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Post Bazaar – you are saying it best!

Posted on February 27, 2012 | 4 Comments

If you scan through my posts after any event I’ve organized, you’ll see a similar pattern of gratitude at being part of such a strong community.  This time, I was so pleased to see such quick and well expressed view from your side [via Facebook], so I decided to quote you instead.  Please feel welcome to add your insights and comments below too!

Lisa-Marie : Had an incredible time reading Tarot Cards at another wonderful bazaar hosted by Tracey A. Vibert! I always look forward to seeing all of my fabulous friends at the bazaar. Thanks Tracey and thanks to Sophie R, Katheryne L, Brenda S, and Emilie (the rock star) for helping me set up, tear down and sell my goodies!! I couldn’t have done it without you! Thanks. ♥

Safiya:Thanks for hosting yet again Tracey. Had a good time catching up with a few, even with my 3 and 5 year olds lurking under the bazaar table, waiting to scare potential customers, grrr.

Zamira wrote: “Off to bed soon but first:

Thank you Tracey, for yet another excellent Ottawa Dancers’ Bazaar. Huzzah!  Thanks to all the volunteers for your help throughout the day. Without you all it just can’t work.   BIG Thanks to all the shoppers who stopped by to say hello and mostly to those who bought something or made appointments :-) Thanks to all the other vendors who keep the Bazaar going.”

Teresa B: “Wonderful day in Ottawa with Cynthia L-V, Kristina E, and Jan A. Fun, giggles and new sparkly costumes from the Ottawa Dancer’s Bazaar. Also great seeing Gailene and Tracey  once again. Great job ladies! Thanks for playing Opium Jukebox today. I am hooked”

Cynthia L-V“all I have to say is chelery and sheep (lol) great day with some awesome girls who shopped till they dropped (I was a good girl)”

Siddiqah:

Big thanks to Halyma and Tom for hosting another fun Ottawa Dancers’ Bazaar..a good time sharing space with Wendy, Koston, and Kitty..nice to see new and familiar faces, and now some of my costume treasures have new homes; spent my profits on Ms Zenna LifeofZeus delicious Greek food…yummm..a good day, eh!

Lisa T: Today was my first Bazaar. It was wonderful and impossible to choose from so many beautiful things.

Shibori-Borealis: And thanks go to the generous Halyma for putting on this great event! Whoohoo!

I forgot to take pics yesterday! so this is the one shot I knew was taken in the Shibori Borealis booth!

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Cycles…. Or, How Do I Do It?

Posted on February 15, 2012 | Comments Off

I’ve had a few people over the past few months comment to me, “I don’t know how you do everything you do.”

And I point out those things that are different in my life from theirs:

  • I don’t have kids.
  • I don’t go out and work for someone else from 9-5.

And then I started to realize that I also do things in cycles.  I rev up over a long period of time, adding new projects/events/directions in my multifaceted self-employed existence until I reach a peak and then I step back and ease off.

And in the next few months I will again be easing off of a few things. a little bit…

I don’t evaluate my business choices/life choices etc on any kind of regular basis.  I tend to look at things more closely when I see affects across all of the boundaries.  Usually right after a really big event where I want to take a week off but cannot because I have another big event coming up.  Or after a really busy year where many things changed and roller coaster-ed to the point where it began to get a bit much.

This week the re-evaluation of the wonderful creative  circus that is my work/business life has begun.  I can see some consolidation in the future, some shifts in focus and a little bit of letting go and moving on.  I’ll keep you posted of course!

And then all of this will trickle gently over into giving me a little bit more of that personal time I like so much!  Yeah, I strongly maintain a month off in August, but during those 11 months coming up to it , I’ll be happy to take a bit more time to recharge and enjoy the amazing things going on around me that I don’t organize :-)

 

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Home from the Trade show…

Posted on February 12, 2012 | 4 Comments

What a weekend!  What friends and colleagues in dance!  You ladies are a blessing in my life and in the community and I wanted to thank you for your time, efforts, patience, good humour and understanding throughout a long and fun, but sometimes crazy weekend!

We don’t make a big production that we are part of the trade show that took place at the Ottawa Congress Centre this past weekend as we are taking the opportunity to encourage new ladies to join us in our already great community.

But when we are there, we promote, invite, spread the fun and have a great time extolling the virtues of belly dance, bollywood and the many variations our creative community has developed – Bellywood, Steampunk Belly dance and tribal fusion!  And thanks to Zamira and Bollywood for fun for contributing gift certificates!

So thanks my dear friends who came out and helped in the booth, danced with me, and stopped by to say hi!  You all rock!

See you in two weeks at the Ottawa Dancers’ Bazaar!

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