As promised, a blog!
Not many photos in this one, but a bit of a general update, some dates for your diary, and some thanks too!
We are having so much fun with the boys being off. We are both at our day jobs (needing to save annual leave for our upcoming holiday!) but they have lots of fun at Grandads, holiday club, and of course our evenings and long weekends. They love being busy and sociable, and Laurence has finally cracked riding a bike at a day dedicated to teaching just that! On top of that, I have some uni work due in over the next few weeks (wish me luck!!), and we are also tackling freshening up the paintwork in our house. It is long overdue, but we are slowly but surely getting there, and I feel so much better as each room is sorted and painted.
We are also working on some ideas in the background. At Yarndale last year we were asked a few times about sock blockers. We have looked into this but we just don’t know enough about them yet to make sure we are making the best type, so this idea is on the back burner. We are however currently making sock rulers! We have made a few prototypes to see how they come out. Now we just need to make some tweaks and hopefully they will soon be ready to be listed. We are also working on “wraps per inch” tools and yarn weight gauges, amongst a few other things! Not to forget of course pricing up our acrylic hearts which were really popular on a post recently. These will definitely be listed soon, we just need to price these but we are busy getting out all your orders as quickly as we can first.
Dates for your diary –
We will be closing on Friday 19th August as my Dad and his wife are generously taking us to Disney World!! This feels so much more real now we are in August and we can’t wait. We will close our Etsy and website on Friday 19th, and all personalisation’s will need to be confirmed by Saturday 20th August. From Sunday 21st, all orders will be made and posted, and our out of office’s on until we return…. on Thursday 8th September! We understand this is a long time, and we are so grateful for your patience and understanding. To thank you for this, we will be doing something exciting when we return… probably a give away but maybe something else too so watch this space!
Some more dates: we will be at Yarndale again this year which is the 24-25 September and we are so excited for this. We are also excited to be attending Bakewell Wool Gathering for the first time, which is 8-9 October. We would love to see you there so please do come and say Hi! I am terrible with faces, so please don’t be offended but do introduce yourself, and if I look a bit blank let me know your “Instagram name”!!
And finally… I can’t post this blog without giving my sincere thanks. I am on quite a few facebook groups related to crochet and crafts, and absolutely love seeing other’s makes. There’s a few that I sometimes post on but don’t usually get a huge response, and that’s okay. I get that people don’t want to see selling posts and I too sometimes get lazy at engaging with posts because there are just so many! But, I can only say again how overwhelmed we are at the response that my post got on two crochet pages yesterday. Rich is doing extra nights in the workshop to keep up with orders which is amazing, and ultimately what enables us to keep doing this which we love. As well as that though, the comments, likes, follows are feedback were amazing and so heart-warming. It was so lovely to hear too from those of you who know us and have ordered from us sharing your feedback too. We all know social media can be challenging, and goodness knows what pleases the Instagram algorithms(!), but to receive so much engagement was amazing. So, thank you all for all your love and support.
Naturally we also need to thank my Dad and his wife Jo here, as without their generosity we wouldn’t be going away on our big holiday this year. We are so excited, and the boys are too but I don’t think they can really comprehend how exciting it will be when we are there!! We are eternally grateful and excited to be going on this once in a lifetime holiday. We are so fortunate to have a small but well formed support network of family and friends, which we are truly grateful for, and we do also need to mention my Mum and Step-Dad here too. My Mum was my biggest cheerleader, and Richards too, and she had such faith in what he could achieve. She also supported all his kickstarters (despite not really understanding them!!) which enabled him to buy his laser cutter initially and was so proud of what he achieved. She knew that he would be able to launch his own business, and although she sadly died before the business really became what it is today, she would be so proud of us and we are so grateful for her never-wavering support which gave us the confidence to make the decisions we did, to get us where we are today. My stepdad Dave remains a big part of our life and a huge support, especially with our two boys. They all have so many adventures together, I don’t know how he keeps up with them!!
So, as I sit here making more stitch marker cards than you can shake a stick at whilst Rich makes and packs your orders, thank you, for making this possible for us.
