Hello! So sorry I haven’t been around for a while, and thank you so much for the lovely Get Well Soon messages which were very much appreciated. I usually have to cope with a bug in the computer system, but this time the virus has been my very own!
The last few weeks have been flagged up for ages as the busiest of the whole of 2012 but I had thought I would gallop out the other end triumphant carrying a banner (or a stream of bunting!), not stagger out with a box of tissues under one arm waving a white flag!
In the space of month there has been:
- A Wedding (Proud Mama #1 (with hat))
- A Book Launch (Proud Mama #2)
- CSSD Student daughter left for Mumbai as part of the Morni Theatre Collective (Proud Mama #3)
- Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios- three weekends (Working hat)
- Another Wedding (Proud Aunt (with another hat))
- Most of my best-beloved family either visiting or staying (see items 1 & 5)
In amongst all this, Planet Penny decided it was not possible to wait another month to become a business rather than a hobby, which has involved finding a business account, an accountant, taking legal advice….and so on….and so on….
Perhaps it’s not surprising that a rogue bug decide to join the party, but I really haven’t appreciated having such a nasty little gate-crasher!
Today is the first day I have actually found two brain cells to rub together so I’m gradually trying to get my studio back into working order whilst thinking my way round all the ‘stuff’ which has accumulated whilst I (as in ‘my brain’) have been ‘off line’. so while I’m doing all that, I’ll share a few of the photos taken over the last few weeks….
There has been of course Open Studios, and this is what Planet Penny looked like in ‘exhibition space’ mode…
There were times when you couldn’t see all this though…
…and times when we were playing host to our local MP!
Just down the road our neighbour was hosting her first Open Studio, complete with a herd of Alapacas…
and a yurt!
Hands up who is joining me with serious ‘Yurt Envy’!
A fabulous time was had at the book launch at Heffers Children’s Book Shop in Cambridge…
Not often you have to queue to speak to your own son!
And as the rain fell, the garden carried on growing…
…and growing…
…and growing.
But now it’s back to normal time. I’ve already re-jigged one set of display shelves to accomodate the latest Planet Penny Cotton Club delivery…
…and it’s heads down sorting out the next pattern and kit. The packs are for sale on Etsy, follow this link or the the Shop button at the top of the page to find them, plus the Rainbow Mouse kits, Mini Mice Fridge Magnet kits and patterns.
See you again soon! x
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