Finding the Consumer// On Forgiveness// People Who Pass You By
Finding the Consumer
Jewish holiday today so I didn't have to submit a collection this week.
On to another class... The assignment for our Senior Thesis Core 2 was to blog once a day on our teacher's site; either make something, photograph or reflect/write on an issue related to our thesis. In my Business Entrepreneurship class we were asked to find a consumer niche market for our business plan.
Consumer niche eh? That's one thing I wanted to find out: if I wanted to create a system for clothes to filter within, I had to narrow down my target group. After all, no one can design for everyone.
So I proposed in the blog, to interview two people a day and collect data on their consumption habits and exactly what they had in their closets. Last year I tried making people do surveys, realizing that people liked to downplay how many items they had and how often they shopped. So this year I went straight to their closets to see exactly what was going on.
Here are four out of thirteen people in my family of friends that I got to interview. I've been running around chasing people down for the past week. Takes up a lot of my time so I'm so thankful I didn't have to submit a 25 piece collection this week. Please click to read interview and see their closets/items in more detail:
I'm starting to see several threads of similarity out of the thirteen surveys. Not going to say exactly what it is that I'm noticing, but I'll share more later on when I start exploring more indepth.
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On Forgiveness
The other day, a friend whom I stopped initiating with all together called me up out of the blue asking if I wanted to get dinner. Admittedly, I did so grudgingly, pushing back my small group time to eat dinner with her. She hurt me a lot in the past; one of the reasons why I've stopped trusting a lot of people.
I don't know how it happened but we ended up talking about how I was harbouring a lot of bitterness and hurt against her; she understood and told me she'd try harder. Everything she said that evening was exactly all that I was hurting for; she understood me and I was so grateful.
Now I'm feeling less tense when I'm with her.
I feel like God has lead me through another hurdle: what to do after someone you hold dear hurts you.
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People Who Pass You By
Vanilla bean cream cheese frosting on old fashioned chocolate cupcake with pear and vanilla bean filling. Recipe found on cupcakeblog.com
Yes the title is as much as a mouthful as it tasted. I was pretty proud of how they turned out; I made these for the potluck this past Saturday. I got to experiment filling cupcakes in and using vanilla bean for the first time as well as using a piping head to shape the frosting. Oh I also made those pear chips that top the cupcake.
Today I went for lunch at Spice with three friends, then three of us went to the MET and then went to someone's house later on. It was nice.
I've been making more of an effort to pray harder and more frequently these days, keeping a list of specific people who I want to pray for daily. I asked God about someone and to give me an answer the next day. Well, I got my answer I think, although I'm a little disappointed, I'll set my sights elsewhere. I guess it was not meant to be. I've learned to not grumble, not to wish I was someone else nor to look back.
I was doing my devos the other day, and this passage resonated within me,
"It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy" Romans 9:16
"But who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it 'Why did you make me like this?' Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for disposal of refuse?" Romans 9:20-21
I found out last week that my new friend in Fashion Portfolio class has the EXACT same three citizenships as I: HK id, Canadian and American passports. It is so rare to encounter someone with the exact same nationalities let alone three citizenships. I'm really beginning to enjoy being a global citizen: I might as well add 'heaven' as my fourth. XD
Anyway, so Betty and I were talking and we decided to become Accountability partners. While I think Accountability partners is a good idea, ironically, they have never worked so far that I've tried them. People say 'let's be accountable to one another' yet they rarely check up on you. We now meet up every Wednesday night at a chocolate restaurant to share. It's really nice and I feel blessed to have her in my life. How I met her... another one of those small world occurences. Robyn didn't know if she was or wasn't a christian but fwd the address of our church to her and she decided to go one day and bumped into me there, freaking me out when she asked me if I was "robyn's cousin." The rest is history.
This was a really scattered entry. Ah well. My thesis prof said we should write more because writing begets writing. So I'm not writing in here primarily to keep up with my communication skills as well as record current thoughts I know will pass me by if I don't write them down.
Jewish holiday today so I didn't have to submit a collection this week.
On to another class... The assignment for our Senior Thesis Core 2 was to blog once a day on our teacher's site; either make something, photograph or reflect/write on an issue related to our thesis. In my Business Entrepreneurship class we were asked to find a consumer niche market for our business plan.
Consumer niche eh? That's one thing I wanted to find out: if I wanted to create a system for clothes to filter within, I had to narrow down my target group. After all, no one can design for everyone.
So I proposed in the blog, to interview two people a day and collect data on their consumption habits and exactly what they had in their closets. Last year I tried making people do surveys, realizing that people liked to downplay how many items they had and how often they shopped. So this year I went straight to their closets to see exactly what was going on.
Here are four out of thirteen people in my family of friends that I got to interview. I've been running around chasing people down for the past week. Takes up a lot of my time so I'm so thankful I didn't have to submit a 25 piece collection this week. Please click to read interview and see their closets/items in more detail:
I'm starting to see several threads of similarity out of the thirteen surveys. Not going to say exactly what it is that I'm noticing, but I'll share more later on when I start exploring more indepth.
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On Forgiveness
The other day, a friend whom I stopped initiating with all together called me up out of the blue asking if I wanted to get dinner. Admittedly, I did so grudgingly, pushing back my small group time to eat dinner with her. She hurt me a lot in the past; one of the reasons why I've stopped trusting a lot of people.
I don't know how it happened but we ended up talking about how I was harbouring a lot of bitterness and hurt against her; she understood and told me she'd try harder. Everything she said that evening was exactly all that I was hurting for; she understood me and I was so grateful.
Now I'm feeling less tense when I'm with her.
I feel like God has lead me through another hurdle: what to do after someone you hold dear hurts you.
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People Who Pass You By
Vanilla bean cream cheese frosting on old fashioned chocolate cupcake with pear and vanilla bean filling. Recipe found on cupcakeblog.com
Yes the title is as much as a mouthful as it tasted. I was pretty proud of how they turned out; I made these for the potluck this past Saturday. I got to experiment filling cupcakes in and using vanilla bean for the first time as well as using a piping head to shape the frosting. Oh I also made those pear chips that top the cupcake.
Today I went for lunch at Spice with three friends, then three of us went to the MET and then went to someone's house later on. It was nice.
I've been making more of an effort to pray harder and more frequently these days, keeping a list of specific people who I want to pray for daily. I asked God about someone and to give me an answer the next day. Well, I got my answer I think, although I'm a little disappointed, I'll set my sights elsewhere. I guess it was not meant to be. I've learned to not grumble, not to wish I was someone else nor to look back.
I was doing my devos the other day, and this passage resonated within me,
"It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God's mercy" Romans 9:16
"But who are you, a mere human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it 'Why did you make me like this?' Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for disposal of refuse?" Romans 9:20-21
I found out last week that my new friend in Fashion Portfolio class has the EXACT same three citizenships as I: HK id, Canadian and American passports. It is so rare to encounter someone with the exact same nationalities let alone three citizenships. I'm really beginning to enjoy being a global citizen: I might as well add 'heaven' as my fourth. XD
Anyway, so Betty and I were talking and we decided to become Accountability partners. While I think Accountability partners is a good idea, ironically, they have never worked so far that I've tried them. People say 'let's be accountable to one another' yet they rarely check up on you. We now meet up every Wednesday night at a chocolate restaurant to share. It's really nice and I feel blessed to have her in my life. How I met her... another one of those small world occurences. Robyn didn't know if she was or wasn't a christian but fwd the address of our church to her and she decided to go one day and bumped into me there, freaking me out when she asked me if I was "robyn's cousin." The rest is history.
This was a really scattered entry. Ah well. My thesis prof said we should write more because writing begets writing. So I'm not writing in here primarily to keep up with my communication skills as well as record current thoughts I know will pass me by if I don't write them down.
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