And just like that, we’ve marched headlong into March! Though there are certainly beautiful signs of spring around to bring some cheer, it’s not that warm is it? A smattering of snow here today but nothing disruptive. I'm certainly looking forward to the thermometer shifting up a bit in the coming weeks!
I’ve embarked on another course - thankfully not as long as my diploma and without assessments - but for 8 weeks it is fairly intense business training. All very helpful and plenty of it feeds the admin geek within me but there is SO MUCH OF IT! Haha!
It’s a lot of info to absorb and I know I won’t have time to action all of it any time soon, but it's equipping me for now and the future.
So what links March with a business training course, I hear you ask?
One aspect of the training is about marketing and how to use the seasons or significant dates in the year to promote our products. For example, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
I’m more comfortable promoting Poema at Christmas when I can also talk about the meaning of the season and its significance to me and my faith. Because I am not naturally ‘salesy’, I struggle more when occasions have less connection with my faith. Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day fall into those categories.
They are also incredibly emotive days for many of us.
Pure joy or intense sorrow - and everything in between.
And within March falls Mother’s Day, or Mothering Sunday, depending on your term of preference. And this is my problem…
Many jewellers I am connected with are promoting this day of celebration, leaving me feeling a little uncomfortable because I know just how difficult a time it can be for so many.
As I revel in the love lavished on me by my three wonderful young people, I deeply miss lavishing that love on my mum. And we know, there are many, many other reasons why such a day might be painful and difficult.
Whilst I work out how to navigate this all from a business perspective, today is International Women's Day so I will joyfully celebrate and remember all the gloriously wonderful women in my life who have and continue to nurture me, mentor me, inspire me, encourage me, uplift me, affirm me and love me.
Some are older, some are younger, some are still with me, sadly some are not, some are near and some are far…
They are awesome and worth celebrating and I thank God for their presence in my life.
They are gems.
Speaking of which…
Take a look at these beauties!
They are aquamarines and a) a favourite stone of mine and b) the birthstone for March. A few of these are already being set into pieces for gifts. Need to keep schtum for now but I’m looking forward to showing you soon! In the meantime, I thought you’d like to have a peek at them in their gorgeousness! So, what should I do with the remaining stones? Should I set them in rings? Or add them to a necklace or two? Something else? What do you think?
Thanks for your ideas! I’ll see what I can do! Praying you're having a wonderful week, whatever you may be up to.
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