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17

Feb

Hello Everyone,
If you look up you can see my second assignment, the no shopping contract.Those are pretty much the reason why I’m not shopping. Besides those I’m also trying to become really environmental friendly, so not wasting is a big part of that.Assignment #3Find a buddy and ask him/her to help you to  fulfill your personal challenge
Well, this part won’t be really necessary since Bir is my buddy and I’m hers!
So my mom isn’t really helping me either. She has a habit of leaving old stuff she doesn’t wear anymore in my room thinking I can have it. Of course I can’t accept it.. Anyway, when I checked this morning I actually quite liked what she left…So the perfect solution to this is a trade! I went looking trough my closet and found something I could give her back in return. (Even though she doesn’t know it yet XD)
Hope you all have a great day!
-Nika 

Hello Everyone,

If you look up you can see my second assignment, the no shopping contract.
Those are pretty much the reason why I’m not shopping. Besides those I’m also trying to become really environmental friendly, so not wasting is a big part of that.

Assignment #3
Find a buddy and ask him/her to help you to fulfill your personal challenge

Well, this part won’t be really necessary since Bir is my buddy and I’m hers!

So my mom isn’t really helping me either. She has a habit of leaving old stuff she doesn’t wear anymore in my room thinking I can have it. Of course I can’t accept it.. Anyway, when I checked this morning I actually quite liked what she left…
So the perfect solution to this is a trade! I went looking trough my closet and found something I could give her back in return. (Even though she doesn’t know it yet XD)

Hope you all have a great day!

-Nika 

11

Feb

almost a month

It’s almost a month ago that te challenge began :) Let’s say time flies because I was making a post in week 2 but because I was very busy the last weeks with school etc. I forgot to finish it (shame on me). I survived my testweek and have some great results ^^

Since I can’t buy any clothes, I am still looking for clothes, just for inspiration. I just found this really awesome jacket on a website (see picture below) and I think I’m going to make it for my own. I have some fabrics laying in a closet (checkered). Now I have to find the pattern or make a pattern on my one (my grandma has a book how to make your own patterns). 

Assignment #1: I finally had some time to make an inventory of my closet and I found out that I have 106 garments in my closet. This includes formal wear, a part of my summer clothes and not my belts, socks and sport wear. 

Assignment #2: For assignment 2 we had to make an contract with ourselves. Here is mine.

I, -Bir, declare that I will stop shopping for 365 days. My shopping sabbatical will start on 13 January 2012 and end on 13 January 2013. The rules:

  • I will not buy any items of clothes of accessories
  • This includes underwear & socks
  • I will not buy any fabrics in order to make clothes
  • I will not accept any of those above as gifts
  • I can swap mu clothing with others

-Bir  date: 11 February 2012

Assignment #3: for assignment 3 I have to find a budy and ask him or her to support me to fulfill my personal challenge.
So I got my mom and of course I have Nika and a good friend of mine. My mom said that she would try to buy less clothes when I’m with her (or something like that, I can’t remember -_-“)

These were all the assignments we had to do in this month, so I think it’s Nika’s turn to do the last 2 challenges O:-)

-Bir

 

The jacket I love ♥

If you think that are not 106 items, you did thought right :) There are a few things in the laundry ;)

14

Jan

So Free Fashion Challenge send me my first assignment yesterday.
Assignment #1Make an inventory of your wardrobe and  describe/illustrate/photograph/document the content of your wardrobe.  
The inventory I’ve already done. Here is a photograph of my closet. Yes, most of my clothes are black. That is what I meant when I wrote that we are two best friends with very different tastes in clothes.
-Nika

So Free Fashion Challenge send me my first assignment yesterday.

Assignment #1
Make an inventory of your wardrobe and describe/illustrate/photograph/document the content of your wardrobe.  

The inventory I’ve already done. Here is a photograph of my closet. Yes, most of my clothes are black. That is what I meant when I wrote that we are two best friends with very different tastes in clothes.

-Nika

10

Jan

Inventory

Since my closet was looking like a mess anyway, I decided to do some inventory. This list is my every day wear and does not include formal wear and sport clothes.

  • Long Pants: 6
  • Short Pants: 3
  • Long Skirts: 8
  • Mid length Skirts: 4
  • Short Skirts: 5
  • Short Dresses: 3
  • Long dresses: 2
  • Sweaters: 4
  • Vests: 3
  • Bolero: 2
  • Waistcoat: 1
  • Corsets: 4
  • Tops: 14
  • Tshirts: 10
  • Long sleeve shirts: 4
  • Velvet gothic tops: 5

Total: 74

Okay, I must admit, I’m pretty surprised by that myself. But I shouldn’t forget that some of these pieces I’ve had for 4 years or more. Still, that’s a lot! And I always thought Bir was the shopaholic!

Things I still want to buy before Friday:

  • Socks
  • Black long sleeve shirt
  • Black tight skirt

The thing is, my style has been changing recently, and I don’t have a lot in my closet that is in that style, so I’m curious how this year will turn out.
Also, it’s currently sale, how will I survive this? 

-Nika