Getting started...

Isn't it funny how starting up a business doing something you love actually results in you doing less of it?
Since my baby business started last month I think I can count the number of hours spent knitting on my fingers (oh, ok, and toes too).
And I keep having to pinch myself to believe that I'm finally doing something about my hobby, rather than just daydreaming.
What I have found, so far, however, is that putting yourself out there as a business with something to sell is much less scary than you think it is. Blame it on Dragon's Den, perhaps, but I really thought that I was going to face nothing but scathing comments and ridicule when I said I wanted to sell knitting kits for people to make their own cushions, but instead everyone has been unreservedly supportive and, well, nice!
So just over a month in and where am I?
Well I'm selling kits, at a local Farmer's Market at Brampton, Cumbria (next one this Saturday, 28th Jan), I've got stock in my local shop in Armathwaite, and in New Lanark Mill Visitors Centre (where I get my yarn from). And the website will be up and running by the end of the month.
Theere, I've said it. Now I just have to go and wrestle with my web design pages. This is so out of my comfort zone. At least publicly stating it gives me the incentive to get on and do it.
So, the grand launch of www.calknits.co.uk will begin. And the first customer gets a free £10 voucher to spend on their next purchase. How's that for an incentive?

My woolly cushions, waiting to go to market....