Meet your Avon Lady...ME

Admit it, we all love to scroll on Facebook and read the drama's of everyone's lives. Well, meet your Avon Lady...ME! Get the gossip here.

Loving working for Avon at my Gala Dinner at the lovely Crewe Hall, courtesy of Avon of course!

I do think its good to let other people know about you and who you are. Let's face it, we all know why I am making this blog and why you have been invited to read it. Because I want you to join my Avon team. But truthfully, it is a little more complex than that. I feel that in the business world its good for 'team work and morale' to get to know each other. I also want to build my own self confidence by 'putting myself out there'. And come on, lets be truthful, we all love to read the gossip about other people's lives. So, I am your Avon lady, yes. But there's a heck of a lot more to know about me.

I was born in Portsmouth, and I conveniently keep forgetting how old I am! Lets just say I'm closer to 40 than I would like. I come from a big and busy family. I am a Mormon, and my faith is central in my life. I qualified as a children's nurse, and I married in 2003. Between then and now I feel like I've ridden life's roller coaster so much I've been sick more times than I can count! LOL. But it's all character building right? Well after a nervous breakdown at work I decided to go back to uni and do a fine art degree. EEK! But I totally loved it and it majorly helped my depression. I did try my hand at Avon back then but I really didn't have the time or heart for it. During my time at uni I unfortunately had 3 miscarriages. Yes it was unimaginable. But I still manage to get a 1st class honours degree (I'll take a bow now and bask in my own glory). But after uni I was faced with a bit of a dilemma as to what I would do next. I will be totally honest, I don't cope with 'the daily working day' well. I was, and still am, suffering with depression.

Thankfully I've learnt a lot about myself so that I can cope with this along with good old anti-depressants. This includes the need to indulge in chocolate and a sofa day once in a while. And I make no excuses for that, I am who I am and I do what I need to do to cope. End of. Well in me deciding what to do with my career next my hubby and I decided to adopt. This was 2014 so yes we had been wanting a family for a while. And clearly the natural route was having a few blips. The adoption process was going great, until I 'accidentally' fell pregnant. I won't go into the major emotions at the time. But it was hard and took a lot of faith to see how the pregnancy would end. We were convinced that it would end the same way as the rest, but much to our surprise 8 months later I gave birth to a tiny baby boy. So here we are almost 3 years later. When my son was 1 I decided I wanted to be home with him as much as possible so I turned back to Avon. I knew I would struggle with a hourly paid job with my depression, and I didn't want to miss a minute with my beautiful baby boy. So I started my own business. Of course it was hard work, but David's pram helped as I loaded my brochures in it. And his winning smile certainly won over the lovely ladies on my round. But not long into my Avon journey my husband had a stroke. I won't lie this was one of the most difficult times in my life. And for a while I really wandered how I would cope and get through it. But in that time I didn't give up Avon. I knew I would need a source of income to support my family.

So instead of giving up, I threw more of myself into my business and became a sales leader. Of course its been a hard slog. There has been ups and downs. But along the way I've learnt a lot about myself, and made some amazing friends amoungst my team and my customers. And I seriously have loved all the free products. So now you know, I am far from perfect, and I certainly have come a very curvy way on life's road to get here. I try to be confident, but my struggles with my weight really hold me back. I still suffer with depression, but I allow myself a down day so I can have a run of good days. I don't like to socialise much, my idea of fun is a good film and snuggled on the sofa with my hubby Paul.

But I love being a mummy to my crazy boy. I love having a business that is mine. When my payday comes round every 3 weeks I look at it and feel proud as heck of myself for all I've done to earn every penny. I love the friends I've made along the way. And lets face it, who wouldn't get excited about 20 boxes turn up filled with make up and perfume and goodies. Even if almost all of it isn't for me, its still like Christmas when I get to have a nosey at everything. I really hope you enjoy following my blog. Of course I'm not expecting to have team members join me en mass. This isn't for that, its also so my team and my friends to get to know me. I want my customers to read about Avon's latest products and see what I think of them. I think you'll realise I don't always take things seriously, so I apologies if I offend anyone. And I am truthfully blunt. About myself and what I think. I really think life is too short to be otherwise. Please feel free to leave a comment, share your thoughts or ask me a question! Ask me anything...although I can't promise I will answer LOL!!!!!