We were very excited find out that Dragons Den Star & Highly Accomplished Businesswoman Deborah Meaden had promoted us on Twitter.

How are your Christmas preparation’s going? I have to admit the tree is up, but I have yet to write a Christmas Card and have only 3 present purchases to my name so far!

Becoming a Tree Again Sculptor, Martiens Bekker will be building a tree from discarded pieces wood salvaged locally from a house reconstruction and an old barn. Most of Martiens’ art is spontaneous and spur-of-the-moment, he saw a huge amount of wood being taken from a house and an idea was seeded, taking root as his latest [...]

Amongst many other fabulous workshops, courses and fantastic information about all things artistic on the Centre Of  England Arts website they have a pdf of how to paint a chicken! Some of you may remember those lunchtime tv shows years ago where you could learn step by step how to paint various scenes and objects using [...]

This week was a week for learning about time management and what my time is really worth. After a visit to the monthly Cornwall Entrepreneurs’ Circle meeting it became very clear that not only was I a complete numpty at time management but also embroiling myself in jobs that it would be much more cost [...]

The re launch of Gift Wrapped & Gorgeous to announce that we are now focusing more on providing PR and Media Coverage for our partner companies went off with a bit of a fizzle rather than a bang! This was because sadly my husband’s Mum, Joan, died last week so we didn’t really feel like celebrating [...]

Some exciting Press news this week! Leanne has been doing some research into the press coverage we have secured for our partner companies’ products and put together some basic stats as follows. Case Study One of our partner companies who joined in January, Sparrow Primitives, has had 15 (more now actually!) press publications for her [...]

Dads are always the hardest to buy for, especially if your Dad is like mine and doesn’t really have a proper hobby – apart from winding me up of course! Cufflinks are a favourite for Dads and these days you can get some really cool and different ones for him to show off at his [...]

It has certainly been a week of spinning plates in the air as me being me tried to ensure everything ticked over at Gwag while I had my minor op.  My devotion nay obsession to duty was proven as I garbled on about ‘having to get back to work’ as I came round from the [...]

This week saw me travelling  ‘up country’ to London where I attended a business workshop hosted by the highly acclaimed businesswoman Rachel Elnaugh www.rachelelnaugh.com It was quite an adventure as I headed for Covent Garden accompanied by Niki McGlynn, who is a very well respected Homeopath and who very kindly allowed me to stay in her lovely home [...]