Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
Hi everyone.
Finally I have found a way to reach friends, family,
colleagues and people who are interested in Arts and Crafts by building this website. I would love to share ideas and make
my projects as successful and pretty as it should be.
Let me take this opportunity to introduce myself to you
and your friend’s circle and what I do.
I was born in the Philippines under mixed ancestral origin of
race in 1970. I knew I wanted to be a successful Nurse
at an early age of eight, which I am now.
I was raised and educated in a private Catholic School for Girls,
I had a vision to become a Nun but my fate has
changed as time went by. I got married twice, had wonderful kids
from my first marriage. I can say that I am a fully licensed
and registered General Nurse, qualified
in 1991 and successfully passed the
Nursing Board Exams in 1991 bearing the
8th place out of 2500 newly Nursing
graduates! I married a businessman
who runs a Fish & Chips Shop & Café Bar.
I am currently employed by our local
NHS Trust and recently qualified as a
Nursing and Midwifery Council recognised
qualified Mentor/ Assessor in the
Healthcare Settings.
Prior to becoming a Qualified General Nurse, I am also
a qualified Bachelor of Science in Business Accountancy
graduate which I really gave as a tribute to my late
father, who hapd to be an Accountant too, my idol, who passed
away last year at the age of 60 (May his Soul Rest in Peace).
He too had a successful career. He had the highest
Managerial Position in the Philippine Postal
Corporation in Region IV , Philippines.
I have been working as an Independent Business
Entrepreneur and a Nurse since 1990’s.
My favourite saying is “Time is Gold” hence I
make every effort to make my time fruitful and trying not
to waste every second if I could. I make sure that as the clock
ticks every second of the day, I got some good thing to do
and make good memories of the past.
I consider myself as a God- fearing, multi-talented woman, very honest, hardworking, compassionate, kind and loves humour & fun.
Our Almighty God has given me two magical hands and incredible
way of thinking to make everything worthwhile and possible in this
world we live in. I take all opportunities that life can offer. I am very ambitious with doable & feasible plans and aims.
Learning is a never-ending process to me.
I am always willing to help individuals who are
very keen in learning and for this I can give 1 or 2 hours of my time teaching kids in schools or at home to make school projects
relating to Arts & Crafts, this is part of my vocation as a good
Christian and also my way of paying tribute to my late parents
who passed away consecutively in the last two years, I wanted
them to be always proud of me and wherever they, to my beloved
Papa & Mama, you will always be in my heart.
I started this passion for arts and crafts since 1994 but it is
only now that I had thetime to finalised my aims after thorough
planning and careful thinking to make my hobbies turn into a
successful and helpful projects.
Secondly, I was diagnosed with Stress Induced Diabetes in 2005,
I needed to find something special that will ease my stresses.
In time for my artistic and funky ideas to become alive!!!
My very small Home Business is mainly about handmade
paper crafts , i.e. handcrafted & personalised
greeting cards, card inserts, scrap booking, making trinket boxes, crosstitching, crocheting, embroidery, custom web
design/printing and making greeting cards embellishments.
I buy and sell all sorts of handcrafted /environment-friendly materials for card making. I make & design personalised greeting
cards inserts printed in mildly scented multi-coloured 80, 90, 100,
120 gsm nature friendly papers.
And of course, with the modern innovation of computing and I.T., I do all types of printing and web designing
including Premium Business Cards (with or
without card holders), flyers, brochures,
personalised stationeries, memo pads,
sticky note pads, T-shirt printing, company/
personalised pens, caps, return
address labels, stamp blocks which are available
in 3 kinds of coloured inks & 3 sizes, invitations,
pre-printed greeting cards for all occasions,
company logo making in , jPeg or PDF downloadable formats
and a lot, lot more.
Having also passion for travel and shopping (like every woman do),
I like shopping abroad and carefully selects nature friendly
materials at cheaper rates and reselling and make projects from it.
I usually re-use materials for my handmade crafts like:
perfume boxes, chocolate boxes, gift wraps, wallpapers etc. I encourage my colleagues at work, my circle of friends
and my family to have an absolutely no-waste policy if we could.
For this, I thank my acquaintances who keeps their reusable
materials for me to use. (Hayley, Angie, Sharon, you are great with this !)
My main aim for this venture is to raise some money to help my nearly two years old nephew who’s had an inborn
heart disease and hopefully will have his triple heart bypass surgery under private medical care in the Philippines soon if not later this
year. Half of the proceeds that I am earning for making
personalised handmade cards and other paper crafts will be given to
my nephew.
I would actually benefit also with some assistance in
boosting / introducing my small business locally . I do appreciate your support in advance if you could give me
more ideas about setting and improving my interests and projects
into a successful hobby craft business and would be best selling
in the market. Let's work together for England!
Please do not hesitate to contact me in the details I
provided herewith if you think I could be of assistance in
any of your aims too or for any ideas/queries you may have.
Lydia Valera Cici, B.S.N., R.G.N., M.A.N.
Proprietor of Lydia’s Arts & Crafts
My work station
Visitor's Area
My favourite place at home