Archive | June, 2009

Project No. 1: Lessons and Outcome

25 Jun

As I’ve previously posted, I was excited about setting up and decorating the venue for my nephew’s christening party and called it my Project no. 1. And I thought creativity was enough! Apparently, it’s not.

So here are the lessons I learned from my brief event styling stint:

1. You cannot go from conceptualization to execution 3 hours before the event. You have to plan, plan plan.

2. You and your assistants must be on the same page. Brainstorming is ideal days before the event. If you only have a few hours to decorate, only one must take the lead and the rest should follow.

3. You must know your materials. In my inexperience with balloons, I used indoor balloons outdoors. The party was scheduled midday, just as the sun is shining in her full glory. Before the guests arrived, 50% of the balloons have already popped.

4. You must bring all the tools you might need. Since I didn’t plan ahead, I needed a lot of tools I didn’t have.

5. If you don’t have the luxury of time, stick to your FIRST idea and do it.

Project No. 1

20 Jun

Need to sleep early tonight(11:38 pm is early for me). I’ve got a project tomorrow – to decorate and ’stylize’ my nephew’s christening party! My first try to do an actual event styling. I still don’t have an idea on how I’ll go about it. Maybe an early bedtime will do me some good.

I’ll post pictures when I come back.

Happy weekend everyone!

Out of the Office Confinement and Straight into Freelance Prison

19 Jun

Seriously, do you sometimes feel this?

At the onset of my freelance career, I had doubts if I really made the right decision to quit my day job. I left a 10-hour job to work freelance for 16 hours and I was only earning half as much as I used to. That’s the exact scenario.

Has it changed now?

Honestly, I can’t say. I’ve stopped for a while to focus on other things. But I want to go back to accepting online jobs again. My former boss has already inquired on my availability to work for him again. He refers to me as his favorite hire from the Philippines, which is really very nice of him to say. I’ve also received a job offer from another possible employer.

So why am I not yet working?

Apart from being busy preparing for my wedding next year, I also decided to push through with what I really want to do. And that’s what’s keeping me occupied these days. Darrel finds it silly that I want to invest my time on ‘that’ instead of working and earning money right away.

But I know in my heart, my efforts will bear fruits someday. And the time and effort I’m sowing today, I shall reap tomorrow. So that I will neither end up in an office confinement nor a freelance prison.

Wish me luck!