Half Term How You Spending Yours?

 HALF TERM HOW YOU SPENDING YOURS?
 
I normally dread half term the dreaded “I am bored” I mean come on kids, you have thousands of toys, computers and friends. YOU HAVE FRIENDS to play with, go play outside there’s another swear word and then I hear myself saying “kids these days”….. Argh turning into my mam.
But I have to say this week, yes its only Tuesday but it hasn’t been that bad, between working and business, we have still managed to have a good couple of days. I don’t feel stressed at all we have had a dvd chill day with nail painting with my daughter who’s 8 don’t think my son who’s 12 fancied having his nails painted lol.
We spent today supporting a mumpreneur Kelly wood as she not only runs her own cake business https://www.facebook.com/kellywoodkakes#  but also is trying to run and rebuild her local community centre, so we spent 3 wonderful hours eating pancakes, watching a magic show and watching some beautiful iris dancers. While taking the time to check out other stall holders who were there Cherri bray -Bowden https://www.facebook.com/nurturewithcherri?pnref=story#
We then spent the rest of the day at the beach jumping of sand dunes and messing around it was fun see walking can be fun I told my pre-teen son.
I plan to spend a morning or an evening, creating a t-shirt master piece with the kids of course. We have some fabric pens and all we need are two plain white t-shirts that should pass an hour hopefully.
Nearer the end of the week I plan to take the kids to, doodle bugs ceramics & crafts in Cramlington, where you design your own pottery looks good. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Doodle-Bugs-Ceramics-Crafts/374927614764#
As you can see I have not blogged about clothing as this week is all about the kids when I am not at work that is, but if you do fancy placing orders or booking a party, I will get back to you asap www.kbjust4kids.co.uk hope you enjoy the half term and don’t get to stressed out by “I am bored”  cos you could always give them housework to do I am sure they will find something to do …….

inspirational people

I was just wondering what I was going to blog about and I started thinking about how I got to where I am now business wise. Well I had a very unexpected gap in my work life and I got to thinking what was I going to do…and while trailing the internet for jobs /ideas I decided I no longer wanted to work for anyone else but myself.

so long story short I put together all the things I liked or enjoyed, I liked shopping, clothes shopping, not for myself though my children and ever since that horrid recession (p.s I still don’t believe we are out of the recession as we are all lead to believe but that’s another blog maybe ;-) ) and shops were closing down left right and centre I felt and still do feel there is a gap in the market for children’s fashion focused clothing.

So I spent a long time researching and trying new suppliers but I needed some customers so there I hit another brick wall. Well isn’t Facebook fantastic I bought some stock, took pictures, uploaded and made sales whoopee. But it was a lot of running around, if only I could get my customers in one place at the same time, light bulb moment children’s clothing party plans so I did some more research worked out what I could offer. Which was 10% commission of all orders place and paid for on the night delivery in a week giving me plenty time to complete orders.

Then came the logo designed by another inspirational lady Amy Purdie of white acres design www.whiteacresdesign.co.uk highly recommend and kbjust4kids was born. at the same time I realized I was missing out on other sales from potential customers who didn’t want to host clothing party’s but did want to buy clothing so another light bulb moment I need a website which was designed by fluid web development www.fluidwebdevelopment.com  a great..... Man called Keith Whalen he is a very intelligent patient genius who listened to what I wanted and helped me to create www.kbjust4kids.co.uk  p.s he did all the work I supplied the content like I said he was patient.

While I was writing this I decided I wanted to know where party plans came from?! I remember when I was younger my mam held women’s clothing party plans and she often went to Tupper wear party’s needless to say my mam has a lot of Tupper ware. There was also lingerie parties and a very popular ongoing party plan Anne summers. But I delved a bit deeper and came across the history of Tupper wear and was truly amazed by what I found out.

So here is a bit of History about party plans it originated in 1950 by an amazing lady called Brownie Wise, she discovered Tupperware and found it to be a product of great use and so she began selling it at parties she went on to create a social networking marketing system through dealers and sellers that quickly outsold Tupper wears store sales which then caught the eye of Mr Tupper wear himself (earl Tupper the inventor) who invited her to become vice president of Tupper ware home parties she did this all in a year  she was an incredible woman who was even the first women to appear on the cover of business week (which is a weekly magazine which was created to provide information and interpretation about what was happening in the business world) how amazing is it to think that even in 1950 there was a women entrepreneur and let’s face it in an era where women’s roles where at home she helped give hope and independence to thousands of other likeminded women. If you happen to get the chance please look her up she is a truly inspirational lady. her story is getting made into a movie hopefully this year I will definitely be watching it as her story ended quiet sad and I do believe if she had been born just 30 years later how different things could have been.

 

This is life and this is my crazy life...

As I walked my daughter to school this morning I realised something - it’s January 12th 2015 and I am turning 30 this year argh…! I've made a decision that this is a new year with a new start. Firstly, I’ve decided to quit smoking, today is the first day and it's going well so far. I also decided I want to shift the four stone that I have put on over the past 8 years so it's back to healthy eating and being more active. I'm trying to complete 10,000 steps in a day and some days it’s really easy where as other days it can be hard to motivate myself. In order to give my liver a bit of a detox I've been taking part in the dry January too. I only really have a drink on a Saturday night but I do binge drink and over Christmas I definitely drank more than just a Saturday night so. Definitely time for a change! I’ve just completed my second weekend without a drink and can already feel the difference. I’ve been so much more productive and was up, awake and ready for the day at 8am Sunday morning to take my daughter swimming. I really enjoyed this time together which leads me onto my last thing - coming of anti-depressants. I have been on and off them for 10 years. A whole decade! Coming off them hasn’t been a quick and un rational decision, I have spoken endlessly about my reasons why and have spent the past 4months weaning myself slowly off them but as I walked my daughter to school as I mentioned before, something popped into my head. Am I setting myself up for a fall? Then on the way back home I answered myself, I quite possibly am. However this is the year I am going to take control and if I fail and fall I shall get back up and try again because this is life and this is my crazy life….