It has been a long time since I posted anything on my blog now. It is not because I have stopped my journey. No, I have just been very busy. Also I have felt I didn´t really have anything new to add. I have kept to my healthy lifestyle as I did the last 21 months and the results are showing,
However now I really feel like posting something again since I have reached one of my goals that has been motivating me along the whole time: The wish to get into my ghanaian outfits again. I mean the one´s sewn especially for me by seamstresses in Ghana and that was made after my body, and not like these wide garmets any tourist could buy.
I have been working in Ghana over a period of 27 years. And in 1997 I was in Ghana working and it was the 40th anniversary of Ghana´s independence. So they had made special cloth for the anniversary and I got a seamstress to sew me a dress in one special cloth. I just loved this dress but for many years now I couldn´t find it and I also knew for many years that even if I would find it again, it would not fit me anymore. Still I really wanted it back and every day in my Exhibition when I saw all the clothes I have there and the kids and teachers dressing up, my thoughts would linger to my favorite dresses from Ghana that had disappeared since I moved to Stockholm 1998. And last night I got the biggest surprise when my daughter brought a big box from the north with all my favorite Ghanaian outfits and more!
I have lost more than half my weight over the last 21 months. So I was so anxious to try them on to see if I could wear them! And guess what, they fit perfectly! I am my 1997 model now! I have been working my way back towards a goal, and I am getting there. Anyways, that is not the important thing here. The important is the thrill I felt to put on these dresses finally. I have no idea if anyone can relate to this, but I share it anyways just because I feel happy and because I love the beautiful Ghanaian outfits, mine and others! So today I have taken some pictures here in the Exhibition in the African room and put on my dresses!
I even got some other stuff from that same period (the first picture) and I cannot describe the feeling to just slip these clothes on and they fit and even was a bit loose. So I gained new inspiration to continue. And I needed that right now to be honest. It has been some journey and it is still not over, but the results in this period of time is incredible even to me.
