I’m getting to that stage in my life where I can never quite remember what I have done or not done recently so I’m going to assume that I haven’t told you much – if anything – about The Life Craft so far.
Way back in November I posted this entry explaining that due to a massive cock-up by my then employers, my maternity pay had been stopped three months early and I was being told to repay the entirety of my allegedly overpaid maternity pay. Because it had taken six months to discover this error, I subsequently was not entitled to claim maternity allowance from the state and thus this error put us out financially by somewhere in the region of £10,000.
Not content with that, the little doom fairies arranged for Bob to be made redundant from his job on Hogmanay, then me from mine at the end of March. Did I mention I had a complete nervous breakdown? We decided that since things were the lowest we could possibly imagine them to be, there was nothing to stop us pursuing our dream and thus The Life Craft was born.
Our website is now up and running and this week we will sign the lease on our gorgeous premises in the West End of Glasgow. We are going to be paying more per year in rent than I have ever earned and we are responsible now for five members of staff as well as ourselves. I probably shouldn’t be sharing this but what the hell – if the business fails, we will lose everything. We will have nothing except each other. And do you know what? I think I’m okay with that now. We’ve been through so much together that we can make it through any other bump in the road.
SO! In order to celebrate our future success, we’ve got a competition on the blog which I’d love you to enter. You can pick your prize from a selection of the amazing stock we have in store and share your crafty stories.
Bonne Chance!
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This post was written by Vonnie on July 19, 2010
You’re so brave and positive in the face of the hardships thrown at you, you’re a real inspiration to me Vonnie & Bob and I hope The Life Craft gives you all you every wanted.
Best wishes guys,
Amanda.x.
I am so jealous love. All the best!!! xx
That’s excellent news! Congratulations and best of luck. It might be hard work and a bit scary but so worth it I think.
I only wish you were in London so I might angle for a job there myself xD
i haven’t been reading your blog that long, and I didn’t even realise you were just down the road in Glasgae!
to say I am jealous is an immense understatement, but then Stirling DOES have MacArees, so its not a complete wasteland, but the sheer amount of acrylic does make me shudder.
Is there going to be a physical shop? I don’t get to the west end much, but I do love pawing some wool so may have to hunt you down. Good luck o the venture and I hope to meet you in person some time.