And so… I finally get around to finishing my update… 2 weeks late but I have a couple of hours spare so hopefully I can tell you all!

On the Sunday my mum had tickets for all three of us to go to a trade show at the NEC in Birmingham. The trade show catered for all sorts of trades, catering, retail, photographic the lot! At first when we got there we were a little… disappointed! Having never been to a trade show we soon realised you can’t actually buy anything on the day, it’s not a sale! But the mood soon lightened when we realised the AMAZING mark up on a whole variety of products! It is atrocious if you think of how much the high street retailers make out of us mere mortals! Anyway, I came up with a business plan on the spot and began researching contacts and leads… I made loads and was really pleased with myself! That was 2 weeks ago and work is still well underway on my cosmetic retail business… I’m finding it is much more difficult than I first anticipated setting up my own business, although I obviously have bags of support from both Peter and mum… and bags of interest from potential ‘customers’ too, but I guess it gives me something to do and keeps me out of trouble!

Another useful opportunity presented itself while we were there. For those of you who keep up with Peter’s blog you will know that he is currently studying photography, his long term aim to become a self employed photographer (we both have aspirations to be self employed I think). Well while we were there, he made a few contacts who were exceptionally interested in his work, this would mean they would produce and circulate his pictures as works of art, and he would be entitled to royalties from the sales. That would be a major development and would be far beyond a first step on the ladder to photographic success! Unfortunately due to poor Peter being totally bogged down with project work he hasn’t been able to strike while the iron is hot, but I know deep down that as soon as he has time he will make contact and make that first step! Oh won’t it be exciting… my boyfriend the professional photographer!!!!