Something in the air

Well, since blogging briefly on Tuesday, it's all gone mental here! Firstly I had a great time at BBC Radio Lincolnshire on the breakfast show as the sofa guest. As things transpired, I got to talk more about my writing work than OTR, but Rod and the ladies on the team fondled my books and I gave them a Chocolate Jotter each so hopefully they'll spread the word.

I've been getting some excellent new customers who love the books, and I've got a busy week ahead making some bespoke books which is lovely and may lead to renewed levels of craft mojo (which have been sadly missing lately...) I've also been listed on a new site called Little Luxuries and I'm hoping to promote my seedies as wedding favours.

On a grim note, I'm completely fed up with Royal Mail - or should I say Royal Fail. How much more mail do they have to lose? And why is it always my stuff? I'm so angry I could stamp my feet. In fact I just have done.

I've been fascinated by my friend Sam's stuff that she is making at Bobcats Creations and I'm sitting on my hands stopping myself buying all of her necklaces! She's a busy woman, and she's really determined to make a success of her new business. Good luck Sam!

I'm also wondering who I can tell about my arty friend Lizzy's new business as well. Lizzy is a practising commercial artist who also provides hands on art workshops and children's art parties. You can find her here

Well, despite the weather, things are still moving on at a pace - I've got some other ventures underway, and I'm also conscious that the garden is calling. I hate there not being enough hours in the day, so I'd best get on! I'm sorting out a venue for my recycled notebook workshop at the moment - as soon as it's confirmed I'll be advertising them here and on the website and I hope they'll be dead popular!

Have a great weekend and try and stay dry!

February with a hint of December

Winter saw me hibernating, huddled around the pc and not being terribly creative. I had the odd spurt of orders around Christmas mainly from some colleagues in my business networking group 4Networking but it was quieter than I expected. However it's given me loads of food for thought. I've got new and really exciting stuff on the go - there'll be a demo video on YouTube shortly, a collaboration between me and two great people, Jen and James, who own Speak Out Media which is a fabby media company who do all sorts of clever stuff with video, PR and so on. The key message I learned this Christmas (and bear with me cos it was my first festive season!) was that I need way way way more exposure to up my sales. So the work starts now.


New stuff happening

I'm intending to start some occasional workshops this summer offering visitors the chance to make a jotter out of recycled materials - hopefully with some fancy bits as well.

I'm also starting to promote the seedies as wedding favours - a long lasting 'gift' to say thank you to wedding guests. I will have some samples on the website shortly and I will be doing some fairly extensive marketing to get these on the wedding circuit radar.

I've got a plan to produce some birthday books as well. Watch this space.

I've made this a short post because I wanted to re start my blogging habit. Next one will have much more substance and loads of pics.