here are my boys (Entonis not well, can you tell? poor thing) picking my 2 class winners
and the winners are.....
(drum roll please)
Tammy...who posted on May 5th @ 1.38pm
and Mel Nunn!
Congrats ladies, you've won a spot at my first online class. I will be offering you 2 time slots, so let me know which one suits best. Can you please email me your contact details?
Thanks
Z :)
That got your attention, didn’t it?
OK, I am making a commitment.
I commit to posting more regularily on my blog. My aim is a post a day. In saying this, that does not mean a long and extravagant post a day. Sometimes it may just be a thought for the day kinda thing, but the deal is just to post a day. Why? Because I am a hopeless writer, and I need to push myself to write more regularily. By starting small (a post a day), I am hoping that in time I will get in the habit of writing every day and that my posts will graduate from tid bits to paraghraphs. Also because posting challenges me to be inspired everyday. On the days I know I am going to post, I am more likely to look at things differently. I look for something to post about , therefore searching for beautiful things, or some kind of inspiration . Also because I enjoy the responses. I love the feedback and the friendships you build through blogs. And I know I have been getting salck with my posting and thus with my communicating to other amazing women across the world. And mostly because my good friend Bec gave me some wonderful advice, which has inspired me to do this.
Speaking of the lovely Bec (which many of you informally met through my PP presentaion at the Freestyle tour in NZ) have I told you much about her? She is amazing. She has grown to be one of my closest friends, and has helped me through so much, she endlessly listens to all my phsyco babble without complaint, she encourages me and motivates me whenever I start to get slack…this woman is a gem. On top of that she rivals Betty Crocker when it comes to cooking and her dinner parties look like a spread in Vogue magazine. But she is no Brea Vandercamp, my friends. No, she is definitely not anal, lol. She has Breas flawless talent for cooking and presentation, with Lanette's down to earth approach to life, and a bit of Gabby's sense of fun thrown in for good measure. And I am sure she’ll have a chuckle at my description of her when she reads this. Love you girl!
So many things happening in my life right now. I always say that don’t i? Bit it is always true. It makes me wonder if life will ever quite down for me again or if this is the new norm? I am going through some major life changes right now. I have made some realisations about myself …some that were hard to accept and some that were good. But in doing so it has made me re-evaluate my life, my beliefs, everything really. I am making lots of changes to my life at the moment. Changes that are scary, freeing, positive and negative, confusing, and exhilarating all at the same time.
I have also been feeling inspired to start creating again, but not through scrapbooking. I want to start playing with my art….something I haven’t wanted to do in a very very long time. I have the urge to create, not to tell a story or preserve a memory, not for a class or a book, not for anything or any reason except thet I feel like it. Simply and selfishly, just for me. I got on Amazon . com and purchased 3 art / design books. That’s all the budget would allow for now, although my wish list contains about 20 more, lol! Now I am just waiting for them to arrive.
I have decided to start living life more selfishly. To add myself to my TO DO list, because (in ali’s words) IT IS OK. At 32 I realised I don’t even know who I am any more. I have lived my entire life trying to be what everyone else has wanted me to be, and thought I was happy doing so.{ I am sure there are a million women out there who can relate to this. } But in doing so I haven’t managed to please anyone, including myself. This year my life is about ME. Because I know that being ME and looking after ME will only make ME a better ME, lol. And a better mum, a better friend….etc. (I really need to get my hands on one of those SHE books, lol). So raise your coffee cups in a toast to celebrating ME (and YOU!) because we deserve that damn toast, LOL.
OK so back to the bit about posting more often…. For all you blog ‘lurkers’ out there I have a request. Over the next few weeks…..why don’t you come out and say HI! I GET over a thousand hits a week, so I know you are out there! I would love to meet you all. And just to inspire you all to say HI …. I will be announcing very soon the start of my ONLINE classes. The layouts are designed and I am just in the process of setting up a new blog. So I will randomly pick 2 posters from anyone who posts from today until this time next week to get a FREE online class with me.
OK guys, thanks for your patience...i finally finished sending out emails to all those who managed to get a Class Kit! If you have not received am email from me, then don't despair, as I am already working on my next lot of class kits! I had a bit of interest from overseas as well, which is pretty cool! To anyone who does live oversea and is interested, i do post internationally, but your order will incur extra postage costs.
( There was a lady from France who was interested, but I've lost your email. If you read this, can you please email me again?)
But for those of you who just can't wait, you can always join me for my On line Class "Theses are the Moments" on October 26th at 8:30 pm EST.
You can purchase the "These are the Moments" on line class kit HERE!
All kits need to be purchased BEFORE October 22nd, to allow for postage time.
Hope to see you there!
Z
*** Edited To Add: Unfortunately, i've had to cancel my Freestylin' 2 class at Scrapabout Australia on the 1st of November. I'd just like to apologise to all those who booked for any inconvenience. I was really looking forward to teaching there again as i had so much fun last time! But I will be teaching at the Sydney Papercrafts on November 4th, 5th, and 6th....so hopefully i'll see you there!
Yeah! Its my first online class called Funny Faces and i'm teaching it at the Scrapboxx. I've been planning this for awhile now, and thanks to Maria, am finally going to do it.
And if all goes to plan, i will also start teaching classes from home in June. So for those of you who enjoy getting out and doing a class in person, meeting new friends, and having fun...then you can come and join us at my place for a class. For those of you who live to far away, don't despair as i plan to be doing a regular online class with Scrapboxx, so you can join us there!
So if you have any ideas or request for classes, please let me know as i have already started planning my first lot. Also, if you are interested in at home or online classes, please send me an email telling me which one you would be interested in doing, so i can add you to my mailing list.
Oh, i am so excited to finally be doing this! I love teaching, and have missed not doing any classes. i am looking forawrd to meeting new people and making new friends through this!
*EDITED TO ADD* sorry bout the bad pic. For some reason it just looks awful on this blog, but if you click on it , it should come up alot clearer. In the meantime, i'll see if i can fix it :)
