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Mimi ✨
Writer @ Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko
BUILT FROM THE SCRAPS
<p><br></p><p><br></p><p>She couldn’t afford the fancy fabrics.</p><p><br></p><p>No silk. No imported lace. No shimmering rhinestones.</p><p><br></p><p>All she had were scraps — leftovers from other people’s projects, fabric pieces thrown away, zippers without tags, and thread that came loose in secondhand baskets.</p><p><br></p><p>People said, “You can’t build a brand with scraps.”</p><p><br></p><p>But they didn’t know what she saw.</p><p><br></p><p>She saw possibility in what others discarded. She pieced together colors like poetry. Patterns like patchwork prayers. Every stitch was an act of rebellion — against the idea that you need wealth to create worth.</p><p><br></p><p>Her first piece wasn’t perfect, but it was powerful. A dress stitched from six different fabrics, worn proudly by her sister to church.</p><p><br></p><p>Then came the neighbors.</p><p><br></p><p>Then came a friend of a friend.</p><p><br></p><p>Then came someone who said, “Your pieces don’t look like anyone else’s. They feel… alive.”</p><p><br></p><p>She smiled. Because they were.</p><p><br></p><p>They were stitched with broken dreams and stubborn hope. Each outfit whispered, “I am proof that something beautiful can rise from what’s left behind.”</p><p><br></p><p>She didn’t build her brand in a showroom.</p><p><br></p><p>She built it on a small table, in a warm room, with nothing but scraps — and a vision no one could take from her.</p>
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