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A little info about me!
My name is Christina and this is just a little bit of information about me, and how I got to be in the place I am now.
And believe me I never thought to be in this place. I have had a life that has gone in stages of ten and every decade something has happened. Sometimes nice and sometimes not so nice. When I was five my father died, and the shops that my parents owned were compulsorily purchased, by the council, to make way for a car park. So my mum lost her husband, and her home in a matter of months. We had to go and live with my grandparents. I was told that my dad had gone to heaven, and as a five year old that was very difficult to understand. I spent a lot of my childhood wondering when my dad would come home from heaven, as I really did miss him. Over the next ten years my mum re-married, to the proverbial wicked step-father, and it was not a happy time for me. I left school at the tender age of fourteen, with no formal qualifications, and I worked in a factory until I got married at eighteen. It was a good marraige, for a while. My husband was in the Fleet Air Arm, based at Culdrose, and we lived in Helston, Cornwall. We had a good circle of friends, a lovely home, and the pride and joy of our lives, were two beautiful daughters. Life was great. Then he decided he wanted to leave the F.A.A. and we moved North to be near to our families. We bought a house up here, got the girls into new schools, and I got a part-time job. But my husband wouldn't work, and money became scarce. In this stretch of ten, everything fell apart. My husband started an affair with my best friend, and after eleven years of marraige I found my self divorced. Now I thought, "What about me... What am I going to do" How would I manage with two small girls to feed and clothe, and a mortgage to pay. I couldn't sit about and do nothing, I had to work. And over the next ten years, manage is what I did. I got a job that would support us all. It was a daily, financial struggle but I kept my house going, and although I couldn't afford the things that growing kids want, we got by. My ex went to live abroad and didn't worry about me or the girls. I did a lot of crying and worrying in that decade. In 1988 I got a better paid job and things started to look up a little. I could afford some of the nicer things in life. My daughters grew up and had children of their own. They built their own nests and settled near me. Then in 1997 I met someone and fell in love. And life got even better. This decade is going to be about me. I wasn't that old that I couldn't still have some fun. Three years later we got married, in 2000.
In this ten I am happy. Now this is where I could say, "And they lived happily ever after....." but if you want to know more about me, then read on. In 2008 I decided to go part time, just working three days a week. But being healthy and active I needed to do something else to occupy my time, so I started card making. I enjoyed this hobby very much, and my family and friends all seemed to enjoy my efforts too. When I look back now at those first offerings they are awful. Truly awful! With extra days I could now spend more time on that hobby, and I decided to take it more seriously. As I got better, I was able to sell some in different places, and I gave a lot away to family, friends and charities. I submitted my cards to online websites and in January 2009 I was invited to be a guest designer for... making-handmade-cards.com... I was like the cat with the cream over this. Somebody else thought my cards where good, and that gave me the push I needed to improve even more. But then I wanted to go further and did a lot of thinking about what I wanted to do. I mostly wanted to help people, like myself, who didn't know where to start with card making. People who thought they coudn't do it because they were not artistic. People who wanted to have a go but, were scared of trying. I looked at a lot of blogs and websites for ideas, hints and tips, and I must have looked at hundreds of them. Some good and some not. I tried all kinds of techniques, and practised some of the ideas I read about. I knew there had to be something more for me. And I needed a challenge. I wanted to make my own website. I wanted to get the message across, that card-making is an enjoyable hobby, open to everybody. I decided to let people know about me and what I wanted to do. I started to research the idea of a website, and it is a minefield out there, for get rich quick schemes. But nothing grabbed my attention. Nothing that I really felt I could trust with my hard earned cash. It was through two particluar websites that I read about a company that I hoped could help me make my dream come true. They sounded very interesting. I did lots of more research, but into this company only. And the more I found out the more I liked, and the more I felt I could trust them. This wasn't a "get rich quick" scheme, but one I would have to work at, and work hard. I had never heard of "Site Build It", but I found out everything I could. I thought about it for a long time. I e-mailed lots of questions that I wanted answers to. I asked the two SBI card websites for their advice, and every body was helpful. It was not just setting up a webpage and seeing what happened, I needed proper help and teaching so that I would know what to do. And I needed patience with it all while I learned, because I had never done anything like this in my life. Apart from e-mail and surfing the net, that was my total knowledge of computers. I knew very little of anything else. But from the research I did, I found that SBI have a complete system for "newbies" like me. SBI does everything to help you make it work. They made me think about me, and what I wanted to achieve. They made me evaluate my own knowledge and how I could put it to best use, because as they say "everybody knows something about something" They have a lot of books filled with advice and teaching that you can download and print, for free, and I read everything I could. In the end I made my decision and I joined SBI.
And I just wonder where I will be by my next decade!!
There is one thing for sure I'm not ready to be a wrinkly just yet, and I won't be sitting around waiting for things to come to me. I will be out there trying to make this the best ten years ever, and I'll tell you more about me when I get there.
Cheers!
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