It’s raining today, which was a bit of a surprise. We’ve been getting used to the big blue skies and warm weather recently and not checking the weather forecast. My workshop is nice and dry though, so we can see that there are no leaks in the roof. Rain is forecast for tomorrow too.
I can tell it is getting warmer as I no longer have to fight for room on the settee with cats and dogs. We’re still in touch with the Badajoz people about Fragel. He has had a bad case of diarrhea and is very thin, which is why they’re holding on to him, but we’ll probably be seeing him this week. The walks in a funny way and doesn’t jump. It sounds very much like Sam’s injury. We’re also going to see Pipi and Churrette who are two kittens. If we only give a home to one it will be Fragel as he seems like the one that they’ll have have problems homing, and I like the idea of helping him. Ian (“I’m not a cat person”) is quite keen on kittens so we’ll see… Ian wants to call a kitten ‘Batman’.
Our new working routine is going well. Today is our ‘PullenSite’ day. We’re working on MakeForWedding which will be wedding crafts. Our sites are doing very well at the moment, helped certainly by the exchange rate (revenue is in dollars) but we are experiencing organic growth too. After MakeforWeddings, we’ll be launching MakeForOccasions. This will really be an extension of MakeForChristmas and will be things to make for parties and celebrations. After that we’ve got YumYumYarns which is a project that’s been on the back-burner for a long time. We’re changing the original plan so it will be a directory of handspinners and handspun yarn. The last one doesn’t have a name yet, but it will be for graphic designers. This will be a bit of a change in direction, however it will follow the same lines as the others, but with some articles that Ian has written about different aspects of graphic design.
I’m so glad that we didn’t sell FreeNeedle last year!
Having said that our new routine is going well, we’re doing something different this month. We’re spending all next week working on our things to sell. So Ian is working on his photographs, getting a collection organized and I’m working on getting a range of jewellery to sell. Our original plan was to do this spread throughout the month, but we realized that it is a better use of time to do it all in one go. We both really want to have things ready for Christmas – which as we all know starts in August!! The benefit of us working on this at the same time is that we can split things like researching post options and packaging between us.
Chick update: we can no longer tell Chickatita apart from the other chicks so that seems to be all going well.