It has been a good four years since I started CottonStyle. Well, I say good, but those of you who have been reading from the start know that it has not always been particularly good. The blog has followed me wherever I have gone, which admittedly is quite a few places – I have lived in six different countries since I started writing in 2008. The blog has seen and expressed some terrible hardships – such as my endless hospital visits in 2009/2010 – but there have also been some great times which equally have been portrayed in the blog, to much appreciation and dismay. Travels, parties, photo shoots, boys (and girls), the fashion scene – indeed most scenes – of London, extreme sports and more recently, my experience of the life in Swedish and British academia. The blog has certainly meant a lot, but it has given me even more. In its prime it had 1500 – 1600 unique hits a day and with that I received e-mails from readers every day, plenty of whom I eventually met up with. One of the most important relationships in my life, my dearest and closest friend and ally, has come as a direct result of the blog.

The past four years have been crucial – the years between the age of 18-22 usually are – and it has been quite a ride to write about. However, for several different reasons I have now come to the conclusion that CottonStyle will be no more. I have turned the blog into a pdf file – which is a file of 142 megabytes and 2024(!) pages long – because although it is time for CottonStyle to not be, I would not ever want to forget about the writing, the memories and the absolute madness that was portrayed at times.

I can of course still be reached on my e-mail, for all eternity probably, and you are always free to contact me on sandyespenkrona@hotmail.com.

And like someone far greater once said about a far greater event;
‘This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’