I believe that as new businesses and with a bad recession beginning to bite hard, we all need to be patient and see what happens as the year grows older.

With large department stores and the smaller shops going into receivership, what right do I have to complain about lack of sales?

With people losing their employment and struggling to pay their mortgages and bills, do I really have a right to complain about no one buying my items?

The one bright light in these dark days is the light at the end of the very long tunnel and that is if I survive this recession as a minute business than I can only grow and attract more business.

The best place to be sited through these dark times is on Misi. Because Emma with all the shop owners help and encouragement, is going to make Misi as big as Etsy and even EBay. But this is something that is going to take, time, effort, encouragement and most of all patience. Emma has already taken Misi far ahead of any of the Market Place sites that appeared around the same time as Misi and that is some going with the way the economy is at present.

There is a great family community based within the forums were all members encourage, help, and support each other. You will not find a better closer community in any forum and believe me I belong to around 30 (not all craft ones).

Now let me show you some of the great crafts that you will find within the pages of this great Site, because no matter what you like you find them here even chocolate.

The Chocolate Truffle CO:

Cocoapod

Ticketyboo

beccasstuff

Back to the World of the Living

Well I am back and the 1st thing I want to do is to thank my last customers and their patience while I was in hospital. My daughter now knows where everything is on Misi and where all my candles are kept. So if I collapse again and rushed into hospital your orders will be sent out on time. I am also so very proud of the Twins for without them I would not be here. When I collapsed, R ran for my neighbours and S-M dialled her mums mobile ( I have it on speed dial and she remembered which button from watching me) and got her home. R came back with my neighbours Joe & Andy who quickly got things under control and called an ambulance.

Got to go back to the doctors this week for yet another check-up and to get the results of the hundreds (felt like it) tests they did on me, came home covered in bruises lol. Cant do much at the moment, just walking to the kitchen has me gasping for breath. I can promise you all I am doing as I am told, the Twins make sure I do.

At least my illness helped take Chelle’s mind of her other troubles for a little while. My ex SIL is finally moving out this Sat (23rd) and moving his ‘bit’ in on the same day and they will be living on the Luton/Dunstable border which is about 5 miles away from Chelles house. S-M & R told me this week they will be glad when he moves out as he cant make Mummy cry anymore and beside they only need Mummy & Nanna.

Although I am obeying orders and not doing anything to strenuous I have got myself some Pink Paper Bags for the craft fairs etc. Will take some pics and post them later.

Well bed time for me see you all soon
xxxxxx

My Misi Wish List

Well I thought I would join in with blogging about my favourite site. There are so many talented Artists to choose from I was at a loss to know where to start. But when I checked it seems my wish list is made of foody items.

Take a walk with through a few of the shops on Misi

This one made my mouth water A full English Breakfast without all the fatening calories lol. It Canbe found at Sorbet Surprise's Shop and only costs £6.50 but well worth the money as it is very well made and should last for ages.

Please check out her shop as she has other stunning items there

Another of my favourite shops is owned by the person who made these cookies as well a miriad of other crafts like soaps, candles, crocheting.

I suppose I should tell you who it is incase you don't know - it is our very own Pink Fairy Cake

There are a few more which I post tomorrow as I am shattered and need my bed lol

My Apologises

Sorry I have not been able to update my blog for a few weeks but since Mothers Day all hell has broken out here.

First as some you may know I was told that my daughter and SIL were splitting as he was having an affair with a woman he knew and loved at the age of 16. She apparently found him on Friends Reunited last year and their relationship started from then. Chelle has been fighting since then to try and save their marriage. He promised her he would not have contact with his lover but he was lying through his back teeth. He went out and bought a new mobile phone so she could still call him when not at work and while he was at work she called his works phones in the lorries he drives. Since then he has tried to have her arrested for assault, tried turning Chelles step children against her which back fired on him as his eldest daughter has told him that until he stops behaving like a child she want nothing to do with him but is supporting Chelle all the way as are his other children.

I honestly believe he is trying to send Chelle over the edge so he can claim he was right all along and that she is unstable. He is acting like a spoilt brat who cant get their own way and anyone who will not accept what he is doing he is just casting aside. I mean how childish is this – when his eldest daughter walks in a room (she is down to spend a week with Chelle and the twins) he walks out and goes and sits in his room. He is also refusing to move out because Chelle is refusing to sell the house. He won’t help with the twins except to feed them if HE has too. Today he blamed Chelle for his eldest son getting his girlfriend pregnant.

But I can tell you if it was not for Chelles influence in their lives the children would be completely different people and not as adult, independent, and self sufficient as they are. He told his eldest daughter, well actually mumbled as he talked to his g/f on the pc that HE was the one that went out to work and bought their shoes and clothes for them, all Chelle did was to complain about it. I soon put her right this afternoon when she told me. Right from the very beginning 17 yrs ago Chelle was determine to treat them as her own and this she has done and is still doing it. She loves those kids so much I think it hurt her more when she thought they would not want anything to do with her.

I am trying to do everything I can to help but it is tearing me apart hearing her sobbing her heart out and trying to tell me the latest thing he has come up with. I can actually see her taking the twins and disappearing so he won’t be able to hurt her anymore.


Sorry I did not expect to turn this into a rant but I have had her on the phone crying again because now he is blaming her for his eldest boy smoking weed. Yea right.

Right change of subject – There is a clearance sale at my Misi shop

Everything must go

Got back home from picking the Twins up from school, when I received a phone call asking what time my shop closed. I explained to the lady that I worked out of my flat and she asked if she could come round and look at my candles. I of course said she could and she bought both of my Candles in a Glass Columbian Coffee and Irish Cream. She had seen them on my website and as she lived closed to me decided to come and buy them instead of doing it through the site. Just what I needed it has given me a boost in confidence.

I have started this blog but have no idea what I am going to put in it yet. I expect it will become …..
A show room for my new candles
A place to rant and rave
A place to write the thoughts and worries I can’t tell my daughter.
Any way I hope you enjoy reading my blog and in sharing the ups and downs of my days.
I am sat here trying to think of what to write and the room is filling with a lovely lemony scent from the candles I am test burning and along with the sunshine pouring in the windows it feels almost summery.

Near the end of February I received an email asking me to quote for an initial order of 100 – 200 bottle shaped candles. I spent days searching for the best place to get the moulds made, the wax etc. I resolved to keep this between me and the family until it was finalised and then surprise all my friends with the news. But unfortunately that resolve was soon broken when I had to turn to my friends to check that I had done some calculations right when changing from mls to lbs & ounces. Again every one of those friends helped and supported me. Well finally I had my mould maker and a total amount for the supplies I put it all together in an email to my customer and sent it off.

That was 6 days ago and still not heard anything from him, so I presuming I have either given him a heart attack or the quote was way too high for him, perhaps I will never know what the out come was.

I do know that at this time in space I am seriously considering my future and what it will hold for me.