It's quite often very hard when you work for yourself to look on the positive side of things. Last summer was TOUGH, it was wet, muddy & people didn't shop. At times like these it can feel like you're throwing yourself against a brick wall & no amount of hard work will get you any closer to breaking through it.
Happily our Christmas season was better than the summer one & we finished the year in a better position than we'd hoped. We're still a long way from breaking through that wall though & 2013 in Lovely HQ started with a bit of a creative slump. Then one of our friend's suggested that, instead of concentrating on what we hadn't achieved yet, we looked at what was positive & concentrated on that for a while.
So here are our reasons to be cheerful in both life & business:
We are still afloat as a business, that's a big thing, as the news reports that we're entering a third recession & business are failing all around us, the good ship Lovely is still afloat & we're patching the leaks & setting sail for better times.
We had a gorgeous & peaceful Christmas & then an equally gorgeous & not quite so peaceful 2nd Christmas & New Year with our Copenhagen family & Emily had lots of cuddle time with her Odd-daughter & my Oddson fell in love with my ipad!
Back in November I was lucky enough to be offered some teaching work with a company based in South Oxhey called the Creative Learning Patnership. They specialise in making learning fun for Children & Adults & specifically target people who have had a bad time in education. I've been teaching crochet & have been lucky enough to have very lovely learners in my classes!
Emily has gone back to delighting the customers of Little Italy in Haddenham with her cheerful service & fab coffee making skills! Even more excitingly she's planning to turn her love of baking into a cake baking business so it wont just be the traders at our various markets who have access to her delicious cakes. We just have to health & hygiene the kitchen first!
It's also the season of trade shows & we've been to the Spring Fair at the NEC as we always do & discovered that our trusty incense suppliers has a range of fab new smells that we will be stocking very soon. Most excitingly we were invited to go to London Edge Fashion Trade Show by the very lovely suppliers of our reversible skirts & we discovered a whole world of alternative fashion suppliers. I personally fell in love with the 50's inspired dresses & Emily is determined that we'll order a range of tights very soon!
So all in all there are lots of things to be cheerful about & we're cautiously optimistic about the rest of this year. We're booking up our events for the summer & are determined to make 2013 a bright, shiney, lucky & Lovely year!
Happily our Christmas season was better than the summer one & we finished the year in a better position than we'd hoped. We're still a long way from breaking through that wall though & 2013 in Lovely HQ started with a bit of a creative slump. Then one of our friend's suggested that, instead of concentrating on what we hadn't achieved yet, we looked at what was positive & concentrated on that for a while.
So here are our reasons to be cheerful in both life & business:
We are still afloat as a business, that's a big thing, as the news reports that we're entering a third recession & business are failing all around us, the good ship Lovely is still afloat & we're patching the leaks & setting sail for better times.
We had a gorgeous & peaceful Christmas & then an equally gorgeous & not quite so peaceful 2nd Christmas & New Year with our Copenhagen family & Emily had lots of cuddle time with her Odd-daughter & my Oddson fell in love with my ipad!
Back in November I was lucky enough to be offered some teaching work with a company based in South Oxhey called the Creative Learning Patnership. They specialise in making learning fun for Children & Adults & specifically target people who have had a bad time in education. I've been teaching crochet & have been lucky enough to have very lovely learners in my classes!
Emily has gone back to delighting the customers of Little Italy in Haddenham with her cheerful service & fab coffee making skills! Even more excitingly she's planning to turn her love of baking into a cake baking business so it wont just be the traders at our various markets who have access to her delicious cakes. We just have to health & hygiene the kitchen first!
It's also the season of trade shows & we've been to the Spring Fair at the NEC as we always do & discovered that our trusty incense suppliers has a range of fab new smells that we will be stocking very soon. Most excitingly we were invited to go to London Edge Fashion Trade Show by the very lovely suppliers of our reversible skirts & we discovered a whole world of alternative fashion suppliers. I personally fell in love with the 50's inspired dresses & Emily is determined that we'll order a range of tights very soon!
So all in all there are lots of things to be cheerful about & we're cautiously optimistic about the rest of this year. We're booking up our events for the summer & are determined to make 2013 a bright, shiney, lucky & Lovely year!
