Be it weird and wonderful, bizarre and beautiful, you and I need to embrace our quirky qualities!!
Pick them off the floor and pin them above your bed. Smile and wave at them when you wake up, take them with you throughout the day, show them to others whether they are your friends or new faces that you come across. Keep them close to you at all times and at night when you attempt to sleep or if you are lucky enough to dream, pack them away under your pillow case for the morning. Mould and craft them if need be, with a pinch here and there, but don't, please don't change them too much, because once they are lost, I'm afraid, they may never be rediscovered. Sew new patches on top of old, with bright pops of canary yellow and emerald greens, gloomy blacks and dessert oranges, until you have a patchwork of colours and textures. Once you have your collection of oddities display them in your own life exhibition, to let everyone discover you. I don't mean the person they briefly say 'hi' coming back from class or at work, but the person they can talk to hours upon hours about the most random of topics, with no questions asked.
If people question your stencils and patterns, don't listen to them! If they mock and insult your choice of baby blue or the way the rough velvet matches with the silk, ignore them! They do not deserve to even glimpse at the workings of this creation for they may either be far behind, or haven't even started their own yet. Use their negativity and convert it through your sewing machine to help your piece gleam with uniqueness.
By all means I am still in the planning and creating stages of my patchwork of quirkiness, but I do believe I already have compiled throughout these 20yrs alot of fabrics, colours and textures that mix and match with each other. One day my project will be completed, but that's far from now.
This is what my collection includes currently;
- When drinking tea, there must be a perfect balance between milk and hot water. Personally, this means just enough so the tea is warm and does not scald your tongue when drinking with the colour of an almond.
- I know the complete playlist of George Ezra's album off by heart as I have played it on repeat no less than 1000 times in the 3 yrs since its release. And I am almost at fangirl mode as I will see him in concert in July.
- When in conversation I tend to say random historical facts about anything that mostly is related to the topic of the chat, but also can be very random at times. Like the fact that in many English Medieval Courts they used to eat peacocks and would have polar bears as pets!! Interesting hey?!?
- I may have a bordering obsession with James Dean that has flourished over the last few years. For you who don't know he was an actor in the 1950s and made 3 films, died in a car crash in his aluminium car named 'Little Bastard' in 1955 after filming Giant... I could keep going but for your sake I'll stop now. If you have any questions I'm more than happy to answer them!!!
- My sister and I have seen Moulin Rouge and Grease so many times, that quotes from them sneak into our daily conversations which most of the time no one understands.
- I spent between $50-$100 (actual price will not be disclosed) on an ink quill as an impulse buy.
- I sometimes make weird facial expressions and noises when talking. They just seem to happen randomly sometimes but I just go with it and people laugh :D I think it's me just laughing at myself.
- And I am never, NEVER!! Able to take a nice looking photo when posing on the first, second, third or every single shot !! I'll smile but then the photographer is taking too long so my face starts weirdly twitching or I'll be doing something at the moment the camera flashes. And I'm always mid-blink aswell, even if we're not in the sun.
- I have a peculiar variety of interests, mostly that I love music and movies from the 50s-60s and all bits and bobs that are 'out there', retro and vintage, like my numerous teapots, fob watches, wax stamps for letters and my record player. I'm also hoping to add a proper typewriter to this collection. Perhaps this is my biggest quirk, that I am an old and eclectic soul.
- Downton Abbey, Peaky Blinders and Call the Midwife are without a doubt cinematic masterpieces in the television realm. Second to them is Love Child, and almost or period (historical) dramas. Enough said!! Everyone needs this viewing experience!
- Some people might have an athlete or politician as an inspiration but mine is legitimately Miranda Hart. She is wonderful, weird, very bizarre and British.
- I also have a love hate (mostly adoration) for books shops. Mostly because I never seem to be able to leave a bookshop without buying something, or if I did have enough stamina to break free of the words and pages that are screaming for a reader to free them from their mundane shelves, it's because I couldn't decide what to get, so nothing it is for now...
- Every time I tell a story to someone I never do the old 'long story short' method, I tend to go into unnecessary detail that side tracks sometimes from the actual point, but I'm just adding interesting detail.
- My most used word/phrase seems to be either 'Buddy' or 'Oh dear' which I say sometimes without even realising. But do not fear I am working on paying more attention to my use of the first word.
Nevertheless, over my 2 decades of living, I have acquired these weird, bizarre characteristics that I am happy to keep, store and grow for the next however many decades. These are just a few examples that I can think of right now as I perch myself in a procrastination daze whilst looking over the ever growing Sydney Skyline. If any friends and family are out there who have any more weird facts/qualities they notice of me, let me know so I can cut them and add them to this patchwork.
For you, who is reading this. Have you started your weirdly wonderful creation? It's never too late to find those colours and fabrics and start sewing them together with a needle and thread. For one day you'll have a conglomeration of colour and quirks, textures and tastes, fabrics and layers of rarities...
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