Tag: TIPS

ORGANIZING – Green Tips

Compelling images and forms by Anna Hepler (installation artist), prompted me to blog for our ISA staffing jobs re organizing while dealing with plastics. Helpler is intrigued by plastic. Her first stop was Home Depot, for sheets of plastic she could rip up, then forming them into various sizes and shapes. But as she worked…




FIREPLACE CARE

This is the time of year where everyone with a fireplace uses it actively. Who can forget Cinderella’s fireplace with all that cleaning? Remember to have a Chimney Sweep check out the one you use, which should be done annually. Tell A Friend Chimney Sweeps inspect and clean out the chimney, make minor repairs, and…




JOB INTERVIEWS – Professional Attire

Employers seeking to hire personal assistants don’t generally relay what their criteria for a dress code is, presuming the candidate will have it understood as part of their skills set. We take time to learn details of what our clients really want. A client recently interviewed candidates for a Personal Assistant position (see clients). After…




PET TRAVEL -Airways

We know animals are cherished by our clients who travel with pets to vacation homes, between homes in different states, commuting between coasts or overseas (CONTACT us in Beverly Hills). Often a Personal Assistant (Personal Assistant Jobs), or Estate Manager (Beverly Hills Estate Managers) travels with their pet and pets are stowed in the belly…




AUTOMOBILES – GREEN RACING

MORE ON GREEN AUTOMOBILES. Sexy, fast, fun, green and chocolate! (Thomas Haas Fine Chocolates are for humans, not cars) Yet, see video on the speed racer car at a great website called IMPACT featuring the Formula 3 racer (open ‘click here to explore‘, then ‘quick menu‘, click on ‘racing green‘), with other new terrific research…




STORAGE – Kids Toys

Kids love their toys. When they’re infants you have control over the way items are stored. As they get older, it becomes a challenge to deal with favorite things (usually kept far too long). TIP – end of a year is the perfect time to edit down, give away toys and items no longer utilized….




THANKSGIVING DAY

Today, on Thanksgiving, as this painting by Salvador Dali so beautifully reveals, the shock of recognition is eternally real. Gratitude starts with recognition that things are not only real, they can also be surreal. See more at the DALI MUSEUM, and at Virtual  DALI to ponder and enjoy inspired feelings of surreal ingenuity. Put yourself…




VETERANS DAY – Holidays 2009

Veterans Day is a national holiday celebration designated as “a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as ‘Armistice Day’.” Veterans Day 2009 is here Wednesday, November 11th (unless it falls on a Saturday or Sunday, then the holiday is observed the following Monday). I’m…




SERVING FOOD – Tips Do’s and Don’ts

It has often been written that the passion of an artist is found deep within the soul, separating those who settle for the mediocre or the good, from those compelled to provide greatness and seek perfection. I personally practice the understanding that any act undertaken can become a yoga, and a work of art. Such…




HAPPY HALLOWEEN – Recommended

Only four more days until Halloween, so get your costumes ready if you haven’t already. We love vintage graphics for their “back-to-the-past” time machine glimpse of how it was. Here are some for your pleasure to trigger memory of movies, scary stories, iconic baddies, and then some. With the current craze of Vampire stories and…