This week has been busy. Two commissions were completed, for a wedding gift and a 90th birthday gift. This is the time to start planning those very personal, bespoke gift ideas.

What a week .... two red carpet events and I even wore a hatinator...all the rage at weddings apparently. After last week’s awards ceremony for BNI I headed off to the New Forest for my best friend’s son’s wedding.

What a shock! I joined BNI ( Business Network International) business referral network in March 2019 and last night my colleagues in the Turn The Music Up chapter , who meet at 6.30 am every Thursday morning in Grangemouth, voted for me as the member of the year at the regional annual awards dinner in Edinburgh.

Where to start with my first ever blog? Following the advice of Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music (yes, I am old enough to have watched it!) ... ‘let’s start at the very beginning