14/10/2026
I have this thing with Charlie.
Let me tell you our story, but you won’t believe it (cos sometimes even I don’t )…
Charlie approached us wayyyyyy back in the early days, before we had a team member solely for online. She reached out and we fell in love 😂 I managed to convince Craig that it was the only way we could ever grow (he was rightly nervous about the risk of taking on a team member.)
Then Charlie had a moment, she realised the career change wasn’t right for her at the time.
We were devastated, but it had awakened us! We realised we did have room for an online team member.
So we started looking!
It was the first time we’d ever hosted interviews and it honestly blew me away with how many talented, creative people were literally on our doorstep!
Anyway, we hired, found someone amazing, and it was wonderful. But then after not quite 12 months she opted for a career change and left us.
Honestly I felt like a teenager who had been dumped 😭😭(Craig will tell you 😂).
I was so sad, panicked and felt really unsure about how we would manage it all. We’d not long had our second baby and things were starting to feel a little easier; all I could think was how would we manage shop floor and online since it had started to grow alongside 2 babies under 3 at home?!
So I started frantically looking again, I couldn’t bring myself to go through the whole interview process again but I reached out to a few of the initial applicants, but without any luck.
Then laid in bed (probably crying) one night, I remembered Charlie. I knew it was a whim, but we had nothing to loose. I wrote an email just asking if maybe her circumstances had changed and if she might like to meet up…
AND GUESS WHAT…
(She tells me) She had a message already typed to send us, asking if there were anything she could help us with, as HER CIRCUMSTANCES HAD CHANGED!!!
Charlie had also not long had a baby and was on maternity, she joined us the month she returned back to work!
Can you bloody believe it?! So the rest is history guys, I think I believe in fate, or as Craig’s 20 year old tattoo says, that “life is written”.