After reading about St Marys Primary School in the Evening Standard, we decided to collect lots of presents for the kids. It was lots of fun to collect them, wrap them (thank you Helen, Alex, Neville!!!). I delivered all 165 on Friday evening, and we wish to thank all of the people who gave wonderful stuff generously:

• John from Brandler Galleries
• Pascale from Orfeo Design
• Lisa from Dancing Apsara
• Anne from Kalugo Gifts
• Howard from Westbury Accountants
• Colleen from Companies Made Simple
• Simon from Simplicity Copywriting
• Ally from Ally Capellino
• Chandra from Tangent Office Resources
• Daniel from DLM Garden Design
• Dafydd from Do What I do.com
• John from Destiny Towers
• Jean Liggett from Properties of the World
• Helen from A Wonderful String Quartet
• Michael from Datasafe Services Backup Services
• Mandy from Insight to Action Business Coaching

And now it is ready to go live, just in time before Christmas!

Thank you very much, Michelle!

Excuse the blurry mess, thank god I am not a photographer, huh. But this is of course only a crafty trick to hide the Peppa Pig Christmas Crackers on my not particularly tidy desk in the background…

Well, in the office, we’ve started to pop the Xmas crackers and prepare to wind 2010 down.

This lovely new person who will be able to help you with your ecommerce websites, CMS websites and blog systems is called Alberto. Welcome Alberto!

It was lots of fun, although I am a natural at being hopeless, but look at Ronny:

What a natural. so where the others in our group, here’s another picture. It was a wonderful way to break the ice, as going into a room full of strangers is always daunting but everybody was giggling and dropping balls and chucking them at each other instead of at their own hand (at least most of us did, unintentionally so) and you felt an instant connection with everyone. Someone even tried to coach me and I think I moved up from totally hopeless to mediocrely hopeless.

Here, Mister Business Junction announces to the group that he is seriously hung-over.

All in all, it was well worth spending the money and more over the time of 2 hours + to mingle with other businesses in Hoxton and Shoreditch – we met loads of interesting ones, ranging from a photographer who shot HRH the Duke of Kent (not literally) to IT firms, branding consultants and a not-boring logistics business.

Well, Steffi has found it! It is called the big picture and we are able to create blobs in various colours. So one colour represents me (the Moustique pink of course) and I create as many pink blobs as needed to represent all my management tasks. Another colour represents Neville (a nice and friendly orange, as nice and friendly as he is), and various shades of blue and green represent our other web coders – they chose more sober and cool colours, quite fitting for a web developer, really. And my web and graphic designer ladies are a light shade of warm yellow. As beautiful as their web designs – or graphic designs, as we offer that as well.

So we have lots of blobs that show us which web design or graphic design projects need to be done, and if they are more urgent projects, they are bigger, and if they are less urgent, they are smaller. Cool! I am really excited – finally I can throw all the bits of paper away and just look at once central screen.

It has been a busy few weeks and weekends what with the tradeshow-  and instantly afterwards, we rushed to get the business moved to the other end of town – in this scorching heat! We are now at 77 East Road near Old Street Tube station, and here is what our new set-up looks like: