Wednesday 16 September 2009

Fame is going to my head....

I felt like a film star yesterday! A camera crew (well a cameraman and a producer) came to visit us at FarmToysOnline.co.uk in order to film us for a Business Link promotion for successful internet businesses. How's that for an accolade! We spent the day mainly filming outside in the fields and garden and fortunately the weather stayed fine.

Elsa the dog, joined in, in fact he is probaly the star of the show. And filming had to stop when I needed to pick Harry up from pre-school (only 10 minutes late). Luckily he fell asleep on the way home, well playing with toys and paints is very tiring, which meant we could finish filming in peace.

I am just completing our latest newsletter, which should be popping into your inboxes over the next few days - if you haven't signed up yet click here and you can sign up now if you like. We will be sending you offers and letting you know about the new stock we will be getting in over the coming weeks.

Once that is done, I am off to Julip Horses to see the jumps they have been designing, to go with their gorgeous horses. We should be able to stock them very soon. Watch this space!

Julia

Wednesday 9 September 2009

Phew, the children are back at school! As much as I love having them at home it's great when they go back. I am one of those that you either call a Have-it-all mum (own business / children / live in the country) or a Do-it-all mum (continually juggling business / children / husband / home and not necessarily getting it all right!).

Either way, the summer holidays were lovely and not nearly long enough. There was a constant stream of children through our kitchen throughout the holidays, some I recognised, some I didn't. The pigs grew fatter, the lambs bigger and the chickens kept producing gorgeous big, brown eggs for our breakfast. And the puppy kept chewing the children's toys, my bicycle, the outside table, in fact anything and everything.

However we were still very busy in the office. You might have seen us in the Daily Express and Practical Parenting, amongst others, who both loved our children's gardening things. We are currently redesigning a new logo and tweaking our website (all will be revealed in due course). And we have been sourcing some great new products for the autumn, which we will let you know about as we get them onto the website.

Off to prepare for my meeting with the designers tomorrow.

Julia