Stepping into 2014- walking in My Shoes with Mooloo

greenbee

thorsoak wrote: »

Now that's a good idea .....

And lots of hungarian aupairs in your part of the world. I can probably find you one

Savvy_sewing

I would need to have a serious think about sharing my home, I have had a live in "nanny" before, when my kids were little. I'm not sure my home is big enough. I'd need a huge declutter for a start. I'd also recently had shelving/cutting table etc installed in the second bedroom, which is full of fabrics at the moment. But I won't rule it out. I will have a chat with my parents, people like Molly who know me, etc and look into it. It's certainly not something to dismiss completely.
How do I find out what the going rate etc is, so I could do a costings etc?
At the moment I get help with the childcare, with my tax credits as she goes to a registered afterschool club. Although the Saturday babysitter is not covered in that.
Certainly given me food for thought!

I took in my 160th alteration yesterday!
Sold a few little things from my Second Level too.
Tomorrow I have 3 people booked into my Sewing Course.
Which is fine, as we need to cut things out, that's plenty of people to have to accommodate.

Twin1 and her BF had made a huge improvement in the flat.
I reiterated my position, and I told him to his face, be greatful for the contact you have, if the standards slip, access will too. And as a parting shot, I said, if you two are going to live together, you will want time on your own, not a 7 year old coming between you, and when you argue, which you will, she doesn't need to be part of a "well she's your daughter, not mine" or " you can't do/say etc because your not her Dad!"
And when your ready, and if your capable, then have one of your own.
( heaven forbid, but that seemed to work!)

Time to get ready to go to work. I stayed late last night, got quite a bit done. Have a steady flow of work to do. Need to sort the workroom ready for tomorrow.
The initial Logo that was finally sent to me, just doesn't do it for me, I will need to ask for some changes! I have asked Biggest of Mooloo to take another look. I hope she is back at work and able. She had gone to Venice for her birthday.
dGD2 was with her other granny. They came to see me at the shop, and brought over a variety of bits and pieces, some wool, baby clothes etc but a pram system?? So I've brought that home, will clean it, then see if DS wants it. If not I will put it on a car boot or something.
dGD2, calls me Granny Moo. She was so excited to come to the shop and went straight for the dressing up section! A little lady who likes her sparkle and heels!! Unlike DGD1 completely.

Savvy_sewing

So a late night post. Work wise it was a plodding kind of day. For the first time I was about to say no alterations in, but actually there were two. One for a couple who are continuously drip feeding me work, and another from a regular customer, which I did there and then at the end of the afternoon. Plenty of enquiries, and a couple of pre-loved sales.
I prepared patterns gir tomorrow's course too.
I made huge staff decisions and am now on a mission too succeed. It will be more than letting down myself if it was to fail.
Actually failure is not on the agenda!
I am confident that at least half of the enquiries will come back. I have a wonderful wedding centre piece to do, braces to make, curtains to line, shorten, wedding waistcoats quoted for bad baby taggies to do.

On the personal front, ( hence this thread), I am pleased to have DGD home. That she will be home tomorrow, and that she is on the mend.
I was saddened to see that in 36 hours at her Mummies that the mess got worse, so she will not be going there as often as we would have originally liked.
I also found out from DGD that they let her play on the play station a game of shooting baddies!
So they really are digging their own grave so to speak.


I'm off to sleep now, good night. X

Savvy_sewing

Evening. DGD and her new babysitter got on well today, which was good.
Molly's daughter helped me in the shop, keeping the place ticking over, while I ran the workshop.
All went ok, although one little girl didn't have enough fabric for her pj's and ended up making shorts!
The pre-loved section is now open and we had a few looking, and an American off of the base came in and bought some jeans etc. He was so excited to get two pairs that fitted him, and was over the moon, his son had a body warmer, only his wife didn't get anything. He "loved my quaint little shop" it was very pleasing to see someone so happy with my place.
I felt quite proud of the start.
I was only £35 short of my £500 target for this week.
Really pleased.
I couldn't really ask for a better start.

Ellidee

Lovely to hear such positive news Mooloo !

Savvy_sewing

A visit to B & Q to look at wallpaper, a stroll round Dunelm Mill, followed by an ice cream by Willen Lake in Milton Keynes.
Back home now cooking Dinner, treating us to a roast beef and Yorkshire pudding kind of dinner. Not done one of those in a very long time.
dGD is back on form and will be Back at school tomorrow.
The sun always has a positive effect on me.
Mind you the housework needs sorting out!
Washing is on, so hopefully I will get it out in the morning before I go off to work. I miss my dry cover! Rotary drier cover I used to have when I first moved here!

Almost-free

I am so happy to see things going your way Mooloo- long may this run of luck continue ( although of course it is your hard work, not luck, fuelling this!)

Savvy_sewing

Almost-free wrote: »

I am so happy to see things going your way Mooloo- long may this run of luck continue ( although of course it is your hard work, not luck, fuelling this!)

Thanks. I think it's a bit of both!
Just wish DS could have some luck.

There is a deal going on at Woburn Safari Park, it being off season, I got tickets to go @£1 a head on 8th November. Wrap up warm, we would be in the car, we might spot the odd animal I hope!
Hoping Biggest of Mooloo will be able to come with her girls too.

Oh no! I just realised it's s Saturday not the Sunday! Oh heck.
Back to the drawing board!

Savvy_sewing

My day has been the strangest day ever!
From getting to school in beautiful sunshine, stepping out of the car and getting soaked in a sudden down pour! My brollie turned inside out, too windy. Lost the car key as it has come off it's fob. Walked home for the spare, and back again, to find key on car seat! Had to laugh or would have cried.
Scraped into the shop with 2 minutes to spare.
Broke two needles in 2inches of sewing a zip in a coat!
Continued in that vein really.
A Romany lady came into the shop, and told me and my worker some weird and freighting ly accurate stuff about us. She was selling crochet table clothes, very beautiful and I did succumb! But it was the things she told me. She knew about my twins, my granddaughter, my new business, my passed, my problems with commitment from the BF, and that I was right not to move in with him.
She even told me about my arm/neck troubling me, and that was with me behind a row of sewing machines. It was rather weird, she hugged me when she left, told me not to worry that my business was going to thrive, and when she left I went so cold.
The weird thing is she did similar personal things for my friend, except relevant to her, and she too went cold when she left.
It really disturbed us for the rest of the day, and my sewing problems didn't go away! So I have three jobs still to finish before morning.
But my arm is so bad, I feel like I'm back to the old days, except no tablets!
I've had a soak in a hot bath, hoping that I get some relief, so I can work at home. If not it's a 6am at the machines! Not good.

duchy

You know though- I could find your shop fairly easily- walk in and tell you all that stuff too .

I really don't know what to believe -I'm a skeptic BUT years ago I had avery weird experience that gave me food for though.

We were away for the weekend at a holiday camp-knew no-one there and were nowhere near home. My friend wanted her fortune done and persuaded me to go with her. I went in first and got told a lot of non specific nonsense and some completely wrong stuff . My friend then went in and came out as white as a sheet. As soon as she had sat down the first thing the woman said to her was "Why are you wearing your wedding rings....you aren't married anymore" which was true......she then went on to tell her that her ex-husband siffered from a very specific mental illness.......also true but something my friend discussed with absolutely no-one not even family as she found talking about him and his behaviours too distressing.

So based on my reading-it was carp- based on my friend's reading it was unexplainable accurate. I have no explanation.