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Time to replace the gloom with a big lift!

Posted on by Abi

Anne and I are not immune to feeling down from time to time. I’m sure all small business owners experience this. It’s the curse of a creative mind, you dream your days away feeling elated at every new idea, then come crashing down as the inevitable plateau comes.

Suffice to say I have been feeling a little this way of late, we’ve also been making some hard decisions about the jewellery, such as who will stay and who will go. For example my favourite pendant looks set for the chop, I adore this pendant and wear it very regularly, but despite my admiration it hasn’t been popular with customers. Obviously I have unique taste 🙂 I would dearly love to know what is ‘wrong’ with it, so if you have any feedback please feel free to share it here.

But just as I was feeling very ‘woe is me’ I had a lovely email from Anne telling me that she has been nominated and made the final 6 in the Mumpreneur awards for Best Online Business. How fabulous is that! Of course I think she is beyond worthy of the award (but I may be ever so slightly bias). But Anne is the one who has really built the business, dragging it from nothing into something to really be proud of, it has taken far more time and energy than you might expect and I think she’s done a wonderful job. I feel very proud that she’s made the final 6 and I will hopefully be attending the awards with her. If you too are going be sure to keep an eye out for us.

So it goes to prove that yet again the law of a creative life carries on, I have moved from one low to another wonderful high. Lets hope there’s more of them to come 🙂

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Competition Time & Celebrations!!

Posted on by Abi

It’s been an exciting and busy time here at Angel Eden recently. First of all we won the Dorset Cereal Blog Award and I can’t thank you enough for voting for us. Secondly the blog now has over 100 followers 🙂 I love it when you leave me comments and send me emails with your thoughts, it’s great to know you actually enjoy the nonsense I pipe out.

Our other big news is the slow introduction of our new textile accessories line on the webstore. Some of these are completed some are still in the testing process, but it’s a very exciting time and we can’t wait to add this string fully to our bow. Hopefully the first items will be online tomorrow!
So it seemed that a competition was the only appropriate way to really celebrate and say thanks. This will be our biggest ever giveaway and I’m very excited to announce it.

 

There will be a grand prize winner and one runner up. The grand winner will receive this prize worth more than £45!! It includes our popular solid silver cupcake pendant, this has been designed and handcrafted by us. The winner can also choose the length of chain they wish the pendant to hang on.

 

You will also receive one of our brand new (fanfare please) ‘Treasure Pockets’. The pockets are hand embroidered using recycled fabrics, vintage buttons and lined with vintage French Linen. You can keep whatever you like in these. The cupcake pendant fits in beautifully in it’s box. I keep my mobile phone in mine to stop my keys from scratching it. Customers at the open weekend were buying them to hold gifts, to use as purses and so on. So whatever you really treasure, this is the home it deserves. As each is individual you will never see exactly the same pocket twice.

Your prize will come to you wrapped in the recognisable Angel Eden packaging. We are happy to post internationally so everyone is free to enter.

The runner up will receive a £10 voucher to spend in the Angel Eden webstore.

How to Enter

Entering couldn’t be simpler. Become a follower of this blog by clicking one of the links in the right column (if you are already just mention this) and leave a comment here.

Additional Entries

For an additional entry if you’re on twitter you can retweet the competition (just let us know) for an extra entry.

For yet another entry you can visit our brand new facebook page (link to the left) and ‘like’ us, just comment there and you can rack up three chances to win!

Prize Allocation

All entries will be placed into a hat (more if you have two or three entries) and a name pulled out. The winner will be contacted by email (make sure you leave this in your comments).

We will then pull a second name out who will receive a £10 voucher to use in the Angel Eden webstore!

The competition ends midnight on Sat 31st July. Good Luck!

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We Won!!

Posted on by Abi

As some of you may have guessed from the picture to the right we won the Dorset Cereals Little Blog Award!! Thank you all for taking the time to vote, I’m over the moon. I only found out a couple of days ago and I’ve been grinning ever since. Today three purple parcels arrived with the prizes, so I thought I better show you all.

First there was the iconic egg cup & cosy trophy with certificate, the egg cup is a bit posh on it’s own. I turned it over to discover it was designed by Jasper Conran for Wedgewood! It will be going in the cabinet post-haste. The cosy is adorable but far too nice to actually use!

Then there were the two large boxes filled with six boxes of muesli and two boxes of granola. They are proper size boxes as well, not teeny tiny ones like you might expect. I’d like to think they’ll last a little while, but knowing my family that’s probably unlikely 🙂 There was also a huge hesian shopping bag, which is heavy duty enough to come in very handy.

Now I just have to decide if it would be wrong of me to skip dinner in favour of a bowl of Chocolate & Macademia nut granola?

We have had a lot to celebrate recently and as great big thank you to all my lovely readers I will be launching our biggest ever giveaway in the next day or two so keep checking back to enter.

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