Today's Note
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New….
A new year – 2013 was the year of our beginning, our start, our business and a bit of a new life. We’ve begun 2014 with our first wedding, a busy holiday season and a bang. I’ve missed writing about it, and am continuing to fine-tune our resolutions for 2014. I’m planning a year in […]
2013 in review – Blog review
As we wind down from Christmas, and get ready for the first wedding to be held here at Hosking House, seeing these stats were perfect. So nice to reflect on an epic, busy, amazing year. Thank you for reading, and cheering us on! The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this […]
Difference a Year Makes
A year ago we were heavily in the midst of putting the final touches on Hosking House and fighting desperately against the coming Holiday. Everyone here kept warning us that the country shuts down from Christmas until late January. That meant no deliveries, no couch for the front lounge, no orders, no moving forward. We […]
It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
These are images from the Deck the Rooms open house benefiting Taranaki Women’s Refuge. We spent Saturday opening the doors of Hosking House to over 1,000 people. So many of which took the time to talk to us, and tell us their kind thoughts of the House and decorations. We heard stories of people coming […]
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Preparations…
Yesterday, we participated in the Deck the Rooms event to benefit Taranaki Women’s Refuge. We spent Friday decking our rooms and welcoming amazing flowers from Nicci Goodin. Bright and early yesterday, we opened our doors to 1,000 gracious, happy people over 8 hours. Here are some pictures of the preparations. I need some time to […]
Milestone…
We won a business planning session with PwC and spent a Friday morning talking about the business and planning our way forward with a team of professionals. Now, I can talk about this business all day long – but even I found it truly amazing to hear the advice, see how far we’ve come and […]
Lesson Five: Watching the world go by
Weston loves to sit at our front gate and watch her world of New Plymouth go by. She wags her tale, listens to the loud cars, greets people walking by….she can sit there for a very long time. We too love the view from the front of the house. After a long day of service […]
Everything is coming up…
We are happily recovering from our busiest period ever! We were booked out for almost the entire two weeks of the Taranaki Powerco Garden festival and loved having the house full of guests who were discovering this beautiful region through the passion of our local gardeners. Our own gardens feature many rose bushes. The front […]
Ellie funt
These gorgeous creatures started off the Powerco Taranaki Garden Festival on the walkway this past week. The region is really busy with people coming in to see the 70+ gardens on display. It’s a great time to be in Taranaki! […]