Friday, Friday. After a hectic week spent fine-tuning designs and artwork and ordering supplies, packaging etc etc, I am now in the space where I have literally done everything that needs doing. This is that period which is well known to all designers everywhere when you are waiting, waiting, waiting for samples and finished product […]
Another exhausting day dealing with the seemingly endless minutiae of running a business. I need a PA. My PA would probably also need a PA at this point. So anyway, I was in full whinge-mode as I walked to the High Street to get a newspaper. The roads leading to that street were all blocked […]
This is a picture of some of the 5 million apples given to me by my neighbour. Home-grown fruit and veg, what a wonder of nature. Today’s post has been sponsored by Maxine whose marvelous garden produce is pictured above. I woke up on Monday to find these goodies on my doorstep.The difference between fresh […]
Another day of EU directives, toxicological reports and Pantone colours. The glamour of the skincare business just never stops. In one of the few minutes I managed to snatch, just to rest my poor brain from all this fluff ( heavy sarcasm), I was reading about a woman who hand-makes trugs and furniture from steamed […]
(photo:Splemderosa) The title ‘what a week’ would make most Londoners think of the tube strike but believe it or not, the two days of the tube strike were the calmest days of my week. ‘How can that be?’, I hear you ask. You obviously do not live on Planet Alara. To describe this week as […]
