End of the year. And with it, time to recap and make some sort of personal balance of 2016. As always, it's been a year full of nice moments and bad times, it is what it is. As always, I try to be conscious of making too much resolutions for the coming year, but there's always room for improvement and there will always be things to work on.

2016 is been a year full of unexpected things, unexpected friendships, moments and experiences. It's been a year full of unexpected bonds and teamwork, of exciting things and mostly a year plenty of illusion for me: about new projects, about my career, about what's to come next. It's been the year I experienced firsthand how it really feels to work in an architecture studio, dealing with crazy deadlines, huge papers and the bosses. It's been also the year when I've started discovering my true self, how many stuff I'm capable of handling, where's my limit and still, I'm trying to figure out if I can reach further. It's been also the year I've said goodbye to those whom I felt didn't contribute to my life anymore, for many reasons. Sometimes, it's just better to let go.

Maybe it hasn't been a year plenty of blog posts, but I think I've taken enough fresh air out of the blogosphere and I've been looking around to know how to focus better on this task, how to communicate better, or how to boost my ideas to write more about the things you care the most. Because as I'm always saying, my task here is to inspire and to be inspired, and all of you are a big part into this. After 2016 I feel more capable of taking Something Fashion into the next level, getting the most out of fashion, streetstyle, emerging designers, vintage and so on by twisting everything, and giving it a new point of view.

What's to come, then, for 2017? I'm currently considering tons of options, tons of new projects and partnerships. Hopefully, there will be more blog posts to come. I'm also considering giving the whole "blogging specialization" thing a chance. However, as there are lots of things I've been mixing around here these almost 7 years, I don't know if that will work out. I'm also considering if staying local as I've been since the very beginning, or in the other hand, being more internationally focused when writing about fashion events or news. I don't know. Right now, I'm waiting for everything to settle down a bit: for Christmas holidays to end, for my exam period to end as well, for that time I have enough savings to invest on blog improvements... Everything is a bit blurry now, but as always, it will eventually work out!

Back to 2011. It's been a long way since that night in Boston when I decided to take up and give a chance to this whole universe of blogging and ultimately, give fashion blogging a go. I can't believe it's been more than 5 years since that blurry selfie from my old, tiny laptop and those clumsy words written in such amateur, poor English. I don't want to get too emotional, though. Today's post is about how stepping out of your comfort zone and starting something you have little, or even no idea of can change your life and help you think out of the box. This post is also about self-confidence and how trusting your gut can help you deal with anything you make up in your mind. In my case, I started a fashion blog and fixed "keeping it no matter what" as a goal.

10 ways of how fashion blogging can change someone's' life can be a little too brief, but in my case, and for those of you who are thinking about starting your own blog or taking the big step into entrepreneurship are enough as a start. Let's get down to business, then!

#1 Obvious improvement in writing and fluency on the use of a foreign language (English)

As you might know, my motherly language is Spanish. I was born and raised in Spain and didn't start learning English until the age of 8-9 years old (or more than that). English seemed like the first and obvious communication vehicle for me when starting this blog, as it was the language I was trying to improve and in which I thought I could reach the most people possible. So, something that has absolutely changed since I started blogging is the way I communicate in this language which I think I've made my own little by little.

#3 Self-confidence improvement

Thanks to fashion blogging, I've learned some little hints of the industry of fashion, and become aware of things like textile waste, fashion poverty, and production chains, among others. Being a fashion blogger does not only mean posing in front of a camera for me. Being a fashion blogger for me means knowing every step of the process of the things you wear and which ultimately, will help you assemble the outfits for you to look the way you want. Thanks to fashion blogging, words like recycling, design and manufacturing process, or fashion consciousness among others have been burnt into my brain forever.

Architecture is a tough, competitive field on which nowadays is very difficult to get your foot in. Thanks to fashion and the blogging world, I've discovered a new passion with so many different paths (some of them even related to architecture) that I can make research on and dedicate my life to in case architecture doesn't work. Not only I have a PLAN B, but fashion blogging has allowed me to discover fashion journalism, copywriting, marketing or even visual merchandising for me to have more chances in the nearer future.

Last, but not least, I've been able to test my abilities to collaborate in every way I've been capable of. My journey through fashion blogging has lead me to discover amazing projects related to design, collaborative fashion, startups and fashion entrepreneurs which eventually have lead me to boost my ideas in a way you couldn't ever imagine. Fashion is collaboration, and so means blogging as well.

Fallas have already arrived. Every year from 15th to 19th March, Valencia celebrates its most internationally known festival, where you'll find fire, music, color and fireworks 24hrs a day. The most famous thing around here these days are the fallas, which are basically huge figures made of wood, sometimes cardboard dolls (called ''ninot'') on the streets, which represent human figures, animals, different sceneries... Then, on 19th at night we burn them, to symbolize that winter has gone away and a new year starts.

Tomorrow I'll be wearing my typical fallera costume (which is full of flowers and jewelry and things... Not following my usual ''less is more'' philosophy at all...) but for now, here's the outfit I wore to go for a walk around the neighbourhood this morning, to take some pictures of the nearest monuments and show you what is like.
Fashion also means tradition and culture, that's the only way you can understand why someone dresses like this or that. That's why I'm talking to you about fallas and how the atmosphere feels around my city this days.

(See that lady at the left of the picture, with that blue costume with full blue skirt? Tomorrow I'll be looking like her)

This weekend we went to celebrate my birthday, which was actually 20th of January, but didn't had enough time to celebrate it with my relatives before. We went on the afternoon for a night tea, and I wore this total black outfit, with sparkling details as my Karen Millen black bag, and this lovely Zara glitter slippers I got this sales.

This are the kind of shoes I really like to buy: a total bargain, comfy, and perfect for school or a night out. Very versatile!

I'm also glad to have discovered a new vintage online store called Gelolas, where I bought a lovely vintage black bag which you'll see on an outfit very soon I hope. Here are some pictures of the outfit I wore to this familiar afternoon, and also of the pastries and cakes we had. Hmm, delicious!

Oh, as always, thank you so much for all your nice comments! I always read them, although I don't reply to all. I wish I had much more time to visit all your blogs T-T

Today I'm not going to show you a new outfit. I'm going to tell you how to create it. I think one of the reasons I write this blog is to inspire other people and try to help them with their fashion issues. Who hasn't ever stood in front of the closet and start thinking... ''What do I wear today?''?

So, because of that, I really wanted to make a ''quick, easy and illustrated guide'' on ''HOW TO CREATE THE PERFECT OUTFIT''. Here we go!

So, I already came back to classes and give homework, and drawing like a crazy thing. I'm having some exams very, very soon, so I won't be able to post as much as I did on Christmas holidays. However, I took hundreds of pictures during those days, and I still have many outfits and exciting ideas to show you (I'm thinking about doing a sort of ''round up'' of bloggers showing their style, and featuring them here. What do you think?). I'll be posting and writing about them when my exam weeks finish.

OK. A brief description of the outfit and so on. As you know, I ''discovered'' Karen Millen's designs not long ago just because some items caught my attention because they were on sale. Some of those items were  the sparkling bag and this B&W dress, which seemed to be too small/classy/I don't really know. I really liked it at first sight, and I was a very lucky girl trying it out and checking that it really suited (seems made for girls with a small waist, but the skirt's shape doesn't attract attention to hips. Perfect!).

I also think the details are delicate and very polished: the straps and round neck with that bow/twisted piece, the belt, the lining and seams... Definitely: that kind of bargain you're always proud to have found.

This pictures were actually taken before New Year's Eve. My friend and I spent the whole morning around dowtown, taking pics, and shopping for some last hour gifts for Archi-friends (books with hundreds of illustrations and pics. We love them, hahaha) and so on. We went to Colon Market, where a huge Christmas tree was waiting for us. As the morning agenda was 50% taking outfit pictures, I decided to wear this skirt I found some months ago on a thrift store. I love how the pattern reminds Hermés scarves, and how it's shape and material its made of makes it super comfortable, but still elegant and classy.

We also found a great fashion market on the basement floor of the place, the ''COOL MARKET'', which was full of vintage and second hand fashion stuff but also new, corners with emergent designers, I saw some fashion bloggers from Valencia... I bought a pair of cute necklaces you'll see soon. I also bought the lipstick I use the most: ''Color Last VIP Classy Red'' from Astor. It's perfect for any occassion, and even for school! I also took some pictures for you to enjoy the awesome modernist style of the architecture at Mercado de Colón. See you on next post!

So, how're the Christmas holidays going? I've been in a very cozy and relaxed mood this last week, as I've been going out a little bit to buy some presents, meeting friends and spending free time just doing nothing. My homework is waiting for me, duh, but all I'll have to do is manage free time this last week.

I've also been doing some closet restructuring: throwing away garments I don't use anymore, organizing dresses and sweaters by colors, and putting in place some things I've been accumulating for months and didn't have their own place on my wardrobe. That's why I ended with two huge bags full of clothes not to throw away (most of them were clothes I don't use a lot, but still like them) but able to be kept in another place with enough space for them. That's why we ended traveling to the beach house to put them there.

It was quite cold in the early morning, so I decided to wear this wool skirt and put an ''all in brown'' outfit. What do you think about it?

(This is the landscape of Oropesa del Mar in winter. Awesome!)

I was wearing:

Adolfo Dominguez wool skirt

Burberry bag

Timberland boots

Max Mara brown tights

Brown turtleneck from Formul@ Joven

So. As I have decided to continue running the blog whenever I'm able to, I just needed to go outside, take some fresh air and take some pics. Weather is being lovely although we are in December, and it feels like it's spring in the mornings, then it goes colder again. As my fashion blogger friend is also doing some changes on her site, we've decided to do a kind of collaborations, so I take her blog's pictures while she took mine.

And voilà! This is some of the results of today's photoshoot.  In the morning I felt like I was a kind of a strange thing because everybody on the bus was looking weird at me. I think fashion on my city is a very misunderstood concept, and people usually go for the comfortable and cozy look, even if it means showing too much skin or wear the first thing you find on your closet. Maybe they looked weird at me because most of them are not used to see girls wearing high heels and a silver blazer around the city. I don't know...

I was wearing:

Zara brocade black pants

H&M black pumps

Karen Millen sparkling bag

Romwe.com statement necklace

Tous earrings

Stradivarius silver blazer

Wow, seems like it's been years since the last time I wrote something here. Well, I must say I'm having tons of work, and feels like a day hasn't enough hours for me. I must give essays and prints almost every week, and I spend more than 10 hours a day on the University. My routine has changed a lot since I started Architecture. When I finish my endless classes, I usually have lunch on the campus and then meet classmates and friends to work on our team projects for class, like an structure made of plastic straws and paperclips. Sometimes I go out for taking pictures on the street, to have references for my drawings, or visit art exhibitions. When I arrive home, the only thing I want to do is have dinner (sushi is great!) and rest.

It is very rewarding, but I must confess it's very exhausting and hard, but I have no regrets, and although is hard and difficult, I'm finally doing what I love.

These pictures were actually taken some weeks ago when weather was still hot, and I still didn't had so many work to do. I would like to shoot new outfits for this coming winter season. I have got some interesting vintage pieces and I would like you to see how I combined them. I had also some new projects for the blog in mind, I hope I'll have some time on holidays to start them.

I've had a rest time this last week. As I have already started training, and soon I'll be with my classes, I felt I needed to chill a little bit so now I can do my best. That's why I didn't post, I'm sorry. Also, I wasn't very sure about posting this pictures we took last night on a dinner. I wasn't able to take my DSLR camera, and it was dark, so the quality of the pictures is horrible. I've been editing them, and this is what I could save, but you can see they're not the usual quality.

I wish I could have taken better pictures to show you this awesome Carolina Herrera sandals I found last day. They were an absolute bargain. Last days of sales are absolutely crazy, and you can find this kind of things if you look hard. These sandals are just perfect. They aren't very high heeled, and I love their simple design: two brown stripes with those buckles on them. They're made of leather, and are very comfortable and don't hurt my feet. Maybe they will replace my Zara brown platform sandals (you can see them HERE) because they're starting to break.

The golden dress is vintage. It was bought in my trip to Mallorca last year and it was the first time I wore it. I love its shape, and the color is very special for me because it's weird to find this kind of dresses. The fabric it's made of it's very heavy, and falls all over the skirt. Just amazing. I've been finding more vintage treasures lately, you'll see. We had dinner at a restaurant called Pizza Roma. We've been going to that restaurant since I was a child because there're plenty of different kinds of pizza (I'm an expert!) and more Italian food. Their salads are huge and absolutely delicious!

I was wearing:

Carolina Herrera sandals
Vintage gold dress
Primark bracelets
Zara gold clutch
Bijou Brigitte stone necklace