Creativity Flow part.1 - P.Wojciechowska

I like to think of myself as a pretty creative human being. I gather inspiration from all around me. Current events, nature, buildings. music, people ...
I love to make art (even if it is just a doodle on my notepad), capture photographs, hair styling, sewing and more. These days I found myself struggling for inspiration. Finding my creative flow as everything around me stands still. Yet I noticed some of my favorite creators continuing to make something new every day. And this is a segment, where I will share with you, for next couple of weeks, some of them. Artists who still manage to amaze me. 

Paula Wojciechowska

 

Gino D'Acampo Liverpool

The other night I went for a lovely Christmas night out with my salon colleagues and we made some great plans. Loads of drinks and dancing, but to prepare ourselves we needed food. As most of us lived in Liverpool a long time now and been to pretty much every restaurant we knew we enjoy, we wanted to try something new. So as we all love Italian Gino D'Acampo seemed like a brilliant idea. Which it ended up being.

House to Home

One of the actually fun parts of adulthood is being able to make a house into a home. Adding little touches to your space to personalize it and make it as cosy as you please.

Home is a place, where you can relax, unwind and be yourself one hundred percent. Whatever that means. And making sure that your space shows that is important. At least to me it is.  

15 things to do before you turn 30

Few weeks back I have been sitting at a bar with my best friend and as you do, we started talking about our future. Sharing our dreams and goals, as much as disappointments. As we were growing up our fantasies have been so vibrant and ideas of our future were crazy. We went from being pop stars through mummies all the way to big successful women. Lawyer and a business woman.
We all know that things don' t always turn out as you would expect. Life happens, mistakes are done, relationships come into a way, compromises get made and you sometime don' t end up exactly where you planned. This could be a bad or even amazing thing.

Dockside Dining Club

A little while back I stumbled upon a fun place. Dockside Dining Club at Albert docks, Liverpool. I can not believe I havent been here before.  It is so nice and kinda cosy there. As it was night time, all the lights seemed vibrant and the place was booming with people. 

Get that December Inspiration

 Hello lovelies! Guess what? As it is a new month, December actually, I have a massive inspiration board ready. Each month I try to show you few things that inspire me and helps me with fashion shopping and decorations. All comes from my favorite sources, pinterest and tumblr.

Is it Winter yet?

I spent a nice crisp day in Liverpool the other day with my friend. And oh was it lovely. The city finally has the right festive atmosphere and weather is getting a lot cooler. People around shopping for Christmas and everywhere serves special menus. Just nice.

3 WAYS JOURNALING HELPED MY LIFE

Hello lovelies.
If you are new to the world of journaling I will explain in a short cut what it is and why I decided to give it a go. It is a combination of keeping a diary and everyday organizational journal. It is a way to keep yourself organized, less stressed, creative, tracking your habits and day to day activities. You could use it to store some memories from traveling, organize your taxes and payments or even just to doodle. The range of options is huge!

Early Bonfire Night

So this year Liverpool celebrated Bonfire night for a few days and the big display of fireworks actually happened on a Sunday. A day early. Which means that the Albert docks have been crazy full. And I for once was between this bunch of people.
I don' t like big crowds and pushing each other etc. That is a reason why I skipped any displays or big celebrations in the city for the last two or so years. Well I do tend to be busy on days when something is actually happening, but also the crowd thing.
This time around I tried my best to stay calm and actually get my ass up and go. No excuses. And boy was it worth it. I forgot how nice fireworks can be. As much as I hated them a a kid.

In A Shortcut

Do you live in England? Have you ever visited? Ever attempted to come during summer? Succeeded? Congrats. You made it to England during those magical 3-4 weeks of summer. If doesn' t always come in a row. Those few weeks are sprinkled around the year, as mother nature pleases. I was lucky enough to be able to somewhat enjoy the first part of British summer and it actually helped me fall back in love with Liverpool.

As I lived here for good few years, Liverpool became my home. Place where I work, live, have responsibilities and grown up shit to deal with. This type of places tends to start grossing us out after a little while. There is nothing you can do about it. It is just one of those things that happens in life.
In my case, I just got tired of being in the same place. Bored of doing same things and not having time or energy to do nothing more then I had to. The few sunny days charged me up though and I was able to go places and do thing that made me love Liverpool on first place. Meeting up with friends, getting food or few drinks, working in and outside of the salon and I even had time to chill and have little me time. Perfect way to remind myself why I live in this Scouse land.

Q&A get to know DeniVev

One thing I love the most about writing a blog is seeing our little family grow. Three years ago we turned into huge group and I have never been prouder of any of my other projects. Since then I knew every member of the fam kept coming back and showing love and support I appreciate. These days we still grow and I constantly get surprised by how many people are still interested in reading my rants. And as I am sure many of you have no clue how it all started and who I actually am, i will sum it up for you today and I'll answer few questions people asked me in order to get to know me. If you would like consider this as getting to know your new friend.

It all started in 2010. Back when there were only few ladies known for writing about fashion and noone knew that blogging can be actual career. Sweet Lady Lollipop was still just high school student like me, A cup of Style was all about Lucy and Chiara Ferragni was a solo and one lady blog and not a world known brand. Few years later there thousands maybe milions of girls and boys trying to make it and fight for readers. I loved fashion. Reading fashion magazines was my religion. If I could I would switch it for Sunday church my mum used to take me to. As I always wanted to get into fashion industry either as designer or journalist I figured a blog would be great idea to get this love out my system. As my friends neither sister shared same obsession I figured maybe someone on internet will. So DeniVev was born.



Back when this was best quality and selfie I could take-using my phone- I shared articles from fashion magazines, my outfit ideas put together on polyvore.com or my very very sad and too casual outfits. -my mom used to shop for me so I dressed like a 40 year old with no sense of what figure and right fit means. Later on I grew, my english got much better -which I do believe the blog helped me with as I kept trying to write everything here in english- fashion still nothing famous and I was still in high school. My theme grew from fashion into fashion and lifestyle. You could read bout music, traveling, life, boys, friendships, recipes and places I recommended to see.



It was all getting nice form and shape considering I was barely 17. By 18 I had high number of readers which kept me motivated. I never wanted to become famous or do this as full time job. I do have too many hobbys -including my current job- to settle for just writing haha. I did actually create a YouTube channel which got attention of people round world. Before I knew it I made internet friends in England, Ireland, Canada, France, Texas, Nashville, Spain etc. Felt like I had little online family.
As I turned 18 I moved to England. I never been happier and prouder of my blog. All of my friends in Liverpool were bloggers and I had a chance to attend events I never thought of. Then life happened. Jobs and college. Turn of career and here I am. Hairstylist, writer, blogger, amateur photographer, hobby model, music and travel enthusiast.
7 years later and still going strong and loving my tiny little space where I share rants on anything a modern woman can be interested in. Plus I do have a lot of plans I know you all will be interested about.
That pretty nicely answers question: How did you even get into blogging?



Another thing I get asked a lot would be:
Who helped you to create the visual of the blog? 
Noone. Everything you ever saw (except for few photos my friends took for me) was my work. I spent hours and hours browsing help server and pages to self learn how to deal with my platform. How to make it look as good as possible. I have gone through all pink stage too. Whole blog was this deep dark pink shade with borocco feel, then very scrapbook looking and only then I realized I wanted simplicity and WHITE. There has been a lot of tries and errors for sure.
I even got to help two new starters with their platforms. One on the girls has sadly given up quicker then she got anywhere. Kami from Her Way is still going though!

And onto more of your questions:

How did you cope with big move to foreign country?
Hard! It was hard! I know I was dead excited and saw a lot of opportunities that were ahead. I dreamed of life in England since I was like 9. Think Jamie Oliver and Harry Potter got too into my brain. I remember my first night here though. Reality hit me pretty hard. I landed bout 4 p.m. at John Lennon Airport and by 6 I was standing in the shower with tears coming down my face, thinking what the hell have I just done? Left all my friends, mum, sister, the school I was gonna go to and everything I have known for 18 years . And now I don' t really have a plan for future, no idea where I actually am or what I am going to do to survive. As you can tell I am still alive and happier then ever. Things turned out perfectly. Am in full time job doing something that has been my hobby from nursery. Live in cute flat with the guy I 'kind of really like' and friends who I am super proud of for being themselves and conquering the world.

What are your favorite places in Liverpool?
There is many! And they all have their reasons. For day time definitely visit Leaf on Bold street, Evening time Matou in Pier Head or Cosy Club in L1. In case you feel like staying outside and breathing fresh air, water is real close to my heart. Crosby beach and its neighborhood give me amazing piece. It feels like I am a girl in those old Rosamunde Pilcher movies. But the other side of city has something in store too. Otterspool. Beautiful greenery, lots of people and water. Plus a big sentimental feeling.

Favorite place IN THE WORLD you been?
Well, as much as I loved all the places I traveled to so far. Two stayed deep in my heart. Real deep. So deep I think of spending my pension there one day haha. Sorento and Capri in Italy. Love. I don' t even know what to say about them or how to explain them to you. Its two of the most chilled and stunning places. Just love.


How the hell did you get into hairdressing?! 
Okay, so I did mention I wanted to write and be in the fashion. As these options didn' t seem to work out for me as I planned or would be too expensive , plan B had to be placed. Had to think of something I always loved and could bring me closer to fashion. HAIR! I always did mine and my friends hair. I have been the one for prom hair, braids, colors and first ombres. That meant college was needed to be done and I did apply. I learned so much. I got so hungry for skill and information, I been at college more hours a day and week then home. My own day time classes, I added some evening classes my amazing teacher allowed me to go to and we were lucky enough to have competitions and more. Between two levels I worked in barber shop which sure gave me a lot more skill. Just hungry, hungry and hungry. Thanks to that I got to full time job before I even finished my qualification.. Go me haha

What are the plans for your near future? 5 years or so.
First thing first, I wish to change my location. South on England better get ready for me haha. In 5 years I sure aim to get more salon experience, work with industry greatness and slowly open my business. My more private plans will stay private for now. x


Those would be all questions for now. I did get few suggestions on what to talk about, but these were few actual questions that help to see who I am, where I am and how I got here.
Hope you enjoyed reading through and I' ll talk to you soon again.
Until next time, keep safe and live your life to the fullest
xoxo
DeniVev :*

I rumble. A lot

Inner Peace. What a great thing. You don't know what it is? Good...me neither. I am one of those, constantly nervous, stressed or annoyed people. Yes of course I like getting little piece of calm and I love trying to relax myself. Yet I always have little voice in me trying to keep me on my toes.
This is something even my boyfriend brought to my attention. We were barely dating back then and he said, he never actually saw me calm and properly chilled.
How can one do that though? With so much happening around all of us, how can one be really down to earth calm. Not dead kind of chilled. Like you still care -and breath- but you couldn' t actually give less shit.
But then, yeah I guess this little thing called -love- is able to make you feel little better. As if you forgot bout everything that happened that day. To make this little cheesier, that is what having my man around feels like. It doesn't necessarily always relaxes me or calms me down. It makes me forget. He makes me forget. Is that the key to inner peace then? Forgetting bout things that trouble you? Makes sense like.

For example I do have some stuff happening now, bit too personal for me to write bout them. This weekend we went for a night time date to town. Drinks and chat. Sweet sugary looks. Sunday spent by going for little road trip. I only thought of my trouble like twice and that was us trying to solve it. Other then that I felt like a happy little girl. Wow is that what love feels like? I never knew it was so powerful. Am I getting too cheesy now? Oh well.

Anyways, how are you guys? All good? I know this was pretty rumble today. I just felt like writing and this is what came out. Haha. Well thank you if you made it all the way here. What other rumble would you like me to do?
Until next time, keep safe and live your life to the fullest.
xoxo
DeniVev :*

Steve and Budapest

I have mentioned how much I love Budapest in my previous post. So obviously once I got there I had to take some beautiful photos. And its only fair for me to share them right?!

Treat Her Right

Christmas is round the corner. Yeah shocker right?! Ahaha. No, but with all the seriousness it is pretty close now and what is better then giving a gift to someone you love. Or care about, appreciate, are thankful to. This time I thought I´d give you a little idea on what you can give HER. Either its mum, sister, friend, daughter, partner, etc. 

Most of women would sure appreciate these.

Love Yourself

There is so much on my mind and at the same time I am not sure I have something to write about. That is a problem I was trying to over come as a blogger for a while now. This might explain why I didn´t blog too much. If I found a time to do so I couldn´t find words to explain everything that is running through my mind.

Maybe I should break it down then.

That Romance

Yea, yet another non fashion post. Yes, yet another photography post. I had the need to try out new things with my camera. Cause to be honest even though it is a real good camera with a lot of settings I only use basic camera setting and video shooting one. Boring, right?! SO the other day I decided to get out the house just as it got dark and I took these...

Am too Excited Bout this

There is something calming about clean and light spaces. Now I can´t imagine myself living in such bright and empty space - since I was born and raised in packed and super colorful home- but I absolutely adore this style of interior.
The other day I was browsing tumblr- as I do- and found this place somewhere in Germany and felt in love with those little details not everyone can see or feel. And the fact that they added them fairy lights every here and there- the best decoration for night time- and it maks whole space feel more home-alike.

All about Me and My Curves

I have always been the chubby one. The one that blamed her body for everything. For not having confidence, for not communicating with boys, for not being able to wear whatever I want, for wanting to hide in the corner ones I was on swimming pool and even for being bullied.
As I was getting older I met a lot of people who were trying to help me with this feeling. And after a while, I mean after 18 years, I actually started liking myself and my own body. Finally.

Sun, Oldies and Secrets

I live in Liverpool for months but I still am able to find places I have never seen before. And as you know I am absolutely in love with this city so it does make me bloody happy. I also make sure I take pics of these places so I can share them with others. So here you go huns....

Walk down the memory lane

Having troubles is something we all go through. Obviously. What is life without a few problems and complications. Well lately I have been having troubles with writing my blog posts. I have finally made a design and style for my blog that I am happy with (we´ll see how long that will last since we all know that I get bored of everything real quick) and I wanted to go full power with my posts and suddenly, I don´t know what to write about.