About Me

This is a party plan business started last year to promote and sell pink wheelbarrows, gifts and homewares and patchwork and stitching supplies. It all came about when I moved to a ten acre farm with my daughter and son-in-law and their children after the death of my husband in 2004. We had discussed this move for a number of years and when this property came up for sale it was ideal as it has two houses. So in 2005 we all moved to what we now call Blossomwood Farm. My daughter AM and I set about clearing blackberries, reclaiming garden beds, building chook runs and setting up vegetable gardens. Along with this I am still teaching primary school 4 days a week and my daughter has a plant nursery on the property while my son-in-law Woods runs a successful landscaping and garden design business. To cut a long story short AM and I found that whenever we needed tools they were always gone with the boys on landscaping jobs. The only way we could think of to combat this was to spray paint our tools pink. Of course big strong boys do not want to be seen using pink tools. This led me to develop the idea of producing pink wheelbarrows just for girls. Having achieved this I then had to decide how to market them. In order to keep the price at a reasonable level I thought that party plan and direct selling was the way to go. Consequently I now run a party plan business selling the pink wheelbarrows as well as beautiful giftware, homewares, pink garden and DIY tools and a small range of patchwork supplies. Being a patchworker myself I felt that I could offer reasonably priced fabric, patterns(my own designs) and other sewing notions. I also have open days at home so my customers can come to the farm to shop and am happy to sell by mail order (although the wheelbarrows are a bit big to post).