About

so i want to be a cool, creative, stylish, brilliant-at-everything girl. but i’m not. i pretty much just write about things. my blog began with a focus that has been lost amidst a messed up brain with thoughts about every possible thing other than life. i don’t have loads of money to spend on tons of fabulous amazing clothes and glamorous accessories and i don’t have the fame or the chance of being recognised for my ‘stylishness’. i just have a blog. i tried to put that a different way that didn’t sound so cheesy, but honestly who cares.

i don’t really care that i don’t have it all though… well, maybe a little. even if i did have it all you would probably find me in the centre of London searching through a vintage thrift store for some new jumper or maybe some vintage tee-shirt or whatever. the point is that i think vintage is cool. i try to make this sound professional but to be honest i can’t. it feels too weird saying stuff like … well, i wouldn’t know, would i? i hate speaking formally in any way. i’m always tempted to write something stupid in an essay, but i don’t because i want good grades. unlike many other bloggers, i haven’t won any competition for something creative, i’m not a model or some sort of artist, i haven’t been on the cover of a magazine or in one and i haven’t been in an advert. i’m just normal, half-sane, weird, typical old me.

Age+name? Hi.My name’s Sadie and i am 12 (but really nearly 13 ). well actually, i suppose i could be any age really, because this about page is always going to be old and out of date and i won’t bother changing it because that’s me.

Living? In London. Not saying where though.                                            

Born? In Belgium. i know this is really bad, but i don’t know where. probably in some hospital.                                                                          

Hobbies? Phhh. yeah i have hobbies!…i think this is kind of weird and cheesy but i have this little notepad that i draw designs for clothes in and i like to write things like storys that i never finish. i go on the computer and check out my blog stats+ my email aswell as looking at some shops like UO and ASOS.                                                                                                                

Style icons? Elle Fanning and Eliza Doolittle i think. i suppose i don’t really have any though, because i can’t think of anybody who is amazing to me, because there are just too many stylish and unique people out there that it all becomes a bit the same. everyone seems to adore Alexa Chung, but i think she just wears what is typically in fashion and isn’t actually unique, in a way she sort of wears what everyone wants her to wear. i just think she could experiment more. she might not get a great reaction but it doesn’t matter because i thinnk i would prefer to have quite a care-free attitude like Azealia Banks. Today i wore a new outfit i had put together that was quite experimental and i got a few questionable looks, but who cares?                                                

Why did you start blogging? I have said this a lot before, but  it’s because my friend Ophelia had her own blog and i read it. i discovered about the ‘blogosphere’ and wanted to join in. i liked writing and photography and loved fashion, so it wasn’t hard to pick a focus for a blog. i enjoyed going to art and design galleries and looking at the sections about style evolving over the decades. i think that’s also where my craving for thrifted, vintage and retro clothing came from. i wanted to be posting about what was in fashion and who were my style icons, but after a while i finally realised that no one really wants to read a cheesy post about an in-style item, they want to hear about other stuff and see pictures and all that. i used to care about people reading my posts about a typical in-fashion thing and agreeing, but now i don’t, it actually annoys me when i look on my stats and find that the most popular post is about peter pan collars or something so typical , because that’s what everyone wants to read about, isn’t it? i used to be afraid to be unique, but now i’m not. i just deleted all that stuff i did before.                                                                                                        

Why the title ‘ Stepping Stones’?  I actually do get asked this quite a lot. it’s because that’s sort of the way this blog is going, isn’t it? i’m taking it a step at a time and i wanted to reflect that in the title, so Stepping Stones seemed like a good name.                                                                                   

Any other bloggers that inspire you?  well, Ophelia obviously inspires me because her blog was the thing that made me want to be a blogger and she has got so far just because of her blog and she is just such a creative and talented person! Tavi Gevinson also has got VERY far because of a little blog she started on her own, that turned her into an uber-cool fashionista who has her own magazine. Susie Bubble is cool too because she is really unique, experimental and daring.                                                                                            

Now, sum up your style? uuuuuuuuuuuuuh… i sort of like to be quite unique, but i like trying different things, so you wouldn’t really single out a way of dressing that was ‘my style’ , i’m still trying out new things to see what i like best. i’m also pretty fussy with clothes, because if i want a nice oversized wooly  jumper (just you know, picking an example from thin air) with different colours at a certain length, i will spend ages trying to find it until i find the perfect one, because there’s no point buying something that you don’t love.                                                                                                        

What do you want to be when you’re older? When i was little i really wanted to be a writer, so i would like to maybe write a book or i will feel bad. i don’t know why, i just will. in truth i’d like to be involved in fashion or just something creative like that. i would like to be a photographer or a stylist and i am really quite interested in designing. i used to make clothes for my dolls and i like using colourful things. i always think that i want to maybe add something to a piece of clothing, so it would be fun to be able to do that.                                                                  

Your favourite shop(s)?  I think that over time i have made it pretty clear that i live in Urban Outfitters, because the stuff there is just so cool and i can find unique clothes for individual people, which is great! ASOS is also cool, mainly the sunglasses though, they’re just so amazing! Topshop can be good for unique clothes too, they have some really nice stuff there.                

Favourite piece of clothing/shoes in your wardrobe? Well, obviously i love my black creepers and they aren’t technically mine but my sister has some really nice UO grey knitted knee high socks that i fold over at the top. i really want some of my own. i have an amazing vintage dark blue dress that has different types of fruit on it, i wish i could wear it but the weather is just so horrible…

Designers? hmmm… i thought Meadham Kirchoffs’ S/S 12 collection was stunning, i’m on pins and needles waiting for thier next LFW show in October i think… if i had to pick one show to go to it would be theirs because of the bright popping colours and the sort of festival feel in a way at the S/S 12 show, i can’t wait to see what they have for their next show. i probably will go, though. but anyway Meadham Kirchoff are my favourite designers.

Make-up/ beauty? well you see… i have loads of make-up that i have in a drawer (some of it is actually really nice) but i don’t wear it. i only play about with make up with friends, but when i start doing fashion shoots (i might get a camera for my birthday) i will use it seriousely, because i know how to apply it and all that , i just dont bother…

So that’s me! I hope you enjoy the blog!