Its easy to get stuck in a box. The box can be small, confining, suffocating... or it can be huge, expansive and full of possibility -- but its still a box. At the end of the day, it has four corners and four walls and if you keep walking you're destined to bump into one of them.
Sometimes it's a good thing. You certainly don't want to wander around forever, directionless, with no beginning, middle, or end. Take for instance, that project you've been working on. Its nice to have that boxed off from say... your boring 9 to 5 job (or maybe you're one of the lucky ones with an invigorating 9-5!?) When you're working on that project you're inspired, creative and impassioned. You jump in that box, splash around and will eventually come out of it with a
great finished product.
The same goes for your job (assuming you have the boring kind)-- you certainly don't want be totally preoccupied with your fun project during work or else you'd never complete the less inspired tasks of your day.
The trick with boxes, I think, is to make sure you have more than one (but not too many). Maybe 3 or 4: Three or four sturdy boxes that you can move between, but that all compliment each other in some way or another and form the building blocks (or boxes) of your fabulous self.
Today I'm not so much going outside the box, but wandering away from our shores for a bit (design is big box) to the fashion port of Singapore! This South-East Asian gem is home to some breathtaking fashion, including a site you're destined to love: Hansel.
Hansel is the brainchild of Jo Soh whose motto "Context is all," drives her fresh, inspired line of womenswear. I'm especially in love with the way she molds her collections around playful themes... the poem about Mr. and Mrs. Tan is as playful and fun as the collection itself.
And if you couldn't tell from her clothes . . . the fact that she named her line after her beloved Jack Russell Terrier, Hansel, shows that she has just the kind of sense of humor and creativity to make it to the top!
Sometimes it's a good thing. You certainly don't want to wander around forever, directionless, with no beginning, middle, or end. Take for instance, that project you've been working on. Its nice to have that boxed off from say... your boring 9 to 5 job (or maybe you're one of the lucky ones with an invigorating 9-5!?) When you're working on that project you're inspired, creative and impassioned. You jump in that box, splash around and will eventually come out of it with a
great finished product.The same goes for your job (assuming you have the boring kind)-- you certainly don't want be totally preoccupied with your fun project during work or else you'd never complete the less inspired tasks of your day.
The trick with boxes, I think, is to make sure you have more than one (but not too many). Maybe 3 or 4: Three or four sturdy boxes that you can move between, but that all compliment each other in some way or another and form the building blocks (or boxes) of your fabulous self.
Today I'm not so much going outside the box, but wandering away from our shores for a bit (design is big box) to the fashion port of Singapore! This South-East Asian gem is home to some breathtaking fashion, including a site you're destined to love: Hansel.
Hansel is the brainchild of Jo Soh whose motto "Context is all," drives her fresh, inspired line of womenswear. I'm especially in love with the way she molds her collections around playful themes... the poem about Mr. and Mrs. Tan is as playful and fun as the collection itself.
And if you couldn't tell from her clothes . . . the fact that she named her line after her beloved Jack Russell Terrier, Hansel, shows that she has just the kind of sense of humor and creativity to make it to the top!
