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One of the things that I enjoy doing from time to time is making jewellery. I generally make it for myself - making earrings to match a necklace, or a necklace to go with some earrings.
I have previously had a lesson on crochet jewellery but did another class on Saturday and make this one.
It is made of amethyst chips - a little small and fiddly, but I am impressed with the end result. As purple/lilac is my favourite colour, I'm thrilled with the end result.
I did the class at Beadsmart at Manly West.
appear in my inbox on a daily basis and I do look at them closely. Dreaming sometimes, because right now for several reasons I'm not in a position to take on any of them.
I'm still working to go to teach in South Korea in October - but have a lot of work to do on that. I have course material to write and still negotiations are under way - so not sure I am going to go. I have a house sit when I come back from South Korea - if I go. If I don't go, I will of course do the house sit anyway.
I am registered to get notifications re housesits in the UK and in Ireland as well as Brisbane areas, and there is no shortage of them at the moment.
My preferred site is Housecarers.
I've received an email about another job - a week not far from home in October. Unfortunately I can't commit right now as I 'm not sure about any job in south Korea.
Possibility of one coming up.
Still, it seems that there is work around.
I'm certainly not sure what will happen in my life over the next 12 months, but I have been asked to block July 2010 for a house sitting job. Seems hard to plan that far ahead, but, well, I've blocked it in the diary.
I do hope to have one or two trips to Korea before then, and maybe one to China for teaching, but will take it one step at a time.
Anything could happen in that time. I might even get a contract for one of my books!!!!
Each day I receive a message from www.housecarers.com listing the current/new opportunities for house sitting and I am a little frustrated by the fact that the dates don't always suit me. I did half heartedly apply for one recently - more in the vein of if you don't get a suitable sitter, and you are desperate let me know, as I live nearby and could do it at a pinch.
They found someone that sounded more enthusiastic than I was at the time - but I was after all, just back from 10 weeks in Korea, and had quite a few other things to do.
Todays offering was interesting. One for just over three weeks just north of Brisbane - not an area I'm keen to stay in, and one in the UK, and another in Ireland. The latter two had great appeal, but sadly the dates do not suit me, and until I get my tax money the bank balance is a little low.
However, it is a daily activity to check on the offerings and at the moment, though I dream of the UK and Ireland, the reality is that I am only interested in local - east side of Brisbane and bay islands - jobs.
The daily chore - ten minutes of checking and dreaming - is for me my only close association with house sitting, but it won't be long and off I go again. Somewhere.
I'm not sure that it exists. There are no house sit opportunities listed on the websites that I look at, and I doubt that they would be on English sites anyway.
Maybe within Korea there is a Korean site that offers this opportunity, but I must ask my students about this. I suspect that there is little house sitting in Korea. Maybe none.
I was just doing a little exploration about other websites and found one on house sitting that quoted me. Gave me a funny feeling. Nice funny feeling. You can see it here. I think many people do not realise how much house sitting is going on in the world.
Another site I found had fabulous photography - click here
While I am not house sitting at the moment, I'm still keen to do more. When the Korean adventure is over.
One of the things that I enjoy doing from time to time is making jewellery. I generally make it for myself - making earrings to match a necklace, or a necklace to go with some earrings.
