Christmas. Christmas. Christmas.

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ZOMG! forget Halloween, Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian's divorce, the fact that we've still got four days left in the work week...it's all about the new Christmas mags that have started to hit the stands! 

I picked up the latest issue of Style At Home this Evening and I've already got a gazillion ideas rolling through my head for what I'm going to do this Christmas! Aaaaaaaaaah! So excited. You have no idea! Seriously - every page has something amazing on it! Loads of metallic tones, bright yellows (score!) and softer versions of the traditional Christmas colours!

I've decided to wait until the 15th of the month to begin bringing out anything....but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to start trying to map out some ideas - I wanna go ALL OUT this year!

Bring on the paint & glitter! (That may have been the gayest sentence I've written to date on here....but who cares, it's only 50 something days 'til Christmas and I for one can't wait!!

Cheers,

D-

Around the office.

So I've been back on the job for three weeks now and I'm slowly but surely getting the hang of things. Having worked for this company previously, I figured out the computer system in a snap! I know a lot of my team and I'm in the same (albeit tiny) office as I was before I left.

Though the past three weeks has been a complete blur of emails, meetings, phone calls, questions, quotations, fabric selecting and brain storming, I've been having a blast! I'm currently working on an amazing project that has been so much fun - I'm completely in my element and my creative juices are flowing...something that hasn't happened at work in ages!

I can't share too many details of what I'm doing (well, not yet anyways....eventually I'll spill more!), but as you can see by my snaps I'm surrounded by amazing ideas, loads of color, new concepts, fabrics, fun catalogues that have made the journey from the other side of the world.

Sure there are moments where it feels like my head is going to explode and that I'll never make it through the sea of paperwork, but hey, at the end of the day, what gig doesn't have that? I'm doing exactly what I want to be doing right now. I'm growing my portfolio, expanding my credibility and making sure that I try to have fun while doing so.

Now....if only I had enough energy to finish painting my living room during my evenings then I'd be golden!

Eventually I say, eventually!

D-

A quick update.

Four days. Five phone calls from China. Six containers of product booked. 

Not bad huh?

Oh yah, that and I bought myself flowers on the way home one night....they've got such vivid tones in them that I couldn't help but take a couple of pictures.

Anyways, back to the week that was, I'm starting to settle into my new role. Second day on my computer and I remembered most of the ins and outs of the purchasing software that I'll be using....which makes life a lot easier! I know most of my team, and have already established communication with some old colleagues and friends overseas - which makes my life a whole lot easier!

I've got a number of exciting projects on the go - a number of which I really do hope to share with you....once I get some details sorted out. Right now I'm working about five months in advance to make sure that I've got a full assortment of seasonal merchandise available; I wish that I had a bit more time....a couple of extra months to play with ideas, but I've got an awesome feel for what I want to do - the ideas are rolling and I've plastered my office walls with pictures and ideas. I've got two weeks to put everything together, not a lot of time, but I know that I can do it!

What I'm loving the most about my new role is the fact that there's always something new for me to hunt for! One minute I'm checking out this, the next minute I'm checking out that....and then there's a bit of random other stuff thrown in for fun.

Sure I've got some challenges ahead of me, and there will be some skeptics, but I know that I made the right move. Nose to the grindstone and away I go!

That said, week number one kind of kicked my ass....a new routine takes a bit of time to get used to. That and I'm missing my sneakers....but that's pretty minor. A couple of projects around home have been cast aside and are still sitting in the middle of my living room floor, but I'm hoping to get them wrapped up before the end of this week!

But before any of that, it's time for this guy to crawl into a hot bath and then get some shuteye. 

I've got a week filled with Vietnamese ceramic factories, bathtubs, office decorating and random phone calls from India ahead of me....I need as much sleep as I can get to prep myself!

I can't wait!

D-