This is me!!

It's been a while... I know. I've been busy designing, beeing a mommy and getting all kinds of stuff done around the house and my new studio.

Meanwhile my story was featured in a women's magazine. You'd say I was flattered, and I was, but something went horribly wrong. First of all my 'story was one of three and in a whole other league than the other girls that have had horrible things happen to them. I just had a little setback, losing my job and getting back on track. But the people of Flair Magazine thought the story was worth telling and I thought it would be nice to talk about my new life as a creative mom. (and meanwhile get a little publicity for SAS Knits It Again... let's be honest...)

So the balance was off from the start but then they switched my picture with one of the other girls and now it looks like I lived her life. Such sad things happened to her and although she should be applauded for beeing brave enough to talk about it in a magazine, it's very shocking to read that story with my picture next to it. And that's not the only thing. I know -from working in the field- that stories tend to get over-dramatised when written down. So did mine. Because I have a brain somewhere in my head, I've asked the reporter to mail me her text before printing to approve. She did, than I changed some crutial things and she promised me that they'd print it with my corrections. But they didn't... And now it's all very dramatic and it's not completely fair on my former employer.
Is this a lesson for beeing to vain/greedy?

So for every one who've come across my name or picture and got confused...
This is me!
I'm the knitting girl that lost her job. (I do like the picture!)
And this is the 'right' story with the right picture.
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Deze week staat mijn 'verhaal' in Flair. Leuk, zou je denken... Helaas zijn er wat dingen fout gegaan. Om te beginnen zijn de verhalen van de andere 'Power Vrouwen' veel dramatischer dan dat van mij, ik ben alleen maar mijn baan kwijt geraakt en ben daarna gaan doen wat ik het allerleukste vind. Ben niet misbruikt, heb geen hele nare ziekte gehad... Dus die combi is al een beetje raar. Maar nu hebben ze ook nog mijn foto naast een van die andere verhalen geplaatst! Zo komt het allemaal helemaal verkeerd over. En omdat ik niemand wilde kwetsen met mijn verhaal en het wilde vertellen zoals ik het beleefd heb, heb ik gevraagd om de tekst voor het afdrukken te mogen lezen. Ik heb hem een beetje aangepast en de journaliste beloofde mij dat ze het aangepaste verhaal zou publiceren. Nee hoor, de dramatische versie staat er nu in, bij de verkeerde foto.... Zucht...
Een lesje omdat ik misschien een beetje te ijdel/hebberig was? Ik dacht een beetje publiciteit te kunnen krijgen voor mijn tokootje.
Balen hoor!

My USP

National newspaper, local insert, first page.... me!

Can't believe it, that picture is huge!

Slowly but steadily the students are coming.

Next challenge; flyers and posters.

It's al 'no budget' so I'm making them myself. That's the great thing about this project; I can do everything I love and use most of my talents and experience in this project. I guess that's my personal USP (unique selling point); I can do loads of things ok-ish (as opposed to a few things very good).

I've been looking for an opportunity to use this USP and this is it, who knew...

;-)

TV killed the internet Star

Yesterday, while minding my busyness upstairs I heard a whole set of beeps coming from my mobile in the living room... Weird I thought, something's wrong. I ran down the stairs and found my wee phone, showing 5 (!) messages. I was only upstairs for a minute... what happened? Well, the messages read:
- Hahahahaha. A star!
- Moviestar! -x-
- You look hot on tv! x
- Looked great! Hehe!

I was on tv...
Remember at the Stitch 'n Bitch day the 'Jakhalzen' team from 'De Wereld Draait Door' filmed me? Well, I waited a week for them to broadcast it and when they didn't I forgot all about it. So here it is, if you're interested.

They turned me into a chipmunk, but other than that it's a fun little film. If you're not Dutch, no problem, it's almost like a comic or an animation.

Have fun laughing at me! ;-)