2015

In March 2015 I made a few poor choices and ended up suspended from school, you add we although I made a poor choice my punishment was far too grave and so I was pained, I was hurt and very angry.

But in my pain I decided that I had to return to school way better than I left, there was no way I was staying home for an entire year and returning to school the same, so strong was my drive to make the most of my suspension I started taking fashion classes again and in a month I was making dresses, my father trying to help me got me a sewing machine and like that in the midst of a seemingly bad season I got the one thing I had desired all my life: a sewing machine and I learned to sew. If there's anything I have learned from my life it's that you can't stop God from blessing you, the blessing just don't care if it's meant to come to you it will come to you even in your low estate.

As though that was not enough I recalled to school before my suspension was over and took my exams over the summer of 2015 and by October 2015 I resumed my final year at school with my mates. And so continued my sewing journey, I'd continually document my dresses, my inspirations as time goes.

Love,
Yellow peppermint

Details.
Skirt and crop top: yellow peppermint
Sandals: My sister's

LETS START AT THE VERY BEGINNING

When you read you begin with ABC, when you sing you begin with Do, re, mi
And when you sew you begin with China White(insert laughing emoticon here)

Let's start at the actual beginning, right from when I was a child creating things always meant a lot to me, I excelled the most at creative writing, and then I was found decorating my house with paper or ribbon decorations, so it's no shock to many that I make dresses now or that I write, the shock however is the fact that I have a B.sc in economics and not mass communication or some other creativity inclined course.

I have a lot of sewing tales I remember mutilating a dress that was made for me because I wanted to make it look a certain way, I and then I saw high school Musical and loved this white dress Gabriella wore and decided I was going to make it for myself so little brave me picked up a China white fabric, and this fabric wasn't even mine it was for my sister's home economics practical but who cares anyway I had a dream an nothing was going to destroy my dream, I couldn't lay my hands on scissors so I used razor blade to cut the fabric (I feel you judging me), well after cutting I couldn't find a white thread and I couldn't ask my mommy (if it's you will you ask?) so I picked a blue thread I found and used blue thread to sew a white dress because I could have needless to say my experiment didn't turn out as I envisaged but I couldnt be deterred I moved right ahead to cutting my mommy's wrappers into dresses that just never turned out right.

I continued with my experiments until the summer after my first year in university when I decided to begin sewing classes, but my instructor was rude and I was(keyword:WAS) proud so I stopped attending after one week. Before you judge me she was always sending me on ridiculous errands like "go and buy me blade" "Go and buy lining" e.t.c and then I looked at the people she had been teaching for months they were clueless about sewing and she was always sending them to cook for her and stuff I didn't need a soothsayer to tell me I was going to graduate to cook all because I wanted to learn sewing, also she wasn't educated so her English was a mess and unfortunately I'm not really comfortable with poor English (I have stopped chatting with people on several occasions simply because they said "where do you base") so I with shoulders held high left the place and continued my second class sewing in my father's house.

And so it was, I continued with my hand sewing and hilarious cutting practice until 2015, the year everything changed.

Love,
Yellow peppermint

BEFORE THE MINERS INTERRUPTED

Almost two weeks ago I decided to begin blogging on this page again, you see the last time I was here I was an undergrad trying to find a safe spot for my inexperienced feet however right here now everything has changed I'm in a truly blissful season I'm running a growing women's ministry called the unspoken women, I'm making dresses under the name "Yellow peppermint" and I'm currently serving as well. Its my intention to use this blog to share my journey as a writer, a tailor, an economist and every other thing God graces me to do.

Now about the 'goldminers' they aren't really gold miners they are armed robbers they visited my house on the 23rd of February I call them gold miners as they kept asking for gold and diamond when they came. They made away with my laptop, prior to that day I had created two posts for this blog but then they disrupted my plans. My heart is broken over my lost laptop but my Anchor holds and I'm convinced that all is well that the dreams that the laptop carried will still be realized, like my friend Sintiki said to me yesterday "you wrote everything on that laptop you will get more inspiration out of you shall flow rivers of living waters" I'm strongly holding on to that word it's hard but God's got this.

Just incase you're wondering why a lost laptop should hurt thud much here's a clue I have spent the last two months putting together my first novel it was almost completed that evening and would have been sent to my cloud but I got tired and decided to sleep for a few hours and wake up to work but I was awaken rudely hours later by the gold miners.

Now the interruption is over I present to you a new and happier meshelemiah writes now called yellow peppermint. I hope you come back I hope you smile I hope you are inspired.

Love
Yellow peppermint.