2009 was a year of ups and downs. The biggest ups for me were finding the most precious love a girl can dream of and reliving the NKOTB dream with my sis Basie. The downs were the economic crisis which led to unemployment-financial problems-debts-parental pressures and it goes on an on. Another major downer of 2009 was the loss of Michael Jackson, he was my childhood, my teenage years, my adulthood, basically a major part of my whole life. His sudden death was tragic deeply saddening all of my generation. He was one of the greatest creations of God to come to life, I feel very lucky to have seen this greatness in person. May you rest in peace MJ, love you.
As for me what did I do this whole year? Well I wasn't able to make any longterm plans because of the fact that I might start working at any time. There were so many courses etc I wanted to take but I wasn't able to devote myself. You have all the time in the world, but have to be careful spending money. When you have all the money in the world, you have no time to spend it...Life!!! Basically most of my time was spent job searching, taking walks and riding my bike at the beach during my time in Istanbul.
One of the good parts of being unemployed was that I got to spend lot of time with my family who live in another city. I got to stay with them for long periods of time. The best part was that I spent nearly 3 months in our summerhouse with them. The last time I got to do that was back in college.
While there I got to my jewellery and accessory designing. I started designing all the way back in college. I made numerous stuff for myself and my friends. I never made any money from it back then. Then all of a sudden jewellery making became a major trend here and one out of every 5 people started making and selling jewellery. This made me nauseous and it didn't feel special to me anymore so I just let it go for quite a while. To me art is precious, it shouldn't be so out in everyone's hands.
Anyway I started working on some designs again but not with the typical beads and stuff everybody uses. I started using fabrics, buttons, ribbons, felt and all sorts of other materials. Some really good stuff stared to come out which led me to create my own brand called "defist". You can see and buy my designs on my blogsite: http://www.def-ist.blogspot.com/. For the first time I actually earned money for my designs. It's a great feeling and it opened so many doors for me in this area and I feel that more are going to opent thanks to my supporters, the greatest friends in the world, especially Dilhan :)
With all that in mind, I concluded this year with two parties. One Christmas/ Pre New Year's party at my house with my friends from Digiturk. We had a blast, I decorated the house like crazy. The second one was new years eve with my buddies where we went to Serdar Ortac which was also a blast.
Here I am day one of 2010 on an extremely windy stormy day. What did I do today? Absolutely nothing. Too tired to think or do anything. I watched tv, surfed the internet and just relaxed.
I'm very hopeful for this new year. Usually I don't feel so strongly about new years but as the Black Eyed Peas say "I got a feeling", that this years gonna be a good year, one I'm never gonna forget, one I'm gonna tell my kids about :) see yaaaa..
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