Something about today

I woke up this morning feeling inspired. Not only because today I received two very encouraging messages from people, but also because there is so much going on at Heartfelt and a lot of positive thinking. We are running around already in the throws of putting Christmas orders together. This is always our busiest time of year and from now until Santa jumps down your chimney, we will be up to our eyeballs in felt.

I chatted to Martha last night who’d been running around all day buying materials for the workshop. She arrived home at 7:30pm but somehow was as happy as ever (not unusual behaviour for Martha might I add). I had also been doing my fair share of running around and thank heavens we now have Charlene to keep the office fires burning and emails answered.

Last month the two of us attended the Legends Magic Workshop in Cape Town. It was the first time Charlene had ever been on a plane, so you can just imagine her excitement. This sales & finance focussed workshop was fabulous. It was two days of learning and sharing and it gave us a lot of very important business tools to take home and start implementing. Run by Fetola (Winner in the Services Sector category of the 2011 Africa SMME Awards, held last week in Johannesburg) and its fabulous staff – as one of the Legends beneficiaries we now have exciting opportunities and ideas coming your way.

We’ve also just come back from exhibiting at the Constantia Gift Fair (19-23 October), which was a huge success. It is the second year we’ve taken part and it was lovely being there again - nestled amongst all the beautiful products and visitors.

And on that fine note I best be off. I need to get back to all our orders and emails. Christmas is just around the corner don’t you know… oh my shattered nerves!