Getting some Thank yous out there....

To be honest I have marked today down as booked out but in reality I am actually taking a sneaky day off to spend it with my kids before my oldest goes back to school on Monday and then the rounds of Kindy, school and all that life stuff kick off again next week.

I've been flat out at The Craft Dept - thanks mostly to a couple of strategic mentions on facebook page "Things to do with Toddlers in Auckland" and then to the incredible support and involvement of all those who have booked their kids in and brought along friends and family to make some messy arty fun in my little room.

I have been overwhelmed by the generous donation of materials from Mum and obvious uber creative Melissa 'Owens' Paterson & as of yesterday we are now dabbling in the big time thanks to a donation of craft treasures from Lissy Mayer costume designer for film & television. Watch out for your treasures re-interpreted with much love and youthful enthusiasm guys!

I am just so stoked that this Crafty experiment is working so well within a social media context too and to now have so many "likers" on facebook is brilliant. I am keen to grow this even more and thank you 'friends' with some sort of 'facebook' generated reward....my thinking cap is working overtime on this but hope to have something fitting up by end of the week.

Also working on a snazzy re-fresh of the current Kids menu and some equally snazzy classes for Grown Ups as our "wool 'n' wine" crochet sessions are proving to be an awesome hit (thanks Koyal Kapilla our resident teacher and crochet guru)....

So much to do - but most of all I am happy to be occupying my brain doing something that feels like a lot of fun and works in so well with my most important and biggest Job to date which is being a Mum & a wife.

And thank you to my lovely hubster Matt who has been a pretty calm and encouraging sounding board, happy to help me translate my artfelt enthusiasm into rational business ideas - with patience (most of the time at least!)

And if anyone would like me to whip up their next academy awards thank you speech or such then yell out - after all the above waffly wankery I reckon this could be another creative distraction!

x cheers Rebecca