tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68488241097921435482024-03-14T05:35:38.738+13:00Adventures of Alex O & CoLife Style Blog of a Crafty OneAlex Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02000425116123392680noreply@blogger.comBlogger350125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848824109792143548.post-77277070630498407362019-03-06T16:52:00.000+13:002019-03-06T18:41:06.199+13:00Au revoir<br />
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<span class="ILfuVd">Hello lovely blog post followers. I have not been here for nearly three years!</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">Every week I get messages from blog spot to say that new people have joined up to follow </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I never made a conscious decision to stop posting it just happened.</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd"> Life moves on and evolves and every month or so I would think I should post and it </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">My house is now fully renovated which is wonderful.</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">My happiness group is still going and this is its 4th or maybe 5th I think year. </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">Praise be to Gretchen Rubin and her book "The Happiness Project" </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">for inspiring me to start this group.</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I am still sewing and my designs are stocked in stores in both </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">which is just amazing to me. </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">My little business is now in its 8th year.<br />I am sharing photos of some of the designs I have made in the past few years throughout his post.</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">Last year I went back part time to working outside of the home as I wanted to </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">This has proved to be a nice mix for me.</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">Master O is now 16 years old and taller than me and my lovely dog </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">Lucca is about to turn four and Mr O is still putting up with me!</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I have become a mad gym junkie and in the last 18 months I have completed 6 half marathons. </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I can honestly say that I never saw that coming about, but I am so grateful that it did.</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">It is a post to let you know that if you want to know what is happening with me </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">You can also see all my designs online in my online store, </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I have added shipping costs for all around the world so wherever </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">Here is my online store <a href="https://felt.co.nz/shop/alexoandco">link. </a></span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">In french<b> Au revoir</b>, literally means "to the seeing again".</span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I hope to be seeing you all again, I am not sure where life is taking me, </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd">I am still creating and sewing and I thank you all for wanting to follow my journey </span></div>
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<span class="ILfuVd"> from beginning part of the Adventures of Alex O journey.</span></div>
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Suddenly I realized it has been 6 and a 1/2 months since I lasted blogged.</div>
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This year I made the decision to spread my energy around in to a few other areas as well as </div>
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This blog started as a lifestyle blog about the adventures of a crafty person so I thought I would share</div>
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what I have been up too since November!</div>
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New Rabbit Purse design from November/December 2015</div>
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Christmas 2015 was the busiest time my business has ever had which is wonderful.</div>
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However I did come out the other side of it exhausted.</div>
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I came up with a new saying for 2016</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"DREAM BIG, ACHIEVE MORE"</b></span></div>
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This year my dreams are not so much about my crafty business but more about my life.</div>
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Three of my friends are battling cancer right now.</div>
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This makes you take stock and look at your own life, your health your priorities.</div>
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I decided to throw myself into being 100% Paleo. I had been dabbling with Paleo for about 18 months but I never fully committed. So I signed up for a <a href="https://thepaleoway.com/">10 week Paleo Challenge.</a> I am now in week 11 and I feel amazing and I have said goodbye to 7kgs. I think Paleo is the new me, I have no plans to stop this way of eating.</div>
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I decided to do more exercise. I now walk Lucca (my dog) 3 kilometer's 4 days a week. I joined a woman's fitness group and go to the gym 2 to 3 times a week. </div>
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I have also organized with a friend a Women's Netball team that starts in 11 days time (I am a little scared as I have not played since my school days!).</div>
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I bought myself some wonderful <a href="http://mfit.co.nz/">motivational t-shirts</a> to help keep me focused.</div>
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It all seems to be working and I feel much happier in myself for it. </div>
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My lovely old lady of a house needed a makeover on the outside. Mr O is away overseas with work alot at the moment so I have been overseeing this make over. I have had Builders, Painters, Roofers, The Shingle man all working on her.</div>
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This is what she looked like a few weeks ago, she is getting stripped right back to her bones.</div>
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I have some more dreams for this year that I am starting to work on. I will share them with you when they start coming to fruition.</div>
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I am still working away making new designs, stocking shops and taking customer orders. </div>
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But because of these other projects I have less time for social media.</div>
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I am still here just maybe not as present online!</div>
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If so are you working towards achieving them.</div>
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So its coming up to that busy market time of year.</div>
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This year I am either being brave or foolish!</div>
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I have booked myself in for four markets.</div>
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Alex Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02000425116123392680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848824109792143548.post-12592352692799956342015-09-28T15:20:00.000+13:002015-09-28T15:20:56.075+13:00Fabric Rep<div style="text-align: center;">
Recently I saw a beautiful fabric online that had Rabbits and Mushrooms on it.</div>
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Two of my favourite things on beautiful Linen Cotton.</div>
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I managed to find out who brings the fabric into New Zealand.</div>
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I emailed the company and they called me to ask if I would like there rep to visit me.</div>
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So the lovely Vivienne from "Nutex" came out to see me.</div>
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We spent half an hour or so looking at all the beautiful fabrics that will be coming to NZ in </div>
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future months and she even had some end of lines for sale.</div>
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I had a wonderful time and I felt most special.</div>
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My Rabbits and Mushroom fabric is coming in October (which I will share with you then).</div>
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In the meantime I bought a gorgeous end of line fabric that I can use on my Animal Cushions and purses.</div>
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It has been a busy seven weeks since I last did a post.</div>
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I have been busy stocking stores with my designs and </div>
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This was most exciting for me. </div>
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A big Thank you to all the people that ordered covers off of me after seeing Mr Fox on TV. </div>
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Master O is now in his 3rd week at a small Steiner Home school of seven children.</div>
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He is absolutely loving it and wakes up every morning singing.</div>
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All year my wonderful mother and I have been sewing Pixies for Christmas.</div>
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So even though I have not been blogging so much of late, I am here in the studio working away.</div>
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Alex Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02000425116123392680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848824109792143548.post-51653891549103208762015-07-23T09:47:00.001+12:002015-07-23T09:50:09.852+12:00Mooses<div style="text-align: center;">
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I live in a bungalow built in the 1920's that over the past 10 years we have been slowly doing up.</div>
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Just last week we had painters and plasters in to plaster and paint my studio and our bedroom.</div>
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Our lounge looked like "Hoarders are us" with all the stuff from my studio and our bedroom stored in there.</div>
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Master O and I left Mr O and the tradesmen too it and took off to the Bay of Plenty for 6 days to visit with family. </div>
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We took Lucca our lovely puppy with us and introduced him to the beach.</div>
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He is so our dog, he just loves the beach.</div>
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I am now home, I spent yesterday moving everything back into my studio space. </div>
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I still have boxes to unpack but it is so lovely.</div>
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Before I went away I had a baby shower to attend for a dear friend who is having a little boy in September.</div>
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I wanted to make a new design on my large nappy case (or it can be used as an Ipad case)</div>
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My friend loves Turtles and I sat down with this in mind.</div>
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But I came up with something completely different!</div>
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A Moose Head with a little bird.</div>
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I blame it all on the fabric that I found to line the case with.</div>
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It has Turtles and Moose in the design and the Moose won out! </div>
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* MR O was overseas for 3 weeks in April then back for a week then away for 3 weeks in May then back for a week then away for a week. He is now home for a while and its great to be a whole family again.<br />
I am grateful for being together.<br />
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* In a crazy moment I agreed to get a puppy! Who is an absolute joy and he has now been a part of our family for 6 weeks. But in those early days he had me up 3 times a night. The last 6 weeks I have lived on 5-6 hours sleep a night. I will confess that I was very naive about all involved with having a puppy.<br />
But for all the drama he is so worth it and he now sleeps through the night.<br />
Right now I am so grateful for more than 6 hours sleep a night and this beautiful fellow in my life.<br />
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* I finally after years of being asked do you have a logo had a lovely logo designed to go on the bottom of my pixie bases. I am so grateful to have this off of my to do list.<br />
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* I was mad busy sewing in May. My sales were up 33% on the previous May so thank you to all my wonderful customers I am so grateful for you. Here are some designs that I worked on in the last few weeks.<br />
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* I am grateful for customer orders as they often get me sewing things that I had not thought of sewing<br />
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* I am so grateful for my Happiness Project group, the ladies are all so supportive and encouraging and we are all getting so much out of the group.<br />
Some things that have changed in my life:<br />
I exercise more and because of it I feel great.<br />
I am taking the time to appreciate people more and this is so fulfilling for all involved.<br />
I have in the last few months managed to declutter my house (this is still a work in progress)<br />
I am achieving 1 or 2 things a month on my to do list of things that I am forever putting off such as cleaning the oven, mulching the garden. I feel great when I achieve one of these things.<br />
The list goes on of things I have tried, some successful and some not but it is a great process to think about "What makes you happy? and What does not make you happy?" and either bring these things into your life or getting rid of these things.<br />
If you want to know more refer to Gretin Rubin<a href="http://gretchenrubin.com/"> here</a>.<br />
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* I designed a new range of purses that I am loving making<br />
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Master O is now twelve and he is such fun to hang out with.</div>
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We have had adventures together and done things we would normally never do.</div>
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The other night we played cards all through dinner and had a great laugh.</div>
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We have played numerous board games, cricket games, </div>
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shot hoops, made pancakes and the list goes on.</div>
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Master O has even started making me smoothies for breakfast each day</div>
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Some of my regular popular designs and some new.</div>
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This is quiet a hard blog post to write but I will do my best.</div>
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I started University</div>
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I was up every morning at 6m organising my life, Master O's life and my house.</div>
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I would drop Master O at school and go straight to University.</div>
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I would study and attend lectures till it was time to collect Master O and then we would go to </div>
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I found myself talking about getting a house cleaner, </div>
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I was looking at school holiday programmes for Master O, </div>
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I was thinking of ways to get out of weekend family events so I could study.</div>
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My wonderful husband was helping as much as he could but he was also away with work</div>
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I found myself withdrawing from my family.</div>
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When I was home I was not really present as I was all in my head. </div>
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Thinking about all the things I had learnt and all the things I needed to learn.</div>
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In 3 weeks of University I had 3 migraines , which is an all time record for me.</div>
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I sat down one night and had a family meeting with my boys.</div>
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Master O said "I did not seem as happy as I normally was".</div>
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Mr O who has been nothing but supportive when I asked him to be honest with me said </div>
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"That he felt the University had stolen me and he wanted me back".</div>
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I realised that I wanted my family life back too.</div>
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So I withdrew from University as I realised that now is not the time for me to do this.</div>
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I may go back next semester and do a paper or two at a time if that is do able with</div>
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So suddenly I am plan less but I am okay with that as I know it was the right decision for now.</div>
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The day after I withdrew I had two new shops email asking me if they could stock my designs.</div>
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I am happy to be back amongst all my felt.</div>
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I am leaving you with a quote from Gretchen Rubin that resonated with me.</div>
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"I need to know myself, accept myself and build a life on the foundation of my nature"</div>
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Its been so long but I am still here.</div>
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Thank you if you are still following me.</div>
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Last year was a crazy busy year.</div>
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I don't think I have ever had such a crazy year.</div>
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I was working 20 hours a week as a vision therapist from 8am to 12pm daily.</div>
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Then I was rushing home and sewing till Master O came home.</div>
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Then sewing again once he went to bed.</div>
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We knew at the start of 2014 that Mr O would be made redundant at the end of 2014.</div>
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He does quiet a specialised job so we had to look at many options.</div>
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Moving overseas, moving to another part of New Zealand, maybe downsizing and doing some</div>
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retraining or more in depth training for one or both of us.<br />
It made us really look at what we wanted to do with our life's. </div>
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The uncertainty of the future meant that I decided not to actively grow my sewing business.</div>
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But each month I had more shops approaching me wanting to stock my designs.</div>
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So Adventures of Alex O grew and grew.</div>
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My retired parents started working for me and they were amazing.</div>
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But I came to the realisation that as much as I loved sewing I did not want to be at home alone sewing all day every day.</div>
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I also handed in my notice as a vision therapist as I felt after<br />
two and half years it was time to move on.</div>
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It was a scary thing to do when I had no idea if Mr O would have a job in 2015.</div>
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Mr O went out of his comfort zone and approached a company that he wanted to work for<br />
that are not even based here in NZ.</div>
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They snapped him up (Yippee!) and he is now working for them from home and commuting to the States every 6-8 weeks when needed.</div>
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With all this going on I read an amazing book called</div>
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And I realised I needed to start my own happiness journey.</div>
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So I decided to fulfill one of my dreams by applying to go to </div>
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University to study to become a pediatric occupational therapist.<br />
Great news they accepted me and I start in March. </div>
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I have also formed a "Happiness Project group" with seven other lovely ladies and we have</div>
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our first meeting next week. </div>
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Which I am very excited about.</div>
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So some big new beginnings in 2015 for Mr O and I. </div>
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What does this mean for Alex O & Co?</div>
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I will still be sewing as it is such a part of me and it brings me much joy.<br />
But I will have to down scale how much I produce. </div>
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Wednesday was my first day back in the studio after 6 weeks holiday.</div>
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I now have a month before I start University so I plan do design some new designs</div>
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and get my creative juices flowing.<br />
I also have to finish some orders that came in over my break period.<br />
Here is one of them that I just finished today.<br />
It is on a larger cushion than normal<br />
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Life is changing for me and I am very excited and nervous at the same time<br />
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My aim for 2015 is to blog at least once a month.<br />
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My son is a sensitive soul and I do worry at times how he will get on in the world.</div>
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Several weeks ago now it was the school holidays.</div>
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I went back to my roots and I made a little people family.</div>
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I had such a lot of fun making these little people.<br />
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I have had Sinus for a few weeks now thus my absence.<br />
A girlfriend said to me recently that as she has grown older she has learnt a<br />
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Look at these beautiful colourful people that I found online the other day.</div>
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* I had a 10 day holiday with my boys which was wonderful and relaxing.</div>
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This sits well with me and my year of change.</div>
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Here is a peak at some of what I have been working on.</div>
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It's all about the purse, the kindle case the mini ipad case and the ipad case</div>
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After 1 month and 2 days we now have a shower.</div>
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Oh it was such bliss to shower in ones own bathroom.</div>
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We are still working on the finishing touches but once it is all done </div>
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I am still working away on my new designs.</div>
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I found a little bit of leftover teal blanket that I just had to use.</div>
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This year is all about being open to change in my household.</div>
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as it is a rather lovely one. </div>
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Well our bathroom adventure still goes on.</div>
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We are at day 27 of no bathroom.</div>
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Light is however at the end of the tunnel and we only have days to go now.</div>
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I am so excited.</div>
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Around all the chaos I have been working some more on my new range</div>
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I decided to add some rabbits in for a bit of fun. </div>
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These new designs are all loaded in my <a href="http://felt.co.nz/shop/alexoandco">online store.</a></div>
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Alex Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02000425116123392680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6848824109792143548.post-26204551784738392312014-02-13T16:55:00.000+13:002014-02-13T16:55:33.929+13:00What was I thinking!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So it has been 18 days without a shower in my house.</div>
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We have been showering at the neighbours, at the local pools and</div>
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we went camping for 5 days.</div>
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In amongst the chaos of having ones house in an upheaval whilst renovating,</div>
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I thought it would be a good idea to start a juice detox.</div>
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With headaches for two days and no shower at home to relax in.</div>
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With my juicer deciding it needed a little fixing as it started to leak into the motor.</div>
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I decided that the universe was telling me </div>
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So I just had to listen and go and buy myself a feel better chocolate bar.</div>
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I will share my juicing journey when I get there (and the time is right)</div>
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sometime this year.</div>
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One of my lovely stockist <a href="http://www.thepetalstore.com/">"The Petal Store" </a>in Christchurch</div>
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is going to have a stall at the <a href="http://www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz/">"Ellerslie Garden show"</a>.</div>
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For the last two years they have won gold medals for there stall display.</div>
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So I feel very honoured that they wanted to stock some of my designs</div>
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Here is a sneak peak at some of the designs I worked on for them:</div>
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