I first came to live in Spain 8 years ago and I settled in the Benimar/Rojales area before finding that I simply wasn’t learning any Spanish whatsoever. My partner Chris and I decided that a move to a village where there would be hardly any English speakers was a must for us. We spent a year in a very small place called El Saladar (Almoradi) where we were very happy indeed as we were completely accepted there – Chris played in the church band and I sang in the choir. We made some super friends there. At present, we live in another little village called San Felipe Neri on the outskirts of Catral and we have been here for 2 years.
In the UK, I worked as a milk lady with my own franchise round in the Manchester area which I thoroughly enjoyed for 10 years!
I have always worked for other people since I arrived here and, up until last summer, was perfectly happy with that. I just did my jobs, got paid and went home – no responsibility. However, Chris and I found ourselves at an all time low financially last year and knew we had to do something to change the situation we were in. You know it’s bad when you have to go without yourselves to feed your doggies!! Anyway, not ones to be kept down for long we came up with the idea of selling costume jewellery. Several occurrences led us to this decision and on October 6th I hosted the first ‘Crown Jewels’ party at my home. It went like a dream and between then and Christmas I managed to secure in excess of 30 bookings! I was meeting myself coming back and loving every second of it too, sometimes hosting 2 parties per day!! It felt wonderful to get my confidence back and really feel as though I was helping us to get out of the mess.
6 months on and together with the help, advice and encouragement from the ladies at Company Women and Chris’s boot firmly wedged up my backside, I have been able to purchase another car and we are slowly but surely on the way back up again.
I am involved in lots of ladies clubs where I will sometimes give a talk about how ‘Crown Jewels’ came to be and I also try to do as many exhibitions as possible too as I find them great fun and the contacts made are incredible.
My website is www.crownjewelsspain.com where you can find all the information about hosting one of my parties either in your home, your bar/restaurant, fun days etc. I pay commission too and always donate a gift to charity wherever I can. One thing that every woman should remember is this…….IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF YOU AIN’T GOT THAT BLING!!! xx
