Ross from friends screaming “PIVOT” whilst his new sofa is stuck in the stairwell, is quite frankly ICONIC…

And this week, I had to PIVOT, in the face of annoying rejection.

Let me tell you how it went.

I applied for my markets, and my best market rejected me… for the first time ever… and initially I was ok about it, but since then, I feel like I’ve missed a couple of other great opportunities to get out and meet my gorge customers and make those all important Xmas sales..

I had a whinge… felt a bit sorry for myself.. until this little voice popped into my head… “stop looking at what you don’t have and focus on what you do have…”

After a good talking to myself in the mirror, I have the best customers, incredible stockists, locally and nationally, I have a few markets with my very best people planned in and I have this amazing little space.. I have the most amazing little studio shop space…

And so my plan is to open my little shop space.. on a more permanent basis in the lead up to Christmas..

I’ve secured some fab brands and worked on some great new products which I can’t wait to share with you all.

We can’t wait to welcome you from 4th November every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

It’s organic September this month. And whilst I love any additional focus on the benefits of organic (ie without pesticides) we are committed to organic all year round. I started using non organic fabric when I started the business, but knowing that non organic fabric and cotton is so damaging to the environment and the people who grow it, made me so uneasy and we switched to an organic fabric base.

Being a sustainable ethical company isn’t just producing products that are plastic free and reusable, it’s ensuring that EVERY little bit of the business is doing its utmost to be the cleanest and most sustainable for the planet. And i’m sorry, but if your fabric isn’t organic, or grown in a sustainable way… your business is not ethical. Your business is green washing.

The pesticides used to grow cotton are so strong that often after the crops are sprayed, people can’t go into the fields for days because of the damage it causes to their health.

Organic farming relies on natural systems and cycles and looking after the earth the crops grow in. No pesticides are used, and natural methods are used to keep pests away.

Have a look at this great post by The Soil Association all about organic farming.

https://www.soilassociation.org/certification/fashion-textiles/organic-cotton-the-sustainable-choice/

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We’ve won an award!!!! Or our amazing cloth reusable wipes have.

They won best eco product in the kitchen category in @beautyshortlist. It’s so exciting to have one of our favourite products recognised in this way. So many environmentally focussed brands won awards this year, it really feels like mindset is definitely on greener issues and climate change.

Im so proud of anyone who is moving away from using polluting single use plastics. It’s not easy when the super markets are still full of them. I know the effort involved in researching and finding more eco alternatives. And if you have little babies, even more so, i know how your time is stretched.

Thanks to the @beautyshortlist for the award, I’m very honoured.

Click here to see the full list of winners https://www.thebeautyshortlist.com

Yesterday I’d planned to get up and do a post about an octopus and talk about my love of sea creatures. I was going to talk about octopuses, how clever they were, their beauty and majesty.

But i woke up in the hugest rage. I don’t know if it was the sun moving into Aries giving me some extra fire.. but my rage at the amount of disposable masks and micro plastics on the earth and in the ocean enraged me.

Each month, over 1.6 billion disposable face masks are being discarded... that’s over a trillion since Covid.. a trillion pieces of plastic produced and discarded. A trillion pieces of plastic that will never disappear, only break down into smaller pieces of plastic called micro plastics.

We’re swimming in plastic.. literally. I’m really afraid that we’re running out of time. That we’re not doing enough. That not enough people are taking our climate crisis seriously enough. This is it people. We have a small, finite amount of time before the world reached a point from which there is no return.

We have to make changes, we have to operate outside of our own personal changes. How can we encourage more people to care about the future of this planet?

And honestly... if you don’t need a medical grade mask and can wear a reusable mask... just do it. If you want one and don’t have sufficient funds to buy one, I have some that I will give you. Please contact me directly.