Christmas 2012

Once in a lifetime Christmas Special

ECTA Creative Solutions have an amazing special running for Cape Town over the Christmas Season.


We are running a month long course in Somerset West for all of our 8 courses. Wedding planning, Draping Foundation, Draping Advance, Event Design foundation, Event Design Advance, Kids party planning, Table setting and centre pieces, Protocol and Etiquette.

These courses will take place at the Bay Christian Family Church – Gants Centre – Somerset West from the 28th of January to the 22nd of February 2013 from Monday to Saturday - 8am – 5pm.

The normal price for our courses is R25 380.00 BUT for this amazing special you will only pay R5000.00 for all 8 courses. We can only accommodate 5 students at this price.

Terms and Conditions apply for the special.

Contact us for more info. www.electtrainingacademy.co.za or look at our video that explains our courses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LWlkIz5E7Q&feature=plcp

The gift of Knowledge

 

Give the gift of knowledge

Education is a gift that inspires greatness, creates opportunities, and opens doors.

Give the gift of knowledge and motivate the one you love to follow their passion in the event planning industry.

LWPI's Certification Courses are offered through and recognized by over 2,000 Accredited Colleges and Universities around the world. This means LWPI's courses have been reviewed and approved for complying with internationally recognized academic standards.

Contact us for more info! www.electtrainingacademy.co.za

Life is full of FIRSTS! What a wonderful way to end 2012.

 

Firsts – a new way of ending the year with!

ECTA Creative Solutions is proud to announce a few first things that we are ending the year of 2012 with.

Elect Training Academy decided to change its name to ECTA Creative Solutions and you are the FIRST to know it! From January 2013 we will officially be known as ECTA and not Elect.

That will not change anything to our existing courses – only a few new added on courses that will start in January 2013. We stay the same…. Elect is a way and mean for us to equip you to be the best YOU that you can be. You where created and chosen for success… and we are there to help you to be all that you can be!

You are also the FIRST ones to know that we do have a new partner in the business – Jacques Greyling. Welcome to the business! Jacques will be handling all the website issues, the online courses and the IT of the company!

You are the FIRST to know that our new website will be launched in January 2013 with a lot of new courses and product added onto our already exiting list of courses and products! We will start from next year to sell the Lovegivity Wedding Planning Institute – Certified Wedding and Events Planner online course! Look out for our specials to start of the year!

We also have some online courses that will be available from the end of January 2013!! Watch this space….

You are the FIRST to know that we will launch our online prop shop in the beginning of January 2013. Exiting props for fairy parties, Mexican parties etc will be on sale at this shop. The added benefit to buying your stock from our online store is the fact that these products is all hand made by our sewing job creation projects!

The most exiting parts of all the FIRSTS is the fact that I just came back from presenting our FIRST ever course in East Africa – Nairobi – Kenya.

It is a time of new beginnings!

We had 10 Kenya ladies, 1 Nigerian lady and 1 Mozambique lady on our course. We learned a lot from them and they learned a lot from us. All in all it was a huge success.

Our courses in Kenya are being presented as part of the curriculum that Devine Schools of Africa have. For more info on our Kenya courses pls contact ECTA - www.electtrainingacademy.co.za or Devine Schools Africa - www.divineschools.com

Wedding trends for 2013 - Animal Shadow

 

Animal Shadow - Blush and Grey

We can call this color combination a lot of different things: Animal Shadow, Blackened Tones, Blush and Shadow, Blush and Grey etc. Pink is normally a color for fairy tales and all girls loves pink when they are dreaming about things like ballet, weddings, parties. Then all of a sudden they realize that there are more to life than pinks, bubble gum and ballet.


Brides tends to shy away from using pink in their wedding but there is nothing more elegant and beautiful than a mixture of color – using a soft shade of pink combined with a soft green or a grey. With this mood board we show you the muted pink, called blush, combined with different grey’s. If you combine blush with an elegant silver or grey – you will immediately manage to create a more elegant, fairytale atmosphere to your wedding.

If you look at sites from Vera Wang, Alitha Graham and Monique Lhuillier - (http://www.glamour.com/weddings/blogs/save-the-date/2011/05/top-3-wedding-dresses-of-the-w-21.html) you will see how popular blush wedding dresses is for 2012 and 2013. The dresses are all very modern, elegant and feminine.

When you decide to bring in another color to your wedding it is best to start with the accessories. Your bridesmaid dresses, jewelry, handbag, the tie of the groom and then lastly your flowers.

Remember that a color is also a theme for a wedding. When you decide on a theme for your wedding start of with your invitations and take the theme through to your thank you gifts for the guests. Please look on the websites where we got the photo’s for this mood board for more ideas on this color scheme.

Photo’s for this mood board is from the following websites:



• Style me pretty blog

• http://ruffledblog.com/wedding-ideas/?gallerytag=pink&image=/wedding-ideas/?gallerytag=pink&nggpage=6&pid=5082

• weddingbee - http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/best-long-lasting-lipstick

• http://www.momentaldesigns.com/2012/11/16/kellie-w/

• http://www.cherryjojo.co.uk/organza-rose-evening-bag-grey-1

• http://www.weddingdesigns.ca/invitations/boxed-princess-pearl.html

Hot Chocolate Bar for your wedding?

These days it is very much in fashion to have different bars at your wedding. You get coffee bars, hot chocolate bars, Champagne bars, Ice Cream bars, Sweets buffets etc. Today we look at a few possibilities for a Hot Chocolate bar and how you can set it up yourself with out breaking the budget. Remember that the chocolate spoons can also be used as wedding favors! Check out this awesome site about Hot Chocolate Bars!


http://www.intimateweddings.com/blog/hot-cocoa-bar-for-your-winter-wedding/

How to make your own chocolate spoons

Gather the following:

* Baking tray
* Wax paper
* Spoons of choice
* Chocolate chips or melting chocolates

Step 1
Cover the baking tray with Wax paper

Step 2
Put the chocolate chips into a microwave container

Step 3
Microwave the chocolate chips in the microwave at 50% for 1 minute. Remove from the microwave and stir. Continue this until the chocolate is almost melted. Then stir until the chocolate is smooth.

Step 4
There are two methods:

1        You can either dip the spoons into the chocolate a few times – give a few seconds between every dip and place onto the baking tray.

2       Place the spoon straight onto the baking tray – put folded paper onto the handle of the spoon so that the spoon will be straight. Pour the chocolate into the spoon. Decorate the chocolate before it set

Step 5
Put your spoons in plastic bags and decorate.

Photos of the hot chocolate spoons are from the following sites: theweddingcommunityblog.com, itsabrideslife.com, giverslog.com, svpply.com, mywedding.com, blog.modcloth.com, grahamschocolate.com, weddingsoeasy.com

Wedding trends for 2013

Persian Softness – Wedding color for stylish couples.




One of the many wedding trends for 2013 is the Persian Softness colours. According to Lenzings this color palette consist out of 3 shades of blue. Metallic Porcelain, Bluish Cat and Blue Wolf. Softness is the key appearance of this romantic trend. Anyone that would like to go with this soft romantic, stylish look can know that their wedding will be something to remember for a long time to come.

Our mood board photo’s is from the following sites: Wedding dress - weddingpartywire.com, Bridesmaid dress - engageology.wordpress.com, wedding cake – cakesforwedding.net, ring – rothemcollection.com, shoe – weddingwindow.com, wedding favors – weddingbycolor.com, hair accessory – weddingbee.com, Flowers – diyweddingdecorations.org, sweets – weddingbycolor.com, color palette from Lenzing colors trends.

Draping Special

Winter Warmer Special – Our next draping foundation course is going at the special price of R2000.00*


Johannesburg: 13 – 16 August 2012 Evening Classes Between 18:00 and 21:00
Frame 24 building - 307 Vine Avenue, Randburg


Durban: 23 – 25 August 2012 Evening and Day Classes Between18:00 and 21:00 in the week and 9:00
International Hotel School – Westville Hotel – Westville and 15:00 on Saturday


Cape Town: 4 – 7 September 2012 Evening Classes Between 18:00 and 21:00
Dynamic Learning Solutions – Tygervalley


Pretoria: 14 - 15 August 2012 Day Classes Between 8:00 and 15:00
Drumbeat Academy – Groenkloof - Pretoria

Call us now for more info: 0824416394 or 0218560163 or email us at info@electtrainingacademy.co.za
· Special valid until end of September 2012.

Draping Course Special

Winter Warmer Special – Our next draping foundation course is going at the special price of R2000.00*

Johannesburg: 13 – 16 August 2012 Evening Classes Between 18:00 and 21:00
Frame 24 building - 307 Vine Avenue, Randburg

Durban: 23 – 25 August 2012 Evening and Day Classes Between18:00 and 21:00 in the week and 9:00
International Hotel School – Westville Hotel – Westville and 15:00 on Saturday

Cape Town: 4 – 7 September 2012 Evening Classes Between 18:00 and 21:00
Dynamic Learning Solutions – Tygervalley

Pretoria: 14 - 15 August 2012 Day Classes Between 8:00 and 15:00
Drumbeat Academy – Groenkloof - Pretoria

Call us now for more info: 0824416394 or 0218560163 or email us at info@electtrainingacademy.co.za

· Special valid until end of September 2012.

We had an amazing experience - training in Ashbury - Montagu - together with Clover Mama Africa. Clover Mama Africa makes such a difference in the lives of the people in SA that really needs it! It was a privilage to be part of such a project. Thanks Prof Elain Vlok for the opportunity!

Time for Olympics 2012

I received this morning this amazing newsletter from one of the guru’s in the events industry—Preston Bailey. I just felt that I want to share it with you all.



Friday is the start of the 2012 Olympic Games. Each and every athlete is in London to win a gold medal—but at the end of the day - if they come home with a bronze but they know that they’ve done their personal best - In my eyes they are a winner!



What does it mean to be your very best?



Does it mean that you look for solutions instead of complaining about obstacles? Does it mean you choose to show compassion instead of tossing out another criticism? Is it training to find the balance between hard work and rest?



There is a winner in all of us. There are always opportunities to rise up to a challenge and to seize your moment. Remember that we are a team. There is no "them". The only competition we face is ourselves.



We must focus outdoing what we have done before.



Let us inspire our peers while being inspired by their unique gifts. Let us give our clients the best work by giving ourselves the freedom to learn, the flexibility to change and the dedication to giving your all, every day.



Allow yourself to rest. Push yourself through challenges. Face down fear and stand up to self doubt.



You've already won.



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