Ode to My Fashion

Hello my loves! How are you doing? Ramadan Mubarak to my Muslim readers! Ramadan has started. This year will be so different. In my country, mosques are not open to the public. We will not be able to pray there after we break the fast like we always do. I think it will be hard for some because Ramadan is a time to reflect but also to share. Many people donate fresh meals at the Mosque every day during that month. And many poor people flock to the mosques in hopes of having something to break their fast. How can we keep this tradition under the curfew? As you know, I have been working from home for over a month now. I have to admit that it can be quite challenging. As it is very new to me, I have found it hard to adjust. I love my work and in the past, I have enjoyed staying at the office working late. But one thing I try to do is not to bring my work in my home. I am even reluctant to answer work related phone calls after working hours unless it is an emergency. But since th...

Good day to you all! Although I am working mostly from home now, I still have to go to the office once or twice a week. I made a little effort today to get out of my jeans and tees routine to go to work. I wore a skirt, a brand new skirt that I bought half off weeks ago. I have been into skirts lately, pencil, ruffled, printed. I think that in the past 6 months, I have acquired a reasonably versatile collection of skirts perfect for work or play. Now I just need a black pencil midi skirt . White linen shirt - thrifted Floral Skirt - Numero Uno Clutch - Numero Uno Shoes - Thrifted  Earrings - Petersen market Back to this look; it is a skirt with a front slit in a really nice ditsy floral print paired with a simple linen shirt . I love me some floral but I rarely go for ditsy prints. I prefer large floral patterns. Yet I fell for this skirt. And it might have been a mistake. As much as I like the skirt, it does not suit me well. The shape is between an A-lin...

Hello everyone! I hope all of y'all are doing fine in this new coronavirus era. Some of y'all might be working from home, or being confined. It is hard for everyone but I am praying that you are safe. Since I posted last, more people have been contaminated with the virus in my country. As I type this, we have 137 people infected with the virus who are being treated right now. We also have had two deaths: a former president of a french football club, and woman in her late 50s. The government is testing suspected cases but not everyone has symptoms, or comes forward so it is hard to really know how many people are sick. The government also took some major decisions such as ordering a state of emergency until May 4th, curfew from 8 pm to 6 am, closing all the schools, forbidding big events in public or inside and closing all borders finally. The clergy and part of the Muslim clerics decided to stop the public prayers at the church and at the mosque, and all major religious cel...

Hello my friends! I hope you are all staying confined and safe in this difficult time. Now there is an entire debate over the use of masks with the coronavirus outbreak: should we wear masks or not? Are masks are efficient or not? And so on and so on. What I have learned is that masks will not stop the virus since it is tiny; but they could stop us from touching our faces, and that is a good start I guess. Masks have always been problematic even without this Covid-19 situation. Growing up, one of the first person I saw wearing a mask was Michael Jackson. And I remember that some people particularly in Africa did not like it that much. Well, that coupled with the fact that he also kept touching his nose while on a tour in Africa did not help. People assumed it was because he thought we smelled or that we had germs. It was probably not his intention. The first time I had to wear a mask was when I moved to study in Japan. In there, people wear masks when they are sick and do not wan...

You know what I never do? Make plans. For years I have been making plans, trying to get organized. But then God will have a say in those plans and they would be completely changed. That is why, I would just leave it to God. However, I started 2020 with a plan of travelling. I have been inside this country for 4 years without crossing its borders. I did go to Gambia thrice, but since it is in the middle of Senegal, I have to admit that I do not consider it as another country. I just wanted to take the plane and go to a foreign land, discover new places, eat good food, do tons of shopping and just relax. But God has decided otherwise it seems. S carf - probably thrifted Pleather jacket and blouse- Numero Uno Pants - Sandaga market Shoes - Thrifted Accessories - Petersen Market By now, you probably know about this coronavirus pandemic happening right now in the world. I know that the World Health Organisation is reluctant to call it a pandemic, but let us be logic...

February is love month they say! Valentine's day came and went. I spent it with my computer watching something on Netflix, I do not even remember what. I had zero dates, actually I had -0 dates because my love life in non-existent at this point. Peplum top - Thrifted Layered skirt - Thrifted Shoes - Class Accessories - Petersen market Glasses - Optic Ponty But enough about me. Speaking of Netflix, I took a chance on a reality show called "Love is blind" recently. I was cleaning out my closet and wanted something mindless to watch at the same time. I settled on the show absolutely certain that it would be stupid and non-threatening. Oh how wrong was I! By episode two I was already hooked. At episode three, I started to tear up a little. And now that I have watched both parts, I can hardly wait for next week to watch what I suppose is the final part.   I do not want to spoil the show for those who have not seen it yet. Let us just say that it is ...

Hello my friends! I have started a business of selling clothes, clothes that I designed. I have finally started after years of dreaming and talking about it. It happened out of the blue. I designed one fabric that a friend of mine gave me into an embroidered short bubu. Then I posted the bubu on my blog and Instagram. A cousin saw it and asked me to make her something similar. I did, with a fabric my brother gave me but instead of one bubu, I made two. My cousin got hers, then her colleague saw it and took it. So I had to give her the other one (I wanted to keep it for myself). My best friend ordered one, my Aunt ordered one and some colleagues at work ordered as well. In less than a month, I had 5 orders of bubus, each different, and each tailored to my customers needs. But today's post is not about how I started my business. Today is about running a clothing business in my city, more particularly about the prices of clothes in this city of mine. "Firework" S...