It is no secret now that New Zealand is officially in a recession.

And now the signs are becoming blatantly obvious as I look around Auckland - businesses are shutting down or having massive

It's time to do stage two of my website .... exciting but what a task!!

When I started My Canvas earlier in the year I needed a website quickly and with limited (very limited :-) budget I had the current site built which was fab but now it's ready for a re vamp.

I have been looking at other sites to get ideas and by doing things like this blog have realised that blogging is

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Well this week is a new experience as I'm working away from home for a few days in Christchurch which is VERY cold ..... bbrrrrrrrr.

In my previous life working in corporate I would just set an out of office to say I was working 'off site' and advise an alternate contact or that I would be checking emails intermitently blah blah but not so easy

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I am a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, BodyTalk Access Trainer & massage therapist.  I also claim to be a happy wife of a fantastic man and mother of 3 great children 19yrs, 15yrs & 13 yrs.

BodyTalk is a non-invasive, simple, safe and effective health care system that awakens the body's' inborn healing ability. the daily stress of living life

Preservation and storage of your family history all those old photos that are stored in boxes in cupboards fading away and old video (do you even have a video machine to play them on!) are they safe from fire, floods and theft!  All your digital photo's - how would you feel if you lost the lot because of a hard drive crash or if the CD you copied them to had a scratch and is damaged. 

What a year!  I don't think i've stopped for a breath.  I've read back over the blurb i've written this past year and can't believe how time has flown and I have so much more still to do.! 

We are still not over the shock and enjoyment of having adopted Daniel last Nov 06 and has just turned 1!!!! so the first half of 07 was focused on adjusting to the

Well the last few months have flown by - i've been in Auckland for 5 weeks with family and friends.  I also took the time to do a balloon course and that was sooo much fun... By the end of the day I was builing wedding arches and balloon boquets.  I am not so fearful of the old balloon now as I had so many that popped on me that day!  I have the best job in the world - spending

(This is the goal blog of Fee, the virtual site guide as an example of what you can do with your own blog....)

There's lots of ways you can use your blog...

- as a record of your business progress (you can make this 'private', viewed only by you or 'public' viewable by members)

- to share more about your business and your industry

- to share your knowledge

Well, I was very happy with last week, I aceived what I wished to acheive!

Now week 2. For my weaving my goal is to weave at least 2 rows a day.

A home goal is, now that my boy is crawling faster and wanting to explore more of his home, to child proof another room. Today I took all of my daughters little choke-able toys out of one room and replaced them with our books. This

Thinking about the business that my partner and I dream of starting, we have a shop waiting to be given a face lift at least, without thinking too hard yet about what needs repaired and restored (money the deciding facter), and in our shop we want to showcase our own art, as well as other local artists and crafts people. So what I can start now is developing my own product. What I want to do is