How does this work?
What do I say?
Is this a work project?
Is it personal sharing?
How much of me do I expose? ( I am not sure of this one, guess we are about to find out together!)
To say the least these are only a few of the many many many questions that have rattled around in my head. I have several blogs that I follow and admire and that has been part of the problem, they are so good and I am so new! And torturing myself over how I wanted to do this made me realize that I wanted this blog to be me. Simple, honest and hopefully at times informative. I will share interesting factoids about my work and at other times some raw moments about my life.
So I think I will start with a short bio of me.....you will learn more as we go I am sure! I am a 32 year old married lady of 5 years with a hubby working in Fort Macmurray for the last 4, I am a hair stylist and hair-apist, photographer, new writer, amateur furniture restore-er, dog owner, philanthropist (getting better at this one), sister, daughter of landed imigrants, salon owner, amateur interior decorator.
I have been in the hair world for 12 whopping years now! I started as a make up artist first working in the independant film industry and then dove into hair not having any idea as to where this was going to take me. The photography thing has always loomed in the background....and thanks to my amazingly supportive husband and a good friend of mine I have recently decided to try to turn this into a secondary hobby-job. I have never wanted to call myself an artist as this was not always encouraged growing up.....it just was not a tangible career area for my parents to understand.....but I am an artist. I see things develop in my mind and want to try to creat them so that others can see them too. And I have without knowing it always done this, whether it has been thru make up, hair, photography or furniture restoration or any of my other creative outlets.
Why start this now?? Well I actually wanted to start this last year when I left the salon I worked at for almost 8 years. I felt it was time for me to go my own way and carve out my own future.....mistakes and successes and all and I really wanted to share it. I wanted to take everyone with me not just physically at my job but I wanted you all to be able to crawl around in my head and feel it with me. Again, why now and not last year?? I have to say mostly fear! Fear that what I would write would sound silly, that my blog would not look awesome enough. What if people did not like what they read about me? Plus no time! Starting a new business was way more overwhelming than I thought it would be!
I have decided I will have very few limits as to what I will share. I have a small and growing business, I am going back to school, I have fertility issues, weight issues, have dealt with drug addiction in my family, and a lot of the same life problems and insecurities as everyone else. I will respect the privacy of my marriage and will not share anything my husband Andy does not want out there. I have some incredible clients and friends with amazing stories of survival, humor, confidence and struggles and I hope to share some of those with permission as well.
Where did the name of this blog come from?? Well ages ago I heard someone say that hairdressers are a cheap form of "hair-apy". I thought this was soooooooo true! I have had the privilege over the years to get to know so many people, to have them share laughter and sorrow, tragedy, victories and achievments. And I have had a chance to share mine one on one as well. I have been told time and time again that my life is nuts enough to write a book or turn into stand up comedy......this is the next best thing!
This last year has taught me so much! I have an appreciation for my life I never had before and confidence I have never experienced before. We have dealt with family hardships, marriage hardships, personal and professional triumphs and now that I have begun this I don't know when to stop writing! So I will stop now that this monster has been created and I am so excited to have who ever is out there joining me on this bumpy ride!
Bravo! Angela I think this is another fabulous, amazing creation of yours.
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Way to go Angela! I love that you are doing a blog and *love* your writing style! I will be tuning in for sure. I love your humility, honesty and your sense of humour. You are just plain awesome! And...you'll never guess...I started a blog this week too!! It's just a blog to share the dorky cards I make. Funny, because I had been thinking about doing it for a while too, but put it off until now for some of the same reasons as you. I think it's kinda cool that we both "just went for it" at the same time!! Here's the link - but like I said, it's dorky - don't say I didn't warn you! chucheechu.blogspot.com
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Shannon
I loved reading your blog Angela! Too often we all suffer from the same anxieties and feel so alone - thanks for sharing! I was once told that a problem shared is a problem halved and I have found it to be so true. You go :) xo Amber
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