Kids Holiday Aupair

It’s been a crazy time with the private school holidays on since the 8th of August. I’ve been doing some really fun stuff with them and we’ve had a great time together.

Find it from Fairland has been neglacted however.

Since I have really been focussed on the kids, I thought I should just tell you a bit about what I do and give myself a bit of publicity too.

This is a new little venture for me. School holidays have now become a busy period. In August I added some more kids to my little list of new friends, this time doing a week of half-day sessions with the Meuller kids – Dominique and Oscar. It’s been kind of a temping thing while their mom was overseas on a conference, so it won’t be ongoing. I love the way this worked out because it brings wonderful variety to my experience and it’s just short term, so there is very little serious attachment and we just do the short sessions, have fun and then it’s over. This worked out beautifully as a model for a future holiday business.

My next step with this is to work on developing a few more lovely workshops to expand my repertoir. My group of kids has done the “teddy me” teddy bear workshop, we have been to the Zoo, we have done Color Cafe with some of them. Now it’s time to come up with some other ideas.

So from Fairlands, you can now get me to come in and do a 4 hour workshop with your kids, aged 4 to 10, where they will make their own teddy bear themselves.

And soon you will be able to choose from a variety of other projects for your kids to do or outings they can go on under my supervision. This is great for working parents who would like their kids to get out of the house during the holidays or have a workshop at home.

With the workshops, kids are entertained, they are learning about something new, they have something to take home afterwards and they are not sitting in front of the TV, Wii, computer for a few hours. It is good to add variety to their holidays.

This is a concept that will be expanded pretty quickly to accomodate my current group of kids and will later be available to others.

Time to get to work on creating the next workshop – felt wall pictures, bracelets, wands, famous buildings and more.

Kids Holiday Aupair

It’s been a crazy time with the private school holidays on since the 8th of August. I’ve been doing some really fun stuff with them and we’ve had a great time together.

Find it from Fairland has been neglacted however.

Since I have really been focussed on the kids, I thought I should just tell you a bit about what I do and give myself a bit of publicity too.

This is a new little venture for me. School holidays have now become a busy period. In August I added some more kids to my little list of new friends, this time doing a week of half-day sessions with the Meuller kids – Dominique and Oscar. It’s been kind of a temping thing while their mom was overseas on a conference, so it won’t be ongoing. I love the way this worked out because it brings wonderful variety to my experience and it’s just short term, so there is very little serious attachment and we just do the short sessions, have fun and then it’s over. This worked out beautifully as a model for a future holiday business.

My next step with this is to work on developing a few more lovely workshops to expand my repertoir. My group of kids has done the “teddy me” teddy bear workshop, we have been to the Zoo, we have done Color Cafe with some of them. Now it’s time to come up with some other ideas.

So from Fairlands, you can now get me to come in and do a 4 hour workshop with your kids, aged 4 to 10, where they will make their own teddy bear themselves.

And soon you will be able to choose from a variety of other projects for your kids to do or outings they can go on under my supervision. This is great for working parents who would like their kids to get out of the house during the holidays or have a workshop at home.

With the workshops, kids are entertained, they are learning about something new, they have something to take home afterwards and they are not sitting in front of the TV, Wii, computer for a few hours. It is good to add variety to their holidays.

This is a concept that will be expanded pretty quickly to accomodate my current group of kids and will later be available to others.

Time to get to work on creating the next workshop – felt wall pictures, bracelets, wands, famous buildings and more.

Kids Holiday Aupair

It’s been a crazy time with the private school holidays on since the 8th of August. I’ve been doing some really fun stuff with them and we’ve had a great time together.

Find it from Fairland has been neglacted however.

Since I have really been focussed on the kids, I thought I should just tell you a bit about what I do and give myself a bit of publicity too.

This is a new little venture for me. School holidays have now become a busy period. In August I added some more kids to my little list of new friends, this time doing a week of half-day sessions with the Meuller kids – Dominique and Oscar. It’s been kind of a temping thing while their mom was overseas on a conference, so it won’t be ongoing. I love the way this worked out because it brings wonderful variety to my experience and it’s just short term, so there is very little serious attachment and we just do the short sessions, have fun and then it’s over. This worked out beautifully as a model for a future holiday business.

My next step with this is to work on developing a few more lovely workshops to expand my repertoir. My group of kids has done the “teddy me” teddy bear workshop, we have been to the Zoo, we have done Color Cafe with some of them. Now it’s time to come up with some other ideas.

So from Fairlands, you can now get me to come in and do a 4 hour workshop with your kids, aged 4 to 10, where they will make their own teddy bear themselves.

And soon you will be able to choose from a variety of other projects for your kids to do or outings they can go on under my supervision. This is great for working parents who would like their kids to get out of the house during the holidays or have a workshop at home.

With the workshops, kids are entertained, they are learning about something new, they have something to take home afterwards and they are not sitting in front of the TV, Wii, computer for a few hours. It is good to add variety to their holidays.

This is a concept that will be expanded pretty quickly to accomodate my current group of kids and will later be available to others.

Time to get to work on creating the next workshop – felt wall pictures, bracelets, wands, famous buildings and more.

Kids Holiday Aupair

It’s been a crazy time with the private school holidays on since the 8th of August. I’ve been doing some really fun stuff with them and we’ve had a great time together.

Find it from Fairland has been neglacted however.

Since I have really been focussed on the kids, I thought I should just tell you a bit about what I do and give myself a bit of publicity too.

This is a new little venture for me. School holidays have now become a busy period. In August I added some more kids to my little list of new friends, this time doing a week of half-day sessions with the Meuller kids – Dominique and Oscar. It’s been kind of a temping thing while their mom was overseas on a conference, so it won’t be ongoing. I love the way this worked out because it brings wonderful variety to my experience and it’s just short term, so there is very little serious attachment and we just do the short sessions, have fun and then it’s over. This worked out beautifully as a model for a future holiday business.

My next step with this is to work on developing a few more lovely workshops to expand my repertoir. My group of kids has done the “teddy me” teddy bear workshop, we have been to the Zoo, we have done Color Cafe with some of them. Now it’s time to come up with some other ideas.

So from Fairlands, you can now get me to come in and do a 4 hour workshop with your kids, aged 4 to 10, where they will make their own teddy bear themselves.

And soon you will be able to choose from a variety of other projects for your kids to do or outings they can go on under my supervision. This is great for working parents who would like their kids to get out of the house during the holidays or have a workshop at home.

With the workshops, kids are entertained, they are learning about something new, they have something to take home afterwards and they are not sitting in front of the TV, Wii, computer for a few hours. It is good to add variety to their holidays.

This is a concept that will be expanded pretty quickly to accomodate my current group of kids and will later be available to others.

Time to get to work on creating the next workshop – felt wall pictures, bracelets, wands, famous buildings and more.

Chocola.j

Chocolate Granola Muffin and Filter Coffee from Chocola.j, Hocky Street, Northcliff

Coffee and cake for R20.00

Coffee and cake for R20.00

Yummy! Yummy! Yummy!

Give yourself a treat at ChocolaJ in Northcliff.

Ask for the special: a delicious home made muffin cake and filter coffee, every day a different kind, real value for money. A treat for the days when you’ve got R1.27 in the bank!

 

 

2l Cokes for R13.99 this weekend

Hillside SPAR has 2l Cokes for R13.99 this weekend – Bargain!

My crown is in my heart. My crown is called Contentment.

Since this is my first post on this blog, I thought I’d start with a quote I came across that captures my philosophy of life.

My crown is in my heart, not in my head,
  Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones,
  Nor to be seen; my crown is called contentment;
  A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
  William Shakespeare

The truth is that it takes time and effort to come to this realisation. Indeed, what is contentment and why do kings so seldom enjoy it?

Well, here I am on my little island, Fairlands, Johannesburg.

I live in a simple, smallish garden apartment with my wonderful husband and my 2 little Yorkshire daughters Danny and Gabsie.

At 42, I’ve been out of a job in the conventional sense since 2007 whan I walked away from a great career in fashion; then working as apparel developer for Nike South Africa. It will be 5 years in July this year, since I left behind the fast paced lifestyle, office politics, stress and rat race commute that most other people call a life in this city and set out to find myself, heal myself and live the life most other people dream of but haven’t got the courage to “just do it!”

Looking back at the route I’ve travelled, contentment is what I found and how I find it every day is the gift I share with the world.

It’s simple! I find it from Fairlands!

 

My journey has brought me from the depths of dispair, through many ups and downs, tests and trials that took me to breaking point and back. My bank balance has been from R127 000.00 to R1.27, but I’m still here, still going and strong enough to share the knowledge and wisdom that’s been collected in my suitcase along the way.

 

 

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