Ah it’s that time of year again, you know the New Year is looming in the back ground and so it’s only natural you sit and look back at the year you’ve had on reflection. I quite like doing this, you spend your time rushing through life that you often don’t have chance to realise all that you’ve achieved and gone through. For us as a family 2016 has been hard but we’ve gotten through it, and even though we are a remarkably close family, I think this year has made us even more closer.  I truly am thankful for the family we have because we have needed them for so much support. We always knew the beginning of the year was going to be tough. We’ve faced cancer battles, a potential job loss and a car that seemed to enjoy having things break at least once a month. But hey we’ve gotten through the year and we are still standing.

I wouldn’t say I’m a negative person but neither would I say I was an overly positive person, (both are far too exhausting) but I do believe in making the most of a crappy situation, and I guess that’s what we’ve done this year. With all the doom and gloom we’ve made sure to make happy memories for the girls and us, because laughter really is the best medicine.

So, with a New Year come New Year’s resolutions. Will I be making any? No. No I won’t. I’m just going to carry on doing what I do best and make the most of the best situation. Sure, I will make realistic goals, things I’d like to achieve, like organising the wardrobe (ok maybe that’s not realistic) or winning the lottery (maybe I need to re think these “realistic” goals) but I don’t think I will be making world domination goals. I’m hoping 2017 brings calmness and is smooth sailing. I’m not wanting to seek out excitement, I’m not a thrill seeker, I can read a good book for that. I just want to enjoy my family and enjoy the life that I have.

Muchas Love

Mrs KnittyKnotts

xx

Hey hey hey, it feels like a life time ago since I wrote on the blog! We’ve gone through a fantastic family summer, the big Miss KnittyKnotts has settled in well to year 2 and mini Miss KnittyKnotts is loving preschool. Now she’s at preschool it gives me actual set working hours for the week and it’s amazing, I cannot get over just how much I can get done, which is just brilliant as it means I’m not so stressed!

So we’ve come out of a wonderful summer of discovering South Devon and North Cornwall. Now we are in the thick of autumn, one of my most favourite times of the year, and we are gearing up for Christmas. I love the hype that surrounds the months of October, November and December. The cosiness, woolly socks, hot chocolates and leaf kicking. A time were I like to crank the heating up so I feel like I’m sunning myself in the Maldives just to annoy Mr KnittyKnotts, aka the Heating Police.

I often find when you hit the Autumn months you tend to want to reinvent yourself, make subtle changes whether that’s in your home or personally. Your wardrobe gets and overall as does your hair and possibly you make little changes in the home, the addition of candles and photos. It seems quite natural to make these changes and it’s no different to our mini business. We’ve had a packaging facelift and found a love of all things embroidered which we’ve added to the website. Our branding has had a bit of an overall too and I seem to of gone doily and hand stamping mad.

Anyway I’ve rambled for too long, I have doilies to stamp and gifts to sew.

Toodles for now

Love

Mrs KnittyKnotts 

xx