Big move 2011

At last we have moved. Polished has a new home, big yay!
Our new location is:

Polished
The Office Building
Gatwick Road
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 9RZ

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 The Office Building was built in the 1950's and a long time ago my Dad did his engineering apprenticeship in the same building.  It was just meant to be!!

 Our move went surprisingly well.  like when I moved out of my shop, I just didn't realise how much nail and salon things I own.  But between Becky, myself, Uncle Den, Ray, Bub and a very handy Fed Ex van (thanks to my Dad) we moved in quickly and are settling in just fine.

My fab boyfriend (with glossing help from my Mum as I was still working in my old office) started the decoration of my room, so it went from boring magnolia to glorious bright white.  A few things still need organising but we are just about there.
My day off has changed this week so hopefully we are going to pop up to ikea tomorrow to get us some salon storage (boxes and packing are no longer cool!)

 I actually have window that open and am allowed to put in a extractor fan too, so fresh air will make it so much more comfortable for us all.
 Everyone has been so friendly and Becky and I have already discovered a yummy deli across the road (I must stop the hot chocolate trips!!lol)

All my clients and students that have visited us so far have all really liked our new home and with the fresh air, brighter and a more open space I think our big move was really worth it.  Big smiles and yays! all round!

Better go for now boyf needs picking up from gatwick at 2.

see yaaaaaaaaaaaa

Jess x

ps I promise pictures will follow soon!!

Hello

Well hello chickios!!

I signed up a few years ago and was going to start a blog, but one thing and another and it never did quite happen. So as its a nice Sunday evening  (still light!...British summer time is here, big yay!) and the other half is at work, I have some time one my hands to dedicate to actually starting.

I guess I'd better introduce myself, my name is Jessica Marks and I am a nail technician. (sound like I was going to say alcoholic....lol I'm not one honest!) I love anything to do with nails, cosmetics, design and all things crafty too. I own my nail salon business (Polished) and am also an EzFlow Nail Systems Master Artist Educator.  I have been in the nail industry since 1997 and haven't really looked back since leaving college.  I became an educator for EzFlow in April 2002 and have gone on to achieve so many of my career goals,  I keep having to find new one to strive for!!

I think the aim of this blog is to let you all into my crazy little world and hopefully you will all enjoy and share in my passions for everything and anything fabulous!!

This week is going to be a busy one:

Tomorrow I am going to visit East Surrey College and spend the morning with a lovely lady Mandy Smith and her students, letting them know all about the nail industry and of course I am going to do some fab EzFlow nail demos.  Then in the afternoon I have been asked to judge the nails for the colleges annual fashion show, which is a real honour to be invited back as I judged last year too.

I will be taking pictures and will post all about my visit soon.

I am teaching a total tech class in the evening, we are going to do our first class of acrylic hands on, I hope my students are excited, they are getting their hands on their fab EzFlow pro acrylic kits.......its going to be a lot to take in but I know they are going to love nails just as much as I do!

Other stuff happening this week is the big move 2011.  My years contract for my salon/office is up on the 31st so Polished is moving across town, from Friday we will have a new (bigger) home. Very excited about that one, fingers crossed it all goes okay and I don't lose anything in transit!! 

Just so my clients on Saturday don't forget and end up in the wrong place little reminder text messages will be sent.

My lucky boyfriend has the task of decorating my new polished home, so it will be white and bright. I will definitely be posting more on our big move v soon so please watch this space!

As in life I can talk for England so it think is time I finish my first post before it becomes an essay! (its also got quite dark out now, boo!)

happy reading chickios!

Jess xox