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All the latest business news and what’s new in my shop.
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End of the month update – February
And another month goes by, which means another update on what I got up to. This was month 12 of self-employment so I have now…
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The bunnies have eyes
Considering I got my bunny pieces from Ponoko back in November, it’s been a long and tiresome search for the right size of bunny eyes.…
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End of the month update – January
I forgot to tell you about one of my resolutions, which was to do a post at the end of each month tracking what I’d…
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New printed things
I just collected a box of stuff from Vistaprint. They have a fairly bad reputation but I’ve always had a great experience and everything I…
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First new product of 2009
Goodness, I didn’t think it would take almost three weeks into the new year for me to get a new product in the shop but…
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Shop Update of Delights
The Box of Delights exhibition at Ricefield ended at Christmas and I went to collect my money and leftovers yesterday. It seems to have been…
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Print, iron, cut, glue, photograph, list
I am being very productive this week and have done just about everything on my to do list AND MORE. Get me. The postman brought…
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Box of Delights
Gosh, I have been very very busy with this over the last few weeks. I’ve been helping organise the above exhibition, a joint venture between…
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