Where do I start????????

Warning long post ahead.......

It's amazing how life can change in the blink of an eye. Tuesday I taught a lovely class at Paper Doll little did I know it would be my last daytime class.

Wednesday I was sitting at home with lots of housework to be done and achieving little, when I thought to myself .....Leeanne your ability to do nothing knows no bounds sometimes. I haven't been working much in the last 6 months and I think you get into a real rut because you think you have heaps of time to get things done and consequently you're always putting things off until later.

One of my aims over the next 6 months is to start exercising more and changing my lifestyle (notice I don't mention the word diet) so that I could start looking for work in the New Year. To that end I have in fact started watching what I eat and have been wearing a pedometer for the last 2 weeks with the aim to doing 10,000 steps a day.

So Wednesday afternoon I rang my sister (she's on holidays) to see if she wanted to go for a walk. We headed off and as we were walking I mentioned to her how I really needed to get a job because I felt the longer I went without working the harder it would be to get motivated to find a job.

We got back to my place and just after we walked in the phone rang and it was an old work colleague from Centrelink, asking if I would be interested in part time work. (ooggie boogiie hey!!) The only catch was that I had to let her know by Thursday morning and I would be starting MOnday!! Yikes I thought of many reasons straight away why I couldn't do it. It was too soon, School holidays are coming up, Madeleine needs me, What about after school activities etc.. the list goes on. None of them insurmountable problems really (except the Madeleine needs me one of course).

Anyway to cut an already long story short, I have accepted so will be starting on Monday. The first three weeks is full time training in Moorabbin. Then I will be working at Springvale 4 days a week 10am to 3.30pm with Wednesday being my day off. So the hours are pretty good really and I couldn't in all honesty pass it up.

I went into today to pick up forms and fill out forms etc.. I must say I haven't been back very often since I left Centrelink 8 years ago, so it was nice to see some familiar faces who all made me feel really welcome. I already have a few lunch dates for next week. Gotta love that.

Not that I will be working with those people, I will only see them while I'm in training over the next 3 weeks.

So that's it really, I am going to miss working with Wendy at the shop and teaching (daytime). The last 2 years have been wonderful. I loved loved loved working at Paper Doll and teaching. I'd just like to thank Wendy for all her support and encouragement and for introducing me to such a wonderful craft. It truly has been a privilege to be able to work within an industry that is my passion. I'm really going to miss all the girls who are regulars at coffee mornings on Thursdays, it has been a pleasure to get to know you all and share a lot of laughs and good times.

The sound of a truck reversing will always put a smile on my face and remind me of Paper Doll and all its lovely customers.

Now I do have a layout to share this one is using the photo of Holly that Neil took last weekend. I've used the new Basic Grey Mellow range and a bit of beading again on the cut out flowers. As you know I'm lovin that technique at the moment.

The next share is another of Neil's photos. I think it's stunning, actually it's two photos. Neil has been playing with photoshop and mastering a couple of new techniques. The beach shot is at Bonbeach last weekend and the photo of Madeleine is from earlier in the year when we were at Phillip Island.

Madeleine and I and a few others are off to see Phantom of the Opera on Sunday. I'm really looking forward to it. I saw it twice back in the early 90's and loved it. The sets and costumes are just beautiful and the whole show was fantastic.

Ok that's enough prattling from me. Have a fantastic weekend.

cheers

Leeanne x