Latest creations from the Hunter Valley

Last weekend was the hunter valley scrap girls retreat, we stayed at Wollombi barn stay and let me just say it was just fantastic...Loads of fun and laughs and wine and most of all alot of scrapping was done.
The wonderful Belle did all the cooking for us which was just divin and the wine tasting on Friday was fantastic also..
I managed to get 6 pages completed and a mirror and 3 cards...But we were given a challenge pack to create our own layouts and i was very happy that i won one of the prizes..woo hoo...So here are the latest creations i came up with on the weekend...

This is the layout i did for the challenge pack and got 1st prize..

and here are some photos that i took while on retreat...

The gelato shop

The barrel we put our drinks in

Loaded with drinks

Mum sitting on the steps of the accommodation

And this is a very old cart...

That's about it for now....

Gotta love a mum who can sew

A sewing afternoon with mum this afternoon was great since the DH is away in Batemans Bay for a fishing comp...I found this bag on the internet last night and asked her to help me make it because my sewing machine is broken...and let me tell you it was fun making them but she had to leave so she could go and feed dad...

here is what we made today

 

This is the front  of the bag

This is the inside of the bag

Mum is a pretty clever chook when she wants to be...LOL...

Just when

I thought things couldn't get any better...i get a message from a friend asking me to be her hairdressesr...Now all i need to do is set up a salon somewhere...would love to do it at home but house just isn't big enough yet..im working on that one...

I knew i followed my dream of becoming a hairdresser for a reason...

A new post

It has now been well over 12 months since i have used this blog and i thought i better make good use of it again!!
Over the last 12 months alot has happened, i started my new job (well not so new now) in September last year and i am loving it, i am doing so much more that i have ever done, i have now started to build up my own clientle which is fantastic.

In march i had to go for an operation due to a cyst on the ovary..was a horrible experience and i hkope i don' thave to go back again for another one..


Lachlan (eldest son) broke his arm back in Mach also, he fell off his bike and broke his elbow..He is all mended now and is still scared to get on the bike.


In may i was invited to go on a Scrapbooking weekend with my mum over at Long Point (Mac Fields) with a group called Scrap Girls, needless to say i did go and i did have a fabulous time and have made alot of new friends through joining this group. I am also now a member of The Little Scrapbook Shop forum and let me just say all of the ladies on that forum are just a wonderful bunch of ladies..


We had the big birthday for Lachlan who turned 5 in July, the theme was a pirate party and all the kiddlets had a fantastic time..


I have completed my makeup services course which i started at the beginning of the year which i got 100% for everything in so i was stoked with that...Now a qualified make-up artist and almost qualified hairdresser only a year and a bit to go...


Heading off to the hunter valley next week with the Scrap Girls and mum...I managed to get the whole weekend off work including the friday...gotta love that!!



I think that's about it for now...

Finally.......IT'S OVER!!!

I have finally finished up at sincerly yours hair & beauty....It has been a long two weeks for me as each day i was told that i was only there to do the cleaning and to do as i am told...I was told not to talk to the clients unless i had to as they weren't my clients. I was made to feel so uncomfortable it wasnt funny for the last two weeks.. and i was also taking advantage of her!!!

It wasn't just affecting me working with Barbara it was also affecting my whole family it was horrible, i was always coming home cranky and crying and once i was torn the shreddes one to many times i knew it was time to leave...

I am very happy though that i do not have to do a 12 hour day today i have been able to spend it at home, well i went to the shops for a few hours just to get the boys out of the house.

I do start my new job nect Tuesday over at janalli, i will be workin in a salon called kar-Mels hair design, there are 3 other people that work there and i won't be working with my boss every day only on Tuesdays & Saturdays. From what i have seen i am going to enjoy working there and i am pretty sure i am going to get the training i should be getting to become a good hairdresser not just a cleaner!!!!

I am also treating myself to a morning at the hairdressers on Saturday morning, i had my hair extensions put in 4 weeks ago and they are driving me crazy so they are coming out and i am having my colour done so i look respectable for my new job....I also need to go and have the nails infilled some where in there too...

Wonders How Long It is going to go on for!!!

After being on holidays for two weeks i was looking forward to going back to work. Wednesday came around and i arrived at work at 8.50am like i am supposed to, my boss arrived a short time later and told me that she wanted to talk to me about a few things today but doesn't want to talk about it until the afternoon, i was not to sure what to make of it at first but then when she hardly spoke to me all day (just when she needed something to be done) i felt as though what ever it she was going to talk to me about must have been bad. I called darren at lunch time (what little time i get!) to tell him about my day. Once our last client left at around 4.15pm sh*t hit the fan you could say, i was told that i was a really horrible person to work with and that i don't do my job well, and also that i am taking advantage of her (how i don't know, i did ask but couldn't be given an anwer). I was told that i had to go to work on Thursday happy and bubbly (which i felt i did) and i also made a point of speaking to the nail artist because i was told that i didn't do that either., i just got one word answers. (they can't say i didn't try, which i probably know they will). I went to work and did everything i was told to do and even a little more and by the time home time came around on Thursday night i was exhausted. I cried all the way home as i just felt so uncomfortable.
I tried to be really nice to her all day on Friday and i just got one word answers and it was the same yesterday also. I even msged her and asked her if she wanted a coffee from the coffee shop, i was trying to be nice!!!

i sometimes wonder if i should just throw in the towl and go back to an office job, but the thing is i really enjoy doing hairdressing......

I am looking forward to going to TAFE on monday because sometime i feel as though i learn a bucket load more there!!!

That's about it!!

As i sit here and wonder how much longer it will go on for!!!!!

Dream or Nightmare

Last night at about 11.30pm i was sound asleep and Darren came to bed and scared the life out of me when he was going to bed...
But then at 1.30am i had this horrible dream, it kind of goes like this...

I was with my family in a hospital as mum had organised to have my sister executed, we spent a few hours with my sister before she was taken away to be given the injection to make her go to sleep forever, she went and then i saw her walk out of the room where she had the injection and mum said to me that she had made a mistake and should never had done it, i screamed and ran after my sister and told her that this is not going to happen we are going to make the injection she had stop and she's not going to die. I sat with her on a couch and craddled her like a baby telling her to stay awake and it will all be ok, mum came in and took my sister into a toilet cubicle and i screamed at her where is the Dr and she said she was coming....i kept screaming at my sister to stay awake, mum had closed the door on me and i screamed at mum to tell me when the Dr was coming, a few seconds later i looked under the door to find my sister dead on the floor....
I then woke up i could not handle any more of it i woke up crying my eyes out, i was so glad i wasn't home alone...

This dream was so vivid i don't know why......

it took me another 3 hours to go back to sleep properly every time i closed my eyes i would see my sister laying on the floor so peaceful....