I’d love it if you felt so inclined as to vote for me in the first ever Poppies – a series of indie design awards being run by the lovely Jan at Poppytalk blog.
You can vote for my handmade jewellery right here.
Just scroll down to check my name and then a bit further down to click on ‘vote’ … and that’s it!
I’m thrilled to be in the running and have my fingers crossed for a happy outcome! Winners will be announced on 5 February 2010.
Good luck to everyone else in the running for a Poppy too. View all of the award categories and get voting for your favourite indie designers!
Well, finally it’s all over and a fresh year is underway. Hooray!
My festive season was even more tiring than usual, having lost about two months worth of preparation time after a major project ran behind schedule a bit earlier in the year. So I felt like I was on the back foot throughout the season in terms of my handmade jewellery business. But I survived it, which is the main thing!
I also had my entire family come and stay for several days – they all live in another state. Given that I was hosting Christmas it meant a lot of preparation for the day itself, as well as for having numerous extra people in the house for some time, including two children. Exhausting!
But they have all gone now and things have slowed down, so it’s time for taking stock and spending some time getting myself sorted out for a new year – and my first full year of full self-employment.
I plan on spending much of the next few weeks doing some serious business planning and analysis. But also looking again at the fact that I continue to work far too many hours and don’t have enough of a life! It will be good to take a long hard look at all sorts of bits of my life to make them work a bit better.
So here’s to a happy and successful 2010 for all of us!
