Business business business

As usual, my blog has been neglected again. I am just terrible! I have been so so busy the past couple months.

I visited my Nan at the begining of April in Devon, it was Freya's first Birthday on the 22nd! It was wonderful, but quite stressful considering the size of my house and all our guests. Not to mention this awful English weather, it still feels like Winter now. I have also recently finished a business course with the Princes Trust, which has completely changed my life. Basically, I went in with the idea of having a vintage shop/bakery. The course taught me everything I need to know about business from marketing to taxes (not as hard as I had imagined) throughout the four day's I came to realise that this dream was completely unrealistic not only financially butin other ways to. So as I worked out what I could do, what I really wanted to do, and came to the conclusion of an online vintage shop selling clothes, accesories, home wares and perhaps eventually create my own vintage inspired clothing line. I also wish to hold vintage 'style' parties at peoples homes, where they are able to try vintage clothes on, have hair and makeup done and flick through my catalogue's to buy! After the course, we are given a mentor (a business man/woman with the knowledge we need) they will help us with our business plans, help set up and at we are also offered the chance of funding in a 'dragons den' type scenario. I am currently awaiting to hear who my mentor will be and my business plan is half way there already. We have come to the idea that my website will be up and running within six months! I can't even begin to tell you how excited I am. It's all I think about when I wake up, when I go to sleep and I just can't wait to get started. A lot of people don't have faith in me with this which I completely understand! I have said SO many time's about setting a shop up for dolls/cakes/embroidery you name it. But this just feel's right you know? I just have to come up with a name which is proving harder than I thought.

Anyway, here are some photo's from the past few weeks I just love.

Busy

The past few days seem to have been fairly busy. Saturday it was my Mums birthday so she came to ours for lunch, chilli potato wedge bake was a success! I'll have to put the recipe up soon. I also managed to whip up a quick chocolate fudge cake with vanilla buttercream and blackberry jam for her birthday cake. It didn't last long to say the least. We also dressed in green to celebrate St patricks day!

Freya seems to of redicovered that she can climb stairs and I am forever chasing her away from them, she definitely keeps me on my toes. She's growing so quickly I can barely keep up. Her lovely personality has started to come out the past few weeks and she's the funniest, music loving, running little darling.

I've been working on a few projects as of late, I have so many on the go! As Spring is here, i'm eager to get in the garden, our flower bed needs filling and we need to plant fruit and veg in the little space we have.

I'm loving blogging at the moment, it gives me something to look forward to and think about, only it's distracting me so much the housework seems to be suffering. So now off to the mountain of washing up.

Friday Love!

A few things I currently love. Spring is by far my favourite season!

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Easter display

Even if it is very early I get so carried away with jazzing up my display shelf towards the holidays! I'm still yet to make a Happy Easter banner/bunting type something and we'll definitely be painting eggs. Easter's special to me because Freya was born on good Friday!

Spring is fastly creeping upon us over here and its beautiful, we love our picnics in the garden, Freya has a whale of a time running back and forth up the patio in hysterics (over nothing).

We have a few lovely things coming up in the next few weeks, Freya's birthday, Easter egg hunts and we're down to my Nan and Gramps in Devon soon, it will be her first time on the beach, i'm so excited for her!

Terrible

To be completely honest I sometimes (if not often) disappoint myself. I am constantly coming up with new idea's which quite often end up become just a phase. I wouldn't say it is because I 'get bored' easily or even lack motivation. Things just never end up being quite what they seem. 2012 is a time for a change in my life. I have many plans, but this time they will be realistic. I want to live, really live. I envy so many other people's lives, which is not a quality trait to have, so I must create a life that make's me and my daughter genuinely happy. I want to take more photo's, take more walks and most of all stay calm. I'd like to see the beauty in things like I used to. Mostly I need to sort my life out and stop complaining.

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