Gabriell

My Summary

My Experience

February 2014 - currently

Private arts & crafts workshop and art therapy provider for families, children's birthday parties and school classes. Private drama classes for schools. References include the German School London, the French Lycee London, St Chathrine's School London.

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December 2011 - February 2014. Family K. - (South Kensington) London, UK

Live-out special needs nanny responsible for Sophia, who suffers from cystic fibrosis, from age 1 to 3 and her newborn sister Bella from the day she was born until age 1.5

I still keep in touch with them and regularly provide arts & craft workshops at their Birthday parties/holiday activities.

• Inside activities with Sophia: administering her medication before and during meals in a fun way, giving her physio twice a day and trying to make it fun for her, encouraging her to participate in activities that help to maintain clean lungs, such as bubble blowing, playing the recorder, blowing straws, jumping on the trampoline, etc..
Cooking healthy food for her based partly on Annabel Carmel's recipes, using traditional European healing herbs and food.
Using arts and craft as a way to overcome communication difficulties, making artworks and cards for family and relatives. Encouraging her to accept people outside of her family and engage in activities outside of her comfort zone.

• Outside activities with Sophia: spending plenty of time outside in the fresh air no matter what the weather is like. Participating in sport classes in Hyde Park, visiting the private Cadogan Gardens after breakfast and after the lunchtime nap every day. Encouraging activities that strengthen her lungs, such as: scooter, football, tennis, running after balls, chasing butterflies, chasing squirrels.

• Duties with Sophia: sterilizing her syringes, cups, bottles, physio equipment. Administering her medicines, giving her physio, being responsible for her health and well being, preventing her from getting a cold, nursing her when ill.

• Activities with Bella: my main approach towards Bella was always to make sure that she doesn't live in the shadow of a seriously ill sibling, and she gets enough quality time, love and attention even when her ill sister needs non stop care. I discovered early that she is interested in classical music and especially enjoys listening to operas. We have spent every moment when Sophia's condition allowed listening to operas while developing gross and fine motor skills through a wide variety of arts and craft.

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August 2010 – July 2011. Family M. – (Barnes) London, UK

Live-out nanny responsible for 1 year old girl.
Part time position, Mon-Wed, 11 hours/day + occasional babysitting
Sole Charge

• Inside activities with Alice: helping her to start feeding herself alone, developing fine and gross motor skills with a wide variety of arts and craft including: painting, drawing, stamping, mirroring, finger and hand prints, play-dough, tearing different papers, touching different materials. Singing songs and nursery rhymes at home and in classes we attended, listening and dancing to CDs such as: Monkey Music, Little Mozart, Animal Parade, The Wheels on the Bus, etc, reading books at home and in the local library, attending the Baby Gym in Putney and the Little Gym in Chiswick.

• Outside activities with Alice : walks to the Park, pick-nicks at the River bank in Barnes and Richmond, feeding the ducks and seagulls at the pond in Barnes, whole afternoon outings in the Wetland Centre, collecting flowers for Mommy, collecting leaves and petals for artworks, studying plants and animals, chasing each other. Developing social skills on the playground and in play groups, learning the rules of crossing the road, learning to say hello and good bye.

• Duties with Alice: sterilizing her bottles daily in the first few months, preparing 2 warm meals a day for the entire week based on Annabel Carmel’s recipes, taking care of her laundry, tidying her room, taking her to health check, nursing her when ill, taking her to classes every day, bathing her, preparing hand-made Christmas presents and Birthday cards for the family, relatives and friends, being responsible for her health, safety and emotional needs.

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February 2008 – December 2009. Family F. - (Chelsea) London, UK

Live-in nanny responsible for 3 children, baby twins Jasmine and Amelie + older sister Anya (age when started: 5.5 months, 5.5 years)
Full time position, Mon-Fri, 11 hours/day + 1 night babysitting/week
Sole Charge

• Inside activities with the baby twins in the first 6 months: developing a feeding and sleeping routine, singing, rocking, reading nursery rhymes, changing their environment every 20 minutes, stimulate them with a range of colours to see and materials to touch onto their skin from the smoothest to the roughest., continuously talking to them including as many repetitions as possible, singing the same lullaby before their daytime naps, organizing ‘kicking time’ before the evening bath (babies put on their changing mats in front of the heat of the visually calming fireplace and let them fidget naked kicking with their feet and moving their arms while nursery music is playing and giving them exercise and massage).
• Outside activities with the baby twins in the first 6 months: 2 hours walk daily with the double buggy open air when weather allowed it, covered with plastic cover when it was raining or too windy, around Bishops Park, Fulham Palace, Hurlingham Park and South Park, introducing them the playground (baby swing, picnic on a blanket while experiencing the many sound and visual effects of the busy playground)
• Duties with the baby twins in the first 6 months: sterilizing their bottles daily, preparing their baby formulas and additional vitamins, taking care of their laundry, weaning, taking them to health check in every 3 weeks, nursing them when ill
• Inside activities with the twins from 1 year old to 2.5 years old: developing fine and gross motor skills by tearing paper, collecting fluffs of the carpet, destroying and building using building blocks, playing with home-made salt & flour play-dough. Developing creative skills by drawing with pencils and crayons, painting with acrylic and watercolours, writing on magnetic board, learning songs and rhymes, playing toy instruments of every kind, actively joining Dora the Explorer. Developing social skills by sharing with siblings and play-dates.
• Outside activities with the twins from 1 year old to 2.5 years old: walks to the Parks on the baby leash and in the double buggy, collecting flowers for Mommy, collecting lavender for baking lavender cake together, collecting leaves and petals for artworks, studying plants and animals, picnicking, playing football, feeding ducks and seagulls, chasing each other. Developing social skills on the playground and in play groups, learning the rules of crossing the road, learning to say hello and good bye.
• Duties with the twins from 1 year old to 2.5 years old: preparing food, taking care of laundry, tidying their room, keeping them safe while kitchen extension construction works were on for 2.5 months
• Inside activities with 5.5 – 7.5 years old sister Anya: art projects of many kind on a daily basis, practicing home work in a playful way to make it enjoyable, involving her actively in planning the meals in order to achieve her interest in healthy dishes, using Youtube for listening to musicals (Broadway and Westend Shows), supervising her TV watching time actively discussing what we had seen. On babysitting nights telling the bedtime story of ‘The Magic Garden’ which was an imaginary place created for her to help her dealing with issues most concerned her everyday life (divorce, school issues)
• Outside activities with 5.5 – 7.5 years old sister Anya: biking, scooter, playground, walking, shopping, swimming
• Duties with 5 – 7.5 years old sister Anya: School run by car from Parsons Green to Private German School in Richmond - 2 hours drive daily, organising play-dates, birthday party drop off/pick up, taking care of her laundry, tidying her room, preparing her food, helping her with her English home work.

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September 2006 – December 2007. Family D. - Budapest, Hungary

Live-out nanny responsible for 1 baby boy Matias (age when started: 12 months)
Full time position, Mon-Fri, 8 hours/day

• Sole charge nanny responsibilities
• Inside – outside activities
• cooking/laundry for the baby

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August 2003 – April 2005. Family S. - Montebello, N.Y., USA

Live-in nanny responsible for 1 girl Betty (age when started 6 years)
Full time position, Mo-Fri, 8 hours/day


• Sole charge nanny responsibilities
• Inside – outside activities
• School run
• Preparing food and laundry for Betty

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July 1999 – July 2003

Production Coordinator and editor for interactive television show

• Was responsible of the appearance of the show, set the studio, lights, furniture, cameras.
• Co-ordinated the work of twenty people including studio and broadcast technicians and performers.
• Wrote the questions and devised the quizzes used in the show.

MRTL Television Ltd ( Grundy UFA ) Hungary
John Ondreas – Head of Enterprises Department

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January 1999 – July 2003. Family S. - Budapest, Hungary

Live-in nanny responsible for baby twins Julianna and Emma (age when started 3 months)
Part time position, night and weekend shifts

• Shared care with stay at home Mum
• Inside – Outside activities, food, laundry

My Qualifications

2000 – 2005

Master Degree in Addiction Counselling

• Psychology of Early Childhood
• Psychology of Human Relationships (Eric Berne)
• Transactional Analysis Parent Adult Child Model
• Social Psychology
• Personality and Communication Developing Techniques
• Health Pedagogy


Semmelweis Health University, Budapest, Hungary

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1997-2004

MA, Communications

• Media Studies and Journalism
• Photography
• Graphic Design

Pázmány Péter University, Budapest

My Availability

Since I'm a freelance arts & craft tutor and art therapy provider at the moment, I am available within 1 or 2 weeks.

My Fees

• Babysitting from £20.00 per hour
• Nannying from £24.00 per hour (net)

Depends on the circumstances, such as number of children, special needs, etc... but it's typically between Net £20/hour - £25/hour