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I ordered some gorgeous photo Christmas ornaments from Carol at Pixel by Pixel and she also sent me a fantastic coffee mug! She had asked me for a copy of our logo and promised to use it for good not evil but I just thought Carol was going to put it on her website, as she edits our photos for us, but no. This is what she did:

plus it has my name on the back, very cool!

We are into the home stretch now with Christmas orders and have sent off our final Santas Little Helpers gifts (unless of course some more orders come in for them today or tomorrow!). This is them:

Aren’t they pretty?!

Unlike these:

which arrived this morning ready to put together, yuk!

Unfortunately we have a few Christmas gifts leftover this year:

at least they’ll keep for next year. It’s just such a shame because the containers are so lovely and I really thought they would sell better than they did, oh well - live and learn!

All that’s left to do is the final lot of filing plus a bit of a tidy up and any last minute orders that come in and then it’s time to relax and recharge and spend time with the family - woohoo I CAN’T WAIT!

Merry Christmas,

Jacqui  xx

phew - another year is almost over, wow! It’s been great, lets hope 2009 is FABULOUS!

Rainbow Designs will be CLOSED from Saturday 20 December 2008 until Friday 2 January 2009 so ORDER YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFTS NOW!

Wishing you all the happiest of Christmases and the funnest New Years

Orders ready to go.

Santas Little Helpers

More santas little helpers (we do A LOT of these!)

And what’s outside our window…

Do you know they sound like a cross between a dog and a pig just doesn’t go with their cuteness really!

Well, it’s not long until the silly season for Rainbow Designs comes to an end for another year and I’m feeling a little apprehensive. We’ve been busy busy busy doing corporate orders, which is just fabulous, but our sales are down on individual orders. I know each year I always worry about orders or lack there of and then suddenly we’re swamped and can barely keep up but it just seems quieter than normal. Our last week of doing orders is generally crazy busy but I am not sure it will be the same this year. What’s going on? Are people budgeting better this year, not spending as much as they normally do, having to watch their money more carefully than previous years or simply going elsewhere?

I’m sending out a quick ‘newsletter’ this morning to, hopefully, remind people about Rainbow Designs and that Christmas isn’t that far away. Whether it will bring in any orders is something I’ll just have to wait and see.

On the upside we have had many return customers including businesses who have used us before for their Christmas gifts plus quite a few referals too, which is always nice!

Another bonus of not being too busy means that I have been able to keep up with the majority of the paperwork and not just stuffed it in a draw for later!

I just wonder if other businesses are going through the same thing or is it just us? Arrr, the joys of running a business, all the ‘what ifs’, ‘whys’, ‘hows’, ‘whens’ to deal with!

I hope everyone else is chugging along nicely, send some of it this way if you can

ps: wishing Lucas Dumbrell a speedy recovery (he was injured in a Formula Ford race yesterday at Oran Park)

pps: come on Murph you can do it!