Redemption Song | Playing For Change

This song means so much to me I try to live my life with this song in mind. Love your fellow man, I hope you all enjoy it.

year in review

Hey everybody, I know I know I have neglected my blog. I hope that I will be more attentive than before. We have had a great year. We have a new stylist Jean who has been such a great addition to our team.
Our salon is getting more and more established and our team is becoming more tight knit. The contessas were a great experience we were nominated for a community service award. We didn't but the salon that did win won for doing free services for the sick and infermed. Great work. Leaving the Sheraton the next day we ran into Martin Parson who is our industry's hair genius for updo's.

Christmas and New Year has come and gone and we celebrated together. It's nice when you like the poeople you work with. Hope you enjoy the pictures. We took a few late clients on New Years Eve so at the end of the day we toasted eachother and I thanked my staff so much for their commitment to the salon and good customer service. THANK YOU ALL!!!

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Never Stop Learning

I am here in Toronto attending the second in a seres of seminars on managing your salon. It can be challenging when you have only had to deal with yourself all your career and now suddenly you are responsible for others in a way that your not used to. I take my role as salon owner very seriously and wish much success for my salon but also for my employees.

My focus is to my staff and making their working invironment pleasant and giving them the tools they need to feed their creativity. When it is needed I will help my staff where ever I can.

Now tomorrow is the first day of the managment seminar and I will see if my methods are on track or whether I need tweeking. It can be humbling to see that there is much to learn but it can be, and also should be very exilerating to have alot to learn, and I vow to never stop learning.

To be continued...

Thanksgiving

I have so much to be thankful for. I am thankful for our salon, Mix Salon and Spa. We are now 13 months old and growing every day in so many ways like new clients and repeat clients which shows me how hard my staff is working to build not only my buisness but their own and that makes me very proud (and yes very thankful.)

Thankful is also how I would describe how I feel about my profession and grateful that I get payed for doing something that I love so much. My niece is now in beauty school and I am so excited for how much joy she will feel not just learning everything she will be taught but actually practicing what she has learned.

One of my buisness partners, Bruno, just got back from a cruise in Greece put on by our colour company Schwarzkopf (the first picture is of their academy in Athens at the Grand Opening!) now WOW that's learning. In this buisness things are always changing and it is always great to see someone who still enjoys learning. Hope you enjoy some of his pictures. I know I did.

My time at TIFF 2010

Well it's the end of another film festival and although I didn't work as I usually do with Chanel I still had a great time. There were alot of stars walking around on the streets of Toronto and some I took pictures of as if I was one of the paparazzi ( I did feel bad about it, I would have prefered to have asked permission) non the less I was glad to have documentation that I was really in presence of some of my favorite actors and celebrities. Some who were running from crazy fans, right to me by the way. I hope you like some of my pictures. I was surprised to see Minny Driver, I don't think she noticed me. One if my favorite directors Ivan Reitman; best known for Ghost Busters. And of course Twilight's Jackson Rathbone (Jasper). There were even celebs whose back I took ( I know crazy right). I know the first picture is hard to see but it's Martin Sheen. I was only a few feet away and I was so nervous taking his picture. I don't think he minded. He was one of the few celebs that stopped to talk to fans sign autographs and pose for pictures. All in all it was a great festival. I can't wait for next year.

Toronto film festival

Well I am here in Toronto and loving it. The city is electric with antisipation of star sitings and buzz about the Gala taking place tonight, the movie that will be screened is "Score" a hockey musical with an all Canadian cast except for one actor; Olivia Newton John and that is a great exception that we are honoured to have. For the gala tonight some of the talent will be wearing Birks jewlery and Damiani. I was at the Birks Stylist lounge today meeting with the director of public relations talking about futur plans of working together. The meeting went well and I am looking forward to our futur collaborations. I have so much to be thankful for. Meeting with my colleuges from Chanel, it's great to have co-workers that I consider friends. The festival is like our yearly reuniion to catch up on all that transpired since the last festival. Well I will be blogging from Toronto as things happen. Hopefully there will be lots to blog about.