My journey began when a friend gave me a do-it-yourself pamphlet with skincare & soap recipes & I immediately recalled my favorite pastime as a child was collecting a plethora of flowers & leaves from my mother's garden & being fascinated with the softness of the camellia flowers when I rubbed their petals along my skin & how beautiful the scent & sweet taste of jasmine blossom was.
I loved making concoctions from the leaves, twigs & flowers I had gathered & was always trying to create something that smelt or felt nice. I’d fill the family bathroom with all kinds of concoctions which inevitably would become quiet dubious looking things, my Mum must have had the patience of a saint as she was particularly pedantic with her house keeping yet always waited for me to discard them, she never once threw them out & when space ran out in the bathroom they began appearing in the shed.
My love of cobalt blue & amber antique bottles began around this time also, whilst picking mushrooms in a paddock alongside my father I discovered hundreds of bottles which I thought were magical & mysterious half buried in a paddock.
So with my D-I-Y pamphlet in hand I began making soaps, scrubs, bath bombs, creams & mists as gifts for friends & family & whilst making them I felt my self drift away into a world of relaxed, happy, contentedness & imagination just as I felt as a child. My gifts were loved by their recipients, so I then decided I would like to create a little business of my own making these products & selling them to customers at markets, so enrolled in an Aromatherapy Diploma.
Then for many years & for many reasons but to be honest mostly due to a lack of confidence in myself, listening to the discouragers & allowing myself to be easily dissuaded I continuously postponed doing what I planned & loved.
This all changed for me in 2014. After 7 years of completely insane health issues from severe pre - eclampsia, major operations, postnatal depression, a mini stroke, bell's palsy, post traumatic stress disorder & severe anxiety I was diagnosed with three brain aneurysms & underwent a craniotomy to have these clipped.
When I awoke after theater understanding how fortunate I had been in receiving so many chances, I shared with my surgeon that I was going to dedicate my recovery time to FINALLY creating an aromatherapy skincare business & asked the universe if I follow my dream would it please stop all attempts to expire me. I kept my word & I so far the universe has listened. Thank you Universe.
I'm extremely lucky & always grateful that I have beautiful family, friends & customers who have given me such love, support & encouragement along the way.
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