Hello, hope you got to celebrate Christmas in whatever way you choose and that you’ve been able to relax a bit over the last few days. We were lucky enough to visit our family and we’re now starting to prep for New Year.
We’re currently half way through painting our living room, so yesterday we got a bit more of that done and switched round some furniture. I’m trying to put plans in place for our forecast website growth, so all my paperwork is organised and we have plenty of postage labels too.
One of my big goals is to turn our downstairs ‘office’ (aka the dumping ground) into a mini warehouse/dispatch area (it’s not even big enough to swing a cat). This means sorting out the spare bedroom into a new office area, then getting some strong shelving ready for the next stock delivery in the summer. It’s a big job that I had planned for this summer, but you know how I am with plans – it just didn’t happen.
For now I’m just doing what I can to be ready, which meant ordering some smaller postal boxes (I got orders through on Boxing Day – how cool is that?).
The new boxes arrived today, a day earlier than expected (yay!) so I assembled some ready for packing.
The orders didn’t fit.
I had measured so carefully, trawled websites until I found just the right size, but they were millimetres too small.
Frustrated, we reverted back to cutting down the larger boxes for these orders. The new boxes will still be useful for the smaller items like our glass angels or the glass trees, so won’t be wasted.
I’m excited for 2022 now, we’ve had an amazing 2021 season and I’m so grateful for each and every one of you who have supported us. All the hard work over the last ten+ years is finally paying off.
Wishing you a very Happy and healthy New Year!
Cari & family
