Your Weekly Teddy Eva Scents Ramble
Nothing new to report this week...
Hello people of the internet! Welcome to yet another one of these wonderful weekly rambles. Did you know that I’ve now sent 341 of these? If you’ve opened every single one of them then that’s some good going!
Anyway, I’m not going to lie, this week is quite a dire “newsletter” in terms of sexy stuff. Literally, the only headline I can think of running with is this…
Nothing new to report this week.
Yep. We haven’t got anything new for you at all and we’ve barely poured anything. The only real pouring we’ve done this week has been topping up the Wizard of Oz range. It’s kinda weird running a business at times. I mean I guess it’s a little bit like sailing a boat - not that I have any clue about sailing a boat - but you almost have to sail with the wind.
Like I might want to take you guys down the naughty section and go “oooo, have you seen this?” but if people are going another direction it becomes very difficult to steer where I want to go. Hence why we’ve repoured the Wizard of Oz range. You guys seem hell-bent on steering us in that direction, so no orgasmic products for you.
I mean if you realllllllly want to give the gift of pleasure this year then by all means look at the adult range.
But for those of you that don’t want to be tied up and spanked for Christmas - no judgement either way - I guess I could talk about… some housekeeping bits then whatever else comes out.
Random other business bits…
Last brownie run of 2024
Last run of Mystery Boxes
3 for 2 on Stocking Fillers
Story Time Candle reductions
So this weekend will be the last run of brownies for 2024. So if you happen to want brownies before Christmas then now’s your last chance. We’ll likely be back in the new year, but not totally sure when.
Then we have 35 Christmas Mystery Boxes left that we’ve managed to make. They’ll contain THREE of our old style clamshells, plus a room spray AND a bonus refill. It’s been a struggle making these up but we’ve just about managed to get 35 made up for the last time.
We’re still doing the 3 for 2 on stocking fillers if you want little gifts for Christmas, and the Story Time Candles are £18 until they’re gone.
We are in the process of thinking of more plans for them in the new year though!
But we’re hoping we’ll be a LOT better at stuff come January when I can have my little office in the unit and be proper organised and efficient. Everyone keeps telling me “ah you’ll see” as they think I won’t get shit done when I have the chance. But to that, I say “bollocks” 😂
To be fair, I love negative motivation.
Sometimes I literally make it up in my head or exaggerate it. Like when I go to the gym, I really like it when it’s busy. I just tell myself that everyone’s watching and going “yeah, that dude can’t lift shit” just to spur me on a little.
I know they couldn’t give a shit what I’m doing, but if I tell myself everyone’s doubting me, I’ll push myself a little harder.
Likewise with the business. When we started we had a few people tell us that we couldn’t just start the business, or that it was cheating because we already had followers, and I just loved having the doubt 😂
I think I mentally used it for the first year or so.
Like Isabelle doesn’t think I’ll be able to do the splits. So I’ve done splits exercises for roughly 20 minutes every night for 9 straight days and counting. Same as the pirouette she’s learning for ballet. I’ve told her that I’ll be able to do it too 😅
She didn’t believe me, so now I have to show her, right?
Basically, you have to seek out what motivates you. If it’s positivity, then surround yourself with that. If you’re like me and prefer negativity then find that. I think it’s MUCH easier to find negative motivation.
To be fair, I’m shocked Rachel hasn’t gone “you’re shit at gardening. There’s no chance you could build a fence!”
One day, Rachel. One day.
Although speaking of building stuff…
I saw on TikTok the other day the idea of having a family compound. They were basically on about how it’s weird that our culture is built around the idea of kids “leaving the nest” and moving away from their parents to then barely see them. And that some people in America have family compounds where they all live in separate houses, but the same enclosed area.
So that’s kinda my new ultimate dream:
TES Farm
I think it would be cool to have a plot of land where you can build a few houses, and then some sort of unit for the business, and then just have it all in one place.
Don’t get me wrong, it would probably cost £4,000,000 or something. Ok, probably a LOT les if it was just the land. But I can’t build an actual house.
OR CAN I!?
No. No I can’t.
I mean I built the kids treehouse thing, but that came with instructions and took several days. How much harder could a house be? It’s just a bit of bricking, plumbing and electrics isn’t it? I dare say there’s YouTube videos for all of it, right?
I did have a quick look and there’s a 184.57acre farm for £1.3m on some website.
Technically, there’s 10,000 people who read these. So that’s only £130 per person. Then if you could chip in and help build the house too? I mean that would be swell 😂
Anyway, dream big as they say.
So yeah… that should be it for this week.
Thank you all for reading, and if you don’t open another newsletter this side of Christmas then Merry Christmas to you! Thank you for being a part of Teddy Eva Scents in 2024 - I know some of you have been here a while before that too!
Much love!
Ross & Rachel x