2 posts tagged “christmas”

Rosa Loves

After reading my friend, Oliver Happy’s blog, ‘Olly at Large’ recently, it inspired me to write this piece. Often we wonder what on earth to buy for someone for Christmas, and you buy for the sake of buying… and generally you buy some crap that they probably neither want nor appreciate. In some places… there is no Christmas, no giving, Santa does not visit some children, and after being directed by Oliver to a particular website, I think I’ve found something worthwhile…

ROSA LOVES is a bunch of everyday normal folk who give a damn. They realise that we are capable of performing tangible acts of service that will meet individual and immediate needs in order to affect wide scale encouragement. They hope to encourage individual people to get involved in the community around them on a somewhat tangible scale. They will accomplish this by providing financial support to those in need by infiltrating the t-shirt industry with a new perspective of how clothing can serve a purpose other than outfitting. Everyone has a story. Everyone has a need. By using art and creativity, they hope to foster hope and encouragement through the aid of apparel. Each story will be told through stimulating graphics and actual text that will appear on the inverse of the shirt directly in line with the heart, where the Rosa Loves movement stems from.

Not a bad bod... hey ladies?

ROSA LOVES is less about charity and more about awareness, awareness that we are all apart of something greater and are therefore joined by common threads.

The website is very informative, so I do encourage you to pop online and have a look. The Tshirts are uber cool and serve a damn good purpose.

So I know what I want for Christmas… one or two, or maybe more of these T-Shirts.

FYI – size Small!

I'm telling you, it's the new black!

So this Christmas when you’re aimlessly wondering through MYER or DJ’s or wherever else… it’s not how much you spend, or about just buying a gift… Christmas is about giving, not just to your family and friends but to those around us – and this, I feel gives so much more than that bottle of Gucci Rush you’re thinking about buying, or that latest CD of that artist you saw on Video Hits (who mind you is probably rolling in cash) – unless it’s a CD by Krista Polvere or other Australian or unsigned talent… don’t buy it – but a Tshirt from ROSA LOVES!

Note to my immediate family and friends – THIS IS A PRETTY BIG HINT!!! Again SIZE S.

Hammersmith

Many of you will be please to know I have finally settled in my own place in Hammersmith,

Hammersmith in one of west London's key transport hubs and commercial and employment centres, home to several multinational company offices, so hopefully my International Business degree will come in handy! Just some of the surrounding business offices of Coca-Cola, Disney, EMI, L'Oreal, Sony Ericsson, World Wrestling Entertainment, AOL UK, and Accor UK are all found in Hammersmith!

There are also a number of attractions situated right on my doorstep including Riverside Studios, The Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, Hammersmith Apollo Concert Hall & Theatre, The Dove" riverside pub - the oldest surviving riverside pub in London with, reputedly, the smallest bar in the world, frequented in the past by Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene.

The Dove

So it’s a relatively exciting place to live! Just this morning as I was on my way to the tube station to go to work (I will get onto the new job later), I walked past the farmers market. The sweet smells of freshly baked cakes and breads, berries and all sorts of local produce was wafting through the air… I simply floated along the footpath in awe of the amazing aroma’s that were filling my nostrils.

As for employment, I am currently contracting with a company called BUPA, a global health and care organisation, which is also the UK's leading provider of private health care insurance, hospitals and health care services. I am PA to the Group Information Systems Director, who is an incredibly busy man, and keen Arsenal enthusiast. I am settling in well and only after 4 days was offered a permanent role within the firm, which can also lead to career advancement as a Project Manager in International Business should I wish to stay and live in the UK. So at the moment I have to make a lot of choices as to what I want to do.

One huge part of me is aching to get into an industry where my creative talents can flow (those who know me well will understand that if I’m in a creative environment I will be in my most achieving area and will blossom!) and also where I can progress my career, grow and develop. I don’t want to be an assistant forever, and God knows I’ve studied long and hard to become anything but, yet in Australia the opportunities are far and few between and in London I do have slightly more opportunities – plus they love the Aussies! So I am contemplating staying – coming home for Christmas of course, but as I’m sure you can understand it is a huge decision to relocate my entire life to a whole new place, and the fact that I’m missing all of you so incredibly, it’s become one of the hardest choices I’ve ever had to make.

I’m positive that whatever decision I do make it will be for the best, and earning the British Pound means it is so much easier to save money and fly home – I’m taking 6 weeks and I will have saved enough! So if everything turns to absolute rubbish, you can expect me on the next plane home.