Today
My morning started in the garden collecting some bougainvillea which I plonked into a vase and packed into the car along with a full load of lovely things. I headed off on my journey down to Broadbeach on the Gold Coast where I spent the day installing new furniture at an apartment I have had the pleasure of working on over the past few months.
My grand plans of arranging the big bunch of pretty pink bougainvillea in a vase on my clien'ts new sideboard went down the drain about halfway there when the bunch and the water fell out of the vase as I was going around a corner. By the time I arrived at the Coast the poor flowers had dropped. I had to improvise. I found a native bush in the front garden of the apartment building which I cut a few branches from. They looked great arranged in the glass vase on the sideboard along with the other new bits and pieces I organised for her.
It was a full day of unpacking new furniture and placing pieces, cushions, lamps and accessories. The owners of this apartment actually built the building way back in the 60's. It has a divine view of the beach and the breeze is sensational.
I didn't want to leave. I could have stayed on for days and days. Unfortunately B&S and my boys can't survive without me so I reluctantly left my client so that she could enjoy her beautiful new things. It's so rewarding seeing a project come to fruition and especially when the client is a happy one at the end of the day. Phew!!
I wish I took more photos but I only had my phone with me so I quickly snapped these as I was leaving...
xx
Anna
Natural Beauty of the Week - Ebony
Name: EbonyYour Stylist? My stylist is Lauren Ashley HD (Shawn Lamar he comes up with the most creative loc styles)
What inspires your fly style? I love girly, yet edgy, but bold looks. I love styles out of Elle magazine!
What makes you a Natural Beauty? Just loving the skin that I'm in. I'm 24 yrs old and I've been natural mostly my whole life and that's the way I was my hair was made and that's the way it's going to stay! Natural girls rock!!
How do you like to rock your natural hair? Locs! But I rock them in styles of a person who has loose hair. Updos, rolls, curls, knots, flat twists, even had curly weave Mohawk with my loc's flat twisted on the sides.
What advice would you give to others thinking of going natural? Research!!! Research as much as you can about your natural hair, products, ingredients, styles, & what's just best for your hair overall.
Where can people find you? My Tumbler page is Ebony Lunsford.
Giveaway Winner!! Sephora Gold Sparkle Polish
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Sephora "Only Gold For Me" top coat nail polish Giveaway. All the entries were great. I randomly picked a winner, and the winner is Terez!!! Congratulations! Please contact me at naturalhairbeauty@gmail.com, to give me your ship to address, so that I can send you your prize. What Inspires You?
Many people ask Designers the age old question - What Inspires you? To be honest, I find it a very hard question to answer. Pin-pointing exactly what inspires me is never really something I can put into words.
However, in saying that the more I think about it and the more I learn and the more experiences I have there is one word which seems to ring around and around in my head. It is something I strive for every single day and it is something I truly admire in successful, innnovative people.
The word is originality which is defined as - The capacity to act or think independently.
I once read a quote by John Mason which said - 'You were born an original, don't die a copy.' To be an original, to be an innovator, to create something you can call your own. Isn't that what we all strive for in this life? To have full confidence in your own ability to create something wonderful is when everything falls into place. I hope that when I look back on my life I will be able to say I was an innovator and I was always true to my original self.
I was recently extremely inspired by a book on Celia Birtwell which was given to me as a gift. Her beautiful prints are unmistakable and it has been said that her work does not date. So true in fact that her Mystic Daisy pattern, as worn by Kate Moss in 2006, was a sellout for Topshop and yet this very same pattern was worn by Jane Birkin in the 70's.
In her own words about the process of collecting her thoughts for her book, Celia Birtwell says - 'that my life has been a patchwork of happy accidents without path or planning: and how hugely privileged I am that my prints have a language of their own that people really enjoy and understand.'
Her work stands out on it's own full of confidence and originality. There is nothing like it. Celia Birtwell is an inspiration.
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