Having just met a girlfriend at Burford Garden Company I felt I had to write something about it! It is in the heart of the Cotswolds but easily reached just off the A40, my friend was travelling from Buckinghamshire and had a very pleasant journey.
You can spend the whole day there breaking for lunch in [...]

I had wanted to visit the FIMI children & young persons trade fair ever since I read an article about it in Junior magazine. Part of my ‘big plan’ for cool boys & girls’ is to have a clothing range, a range of classic clothes along the same lines as the shoes.
When chatting with my [...]

So, the shoes start to arrive and I need to photograph them to get them on the site. First the Spanish supplier which included the school shoes and baby shoes. The Portuguese supplier promised he was soon to follow (days) so I booked a photographer and lined up a couple of models as well as [...]

One of the things I found frustrating was the cost of the type of classic, quality shoes available for boys in the UK, so one of my goals was to try to keep the price as low as possible without sacrificing on the quality.
I did look in to getting a shop in Cheltenham but the [...]

I was still keeping the old business ticking over and we also started renting out the Portugal house so had plenty to keep me busy but it wasn’t enough, my husband kept telling me about how ‘on line’ was the way of the future and perhaps I should get in to something to do with [...]