THE WORLD
We all share one big world
animals, humans,
we all share one big earth
this earth is big
this earth is wide
we all share this one big world
Guillaume, 7 1/2 years old
Just wanted to share the poem my son wrote in school today... You like it too ?
Being busy
How do you guys do to write everyday ?? It is fun, but I have already so much on my to do list...
Look at this saturday morning, for example: we have to go pick up the food left on their porch by our neighbors, for the "Scout for food" program. 11:00 am is the den meeting for the cub scouts (why did they put it the same day ??). 2:30 Louis has his basketball training + game, until 4:30. And at 4:30 it is Guillaume's turn. And I have to be there all the time whith both of them, cause nobody else will be at home at this time... Oh, and we need to eat in between, somehow.
Sunday evening, I am inviting my husband's boss and his wife for dinner. So I have to clean my house and my cluttered dining table aka second great workstation for my jewelry work. Plus doing last minute grocery shopping, plus the cooking, and I cannot mess this up !!
Friday morning, I am on duty for the "disability worshop" of my 4th grader. That is all morning and the children have different stations to go through to learn about all the disabilities (including dislexia and autism...), and to know what it feels like to have this kind of problem. I will help the kids to use a white cane so they can have the feeling of what it feels like when you're blind. It is a great workshop organized by the schools, very informative.
Well, all this week, I have been working on my website. I have learn soooooo much since I have started. It does not look so bad, I am quite happy about it. You will be able to check it out soon, I will post the URL when it is ready (or did I already put it on this blog ? But it won't look the same anyway...)
When I started this process, I did not even now what FTP meant. Now, I am rewriting my CSS stylesheet !! (well, kind of !). OK, I am a jewelry designer, not a web site designer.
I also asked a guy on the web, Gary, to design a logo for me. I am waiting impatiently to see how it is gonna look. You might see it, I hope, very soon. I am scared if I don't like it I will have spend my bucks for nothing...
Well, I did spend tons of time on my computer recently, I hope people will be excited by my jewelry, as much as I am.
OK, that's it for today. Nobody will gonna read my babbling anyway, right ?
Look at this saturday morning, for example: we have to go pick up the food left on their porch by our neighbors, for the "Scout for food" program. 11:00 am is the den meeting for the cub scouts (why did they put it the same day ??). 2:30 Louis has his basketball training + game, until 4:30. And at 4:30 it is Guillaume's turn. And I have to be there all the time whith both of them, cause nobody else will be at home at this time... Oh, and we need to eat in between, somehow.
Sunday evening, I am inviting my husband's boss and his wife for dinner. So I have to clean my house and my cluttered dining table aka second great workstation for my jewelry work. Plus doing last minute grocery shopping, plus the cooking, and I cannot mess this up !!
Friday morning, I am on duty for the "disability worshop" of my 4th grader. That is all morning and the children have different stations to go through to learn about all the disabilities (including dislexia and autism...), and to know what it feels like to have this kind of problem. I will help the kids to use a white cane so they can have the feeling of what it feels like when you're blind. It is a great workshop organized by the schools, very informative.
Well, all this week, I have been working on my website. I have learn soooooo much since I have started. It does not look so bad, I am quite happy about it. You will be able to check it out soon, I will post the URL when it is ready (or did I already put it on this blog ? But it won't look the same anyway...)
When I started this process, I did not even now what FTP meant. Now, I am rewriting my CSS stylesheet !! (well, kind of !). OK, I am a jewelry designer, not a web site designer.
I also asked a guy on the web, Gary, to design a logo for me. I am waiting impatiently to see how it is gonna look. You might see it, I hope, very soon. I am scared if I don't like it I will have spend my bucks for nothing...
Well, I did spend tons of time on my computer recently, I hope people will be excited by my jewelry, as much as I am.
OK, that's it for today. Nobody will gonna read my babbling anyway, right ?
First blog
Hi, my name is Virginie and I am just opening this blog. This is gonna be a wonderful experience. Here I am, surfing on this gigantic web... Funny, I am starting this today, it is Halloween, and I am dressed up as a witch...
Let me introduce myself. I am a proud mom of my 2 beautiful children:
I live in Michigan, which is a beautiful state in the fall, but I am originally from France. I have been living here 10 years though, and my children were born here. I also have a wonderful husband, who is French too. We don't have any pets, just 2 kids !!, but we enjoy a lot of "wildlife" in our backyard: deers, especially, who eat all my tentatives of planting flowers, squirrels (we all call them "Nuts"), rabbits sometimes, and all the others we don't usually see, like raccoons, and who knows what...
When I first came in this country, I couldn't "work" as I did not have a visa for that. So the children came, and my full time job was to be a Mom. It was hard at first not to go to work every morning, stay at home, and not have a social life, as I just moved to this country and did not know anybody. Plus, "stay at home Mom" sure was not my day dream job. But I got used to it, and realized I was so fortunate to be able to be with my kids every day, watch them growing and not missing any of their milestones. So I became very involved in their education, as babies, as toddlers and so on... The hard work was very rewarding.
Now they are in school all day long. Well, until 3:30 that is. Now, you would think, I have soooo much free time, right ? Well, not what you may be thinking. When they come back to school, I want to be available for them. Assist with the homeworks, talk to them about their day at school, play with them, or just doing things with them. And then, later on, when my husband finally come back from work, I want to be available for him too. He likes to talk about his day, to share "ses joies et ses peines": his good and bad moments, or I like to talk about mine, or about any issue I have. So, all the work that need to be done has to be done during the time the rest of my family is working: laundry, cleaning, bills, grocery shopping, even going to the gym to stay in shape, you name it (well, you know...). So free time: not so much in fact !!
So, what about some free time still left ? Right now, I am working full time on designing my own website. As I am not computer savvy at all, this is haaarrrddd work. But let me get to this.
I always loved natural materials: wood, shells, pearls, rocks... I would collect the most beautiful, on the beach or anywhere I would go. Just because they are so beautiful, created by mother earth, modified by time and years of erosion... My other passion, or dream, was to be an artist. I would decorate my notebooks when I was in elementary school, thinking my drawings were the most beautiful ! Well, they were not, but I liked them !!! But crafting was one of my favorite activities.
Combining that, and after several attempts at other arts, jewelry making come so naturally to me... So I bought my first beads, thought myself the basics, learning constantly, and did my first necklaces. People around me said they were nice and I should make more... They supported me, as well as my husband and children who also liked my work... So I did more, and more, constantly improving the techniques and the creativity. And here I am now. Doing some art shows and selling my work, my own one of a kind pieces of wearable art, created by me, each one with a lot of love and patience... If you have read up to there now, you can as well go take a look at my work.
And I am also building a web site, so I can sell directly through the web. But it is a lot of work. Meanwhile, if you see something you like, do not hesitate to comment and share with your friends...
Nice talking with you, come back again...
Virginie
Let me introduce myself. I am a proud mom of my 2 beautiful children:
I live in Michigan, which is a beautiful state in the fall, but I am originally from France. I have been living here 10 years though, and my children were born here. I also have a wonderful husband, who is French too. We don't have any pets, just 2 kids !!, but we enjoy a lot of "wildlife" in our backyard: deers, especially, who eat all my tentatives of planting flowers, squirrels (we all call them "Nuts"), rabbits sometimes, and all the others we don't usually see, like raccoons, and who knows what...
When I first came in this country, I couldn't "work" as I did not have a visa for that. So the children came, and my full time job was to be a Mom. It was hard at first not to go to work every morning, stay at home, and not have a social life, as I just moved to this country and did not know anybody. Plus, "stay at home Mom" sure was not my day dream job. But I got used to it, and realized I was so fortunate to be able to be with my kids every day, watch them growing and not missing any of their milestones. So I became very involved in their education, as babies, as toddlers and so on... The hard work was very rewarding.
Now they are in school all day long. Well, until 3:30 that is. Now, you would think, I have soooo much free time, right ? Well, not what you may be thinking. When they come back to school, I want to be available for them. Assist with the homeworks, talk to them about their day at school, play with them, or just doing things with them. And then, later on, when my husband finally come back from work, I want to be available for him too. He likes to talk about his day, to share "ses joies et ses peines": his good and bad moments, or I like to talk about mine, or about any issue I have. So, all the work that need to be done has to be done during the time the rest of my family is working: laundry, cleaning, bills, grocery shopping, even going to the gym to stay in shape, you name it (well, you know...). So free time: not so much in fact !!
So, what about some free time still left ? Right now, I am working full time on designing my own website. As I am not computer savvy at all, this is haaarrrddd work. But let me get to this.
I always loved natural materials: wood, shells, pearls, rocks... I would collect the most beautiful, on the beach or anywhere I would go. Just because they are so beautiful, created by mother earth, modified by time and years of erosion... My other passion, or dream, was to be an artist. I would decorate my notebooks when I was in elementary school, thinking my drawings were the most beautiful ! Well, they were not, but I liked them !!! But crafting was one of my favorite activities.
Combining that, and after several attempts at other arts, jewelry making come so naturally to me... So I bought my first beads, thought myself the basics, learning constantly, and did my first necklaces. People around me said they were nice and I should make more... They supported me, as well as my husband and children who also liked my work... So I did more, and more, constantly improving the techniques and the creativity. And here I am now. Doing some art shows and selling my work, my own one of a kind pieces of wearable art, created by me, each one with a lot of love and patience... If you have read up to there now, you can as well go take a look at my work.
And I am also building a web site, so I can sell directly through the web. But it is a lot of work. Meanwhile, if you see something you like, do not hesitate to comment and share with your friends...
Nice talking with you, come back again...
Virginie
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