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Hi everyone,
Well, I know I have been supremely quiet this past fortnight. I have been struggling to simply get through each day with the volume of work that I have to do for both our home life and for Ankle Biters.
Our Grand Opening was absolutely fantastic and completely exceeded any expectations that we could have had for it! We were so overwhelmed by all of your support and were amazed that people travelled from as far away as Ipswich and Redland Bay to attend!
Unfortunately, chaos reigned on the day though (in a GOOD way!), and I wasn't able to shoot even a SINGLE pic! I am so regretful of this, especially so as our little Zali was quite the little star, putting in a "grand performance" of her own with our belly dancer, Henna!
Things are starting to settle down somewhat with our new store so I am feeling much more grounded and balanced and we are slowly moving into a routine of sorts with the store, which is great. The shop itself is extremely quiet, so we are desperately hoping that this will pick up when people start to find us, and we are trying to keep as optimistic as possible about this! :)
No news to tell on the internet scam thing unfortunately. We have now received a handful of letters from the CBA with, I think about 5 chargebacks having come back now, so the debt is slowly building. We are still waiting to hear from Today Tonight about the airing of the show, and we are feeling a bit let down about this as we turned down A Current Affair after promising Today Tonight the "scoop" and it has been now 3 weeks since they interviewed me.
We have some great local media support though, and were excited to find the above article on page 3 of our local paper, the North West News this morning. We had thought it would only be a small article, but was pleasantly surprised and we are very hopeful that it will direct some traffic through our doors!
Must get back to it, trying to get a much belated copy of the Ridgy Didge out!
Thanks for reading everyone! :)
tan.x.
I really hope it all goes well for you and you start getting heaps and heaps and heaps of customers through the doors. Fingers crossed your story will be aired soon.
Good luck with it all
Lisa
xxx
HI Tanya
This article is great....
I am sorry I missed the grand opening and so glad that it went well for you.
Chin up and no doubt your store will take off any minute.
xoxox
Liesa
So glad your opening went well Tan!! Hang in there it takes time to establish yourself in a new business.
Best wishes,
Kim :)
I wish you all the best with your new shop... at least it's open now and it's just a matter of getting the customers through the door. I am glad that Ipswich people came to your opening as well. Our next Handmade Expo is on the 26th September so if you wanted more flyers given out then please feel free to let us know so we can give you a new address to send them to. All the best and please keep us updated.
Thanks
Micky
xxoo
Sad to hear that terrible story...hope your new store is going well though.