Naomi Elliott - Independent Kaszazz Consultant

Team Training Day (TTD) Development Team - Planning Weekend

Wow, I have just come back from a weekend with the entire Kaszazz Development Team! This was the first of its kind and it proved to be very successful. Sonya Edwards was our host, she put us all up in her lovely home. Sonya organised the weekend so we could all take part in developing the projects for TTD - January. Karen Stock, Pam Kuhn and myself travelled from Adelaide and met everyone at Sonyas.

Our Friday evening started with a show and tell from Karen of all the NEW products to be released, it was very exciting!!!! (My lips are sealed!!)

We then all chipped in for yummy gourmet pizzas. After dinner it was time to get to work. By the end of the night there were already a few projects created!!

After having bacon & eggs for brekky on Saturday morning, it was back to work, lots more ideas and projects created...

Saturday afternoon was spent at a beautiful place called Morpeth. We had a lovely lunch and spent the rest of the day shopping in this lovely quaint town, such a pretty spot!!

Kaszazz took us out for dinner Saturday night, after dinner we headed to a hotel that had Karaoke! What a scream!!! We had so much fun, we were asked NOT to leave, not because of our singing but because we were having such a great time!!!

Sunday morning it was back to work, by the afternoon some of the girls started to head home. The weekend was a lovely opportunity to meet some NEW friends and hear how they operate their business. Sonya Edwards as usual was very inspiring in so many ways, she is so focused on her business, and such an amazing role model!

As Karen Stock said at one time on the weekend "It was a great weekend for the soul" We laughed so much!!!! and achieved so much....

Here is a photo of us all (Karen Stock is taking the photo) in Sonya's studio...

 
From left: Sonya Edwards, Jo Collingwood, Amanda Cordingley, Lorraine Paton, me, Pam Kuhn and Brenda Sebastian. Thanks girls for a lovely weekend, it was great spending time with you all!

Naomi

New Kaszazz Products: Design Adhesives

OMG, I just love the NEW Design Adhesives, the possiblities are endless. I have been thinking of all the ways you can use them. Here are a couple...

Here I have used the beautiful "Dragon Fly" Design Adhesive, the glitter I have used is the NEW Sweet Orange. Watch out for this card in the October workshops, coming soon... 

Here I have used the Leaf Nouveau Design Adhesives on a candle with Honey Glow glitter! I just love all the new glitters... This photo really doesnt show how pretty the candle looks.

See you soon,

Naomi

PS: Thanks to the boys and girls who attended the Childrens workshop today, it was a pleasure teaching you all.

My Birthday!

It was my Birthday yesterday and I just wanted to thank everyone for the lovely Birthday Wishes, it made me feel special at the ripe old age of............ You didnt think I was going to tell you that did you?

Here are a couple of presents I recieved.

My Lime green leather office chair.

My purple Ghetto Blaster!

 

 

 

 

And check out this beautiful card my sister made. I just love it... she has embossed the petals onto different colour Bazzill, just my colours. Thankyou Paula.

 

 

Lastly, I just wanted to post this photo of Mandy at our recent Creative Getaway. It looks like you are singing to someone up above, anyway, I know you are now going to kill me!!!!!

Im sorry Mandy, I cant stop laughing!!

See you all soon,

Naomi

Colours - what do they mean?

Heather arrived to a workshop the other day with a Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine(UK version).

She showed me this great article about COLOUR... What colour is your favourite on your projects, read about what it means.

Thanks Heather!

PS: my dominant colour is GREEN and maybe WHITE, however, I tend to use any colour on my projects depending mainly on my mood.

Naomi

Doing a job I love...

  I dont think it is hard to see how much I love my job.... One of the best parts is meeting some lovely people who are my customers and become friends. This morning I had a lovely group of ladies attend the workshop. What better way to spend a morning, outside it is cold, inside it is toasty with the fire going and you get to create a wonderful project. (We wont have the fire soon, but I hope to create a place you will still want to come to...)

Helen arrived to the workshop this morning with 2 beautiful bunches of flowers for me from her garden. They smell absolutely wonderful!! Thankyou so much Helen.

Helen arranged several Camellias on a bamboo tray with a tag that said: "Love where you're at and believe life will lead you where you wish to be" she then stamped around the tag with mini stamps, it is just beautiful! I love that quote too.

Thankyou again Helen!

Todays workshop was creating the Suitcase Travel Album. I created an extra one using the Life's A Beach range of SB papers. This will come in handy for our trip at Christmas time.

We were getting a bit excited with all the ideas that you could do with this project, I love it when that happens!!

See you soon, Naomi

 PS: Thankyou to consultant Lorraine Paton for creating this project and thanks to Fay who flicked through the catalogue and wanted to do it... I just love it!!

Where is this going??

Where is this going??

and this???

and this???

it wont be long now, you and I will just have to wait!!!!!

Naomi

Back from Horsham, only just!

My trip to Horsham wasnt without a little hiccup! Firstly, thankyou to the lovely ladies who attended both workshops on the Sunday, I hope you enjoyed it.

Its funny how you sometimes just have to go with the flow... My eldest son came home from school last week announcing that there was a pupil free day on Monday. Oh! I dont get home from Horsham until Monday evening, so the kids will have to come with me. They were pretty excited about that! (Their cousins live in Horsham, so they couldnt wait!) When booking the bus trip from Adelaide to Horsham and return I was told to pay the driver our return fare. When we were only about 1hr from Horsham the driver gave me back my return fare and said to re-book my return ticket when I get into Horsham... I thought that was a bit strange???

Anyway, not a problem, or so I thought! The bus we were originally on was booked out and the next available bus wasn't until Tuesday morning at 1am! I didnt have any choice, I was teaching a workshop at 10.30am the same day. So my poor sister had to drive us into Horsham to get on the bus at 1am. (Sorry about that Paula!) Anyway, we arrived in Mount Barker where my husband picked us up at 5.30am (Sorry about that too Mark!) The kids and I only had about 1hr sleep on the bus, it wasnt that comfortable, and besides I drove all the way home (Im a back seat driver!) and saw every Semi that drove past us, apart from Tailem Bend to Mount Barker, Brayden had to wake me up when we got to Mount Barker. So we were all pretty tired on Tuesday, all recovered now though!

Due to the fact we were not leaving Horsham on Monday afternoon, which was our original plans, I ended up having some ME time. Betty who attended our workshop is a maseur so I booked myself in first thing Monday morning for a 1hr massage. (Thanks Ken for driving me into Horsham) It was beautiful! Thankyou Betty, Paula was right, you are a miracle worker...

Anyway, we still had a great time, it was good to catch up with my sister and her husband, and the kids are ready to go back to see their cousins this weekend, they will have to wait a bit longer!

Thanks Paula for having us stay with you, see you in September.

Naomi

Studio Opening, Saturday 5th Sept, 10am - 3pm

Don't forget to email me to let me know you are coming to my Studio Opening! Come and enjoy a Cupcake and Coffee... I cant wait, hope to see you.

Naomi

Studio Opening, Saturday 5th September...

I now have a date for the opening of my studio! Saturday 5th September, between 10am - 3pm. I would love if you could come and join me in my excitement, my DREAM finally happening!

I will be having FREE make & takes, special gifts for orders taken, and door prizes. A dear friend of mine is making some beautiful cupcakes... thanks Kay! She has already started practising, the ones in the photos have already been eaten by her sons! I will need to know numbers so I have enough Cupcakes for everyone, please let me know by email if you can make it. Even if you have never attended any of my workshops it would be great to see you, I want to share it with everyone!

I look forward to seeing you,

Naomi

Australian Cardmaking Stamping & Papercraft

Wahoo! I have just received my FREE copy of Australian Stamping & Papercraft. It seems so long ago since I submitted this project (the mags work about 3mths in advance), anyway, it was a nice surprise! 

 

 

Naomi