tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60076078865091749912024-03-24T10:47:09.352-07:00All about the world of KittyedenA little look into the world of me and my family! My work and passion for vintage treasure xUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger781125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-79864937391151373172014-10-13T10:05:00.001-07:002014-10-13T10:05:15.419-07:00No No words just a quick reminder about our fab fair!<br />
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I am up to my ears in fair prep and sewing so short bloggings maybe the only way for me to stay in the loop!<br />
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I swear each year i will start early, every year i fail at this but with the new bigger workshop area, production is speeding along!<br />
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We have a bit of a new mix of colours and loads of vintage fabrics thrown in as well, so as they say watch this space.<br />
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Tomorrow i am off to Newark for a bit of Christmas stock buying, hoping to find some lovely Amish stars!!<br />
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Will share my finds with you x<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-60685108395090557242014-10-08T10:59:00.000-07:002014-10-08T10:59:13.716-07:00Ta da!Ok so i had all intentions of blogging loads but things have been crazy here!<br />
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For a start my long suffering man has left his job to join us in the business, it was a huge scary step but the only way to move forward was with two of us running the shop, website and buying!<br />
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We are on to our second month now and we have done so much, we have booked lots of fairs, bought loads of fab events and .....<br />
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It is very exciting and something i have wanted to do for ages, so now i have joined forces with my friends at Fantasticfinds.co.uk and look we have planned a fair already!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-30952186405772768752014-07-02T10:50:00.002-07:002014-07-02T10:50:46.390-07:00starting a new I have had this blog for what seems like forever, it has been a way to record my life a little but like many i have not shared much of the downside and just tried to keep it all happy and shiny.<br />
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After last year and the loss of my friend i knew that life was far too short worrying about others and how they back bite, so i am moving on and making this blog just a place for me to come and waffle about pretty stuff and fluffy bunnies etc<br />
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So my work blog will be over <a href="http://bridgemontvintage.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">bridgemont vintage.blogspot</a><br />
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Do pop over and say hi over there... it will be fun when it gets going!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-61350489098521533632014-05-17T11:05:00.001-07:002014-05-17T11:05:53.820-07:00love a little vintage sewing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Amazing how a bit of vintage doily can make you smile!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-49531880146502526152014-05-14T02:22:00.000-07:002014-05-14T02:22:00.076-07:00Stretching it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Good old fashioned advertising makes me smile!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-59418015853563362042014-05-13T08:10:00.004-07:002014-05-13T08:10:57.097-07:00Lucky<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My daily commute... it makes me smile whatever the weather!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-49434848807397693352014-05-09T09:48:00.003-07:002014-05-09T09:48:35.218-07:00Happy day 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-68141081696596809622014-05-09T02:13:00.001-07:002014-05-09T02:13:17.042-07:00Time for a changeSome of you may have noticed i have been a tad grumpy of late!<br />
This needs to change, my blog is supposed to be a happy place for me and for you too but sometimes life is not all fluffy bunnies and i think that is what has come over in the past few months!<br />
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It has been hard since the death of my friend and shop partner but i have taken a big step forward with the shop move and i need to stop feeling bad for feeling pleased with all i have achieved over the past three months.<br />
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I think we are often to hard on ourselves and we should say "hey look i have done this". We need to learn to give ourselves a big pat on the back and a well done!!<br />
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So to get me in the happy place again i am going to add one pic and a few words each day of things that make me happy.<br />
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Sara xUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-80741407558480873122014-05-07T08:45:00.001-07:002014-05-07T08:45:35.562-07:00Working weekMy working week kind of blends from one week to the next, i very rarely get enough of a weekend off to notice the new week starting!<br />
I am not complaining, i love my job and my work. Working for myself was not a step i took lightly, it is not the easy option! The hours are long, the pay is crap and the conditions can often be grim but i love it!<br />
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My week starts on Sunday up at silly o'clock, quick brew and we are dressed and out asap... my boys work at weekend so we have to make sure who ever is working is awake and who ever is at home will feed the cats!<br />
Juggling family, home and work is hard work!<br />
We usually do 2 or 3 car boots or flea markets, around 60-70 miles in the quickest time possible.. dealers get up early and are in there for all the best stuff! I try to catch up with a few friends that we meet at the same boot sales and then it is home for tea and usually a bacon sarnie.<br />
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The shop is open on a Sunday in Summer...<br />
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Monday is my day off, the day i run around doing home stuff and family stuff<br />
Tuesday and Wednesday i do the cleaning and sorting of the new vintage stock.<br />
Thursday is my work day off, i do all the paperwork, stock up on supplies and run shop errands.<br />
Friday and Saturday i try to sew and work on commissions between customers.<br />
and then we are back to Sunday... my week does fly by.<br />
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In with all this i have 4 children, 3 cats and one hubby to be.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-80316189315170827242014-04-21T11:29:00.000-07:002014-04-21T11:36:22.854-07:00Roll up roll up... it was sale timeI like to have a sale on Bank Holidays, today was horrid to start and i did wonder if it would be worth it while i was freezing dragging myself around a terrible Sunday market in the fog!<br />
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But by the time we had got home with what i can only describe as meager finds... 3 lovely pictures but that was all! Not worth the £20 petrol or the very early start but hey ho. Anyhoo the weather had changed and the sun was shining so after a quick cup of tea... my first of the day grrrr, i set off to open the shop.<br />
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Now we all have signs at the end of the road into Bridgemont to send folk up to the industrial estate which is off the beaten track, anyhoo can you guess how surprised i was to find some idiot (not the word i used at the time) had vandalised our sign!!!!<br />
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Now luckily after much searching we found the sign and put it back but this is another kick in the teeth for many shop owners... wanton vandalism! Why, why do they feel the need to do this kind of thing, well all i can say is they are mindless feckwits, with no morals or manners.<br />
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So after spending time fixing the sign we opened the shop to lots of lovely buyers, all were so shocked when i told them of what had happened.<br />
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In between customers i re organised the garden section and then washed some china tea sets.<br />
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I will not let these bad things get me down when i have so many lovely customers and such wonderful supportive friends and family xUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-57921702199822426332014-04-20T06:54:00.001-07:002014-04-20T06:54:29.362-07:00VintageVintage can be seen as a dirty word sometimes... people seem to think we buy everything cheap as chips and then bang them in the shop at an extortionate price but think on this!<br />
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I get up at 5.30 on a weekend, go out in the cold dark muddy freezing in Winter weather, searching in sometimes grungy stuff that makes you want to reach for the hand sanitiser quicker than a flash.<br />
You have to run the barge of the ruthless steely eyed dealers.. yes yes i know i am a dealer but i try to be polite and not barge folk around just because i am not that desperate to find that think!<br />
Then you have the unbudging grumpy sellers who mention the price on ebay with every second breath, to me ebay is nothing at all to do with reality, if you bags a bargain then good oh but half the time prices have no rhyme or reason!<br />
That is before i add in the cost of fuel and time, then bring it home clean, clean some more and then often repair.<br />
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It all takes time and after all that i often do research on each piece so when someone asks i can give them as much info as possible.<br />
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Shall leave you with this thought... at one of todays tiny car boots we dropped in at by chance.<br />
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An enamel wash bowl uncleaned and in need of a bit of tlc... asked the seller the cost £15.00 he barked at me... well that my dear readers is exactly what i sell the same size bowl for in our shop!<br />
Ours are cleaned and the rust is treated, i promise i don't bark at customers either and always try and smile too!<br />
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Tatty bye x<br />
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Hope you are enjoying a little look into the real world of a vintage shop owner :)<br />
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Easter is not just about chocolate, for me it is about family time, a rare afternoon off and lot of yummy food!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-28384898454893145652014-04-19T11:52:00.003-07:002014-04-19T23:10:28.371-07:00A thoughtSlacking with the blogging again.. so busy running a shop and a busy home of 4 children, 3 cats and a man!<br />
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Life and days whoosh by, i often think oooh i will blog but then something else pops up!<br />
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So my thought for today is how busy life is... running your own shop is more than a full time job!<br />
Our whole world revolves around the shop, not just the opening everyday, yet have a day off and everyone notices and comments!<br />
I wonder how many who have a job working for someone else would work 7 days a week 16 hours a day for very little pay.. no day off no paid holidays, yes i choose to do this but it would be nice if people think before they tell you you should be open all the time!<br />
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Even our days off are usually about catching up with banking and admin, searching out new stock and chasing up post and couriers.<br />
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Don't get me wrong i love doing this but do spare a thought, it is not all fun and an easy option... far from it.<br />
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Tonight i will be updating my fb pages, the blog, twitter, pinterest and instagram, searching for fairs to go too and of course sourcing more vintage stock.<br />
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That's another thing, we only sell true vintage.. it has to be sourced by building up contacts, getting up at stupid o'clock to search around in the cold, wet dark corner of a muddy field or sometimes just by luck.<br />
There is no vintage fairy... wish there was some mornings when i have to drag my aching bones out into the cold ;)<br />
This isn't a whinge or me being grumpy, it is just what is in my head now a bit of a look into my life! I don't want praise or thanks you's, i get the biggest buzz ever when someone finds that perfect thing in the shop and takes it away to give it a forever home.<br />
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Right i have a cup of tea and a chink of rocky road with my name on.. shall try and be a better blogger!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-38379204004089901362014-03-02T01:00:00.000-08:002014-03-02T01:00:00.863-08:00Shopfrom start to finish<br />
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A bit of TMI first, my poorly boob healed quickly but it seems i now have another cyst that is growing fast.. so back i shall go and hopefully we will have a similar outcome.. fingers crossed!<br />
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We are finally in the new shop, i have painted, cleaned, painted, scrubbed and painted some more! We have got it as near as dammit!<br />
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We opened just over a week ago and have had an amazing response already.<br />
I am finally back to sewing but needing a bit of ooomph to get me all fired up with the old sewing lark!<br />
We held our first workshop last weekend which was ace fun and now i am busy planning lots more.<br />
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We have had cold, illness and lurgy! Birthdays and Valentines! Dad's anniversary.. miss you Dad!<br />
We have had days out as a couple... yes ok so we did go vintaging but a day out is a day!<br />
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So there you go, there is loads more but i can hear someone snoring at the back so i shall trot off<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-90045633369518582622014-01-18T08:46:00.003-08:002014-01-18T08:46:49.075-08:00SorryI need to say a big sorry to all those waiting for me to draw the pack winner!<br />
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Let me explain... nearly two weeks ago i found a lump... panic followed and appointments and more worry and panic!<br />
My doctors were fab and got me in to see a specialist really quickly but still it is scary going to the Cancer clinic! I had lots and lots of test and checks done.<br />
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I am so very lucky and happy to say i have cysts, they are benign lumps which all though they are a bit of a pain especially the huge b***er (5cms) that they removed on Tuesday, they are not cancerous.<br />
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I have more than this one and have to of course keep an eye on them and get them checked straightaway.. like you must do people!<br />
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So i haven't been slacking off and i have had to rest a bit but i am getting back to full speed again and shall pick a winner this weekend<br />
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Me xUnknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-33652500360510747282014-01-06T11:47:00.000-08:002014-01-06T11:47:43.702-08:00and the blog goes on...I shall keep the giveaway open for a few more days as some people are only just getting back into blog reading after Christmas xx<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-73501044267328138502014-01-01T04:16:00.004-08:002014-01-02T13:53:12.780-08:00Blue January giveaway<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Do you get the January blues? Stuck for inspiration or is your head full of plans and ideas?<br />
Well either way you will like my giveaway.... one little vintage and found inspiration pack!<br />
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So all you have to do is leave me a little comment and in a few days i shall pick one lucky person to get a little treat through the post!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-6562565223756784632013-12-30T00:00:00.000-08:002013-12-30T00:00:03.235-08:00The about to welcome in 2014 giveaway!Last year has left me with a different look out on life so, i am going to have a giveaway.<br />
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The sale in the shop that is............... if you are in the Derbyshire/Cheshire/Staffordshire area then why not pop along to see what we have!<br />
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We are just off the Peak Forest canal just outside Whaley Bridge... you can visit the wonderful Goyt Valley, the Bugsworth basin and so much more in the Peak District.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-90343330850421970432013-12-28T00:00:00.000-08:002013-12-28T00:00:00.072-08:00Hunkering downThe weather is a little bit "grim up North" today and we are stopping in away from the dreaded sales... i like time to sit and thinking.<br />
I seem to be getting more and more into a simpler life.<br />
I like quiet and peace and family time too.<br />
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The children are more into doing their own thing.<br />
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The really do grow so fast!<br />
If you have little ones this may seem so far off for you but treasure everyday, they really really do grow so fast.<br />
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Anyhoo, i am planning for our year, we have things we want and need to achieve and we want to save if we can so one of our wishes can come true.<br />
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I am going to be as frugal as i can this year.. with a full time job each and teens this may be hard work but i am sure we can do it.<br />
We are avoiding the sales if we can but sadly have to go soon to get new Winter shoes for all the children.<br />
I may get some gift sets if i can find nice ones and pop them away for next year, they are always handy to keep for those emergency gifts!!<br />
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no i haven't lost the plot again!!!<br />
I am using my Christmas break time to faff and mess around with all those ideas, notes i have scribbled down and pics i have pinned to Pinterest.<br />
I am drawn to sketching again, something i haven't done for years and years.<br />
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My head is full of things for the year, i always wonder if i should share my thoughts with you all, i suppose it is that constant thing about doing something new and different... the question is is there a new and different or are we all just going round in similar circles meeting at certain points with what seems like the same idea.<br />
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Anyhoo, my head is full of wildlife, clocks, medals, velvet and tweed. In there too are pastel shades of Spring, soft linens, metals especially precious golds and bronze.<br />
I find a lot of inspiration in the bleakness of Winter... the tiniest bit of colour pings out at you in a massive way. I love the greys and blacks too.<br />
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So there you are, what is in my head today x<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6007607886509174991.post-29024651780838887122013-12-26T07:34:00.005-08:002013-12-26T07:34:47.685-08:00ReflectionWell as you may already know, my life has changed in many ways over the last few months!<br />
In January, Mr KE went back to work... i kicked back and re-thought my life for a few a while.<br />
I got an offer that was to change my life! I also made a new friend.<br />
My baby girl became a woman, at 18 she has grown into a beautiful kind and caring woman... ok so she can be grumpy and very stubborn.. who knows where she got that from ;)<br />
Things skipped along, ups and downs happened and work carried on!<br />
I struggled with sewing and being creative for the first half of the year, i was being torn in all different directions.<br />
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Then as by luck not magic, things started to fall into place, we had a holiday to look forward too and at last my dream was about to come true.<br />
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In July we opened the shop, it wasn't just right yet but it was darn well getting there... i stumbled along sharing the next few months of fun with my friend and shop partner. The shop started to grow, slowly the word got out!<br />
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Then as all seemed so right, things started to go wrong, i didn't share this as i feared it would all fail. How was i too know things where about to change in ways i never thought of.<br />
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I started the large amount of fairs we had booked for the Winter and then boooooooooooooom!<br />
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Life ground to a very sudden halt when my friend and shop partner passed away.<br />
I felt like the world around me had just fallen away from under me.<br />
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I questioned everything and wondered if too carry on was what i wanted, should i just give up the shop and get a little part time job with no ties or attachments.<br />
This past few weeks i have started to see where i am going and by luck yet again, i have been offered a new workspace, very large and to be honest it is just perfect........... i believe that everything happens for a reason and out of all sadness some joy can come.<br />
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So here i sit on Boxing day, thinking about my friend who even if he drove me mad, i shall miss more than words can convey. I am so truly thankful to him for giving me the push to try this shop lark, the confidence that it would work no matter what. I am sad he was only my friend for such a short time.<br />
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May your light shine bright my friend and may you watch down on me and see how this new shop will rock, just like we had planned.<br />
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