January has flown by in a blur! Seriously weren't we just counting down the clock to midnight like 5 seconds ago.

Things have been pretty hectic over the last couple of weeks - Ive been putting in a lot of overtime in the day job which has meant quite a few late nights and weekends - we have had a new computer system coming into force which came into effect today and even for those of you who know anything about the inner workings of the NHS, I am sure you will appreciate that one of the major trusts in the UK suddenly going paper based for 4 days takes a lot of planning and head aches!!!

I'll be honest, that has basically made up most of the last few weeks. I haven't really been up to much else other than that.

I've just completed my self assessment online for my business.. can we just discuss how difficult this is! Talk about needing an idiots guide! Luckily I have a lovely business colleague who helped me out with great success.

February is set to be a good month. Both mine and Adams birthdays are in February and we have a lovely city break in London organised for the last week in the month complete with Les Mis! I can't wait! I am hoping we can see something else while we are there too!

What have you lovelies been up to? What have you got lined up for February??

Just because, ya know I havent got enough going on in my life, me and Adam have decided to start a new adventure.

One of my friends contacted me a few months back about a company called 'Forever Living' and asked if i would be interested in joining. To be honest it was at a time when we had just moved house and things were hectic and I just passed it off. However over the last couple of months I have a couple of people including my friend who had first contacted me, doing really well with the business.

Last week I decided to bite the bullet and speak to my friend again and see what it was all about! Adam and I had a bit of a chat about it and decided we would explore it as a way of earning some extra money for our wedding next year. We met Helen for a coffee on Monday and on Tuesday I watched a webinar by Helen's mentor Abi who last month earnt £17,000!!!

Last night after watching the webinar while I was texting Helen I threw caution to the wind and I ordered my business in a box which is one of the ways to get into the business and I am so excited! We are meeting Helen and her fiancé Gio on Sunday again for coffee to talk about our business plan and get us all started!

Exciting times ahead!!!

Vista Print is one of those companies I have heard a lot about over the years however never a company I have ordered from. However I decided a few weeks ago after reading a couple of other blogs, that I wanted to order some blogger business cards. I had been thinking about it for a while but to be honest, I didn't really see the point, I blogged on my own small little bit of the internet and got very little attention doing so, was it worth it? However when I signed up for the Midlands Blogger Meet up I thought it may be a good way to share my blog with the ladies who were attending on the day.
After looking on the internet at the companies I could choose from; Vista Print, Moo and Zazzle. Now as you know I have a background in ICT and love graphic design and designing things so I wanted to pick a site that was easy to use and upload my own created image which wouldn't cost the earth.
I looked into all of these sites and compared the prices of the cards and in the end I went with Vista Print - I couldn't fault at all how easy their site was to use or how cheap their cards were. I knew that Vista Print cards were good quality because my dad had used them to get some for his photography company.

So I got my photoshop on - uploaded my photo and browsed the pricing. While I was doing it my brother told me he had a 30% off code which worked nicely with the offers that Vista Print already had on and I got 500 business cards for £11.66. Along with this I also decided to order a keyring, just as a little treat to myself which was £2.28. Also with this I got a free business card holder which is one of the metal ones. To be honest this is great but I am not sold on it as it is one of the ones that you can see finger prints on when you touch it and with my nails it is quite difficult to open.

Once I had ordered, my order took just over a week to come which was fab - especially when I hadn't paid postage and packing either and they had come 5 days before the projected delivery date. So here they are....

I am so happy with how these have turned out! They are so cute! I am really glad I decided to order these, it will probably take me forever to get rid of all of these but I can't wait to start using them!!!

I can definitely recommend using Vista Print if your in the market for some business cards - however take a look at their site because not only do they do calendars, phone cases, mugs, canvas's, tshirts - you name it they probably do it...

What do you think? Are blogger business cards necessary? Have you used Vista Print???


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