Gleeful baking and bbq for The Gallery

So, I was another mummy sadly not cybering (is that a verb?!) this weekend. It looked and sounded amazing from everything everyone has said and posted about it, but that's another story.

Instead, my Saturday was spent baking biscuits (my picture for The Gallery, above) with my two year old while the baby was asleep and watching Wimbledon (even having a picnic tea in front of the television so we didn't miss any) when the boys were awake. My Sunday was spent having a gorgeous BBQ - delicious food, plenty of pimms and a paddling pool for the kiddywinks (remember how hot it was?) - with several of our lovely neighbours.

However Saturday night was the biggy of the weekend for me. GLEE. LIVE. I know there are many of you who will judge me negatively for this, with my lovely husband leading the charge, and I don't care*. A night out with the girls singing along loudly to some total cheesey tunes is as good as it gets!

Yes, we were in the very back row of the 02. So, no we couldn't see a thing apart from what was on the video screens. But the atmosphere was incredible and we were all strangely starstruck about seeing the Glee cast in the flesh (and by "flesh", I obviously mean seeing them on big video screens rather than my home television), and most importantly getting the girls together for some silly dancing was brilliant. I thought I might cry. That is actually true. I'm just sorry I didn't have a really really really really really big zoom lense so I could share with you a photo of Finn / Quinn / Kurt / Rachel / A N Other! I know you would have all appreciated that more than my photo of some dubious looking biscuits....!

*Obviously I do care. Please don't judge me :)

Who Loves Me?: Hindsight. That wonderful thing.

Who Loves Me?: Hindsight. That wonderful thing.: "Someone asked me this week if there’s anything I would go back and do differently if I could. I’ve always answered this in relation to so..."

Hindsight. That wonderful thing.

Someone asked me this week if there’s anything I would go back and do differently if I could. I’ve always answered this in relation to some problems we had with our initial web designers, and how I would be much more thorough with my due diligence of our service providers, but this week I looked at it differently. The truth is, I wish I’d given more packs away!  

I know it sounds strange – I’m running a business, so I’m trying to make money right? However I think getting them out into the market so that as many people as possible see them is more important.  Who Loves Me? flash cards are unique and it can sometimes be difficult for people to visualise them and understand quite how high quality they are, so getting them into people’s hands, even if they’re looking at someone else’s pack, is a great benefit (to see them is to love them I’m told! And not because I bribed the person who said that......) 

We launched 12 months ago, a very soft launch to ease ourselves into the market, selling mainly to friends and family.  We were ironing out the few last teething problems at the time, but we were so excited and desperately keen to launch, so it seemed the most sensible way of doing it. In hindsight, we should have just given those away and then done a really high impact launch, all singing and all dancing, a couple of months later. Ahhhhh, hindsight.  You are a truly wonderful thing! 

I’m still learning how to run a business and ask me again in another years time and I may have another different answer for you, but currently that’s what I’d change if I could. I hope that helps some of you peeps starting your own business, and for you experienced business owners out there, please let me know if you think differently. I’m always ready to learn!