All The Small Things: Australia & Corrie

It's been an exciting week here at Rag and Magpie HQ. Firstly we had a parcel to send out all the way to Australia. It's so good to learn that news of our little shop is reaching far and wide!

I did our first ever hand delivery. If you're an online business it's so wonderful when you learn that one of your customers lives locally, so locally in fact that you can deliver their parcel in person! Although we often chat with people on Facebook, Twitter, on the telephone and by email it's a totally different feeling to actually meet a customer in person. A very nice thing.

Now that's two very satisfying things... (because it’s healthy to find joy in the small things in life) and here's a third: I spoke with a lovely chap today from ITV (for those of you outside the UK ITV are one our leading domestic TV channels). He mused about how odd it felt to be shopping for Christmas things so early in the year, but why was he Christmas shopping so early?…. Well as it turns out some of our vintage wrapping paper and greeting cards will be making their way to the set of non other than ITV's Coronation Street!

We have had items featured on television before; in Channel 4's The house the 50s Built and a short documentary named Rock Around the 50s for a special exhibition at The Victoria & Albert Museum. We have never before (to our knowledge) been part of a household name and British institution like Corrie. Woohoo!

What small things make you happy at work? Leave us a comment