Breathe in, breathe out

I missed blogging for days and I am trying to squeeze this in now.

Our House Center for Children's Creativity is the art center/creativity school I have started late last year. Activities are now kicking off especially now that it's summer. I am organizing/facilitating art workshops for kids this summer, together with some artist, writer and teacher friends. Our workshops are meant NOT ONLY to teach the basics of art but moreso to instill in kids creativity, passion in discovering new things, and a sense of self particularly in creating things--working with their hands.

We are not your everyday art class. We are fun and exciting, too. :)

Oh, and we are also organizing an Art Camp in Antipolo. If you have lil brothers or sisters or kids whom you think would be interested, please, please let me know :)

Meanwhile Project Brainstorm is a creative services and concepts group. The basic idea is this: interested people gather together in a meeting, brainstorm for projects and work on them. Everyone is welcome: writers, artists--graphic,deisgn,layout,visual,etc--,sales & marketing people, photographers--kahit sino who has the flair for creative projects and working with people.

How does it work? The group comes up with a list of potential projects e.g. a publication of a one-time lifestyle journal. Writers and artists will handle the editorial stuff; marketing people will sell the project to sponsors--and the work goes on.

Now, does it work? Oh yeah, oh yeah :)

However, PB is not for people who are after a lot of money. Equal profit sharing is the key here. This is because no capital is involved except for basic admin expenses that will be shouldered by the PB Board Fund. The PB Board Fund is composed of again, writer and artist friends--inlcuding yours truly. PB is also SEC registered.

My high school best friends and I also have a start-up business now. It's called I'm Kikay. We package products for pre-teen, teen and not-so-teen girls. Our product now is a Kikay Beach Kit--a pair of really cute flip-flops perfect for the beach, a wooden brush, a wooden massage roller, colorful hair rubber bands, and a make-up pouch w/mirror--all inside a powder blue or yellow mesh shoulder bag. It's pretty cheap, too :) 200 bucks is nothing compared to the prices of each individual product in our kit. Department stores sell them on a 300% markup even!

So with all these projects and my day job, I barely have time to pat myself on the back and tell me to relax. Oh well.

Those who are interested, just email me :)

To the bat cave.