2010 Olympic celebration - Sechelt BC

Do you ever really appreciate where you grew up?  I think you can if you have had the opportunity to see how the rest of the world lives and live through examples of great and not so great experiences.  For me personally life has been a series of great and not so great adventures and as I get older I am learning to attract more of the great and minimize the not so great ones.  Everyday I strive to learn something new about myself, my community, my country and globally the world we all live in (or on depending on your point of view).

I love my community on the Sunshine Coast BC

As a child growing up on the Sunshine Coast I spent my days exploring the forests, building multitudes of trails, climbing trees and swimming in the ocean – life was a beach!  I was lucky, I could walk everywhere I wanted to go and there was no shortage of friends to hang out with.  The Sunshine Coast was and still is a great place to grow up.  As a young teenager my family moved to Saskatchewan for a while, don’t ask me why I wasn’t privy to that answer and at the tender age of 12 I didn’t have a choice.  I must say life in Saskatchewan was a culture shock to my system and it had its memorable moments.  I survived it and managed to find my way back to BC by the age of 16.

I didn’t move back to the Sunshine Coast until I was 19 or so, and when I did it was to escape the financial difficulties I had created for myself.   I was naive to think I could hide from my financial troubles, back then my mantra was “out of site out of mind” – it didn’t work.   Thankfully I did work my way out of trouble and I was able to get back to doing things more inline with what 20 something woman supposed to be doing.  One of my fondest  memories is working for The Beachcombers, a successful television series filmed in Gibsons.  I was working the streets for them (otherwise known as traffic control) and having a great time being young and sowing my wild oats!

By the time I was 25 I was married and pregnant and starting a new adventure as a parent.  Looking back on becoming a first time parent I laugh about it now, remembering some of the stuff I thought about and things I did it’s amazing my kids turned out to be adults themselves!  Bless all first time parents, you gotta love them!

Following my path on the Sunshine Coast BC

Now in my late 40′s my children are grown and I am finding myself standing at a crossroads, wondering what I want to do when I grow up.  I have chosen the path of fashion consulting to help fund the lifestyle I choose to live and for fun I enjoy the challenge of making my world a better place to live.  I am not an extremist but I am concerned about a lot of things regarding the world we live in.   I see myself as part of the solution and chose to change my ways to stop being part of the problem through responsible business practices and environmentally responsible approach to fashion.