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Me Made May #10: What Went Right, What Went Wrong

What Went Right:
I wore handmade clothing 26/31 days in May!  I wore the first dress and first button down I ever made.  I didn't repeat too many outfits, which is big for me in general.  I think this month of focusing on what I was wearing and what it looked like helped me define my style in a far more sophisticated way.  I don't think I would have ever called anything about myself sophisticated, but there you have it.  I think it inspired me to push for more fashion risks, which is another sentence I thought I would never say.
I made more clothing this month than throughout the rest of this year.  It took me MONTHS to make a dress, and within May I made a skirt, a top, redid a sweater and a t-shirt and finished a knit sweater vest.  Now, when I look at this, it does not look prolific, but when you think about how much work I was doing at school and how busy spring weekends can be, I'm pretty happy with it.  And I'm hoping that inspiration will push into June and July and I'll be able to have a more handmade wardrobe than before.

What Went Wrong:
I missed about five days in total out of 31.  Now that doesn't look too bad.  As a teacher, I can tell you a 26/31 is a solid B+.  As an overachiever, I always want to go for the A.  I think part of it was I didn't use my safety things because, somehow, I decided that they were cheating.  Which makes some sense.
Now here's the social media aspect of all of this: I really hated posting these pictures to instagram.
What, a millennial that hates posting all aspects of their life?  Say it ain't so!
Yeah, it's so.  It kind of really made me feel self conscious.  I hate photos of me and I feel like what the camera sees is not what I see in the mirror.
That went deep quickly.
Of course it did.  I found I had a hard time focusing on the clothes and not on me, but I had a really hard time doing that.  I kind of hated taking the photos, looking at me and just not feeling good about it.

What Will I Do
I'm still really proud that I did this, and I want to do this again, but not in the same way.  What it came down to was the posts were a lot and the month of May was a lot.  I think what I'll do is to take photos of just the outfits, maybe on a mannequin or laid out on the floor.  On the other side, I think I'll just focus on improving this year's score.  Plus, with this inspiration, hopefully I'll have more pieces to choose from.

Well this was my last MMMay17, and I'm proud that I did it and I look forward to MMMay18 and keeping posting other things that I make in the future on this blog.

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