Working from Anywhere in the World!

Many people have asked what in the world I’m doing! In March, I quit a job I loved, working for Cong. Adam Smith (WA state) and with constituents of the 9th Congressional District, to be able to work from anywhere in the world.

Over the last several years I lowered my expenses (turns out that’s not too hard when you stop buying fancy shoes!) and made some investments and now I’m focusing on my own business and taking on new, interesting projects that do not tie me  to one location.

Why am I in Australia for 7 weeks? Why not! I took an international house sit gig through House Carers (who knew that was a thing??) in the first place that would have me from my short list of five countries I’d been wanting to visit but didn’t want to limit the stay to a two-week vacation. From here, I work every day just like most everyone else and I am meeting some great new friends.

I’ll be writing more soon about galleries/exhibits, people I’m meeting and tidbits and tips about  traveling (or living!) abroad…and whatever is in store next!

What else am I doing?  While I’m in Bathurst, Australia (NSW), in addition to working on making new contacts for the artists I represent and designing some new jewelry, I’ll also be volunteering for the Bathurst 1000 car race.  It is billed as “The Great Race” and is a huge deal in Australia!  And, it happens right here every year where I happened to land for housesitting so why not take part in it?!

By the way, it is rather nice that as Autumn rolls into the Pacific Northwest we are just starting Spring here in Australia!

What’s next?  After Australia, it’ll be time for my hometown’s Art at Work 2013 event featuring a month-long collection of classes, lectures, studio tours, and other arts programming in Tacoma (WA).  It happens the whole month of November.

For Art at Work, I’ll be teaching some jewelry classes — feel free to sign up before the city’s marketing of all of the events kicks off.

Some of the new jewelry I’m working on is pictured below.