Newbie from Aylesbury!
Posted: Fri 24 Aug, 2012 10:15 am
Hi all!
Have been lurking for a while and thought I should introduce myself before I start asking you all annoying questions!
Currently I have a small shop in Aylesbury unlocking and repairing phones but as my supply chain is so filthy and unreliable it was time to do something else.
My wife and I are very keen photographers and a few weeks back we decided to print and mount a lot of our wildlife / nature photos to sell at a local craft fair. It was too windy to setup so we went back to the shop, stripped the slatwall completely of ancient mobile phone accessories and filled a wall with prints instead!
To cut a long story short, since then we have decided to make a go of it whilst also introducing a framing service at the same time, have been on a training course in Wales, are currently gutting and redecorating the shop to turn it into a gallery, the back office is being turned into a workshop and web domain has been registered ready to go!
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride already, have bought a load of old moulding stock dirt cheap, our idea of turning 2x spare 8' x 4' sheets of slatwall into a workbench was going well until we bought 2x A0 plan chests for just over £20 so we are making workbenches out of those instead, spare small bits of slatwall have made a perfect racking system for the mouldings and loads of sleepless nights researching tools and of course this forum!
We are very much looking forward to the future now and I'm sure that the great little community you have going here will be most helpful to us in the coming months so I will thank you all in advance!
Regards
Danny
Have been lurking for a while and thought I should introduce myself before I start asking you all annoying questions!
Currently I have a small shop in Aylesbury unlocking and repairing phones but as my supply chain is so filthy and unreliable it was time to do something else.
My wife and I are very keen photographers and a few weeks back we decided to print and mount a lot of our wildlife / nature photos to sell at a local craft fair. It was too windy to setup so we went back to the shop, stripped the slatwall completely of ancient mobile phone accessories and filled a wall with prints instead!
To cut a long story short, since then we have decided to make a go of it whilst also introducing a framing service at the same time, have been on a training course in Wales, are currently gutting and redecorating the shop to turn it into a gallery, the back office is being turned into a workshop and web domain has been registered ready to go!
It's been a bit of a roller coaster ride already, have bought a load of old moulding stock dirt cheap, our idea of turning 2x spare 8' x 4' sheets of slatwall into a workbench was going well until we bought 2x A0 plan chests for just over £20 so we are making workbenches out of those instead, spare small bits of slatwall have made a perfect racking system for the mouldings and loads of sleepless nights researching tools and of course this forum!
We are very much looking forward to the future now and I'm sure that the great little community you have going here will be most helpful to us in the coming months so I will thank you all in advance!
Regards
Danny
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