My introduction

Greetings,

My name is charmayne, but my family calls me tame and my friends calls me chy. Mother of two very loving son, jcei 8 and jeiziah 4.

I was born from olongapo city (Philippines) the city where beautiful people live.

I'm happy and grateful that my friend @jewel89 and my mentor @jurich invited me here on steemit. I'm not confident in writing/telling some of my stories in life but I will try to share some of my experiences in my daily life.
My hobby is crochet and I really love to crochet because it is my stress reliever besides of my sons of course who are my stress reliever too eventhough they are very naughty.

In 2009, after my college days, I met a new friend whose accessories are made from crochet by her mother. I asked my friend if I can learn a crochet from her mother and pay for the materials that I will need. From then on, My interest from crochet became my passion.
On 2013, after being pregnant with my first born, I became more inspired to continue making crochet products for extra income for my family. And on 2017, I was pregnant again with my second child and I started to work as a customer relations coordinator in a real state company. But then my passion on making a crochet products stills stands-out, and I started to quit my job and start making a crochet products again.

On 2018, I started to open a small business here in our house. It has a crochet products and some ready to wear apparels. But unfortunately, because of shortage of money I decided to close my own shop and have an online shop "chy's crochet". It saddens me because it is my dream to have my own shop and see all my onhand crochet products but I know that life must go on so I decided to continue my online shop.

On 2019, I was invited to be a mentee in "kapatid mentor me program" by department of trade and industry. I was honored to be part of their program. The program is composed of: Entrepreneurial mindset, marketing, product development and market expansion, business model canvas, operations management, supply and value chain, Human resource management, entrepreneurial accounting, taxation and business law. I was pleased to learn all things necessary in doing business and how to make my business successful.

I also had the chance to join some trade fairs, such as diskwento caravan, conducted by the agency. I began to develop my design and produce some more crochet products and my products have reached international clients.

Above all this, I'm blessed to have a wonderful husband which is my childhood sweetheart. My classmate from elementary days (grade 1 to grade 3) for supporting me all throughout my journey.

To my family and friends for their unending support and love throughout my work..

I am forever grateful to have you all as my family and friends.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. - Pearl S. Buck-

Thank you @jewel89 for inviting me here to this platform.

Thank you for reading,
@chy07