Bathroom Canvas Paintings

I came up with this idea which is so simple for decorating the walls of your bathroom. All you will need:

- blue acrylic paint

- white acrylic paint

- a paint brush

- assortment of shells

- wood/pva glue

- small square canvases

All I did was paint the small square canvases with blue pain mixed with white to make it lighter, really you could use any colour you like. Then after the pain had dried I glued the shells onto the canvas allowed them to dry and placed removal hooks onto the walls in the bathroom. Then I just put them up on the wall. The photo above is how they turned out. They definitely brighten up my ensuite bathroom.

xo - V

Qutting? How To Give Notice.

Hi! So I thought that this would be an important topic, as everyone is going to have to do this at least once in their life. I had to leave a workplace a while ago as I was moving states. So I thought that it would be great if I did a short post on it!

People quit jobs for all sorts of reasons. Generally it is a common courtesy to give an employer two weeks notice when quitting a job. Most people would suggest that without giving notice you are burning bridges.

Why do people quit their jobs?

• They have done everything possibly to make their current job work.
• The business is experiencing loss of money, customers and there are rumours of possibly bankruptcy.
• The relationship between employee and employer is irrecoverably damaged.
• Life situation has changed and benefits no longer suit life needs.
• Moving on to better opportunities to support their lifestyle.
• Their values are at odds with corporate culture - a lack of congruence with corporate culture will destroy their attitude at work.
• They have stopped enjoying their job and dread to go to work in the morning.
• The company has ethics out of sync.
• Their stress levels are so high at work that it is affecting their physical and mental health.
• They become unchallenged and need more responsibility so they seek other opportunities as they have already explored the current and potential options and they are limited.

Quitting:

1. Make sure that you are making the right choice.
2. Get your facts straight for why you are quitting.
3. Write a formal resignation letter. Keep the letter positive and thank them for the opportunity.
4. Speak to your supervisor, be prepared that they may attempt to try and make you stay at the establishment. This is why you should be clear in why you want to leave.
5. Stay for your notice period outlined in your workplace contract do not leave your current job without doing this, as it leaves the business in a tough spot and will give them time to replace. Make sure to be diligent and committed until the last day.

Here is an example of a resignation letter

Your name

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

Suburb, State, Post Code

Insert Date Here

Official person of notification

Name of establishment

Address line 1

Suburb, State, Post Code

Dear establishment/person,

Please accept this letter as a formal notification of my resignation at (business establishment) as I have been offered a job at another company with more scope and opportunities. It is with great sadness that I leave a role with such a fantastic team and environment. I have enjoyed the (how long you worked for) and have learned more about the industry.

As per my employment contract I am giving (amount of notice) and my last day of work will end on the (insert date).

I would like to thank the rest of the staff for their acceptance and support in my role.

Yours sincerely,

.............................

Peter Pan

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It is very tempting to just blow off your current job for an amazing new prospects. Yet it is important to remain professional. You may never know when you may need a reference from a former boss or when you may end up working with former co-workers. By quitting a job as gracefully as possibly it will be more likely that more options will be open to you in the future.

~ V xo

Book: Tomorrow When the War Began

I recently read the series "Tomorrow when the War Began" by John Marsden. I literally could not put the book down, it was so thought provoking and engaging.

The novel sets place in a fictional town known as Wirrawee, in Australia in the outback. The main character is 17 year old Ellie, who is a farm girl and knows about cattle, how to shoot a rifle and things like using a chainsaw. Ellie decides that instead of going to the yearly Wirrawee Show that her and her friends from school go camping out in the bush. She organises a group with her best friend Corrie, Corrie's boyfriend Kevin, Lee who is Vietnamese and works at his parents restaurant, Robyn the daughter of the church pastor, her neighbour and close friend Homer who is Greek-Australian and Fi who is the daughter of lawyers, and even though she doesn't know much about farming they ask her to come along.

The group of teenagers go out to the bush to camp (to me the landscape reminds me of the blue mountains) while they are in a place known as "Hell" cut off from the rest of civilisation, Ellie wakes up to notice fighter jets in the night sky. They aren't too worried, thinking that these jets are just the Australian Army planes.

However, once they return home to their parents places, they find that Australia has been invaded and the population has been imprisoned at the Wirrawee show ground.

The teenagers, soon have to fight for their survival and I did not find it farfetched at all. It makes you think about what is right and wrong, loyalty, friends, in a way the book kind of reminded me of the mateship that is outlined in Australian Army history, such as not leaving anyone behind. It's not all brave though and the characters have meltdowns and breakdowns, many people die and friends are lost. Being in the generation that I am in, it makes me actually think of the fact of the generations before who had to fight for their freedom and in turn guaranteed our freedom today, it puts in perspective of what our population would have to do to protect our country, friends and family, that if we lost our homes, freedom, how would we cope?

They have already made the movie for the first book, I enjoyed it even though it was a low budget. The books are great though. There are seven book in the series.

Happy reading! xox V