Starting Anew

I like order. I like making things perfect.

While this trait has been very good for my career at times, it gets in the way. It becomes a little voice in my head telling me that I'm doing things wrong, that I'm off on the wrong track and I'm wasting my time. It tells me it's not worth learning to do anything unless I can learn to do it perfectly.

I'm getting tired of that voice. To give you an example, it poked at me until I wrote four different intro posts for this blog, all of which were way too overwrought and pretentious.

It's getting in my way and keeping me from my writing, from my art, from my sewing and just about every other creative thing I want to do.

So you know what? Fuck it. Let's see if I can do this without constantly self-editing and second-guessing myself.

Here's this blog's theme: things I find beautiful.

It'll include, among other things and in no particular order, my various and random creative projects, Japanese street fashions, clothing coordinates, traditional Japanese kimono, ancient history, the French court, flowers, Victoriana, medieval and Renaissance themes, fantasy, fairytales, poetry, calligraphy, recipes, movie and book reviews, ramblings about language (Japanese, German, Spanish, Korean), geisha, chivalry, stained glass windows, corsets, science fiction, my writing, art, costumes and sewing projects, ukiyo-e prints, hot men in suits, the art of Alphonse Mucha, Aristocrat and Dandy fashion, and so on.

Wish me luck!