About 6 months ago it became clear that my lovely studio ( which is palatal compared to my humble beginnings of a small desk in the lounge ) was sadly getting too small for the growing business. Kate & I started looking at premises in London (which are SSOOOOO expensive & tiny) then Tracy suggested she took over the posting and packaging side of Belle & Boo where she lives in Bristol. Freeing me up to create, something I have been struggling to do amidst the day to day running of an online business. So on Monday, Russ & I will pack everything up and drive the 2 hours to Bristol where Tracy has rented an ex-photographers studio for a quarter of the price.
My hall way looks like this.....
and I am still having to negotiate my way to the post office with orders like this......
I admit I am SO darned excited by the prospect of just drawing again.
In between the packaging I have been doing some lovely things
The Kuniyoshi exhibition at The Royal Academy followed by afternoon tea at Fortnum and Masons,
A VERY fancy weekend at Hoarcross Hall with my mum and sister, where we pampered ourselves rotten & I had a golf lesson, which was hilarious & exhausting !
& Russ and treated ourselves after 10 years to a new bed, it is SOooooo pretty, I feel like a princess when I go to sleep.
Belle & Boo were featured in our first news paper last weekend the Daily Mail and we have had some fantastic sales since
& big THANK YOU for all your lovely comments about Ava's Tea party, it was such a pleasure to work with Sheye again.
Lastly we are going to be discontinuing some of our prints, so watch this blog for some lovely give aways over the next few months. Today's give away is a Fern bunny mounted print to fit in a 10" by 10" frame. Just leave a comment and I will randomly select a winner, a week today (Fri 19th June)
Right, back to the bubble wrapping !!!
