Hetic week

This week has been extremly busy, I nearly struggle with works, charities and kids off for half term. Luckily, I work well under pressure. so many clients to see and many orders to be finish for June weddings, alone on saturday i have seen nearly a dozen appointments. I am happy as business are growing every day and able to see that all my planning become active. Every day there is a new challenge waiting for me. I am so lucky....

Bank Holiday Weekend

Hectic week fundraising for the Sichuan China Earthquake Appeal, meeting with few businesses to get sponsorship for the event. We welcome individual and co-operative businesses to purchase tickets for a fabulous evening or prize and money donations are welcome to help to reduce the death rate.

Tuesday 10th 2008, 7.00pm – onwardsTickets includes Chinese Buffet, fashion show, Raffle, Karaoke,Fashion accessories, Hair and Beauty consultant stalls.

Ticket £5 - All proceeds will go the Sichuan Earthquake Appeal “To attend the event you must be a member of Casino. To become a member you must be over 18. Membership is free, you just need to come into the casino with photo ID (passport or driving licence)"

Contact: Anh Mao, MaoCouture,

Tel: 0191 2422144 Mobile: 07946646733 Email: maocouture@yahoo.co.uk ,

Miss Cheryl Flowers, Events Manager, Grosvenor Casino, Newcastle, 100 St James Boulevard, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4BN Tel - 0191 221 1660 Fax - 0191 2615436

Organise 3 day Fundraisng Extravaganza for China Earthquake Appeal Banquet

Over the very busy Bank hoilday weekend, I have been invited to help to organise a 3days Fundraisng Extravaganza at Palace Garden restuarant with finding sponsor, programming, design poster, writiing press release and contact local and national press.

China 's recent Sichuan earthquke has killed over 60.000 with around 25.00 missing and 300.000 injured. An estaimated 5.5 million people have been made homeless and 5.5 million building collapsed

The North East Chinese community are shocked with the news and feel the country's pain. Newcastle businesses, Chinese organisations, Universities and Scholar are lending a hand to help to organise a three day charity banquet sponsored by Palace Garden in Stowell Street, China Town, Newcastle, providing free venue, banquet meal and the staff to work for free all through the 3 days with programming live entertaiment from local musicians and performers, East meet West fashion by MaoCouture, Newcastle based fashion designer Anh Mao. We are hoping to raise thousand of pounds to aid the earthquake victims. We welcome individual and co-operative businesses to purchase tickets for the banquet evening or prize and money donation s are welcome to help reduce the death rate. ( We have a special charity account for all donations)

Date: Monday 2nd June 2008, 7.00pm -onwards

Tuesday 3rd June, 2008, 7.00pm -onwards

Friday 27th June, 2008, 7.00pm -onwards

Tickets per person per night , includes banquet meal, live entertainment, Karaoke, Auction, Raffle

East meet West fashion show by Maocouture (friday only)

Venue: Palace Garden Restaurant
China Town, 45-51 Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4YB

Palace Garden will donate the full price of ticket fees to China Earthquake Appeal

Please contact Anh Mao for ticket and information

Tel: 0191 2422144 Mobile: 07946646733

Entrpreneurs Forum Annual Progres5ive Conference

Entrepreneurs' Forum Annual Conference photo me with Elle Macpherson and fellow finalist!
© Copyright Photograph: Dirk van der Werff/www.AQphotos.com

I was invited to attend the Entrepreneurs' Forum annual conference and a black tie dinner afterward. I am so greatful for the forum to invite me to the event, I sat and listened to all the speakers and everyone had gave me some inspiration in different way. I learn that being a entrepreneur is gift of being different and enjoyed every challenge ahead of us ( just like every thing is happening to me now) to be different and daring. I also lucky enought to sat next to Sir Peter Vardy, he is a great guy and have took time to listen my future plan and introduce me to a couple of people who run a high end fashion business in the newcastle. The whole day was thoroughly inspiring and entertaining . A personal highlight was guest speaker Elle Macpherson. She is a style icon, I most admire that she not just being a high profile world class model, it her intelligent and being different from her other model that inspired me, It her vision and lifestyle she now create and being a single mum too. "I hope one day she can model my collections". I also enjoyed meeting my fellow 'If we can you can' challenge finalists. They are very nice bunch of people and we all get on great and have a good laugh, hope we can stay intouch and sharing different ideas and experience in the future.

Manic Monday

8.30am, sunny morning start with school run

8.50am, outside school, a suprise phone call from my lovely client i seen over the weekend, letting me know that she had a strange email from me asking her to send money to the account over in Africa. I was shock and suprise why did she recieved this email, then come many phone call followed. I realise that someone has HACKED into my maocouture account and send a message to all my contacts asking for money. I was so worry, because I am not very good with computer and not knowing what to do with identity theft and who to report to. First instant is go to the bank to make sure every thing is ok in the bank account, then make my way home to open my computer, realised that i have no control with opening my email account. luckily my sister Nham, she is a great person and asset to have, she mange to sort out the email account and kept the exciting account with a different password and report it to yahoo provider. First email I send was a message to all my contacts not to send any money and every thing is okay. It has took up most of the morning.

It extremly important that these problem solve as soon as possible, some of my contacts did sent me a email and wanted to transfer money into an account if provide them the account detail. I think people who reply to the email is believing very much that I am asking money for a charities project in Africa. Because I do organised alot of charities in the North East using my business assett organising charities fashion shows to raise money and profile for the charitable organisations and people with disabilities and disadvantage people such as Mencap, St Oswald, Newcastle health Trust etc.

By afternoon, I was more relax and get on with my daily work in answering phone and get on with making my customer order and my school run at 2.45pm.

Tomorrow ITV crew will come and film the above instant, will keep you inform tommorrow.

hope you enjoying reading my first attemp of writting my blogger (It all new to me).

Anh

Fantastic Suprise

It has been a fantastic weekend and very exciting time reading the paper and believing that you make it to the final part of this competition, even better to be one of the finalists. I certainly feel this is the right competition to enter, over the weekend many who in the design businesses has read my profile and wrote to congratulate me and sending heart felt message, knowing that a design business manage to pull through the hard time setting up a bussiness up in the North East. I feel very proud and hope that I can inspire other to created their dream.

I would like to congratulate my fellow participants and look forward to meeting them all on Thursday at Hilton.

Anh is a fantastic entrepreneur and she inspired me in the past for my business- and her example supported me. I used to read articles about her and learn from her success. Last week my business scooped an award in the North East Digital Awards 2007 - Best Online Learning category, and I would like to thank Anh for being so inspiring. My dream is to translate her website in other languages, when she will go global, and to wear one of her fantastic dresses to a black tie event.

I never met Anh personally, and I hope to meet her soon. I found her talent and determination really fantastic by reading about her and her business. Also because I am foreigner as well, and the North East England is my home, now, my kids' future. The slogan of the challenge is really true. When I was reading about her success (especially when she designed the dresses for Miss England) I used to think "if she could do it, perhaps I can do something as well".

Good luck!
Cordiali saluti