Last week a parcel arrived - but I didn’t open it straight away because it had this written on it:

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Yesterday, I passed my final exam at Body Control and this morning I tore off the packaging to reveal this (go look at Katy’s blog for a better picture - this doesn’t do it justice):

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My friend (and now colleague!) Katy blogged about the picture here and I fell in love with it. Partly because of the imagery of launching oneself into the unknown - which this year’s training has been a little bit like - and partly because the thought of having a little part of Katy on my wall was very appealing. I am always much more likely to buy a piece of art or handcraft if I know a bit about the background of the artist. I asked if she would be willing to sell it, and it was my present to myself for finishing.

Today I’m relaxing a bit - adrenalin kept me awake last night - and tomorrow I will be handing in all my paperwork to join the Body Control Pilates Association, and then starting promoting myself ready to take on clients in the new year. My new website should be up and running in a week or so - I’ll let you know!

In the meantime, I’ve caught the skating bug badly, and this is what I look like a couple of times a week:

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I asked for skates for (early) Christmas after my first trip to the rink, and have since been trying to live up to them and not fall on my butt (succeeding so far!).

There has also been knitting, but no photos of it yet - so more to come in the next post.

Ciao!

4 Responses to “A New Direction”
  1. Auntie Noo says:

    ooooh the skating looks fun - and the boots look white! ;) I’ll have to try to get up and join you sometime!

  2. Katy says:

    Yay! Congratulations…

  3. Diane says:

    Dammit - I deleted a genuine comment by mistake while I was clearing spam :-( If it was you, I’m so sorry! Let me know as I’ll probably have to fiddle the settings so you don’t get blocked again - ugh.

  4. Daisy says:

    CONGRATULATIONS! And what a lovely surprise too.

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