What a week! It’s not been the best of weeks here but having said that it hasn’t been the worst either. It’s hard to describe how it’s left me feeling other than saying “Blurgh”.   By the time the weekend was here I was more than ready for it, only that didn’t go as swimmingly as I would have hoped, but I guess that’s what you call balance. The week started with the best of intentions. Mondays are a Mummy and Eva day and we had so much fun just playing, doing boring housework and just being at home (turns out shes pretty niffty with a steam cleaner). From Monday evening the wheels kind of fell off and it was a slippery slope from there. Basically I’ve known I’ve had Eva this week and for 2 of those days she was at Pre School. Her behaviour has been somewhat out of character especially when I use the one word 99% of toddlers hate. NO! (I know what a dickhead of a parent I am for saying the word no to a threenanger).  I will let her off to a certain degree because she has been suffering with allergies but still she’s been somewhat difficult. On the plus side Lizzie has been the perfect daughter, every cloud and all that!

Anyway cut through to the weekend and the car thought it would throw a bit of a wobble just for sheer fun of it, the exhaust fall off on the way home from visiting family late Saturday night, in the dark, in the cold. I swear that car will be like a brand new car the amount of work it’s had done to it over the past 12 months.

By the time Sunday has come round a day at home with the sister in law was just the tonic that we needed. In all the doom and gloom of the week (and the blog if I don’t stop these negative vibes) it’s been a good one too. New products have been added to the website, lots of orders have been placed but most importantly my father in law is being a model patient after having a knee replacement and is doing rather well. So all is well really.

I’m hoping next week runs a little more smoothly just so that I can recover from this week.

Muchas Love

Mrs KnittyKnotts

xx

I’ve come into the new year with such a positive attitude, unlike the hubster who is all “it's just another day” malarkey. But it isn’t just another day it’s our chance to make our mark on a fresh year. A chance to leave all your troubles, dramas behind and a chance to make changes for the better. It was a good year for KnittyKnotts from being seen in Brides magazine twice to bagging ourselves 3 twitter awards I’m not quite sure how we can top it this year. It’s the 1^st time I’ve finally found my feet with KnittyKnotts, I have created popular products that so many of you love, I have mastered my packaging goals and I now know what kind of direction I would like my little handmade business to go in.

How your KnittyKnotts packaging looks 

So what’s coming up in the New Year? Well each month you will see a “Gift of the Month”. This might be one of our top sellers or a new product, available at a special price just for you. January will see our New Baby Keepsake Cushions as our Gift of the Month.

Gift of the Month; Personalised New Baby Keepsake Cushion £10.00

I am a huge lover of Instagram, it’s a fab place to faff over photos (oh how I love to faff) and it’s such a wonderful community full of positive folks. So this year I want to trial our very own Brand Enthusiasts! Basically we are going to be looking for 2 or 3 popular accounts who would love to receive the occasional free KnittyKnotts products as well as a 20% discount on the website. What we will need in return is for you to share our products with clear quality photos. Not bad when you think about it hey? We want to get our brand out there and what better way to do it with help from our supporters. It might not take off but surely it’s worth a try? So keep an eye out for more details!

Something else that I want to bring to the 2017 table is more one off hand embroidered quotes. I love a good motivational quote whether they are humorous or poignant. I’m often stamping quotes onto paper doilies, it’s kind of become our thing, but I want to get stitching them on to hoops.

So there you have it just a few goals I want to achieve, now I’ve written them down and shared them they have to happen.

Muchas love

Mrs KnittyKnotts

xx