Hello my Stamping Friends :)
Time to update my blog again however first I would like to share with you what has been happening in our lives. I recently returned to the workforce after being a stay at home mum for the past 4 years this is a huge achievement as the kids are now old enough (aged 8, 11 and 13) to adjust to Mummy working full time and also because jobs are extremely scarce here on the Gold Coast, so I am very fortunate and very grateful to God for this opportunity.
Most of you already know that I have a background as International Qantas Flight Attendant which I left after 20 years of service just over four years ago. Recently I began working in the hospitality sector again doing coroporate events, weddings and private functions and as time went by we could all see that it wasn't going to be a long term solutions as I was working most nights and weekends. With 3 young children and a husband who is on planes and various overseas destinations for the better part of each week, and a mother who is having her own health issues right now, it was quite a lot to manage on my own.
In short I sat down and applied for about 40 different office based jobs last weekend, lol.. it did take all weekend getting all those resumes sent out, however one particular company asked me to come in and told me that the receptionist job had been filled by a very young girl (as was to be expected) but they want to train me up as a Travel Agent to Travel Agents lol … I jumped for joy, kept everything crossed and just had to wait until they had interviewed everyone and lo and behold I got the job!!
They said that they were interested in me because I had travelled all over the world and knew the countries intimately from a tourist point of view. So the job is to design the packages which are sold to travel agencies. Those glossy brochures you see.. well I'll be designing the content, not the lay out, the travel package part. I will be working with travel agents as they tell me what type of packages they want tailor made and I'll design the tour routes, transport, hotels, sightseeing etc. I commence work this coming Monday, so please leave a comment to wish me well, I am sure it will give me lots of encouragement and I always enjoy hearing from my readers.
I work only 5 minutes from home and I could even ride to work on a bicycle, that would be fabulous (!) as I could come home every lunchtime on my bike and get a little exercise in that way too :)
The good part is that I can work from 8am to 4 pm or 9am to 5pm and finally we can get our whole house into order. Our architect has been drawing up our plans on and off for quite some time and finally all our dreams of house renovations which are only on paper at the moment will all happen in the very near future! It includes a very big crafting studio for me where I will hold classes!!
So big changes are ahead. Sadly I have had to stop holding my weekly classes at church, I will miss my regular stamping friends dearly and sincerely hope that you will be able to take a class or two in my home when I start. I am already planning Friday night and Saturday classes, which will commence on a fortnightly basis. My first class will be a Stamp A stack, 9 cards, 3 of 3 different designs, the next will be Christmas tags & Packaging and I am working on these already :) So keep your eyes out for these. I will also be holding regular downline meetings for my team and focus on holding Stampin' Up! workshops and teaching stamping classes.
Please do drop me a line if you are interested in my classes as numbers will be limited because I find small groups work better - maximum of 6 I'd love to hear from you. If you are interested in different night classes, let me know, it's all on the drawing board right now and of course I'm open to suggestions.
My class and workshop calendar (on my Stampin' Up! website - top right hand corner link on this webpage) will be updated in due course.
Sending hugs to all and wishing you a really happy weekend :) with your family!
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My christmas tags were so easy to make with the Ornament punch, I dressed some up with a little punched leaf and 3 little red stick on pearls so they look like holly or christmas bush, a native Australian plant which comes out at Christmas time.
