How to Start a Blog...
One day I was sitting in the staffroom of the high school, where I was teaching English at the time, and as is my custom, was showing off my latest creation to my friends and colleagues. One of my friends then suddenly turned to me and said, "You know, you're so bloody talented I swear we could give you a tin can and a piece of string and you could make a penguin."
Many years later that has stuck with me and I thought about my many talents and just how frustrated I was with not finding a job that used them. Nothing changed, I did a job I hated because that's just what you do and my talents sat on the side line occasionally being used to whip up an interesting birthday card or gourmet cupcakes just for fun. Then everything changed.
I had a baby. He changed my world and my way of thinking. Here is this little boy who I am going to tell to follow his dreams and always try his best and nurture his talents yet here I sit, the hypocrite, who hasn't done any of it. I had to go back to work and I was miserable. I became ill, physically and emotionally. To top it all off my baby had some issues and I had to take him back and forth to doctors and x-ray departments and it just became too much. I took a leap of faith and resigned.
Maybe the universe was trying to send me a message, maybe not either way I'm going to give this my all and show the world what I've got.
I am a kleptomaniac... I steal with my eyes and my head and hands say, "You know, we could so make that and it wouldn't cost half as much.". So this blog is my challenge: to look around and see just how far I can push my creative talents; food, clothes, paper crafts, birthday parties, confectionery you name it. And if I can't do it I'm sure going to find someone who can and showcase their talents.
And here we go...
Many years later that has stuck with me and I thought about my many talents and just how frustrated I was with not finding a job that used them. Nothing changed, I did a job I hated because that's just what you do and my talents sat on the side line occasionally being used to whip up an interesting birthday card or gourmet cupcakes just for fun. Then everything changed.
I had a baby. He changed my world and my way of thinking. Here is this little boy who I am going to tell to follow his dreams and always try his best and nurture his talents yet here I sit, the hypocrite, who hasn't done any of it. I had to go back to work and I was miserable. I became ill, physically and emotionally. To top it all off my baby had some issues and I had to take him back and forth to doctors and x-ray departments and it just became too much. I took a leap of faith and resigned.
Maybe the universe was trying to send me a message, maybe not either way I'm going to give this my all and show the world what I've got.
I am a kleptomaniac... I steal with my eyes and my head and hands say, "You know, we could so make that and it wouldn't cost half as much.". So this blog is my challenge: to look around and see just how far I can push my creative talents; food, clothes, paper crafts, birthday parties, confectionery you name it. And if I can't do it I'm sure going to find someone who can and showcase their talents.
And here we go...
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