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:beer:Very Belated happy anniversary

julicorn

Hi everyone, happy Sunday!

It's been a little while since my last update - what can I say, work has been absolutely manic. Hopefully the next few weeks will be less stressful.
In the meantime, we finished our garden which looks absolutely lovely now, next on the list is our kitchen - new tiles, new unit doors, and new worktops. I can't wait, I think it will be so pretty. Might be a project that needs to be stretched over the next few months though, turns out none of those things are particularly cheap.
Stress at work also meant that I barely did any work on my etsy shop in July (uploaded just 2 more small patterns, barely posted on social media), but it's been my best month so far. It's nice to see that I'm at a point now where I don't need to constantly promote my shop and still get consistent sales! I've now earned enough to need to pay tax on my income as well, but with YNAB it's not too tricky to track that.

This month, we'll hit another mortgage milestone and get under £165k, exciting stuff! We're almost 4 years ahead now as well. Our interest rate increases this month to 1.88% (another 2 year fix), but I feel like that's still a good rate. Probably helps that my parents just told me they funded their house in Germany in the 90s on a 10 year fix, 10% interest rate!

On the less bigger picture 'what's been going on' update, this weekend is Pride weekend here in Brighton. Mr julicorn and I went to watch the parade yesterday, which was just lovely. I also made a meal plan again for the next 2 weeks, you've got to try every now and then, am I right? We also went to Cambridge with my parents a few weekends ago which was lovely, hadn't been there before.

Either way, I hope you all have a great evening and a good start into August

Karmacat

Congratulations on the Etsy shop constant sales, and on the mortgage plus you've fitted in some lovely things. Pride has such an amazing atmosphere, doesn't it especially in Brighton!

beanielou

Good to see you :wave:

julicorn

Karmacat wrote: »

Congratulations on the Etsy shop constant sales, and on the mortgage plus you've fitted in some lovely things. Pride has such an amazing atmosphere, doesn't it especially in Brighton!

Thank you! Pride is one of my favourite weekends of the year, it's just such a nice atmosphere as you say I hope you are well too!

beanielou wrote: »

Good to see you :wave:

Thanks beanie! How are you doing? :heart2:

beanielou

julicorn wrote: »

Thank you! Pride is one of my favourite weekends of the year, it's just such a nice atmosphere as you say I hope you are well too!


Thanks beanie! How are you doing? :heart2:

I am plodding on thanks

julicorn

Got a pay rise at my job out of the blue today (my boss has been noticing how much I've had to do lately) - might crack open a bottle of bubbly tonight, even if it's a school night! :j

beanielou

julicorn wrote: »

Got a pay rise at my job out of the blue today (my boss has been noticing how much I've had to do lately) - might crack open a bottle of bubbly tonight, even if it's a school night! :j

Hurrah :j:j:T

Karmacat

julicorn wrote: »

Got a pay rise at my job out of the blue today (my boss has been noticing how much I've had to do lately) - might crack open a bottle of bubbly tonight, even if it's a school night! :j

Definitely! Bottles of bubbly are made for such occasions Congratulations!

julicorn

Thank you both! :heart2: Managed to find a bottle of champagne we got given a little while ago, it's just chilling in the fridge for a tiiiiiiny bit longer!