My week so far...

Last week was a nice change for me....
After months of closed doors for employment, I got two job offers in the same morning!
One was a week long contract, and the other starts on Tuesday.
So last week I was working at a display design workshop, where they make things for department store windows. A local store in my town called 'Hoopers' had comissioned the workshop to make 2 metre high white flowers!!
So I have been having great fun sculpting paper - yes, you can sculpt paper! For some of the taller stuff we used white card, but for a lot of the flower heads and leaves we used fire-retardent (for health and safety reasons) catridge paper. Its amazing how paper transforms from a lifeless bit of nothing to a beautiful piece of art once it has been scored and folded. If I can I will post photographs, but that could be a while coming...!!

Next week I start at a Jewellers. I have a real interest in jewellery and jewellery design, so this should be cool. As part of the job I have to learn all about diamonds...and rubies..and sapphires...and emeralds...and pearls.....and...oh what fun! I am getting paid to learn about something that I have always wanted to know more about. Cool!

Yesterday an old school friend of mine Esther (Hello Esther! I know you secretly read my blog ;o), and my fellow blog friend Emma came down to my part of the country. We all went to a new coffee shop in my town. Well actually its a chocolate (yummmmmmmmmy) shop with a cafe in it.
It is in a beautiful, old part of my town called 'The Pantiles' and is run by a lady called Stephanie (great name ;o) who is a Ghanian princess, who gave up her royal position to marry an englishman and live over here. Arrrrrrrrr, the power of love.