For over three years I have been blessed to be able to run my business from home. I had a set up and a system that worked wonderfully well, for me, for my family and for my clients. But I knew the time was coming to move on. My business was outgrowing the set up I had, and with my very own little people growing bigger, making more noise and making more mess, well we were realising the day was coming that we would need to reclaim the space my studio was taking up as family space. I tossed around the prospect of a commercial shopfront for a long time, but I always came back to the same deciding factors. I really love being able to work around my children. Yes it means I have to work very unconventional hours (no those emails going out this week marked 2.30am have not been clock errors!) Every thing I do is scheduled! I get up early and check my emails and start to organise my working day before waking my children. But then I’m there for them to get them off to school. I’m there for Amelia to play and teach and bond with her during the morning. I’ll answer phone calls and chat to clients while she plays happily beside me. When she goes down for her nap I hit the computer and work, work, work until she wakes. We collect the boys from school. Some afternoons we’ll run errands and make deliveries. We make snacks, read readers, work on projects, talk about what happened at school. They’ll ride their bikes and play outside while I organise dinner. After dinner, baths, some snuggles on the couch (asking them to brush their teeth about 16 times!)  and good night kisses I make a cuppa and head to the office to work – until late. Lucky for me I’m a night owl. While they are very unconventional hours and a really long day, it just works for me and my family. I’m not ready to put Amelia into childcare more than the one day she already goes. She’s our last baby and I want to savour these years with her. There’s no way I could take her into a shop with me all day. And so we come back to working from home and all the benefits that has for us for the time being. And back to outgrowing the current set up. The solution… my ever so talented hubby, a handful of wonderful friends and a couple of tradesmen set to work renovating. And I now have the perfect balance between work and family life. A space that is perfect. It’s private, comfortable and homely just like my previous set up. It’s detached from my house, but still at home. It’s a dedicated space for my work, but somewhere I can turn off the mummy and be the professional. While it’s not completely finished (just a few final touches to go) it has a beautiful warm, peaceful feel to it. It’s my happy place.

So come on in and take a peek  - you’ll have to make your own coffee though, unless you come to visit in real life

The shooting area is behind me… I didn’t bother taking photos of that, because it looks different depending on the set up anyway.

Do you love it as much as I do. My hubby is a clever man huh!

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