18/02/2025
A moment of reflection, filled with gratitude and appreciation.
Fairday 2025 lifted me in many ways. All my friends and my best friend, were my lighthouse - steady, guiding, and unwavering.
A huge thank you to and . While some may not always see it, your work is what keeps our community strong, connected globally, and thriving for generations.
Many of us stallholders, and business owners rise at 5:30am, hearts racing with nerves, excitement, and anticipation. We pour years, months, weeks, and days into crafting designs, sampling stock, styling shoots on sunlit beaches, taking and editing photos, curating content, and dreaming up quirky posts. It’s a relentless rollercoaster and one that never truly stops. This is along slide full time jobs, and commitments, life, study.
We attempt to prepare for every interaction, embracing feedback, the good, the constructive, and even the projections. Even former friends, attempt to claim your energy, it remind us of an important lesson: stay true to yourself and let the guttered remain guttered. By means you keep projecting positivity and let them rain on you if they must. After all, the dark can never outshine the light.
Then, there are the moments that are redefining. The child who walks past, eyes lighting up at a pair of sunnies, which you gift to the who whole family because that smile is priceless. The person who adores your designs but can’t afford the so you offer them at half-price because making their day humbles you. The stranger who takes time to share their feedback realising how small gestures create lasting moments.
You recognise that you’ve connected with 1,000+ people in a single day, and you crave 1,000 more. Their energy fuels your creativity, driving you to design more, dream bigger, and push further.
And in those moments when it feels like you’re doing it alone, you realise you never are.
You may not know what’s coming next, but you are ready for it!
Much love for:
👾 being pookielicious
📸 capturing moments of the day
🏄♂️ bringing out the cheeky chiddy vibe, sexy and naughty
💼 creating a balanced energy
