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Anne Arundel On Purpose Networking for Women April Meeting

Tuesday, April 15th (Always the 3rd Tuesday)
5:30 – 8:30 pm
The Severna Park Community Center, 623 Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard

Cost is $15 for 1st & 2nd Time Guests; $35 for Other Guests
Please register by Monday, April 14th. You can call a credit card number in to 410-252-2703 or mail a check made payable to On Purpose to 517 Talbott Ave., Lutherville, MD 21093.

PROGRAM
5:30-6:15- Networking & Light Fare. The food is available all evening.
6:15-7:30- Announcements/Introductions/Featured Members
7:30-7:40- Break
7:40-8:25- Shirley Brewer speaks on Jumpstart Your Creativity: Embrace Your Inner Plork.
8:25-8:30- Door Prizes

Shirley Brewer speaks on Jumpstart Your Creativity: Embrace Your Inner Plork.How many times have you said, or heard someone else say, “I don’t have a creative bone in my body”? Here’s a revelation: you’ve been focusing on the wrong body parts!!! In Jumpstart Your Creativity: Embrace Your Inner Plork, an interactive experience, Poet Shirley Brewer will help you shift that focus back to where it belongs, the rich territory of your brain, the Home of Creativity. The purpose of this Plorkshop (PLORK = PLAY + WORK) is to help you embellish your life journey, and open yourself to your Creative Path. The Plorkshop is an Approach, a way to see things differently. Participants will each receive a copy of The Plork Humanifesto to help reinforce new ways of seeing. Shirley will mix in some fun Plork Exercises to accessorize this experience. Is that enough to tempt you? Be prepared for surprises and joyful discoveries, as you embrace your inner Plork!

After a thirty-year career as a speech therapist, Shirley Brewer pursued her Creative Muse at the University of Baltimore, where she earned her Master of Arts degree in Creative Writing/Publishing Arts in May 2005. Prior to graduation, Shirley won the first University of Baltimore Creative Writing Award for Excellence in Plorking. PLORK, a combination of play and work, is the keystone of the creative writing program at UB. She worked as an adjunct professor, teaching writing to undergraduates at UB for three semesters. She has also developed Plorkshops, which help people embellish their life journeys, and learn how to open up to more creative paths.

Shirley started her own business, POETIC LICENSE, in which she creates original, personalized verses for all occasions. Find her on the Web at www.givingpoetry.com

Her new venture is POETRY FOR BUSINESS. Shirley creates mini verbal portraits of you and your business to use as Ice Breakers, telephone answering machine messages, or in your print advertising. These 10 – 14 line poems in verse can be very effective marketing tools, in a sea of advertising prose. Shirley also writes full-page poems for businesses.

Web address is www.poetryforbusiness.com

Shirley's poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, HazMat Review, Calyx, Passager, the Edison Literary Review, Arnazella, Scribble, and Welter, theUniversity of Baltimore's literary magazine. She won an Honorable Mention in Passager's Poetry Contest, and first prize in the annual contest sponsored by the Maryland Writers' Association.

Shirley was the resident poet at the 333 Coffee House in Annapolis, Maryland, from 2003-2005. She was one of two featured readers at the Café Muse Literary Series in August, 2006 and has read her work at open mikes at the University ofBaltimore, Minas Gallery in Baltimore, Pour House in Westminster, Charles CarrollMuseum in Baltimore, Baltimore Book Festival, and various other venues in the Baltimore-Annapolis corridor.

Shirley lives in Charles Village in Baltimore. Her definition of shame is a bare wrist.

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Baltimore County On Purpose Networking for Women April Meeting
Wednesday, April 30th (Always the last Wednesday)
5:30 – 8:30 pm
The Church of the Good Shepherd, 1401 Carrollton Ave. in Ruxton (Towson)

Cost is $15 for 1st & 2nd Time Guests; $35 for Other Guests
Please register by Tuesday, April 29th. You can call a credit card number in to 410-252-2703 or mail a check made payable to On Purpose to 517 Talbott Ave., Lutherville, MD 21093.

PROGRAM
5:30-6:15- Networking & Light Fare. The food is available all evening.
6:15-7:30- Announcements/Introductions/Featured Members
7:30-7:40- Break
7:40-8:25- Nancy Goldblatt, the Wardrobe Wizard, speaks on I Love Comfort: Five Secrets of Looking Stylish Without Sacrificing Comfort. I Love Comfort.
8:25-8:30- Door Prizes

Nancy Goldblatt, the Wardrobe Wizard, speaks on I Love Comfort: Five Secrets of Looking Stylish Without Sacrificing Comfort. I Love Comfort. Nancy says, “Many of my clients have said they want to be comfortable but they need to look “current.” At the same time they don’t want to spend a lot of money on clothes because they are trying to lose weight. I frequently hear “Before I hire you, I need to lose weight.” I really understand this because for many years, before I learned the secrets of choosing clothing right for me, I put my life “on pause,” because I refused to buy new clothes until I lost weight.”

I had a closet full of clothes in several sizes but only a few things that fit so I ended up wearing those few comfortable outfits to work every day. When I got invited out I had “nothing to wear,” but clothing that didn’t fit or was threadbare. As a result, I had to turn down invitations to go out and I spent a lot of time home alone feeling sorry for myself.

Magic happened for me when I got trained by Color I Associates as a Personal Image Consultant and I was able to become my own fairy godmother. Now when I am invited out I do not have to panic or say no because I have flattering mix and match items that actually fit me at my current weight.

What would your wishes be if you had a fairy godmother? Would you ask for a pared down closet filled only with lots of “mix and match separates,” so comfortable they feel like pajamas. Would you ask for the ability to choose colors that make your eyes sparkle and your skin look radiant? Imagine being able to shop with confidence and get dressed in a “flash,” because you have a wallet of 40 of your best colors and line drawings of styles that flatter your unique body shape?.

Looking good is not about being superficial, it’s the ability to feel confident wherever you go. The good news is that a “balanced appearance,” allows others to instantly see your “real beauty,” and to recognize how competent and intelligent you are. Here’s some not so good news. I doubt it is even news to you. The fashion and beauty industries often keep women from feeling good about themselves. They do this by perpetuating the myth that in order to look good, a woman must be tall, thin, “forever young looking,” and be wearing the latest trends.

“The Wardrobe Wizard” wants to be your fairy godmother and show you in this fun and interactive presentation that whatever your age, weight or body type, you can look great, feel confident and wear styles & colors that are flattering to YOU. Come get your own magic wand by attending this talk and learn about the five secrets you need to begin transforming your existing wardrobe without sacrificing comfort.

Nancy Goldblatt, “The Wardrobe Wizard of Baltimore,” is a certified “Color 1,” Personal Image Consultant. Her work in image consulting is an outgrowth of her journey to feel and look good in her own, “short, plump,” body. Since 1990 she has been dedicated to freeing women from the “Barbie Doll Beauty Myth.”
Nancy specializes in working with women who want to look good but are tired of wasting time and money on uncomfortable, unflattering clothing. In addition to being an image consultant, she has been a teacher and is currently working as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

“The Wardrobe Wizard,” is available for talks, workshops and fundraisers as well as individual appointments. She is based in Baltimore, Md. Her website is www.WardrobeWiz.com.

Frederick County On Purpose Networking for Women April Meeting

Thursday, April 17th (Always the 3rd Thursday)
5:30 – 8:30 pm
The Unity Church in Frederick, One W. Ninth St.

Cost is $15 for 1st & 2nd Time Guests; $35 for Other Guests
Please register by Wednesday, April 16th. You can call a credit card number in to 410-252-2703 or mail a check made payable to On Purpose to 517 Talbott Ave., Lutherville, MD 21093.

PROGRAM
5:30-6:15- Networking & Light Fare. The food is available all evening.
6:15-7:30- Announcements/Introductions/Featured Members
7:30-7:40- Break
7:40-8:25- Ginny Robertson speaks on Live Your Life On Purpose. Live Your Life On Purpose
8:25-8:30- Door Prizes

Ginny Robertson speaks on Live Your Life On Purpose. Live Your Life On Purpose

We have a choice. . . we can either live our lives by accident, blowing like a leaf in the wind and reacting to whatever shows up . . . or we can Live Our Life On Purpose. In this talk, Ginny Robertson will share information to help you live more on purpose as well as identify ways to have true joy, peace and passion in your life.

Ginny Robertson is the President of Live Your Life On Purpose, the Founder of On Purpose Networking for Women, the Founder/Publisher/Editor of On Purpose Woman Magazine and co-host of WomanTalk Live with Ginny Robertson & Ann Quasman, a Baltimore area radio talk show.