My beginning in jewelry making started in December 2008, when I found one of the biggest jewelry materials suppliers in Beirut, after a research that took nearly over 3 months. During that period, I have read books, articles, magazines, anything I could put my fingers on to give me ideas on how to start jewelry making and where. I had no plans in mind, all I knew was that I had to buy tools, and try applying those theoretic basics I learned . Back then, my daughter has just started going to the nursery for the first time, she was 3 years old, and ever since she was born, I have been dedicating my whole waking time for her. I guess that space and physical distance from her after all those years gave me time to think about myself, and I so wanted to do something that I truly enjoy, and jewelry making, being one of my dreams ever since I was a child, had to be the first choice.
A single mother - and a stay at home one at that - I found it only natural to try and make money from my newly self taught jewelry making skills. One thing lead to another, and here I am, 3 years later, a jewelry designer and jewelry making instructor, with a business and a brand of my own, 3 tv interviews, few magazine and newspaper articles, with a huge amount of lessons learned that no business or art school could have given me.
I had no mentor, no help from any expert in the field, very little support, and only pocket money, but I had a burning desire, I believed in myself and I embraced everything that came along the way.
Every year I made a business plan but those plans kept changing, not because I never stuck to them, but because life has a way of giving you what you want in different forms, shapes and ways. Number one lesson I learned in life and business, flexibility with focus and perseverance is a formula for success, always! I never planned to end up where I am now, but I did want to succeed, to prove to myself that I can create absolutely anything from absolutely nothing, and I did it.
A single mother - and a stay at home one at that - I found it only natural to try and make money from my newly self taught jewelry making skills. One thing lead to another, and here I am, 3 years later, a jewelry designer and jewelry making instructor, with a business and a brand of my own, 3 tv interviews, few magazine and newspaper articles, with a huge amount of lessons learned that no business or art school could have given me.
I had no mentor, no help from any expert in the field, very little support, and only pocket money, but I had a burning desire, I believed in myself and I embraced everything that came along the way.
Every year I made a business plan but those plans kept changing, not because I never stuck to them, but because life has a way of giving you what you want in different forms, shapes and ways. Number one lesson I learned in life and business, flexibility with focus and perseverance is a formula for success, always! I never planned to end up where I am now, but I did want to succeed, to prove to myself that I can create absolutely anything from absolutely nothing, and I did it.
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