Ooops and good morning everyone. I am so sorry, I completely forgot it was Blog time. 🤦🏼♀️. It truly has been so busy that I have had a hard time keeping days straight. My apologies.
Let me back up to November. We were mostly home all month, can you believe it ? Being home doesn't mean it was any quieter lol. Home is busy. Work coming and going, I got a LOT of our mending and alterations done which was really good. I also took "the leap" and emailed our biggest local hospital re my Ollie Octopuses. I truly did not expecting any kind of response. In the meantime I was chatting with an old school friend who shared how she worked with the Hospitals. This is something that BigBear has been telling me to do for a long time, but I really didn't think I had a chance or any idea how to go about it. Anyhoo ...I drew up a flyer (yep all by myself) and then gave it over to the Designer and Marketer of the family, BigBear. PS. He was quite impressed with what I had done. He took a few minutes and transformed my flyer into beautiful and designed me a business card as well. At the same time I received an email back from the hospital asking me to bring in one packaged Ollie and flyers and they will put the flyers into each goody bag they hand out in the pre-natal classes and every month one mommy-to-be gets a free gift. Ie. Ollie. Whoop whoop, I was so excited I could not stop shaking. So the race to get the flyers and biz cards printed has been on and I will collect tomorrow as well as deliver to the Hospital. Who knew ?? I also worked on an idea and created a Rainbow Ollie especially for those extra special Rainbow Babies. (You can see it in the pic below)
JB and I spent last week in Hout Bay helping with our little Munchkin, it was so good to see him after almost a month away. He is growing so quickly in every area and every day is an absolute delight.
Business is going well for Hubby and he finds clocks in the oddest places but is always busy. Between that and his sailing his is on the go.
Princess received an award for Best Sustainable Design 2. Well done my angel you are rocking this and we are so proud of you. Big Guy is also doing really well in his new job and thoroughly enjoying it all. THE best news is Princess and C fly down on Sunday and Big Guy flies down on the 19th. I am SO excited to see them all and can't wait for all the hugs, fun, laughter and cups of tea.
As for Christmas all our shopping is done and I still have 2 Christmas cakes to make. Today Hubby and I will move some of the furniture around in readiness for our makeover in 2 weeks. He has been prepping the walls with damp patches, we've had our carprt cleaned (I am not putting it down until all is done and dusted ) I sewed all the deck curtains yesterday and just need to sew on the loops, today hopefully . When I've moved the furniture then our Christmas tree can go up. 🎄Tomorrow I collect the printing and drop it all off at the Hospital amongst a gazillion other things that need to be done in town.
Belatedly 😂 the weather has been unbearable. It has been so hot that I have really struggled. I find that when it gets this hot, with Fibro my body overheats and I keep having faint spells. As you can imagine this is most inconvenient grrr. There has been no let up with the heat, last week in Cape Town and Hout Bay it was 37 c. Which is about 20 degrees too hot for me 😄.
Folks I'm going to close off with wishing each of you and your families a very Blessed Christmas. May it be joyful and may you make wonderful memories. We are going to be an entire family all together, on Christmas Day, for the first time in many years. Thank you for your support and encouragement throughout this year and I am looking forward to a new year of achievements, happy times and peace. Please stays safe on the roads and wherever you are. Ciao ciao.
The Ollie Range
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