasn't compatible with my brush pen so it made work a bit harder. Sad smiley.
- My hands were shaking soooo much.

And now for the good part:
- The company last night was so great. The girls from Shopstyle, Cherish PR and Zarina were such lovely company. Everybody was so nice, so relaxed and so encouraging. They really made something which could have been very nerve wracking for me into a very pleasurable evening.
- People at the pre-show drinks were so delighted with someone drawing them and sooo cooperative. Whoever I asked if they would like to be sketched said yes.
- Some of the drawings I really loved but unfortunately don't have a picture of them. So if someone I made a pic of last night finds their way to the blog please tweet the pic (with you in it off course :-)) as I would love to have them.
- I got to draw Hillary Alexander. But you probably know this already as I managed to brag about it 3 times already since last night. Don't judge me: I really like and respect her and it was such a privilege that she allowed me to sketch her. Only problem is ( and you can count this in the upper bad category) the drawing I gave her wasn't as good as the one I made later on the show.
- I really really love drawing people. I should definitely do this more often
- And yes the fashion show was great. My favorite was Teija Eilola.

I think this is pretty much that. I am sure am missing on a bunch of details but that's life for you.