My How Time Passes By!

well it's been a while since my last posting. A lot has happened; I have been ill with a cold/chest infection and so I felt wiped out and didn't feel like writing anything.

The West Middlesex Group of the Freelance Hair & Beauty Federation (FHBF) that I run has had a training event using the new Koleston Perfect tint at the Capital Hair & Beauty Wholesalers in Hayes. This was great as it enabled us to find out what difference there is with the new formulation. Our thanks go out to Claire Dackombe from Wella for her help in making this possible along with Roger Withers at Capital for allowing us to hold the event at his branch in Hayes.

It's now a week since the FHBF INSPIRATIONS 2007 event in Solihull took place. I decided that I was going to go up the day before and make a weekend of it. This is a great way of networking with other members/friends that I have met over the years and discuss business as well as have some fun! If like me you have never visited Solihull - I can only say it was a pleasant surprise! The shopping centre was great and I wish I had discovered it earlier in the day. There were loads of good bars and eating places to go which gave us more choice of venues/budgets. I met up with Paul Evans as we were sharing a room to reduce our costs and we caught up on what had been going on with each other before the show started.

The Saturday evening about twelve of us met up and all had a meal together in our hotel (Holiday Inn) which was just £15.00 for three courses. After I went over the road from the hotel to meet up with a friend & her partner to have a few drinks and chill out.

Sunday morning we all strolled down for breakfast and then made our way to the Renaissance Hotel for FHBF INSPIRATIONS 2007. It was great to see Sheila and Heather and bump into all those friendly faces. There was about 130 members at the event. The Wella Team and the FHBF Artistic Team did us proud! Our brilliant compere throughout was John Huscroft & he did us proud with his great personality and warm greeting. Wella very kindly sponsored the day and boy was it a good one! Lunch was a very good with quite an array of food. In the afternoon we had Beverly C giving us a great demo.

For all of those that didn't make the event - you missed a good time! Why not make the commitment to come along next year. You owe it to yourself and remember it IS TAX DEDUCTABLE! If you saved just four pounds a week in a savings account you could guarantee yourself a great weekend as well as learn something over the weekend to take away and encourage yourself throughout the year with your career.

I bought myself a few good books; a great pair of scissors; a DVD & some fond memories as well as a few tips to try out in my working week. Also there was the opportunity to meet up with friends that I only see perhaps once a year. I can't wait till next year. Thanks to Sheila Abrahams for her usual hard work and all my friends for their company!