A City Gypsy

Kimono + Maxi Skirt: Missguided   |   Crystal Jewellery including headpiece is MojoMade

Every once in a while, something comes along and lands in your wardrobe that will completely embody who you are. It's something that speaks to your personal style. It's a piece that you can make work with anything else and you just never get tired of. You feel most fee when you're wearing it and it makes you feel confident and you're free to express yourself in all the ways you want… 

Enter this gypsy electric blue tie-dyed kimono in all it's hipset* glory from the cute-for-all-kinds-of-basics online store Missguided. I often throw it on over whatever I'm wearing and it instantly makes me feel free. Maybe because it reminds of my teenage bedroom or the clothes I used to wear when all of my time was spent painting, writing songs, hanging out with friends at the beach or on road trips… It just gives me a sense of fun. I might actually be more fun when I wear it. Haha

I have a real love for capes and kimonos and always find one that sticks like glue in each season. Even after I've worn it out and haven't picked it up for months, it won't leave my wardrobe and one day I'll put it on and feel nostalgic and totally awesome, because wearing something that completely expresses who you are is a creative power that us girls completely recognise, right?

I created this blog because I like to express my personal style in whatever projects I'm working on, be it music, performing, jewellery design, fashion design or just what I threw on to go to the markets. I love the notion that style is a simple way of saying complicated things. 

I've noticed that some people's personal style is actually all about what is on trend at the moment and what's in fashion. Their style seems to reflect whatever is being marketed to them and so it's always changing to fit it. But I think you'll notice that the style icons out there who we love and adore and take inspiration from have a great knack of simply injecting current trends into their already solid personal style. And really, I think that's what it's all about.

'Fashions fade, style is eternal.' 

                             - Yves Saint Laurent

*Hipset 

(Hippy + Gypset) a completely made up word I just threw in haha

Wearing Your Memories

Play suit + Jacket: Three of Something   |   Crystal Jewellery: MojoMade   |   Necklace: Free People

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What you see in something might be different to what I see. Like this cute little play suit from Three of Something's Highland Collection - it makes me smile because the print reminds me of the colours of my Grandmother's backyard. And that makes me happy because she was awesome. But it won't make you happy because of my Grandmother's backyard. It will make you happy because of something else.

It's funny how your memories can influence the clothes you buy, the perfume you wear and the incense or candles you burn. You can conjure up feelings of goodness just because of how you perceive or remember something, and really, it's the same with people… The people who stay close can see reflections of themselves in you, maybe of what they wish they could be or what they admire. And the people you don't like hold characteristics of the things you don't like about yourself and it's probably all you see. Man those people rub me the wrong way! :)

Be mindful of the way you love, the way you dislike and the way you treat other humans… And don't give away too much because people will take all that you give. And you will take from them.

It's an exchange of perceptions. It's a dance. And it's a game.

So enjoy the fuck out of it.

Happy Pants Really Do Make You Happy

Aztec Quartz Crystal Cuff available in the MojoMade Etsy Store

 Pants: Somedays Lovin @ Market HQ   |   Crucifix Ring: Spell & The Gypsy Collective   |   Crystal Jewellery: MojoMade

 It's that change of season time at the moment in Sydney - where it's hot one minute, raining the next and then the sun appears like a raging fireball in the sky but you didn't bring sunglasses because it was dark a minute ago and now you're sweating like mad in your jumper and boots, under your umbrella...

So I've been basically living in these glorious (excuse my French) drop-crotch pants, also referred to as happy pants and sometimes mistaken for MC Hammer Pants. These bright babes are last season (I know, shock horror) from Somedays Lovin' and I've just rediscovered my love of them after clearing out my wardrobe.

Working from home means I could easily stay in my PJ's all day, but you know how it is - now that it's getting all rainy, all I want is a momentary sunshine outbreak to distract myself from all the other things I need to do and run outside - and at least these pants mean I can have the best of both worlds - HA!

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Along with some big things in the works regarding my fashion and blog ventures, and whilst writing songs for a new music project, I'm working on samples for some new collections… I thought I'd jump the gun a little and share some pieces with you guys - the arm-band + deer-tine-necklace I'm wearing here will be available in the MojoMade Etsy Store pretty soon… What do you think? Likey?

Anyways, I'm also discovering some seriously amazing (and totally dorky) streamlining and de-cluttering ideas and apps for clearing out a chaotic life (and wardrobe). Yes, it's still going on - once you get started you find more and more things you just don't need and you'll continue until all you have left is just enough stuff to live in a Van.

Now, if you see me start talking about living in a Van, please get a group together and bail me up for an intervention. The Morgan in this moment doesn't think that would really work out for the best… But then again, the idea of working from the road, anywhere in the world, playing gigs in foreign lands, selling crystals at festivals and running a blog and business with just an iPad, a guitar, a bikini, a camera and a suitcase of clothes that can be worn myriad of ways (to save space)… well it doesn't sound too bad at all...

Oh dear, a seed.


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Sunday Morning Musings

strip it all back.

bare.

naked for the sun to burn

all broken and bruised

all shattered glory

all humble

all happy

loud silence of it's light

pull back the sheets and expose the film

captured.

delicate and grueling

uncovered and spilled

smiling wondrous

like there never was before

strip it all back.

bare.

so there be nothing but a moment

the shadow between the moons

alone

breathing

chaos

tranquil

freedom