Diary of a Mumpreneur

As if being a parent wasn’t busy enough already, the onset of the Festive Season brings with it a set of additional time-management requirements.  A string of extra activities from school/nursery will see parents squeezing in nativity plays, Christmas parties, Christmas fairs and possibly more, all to be fitted around extra family commitments.  Then there’s the Christmas shopping (gifts and food!).  For Cosycat Baby Gifts , this time of year also brings with it a surge of sales activity, as customers place orders for our handmade Personalised Christmas Stockings .  In an attempt to survive the increase in orders my business partner (aka my Mum!) and I have spent the year cutting out stocking shapes and sewing up the socks (ready for the names when the orders come in).  This does mean, however, that we have to be thinking about Christmas at times of the year when most people would rather not. Piles of stockings This year we have been honoured to receive a stocking order from Th