Virginia Cheeseman Blog

One week until my prize winning cruise to the Caribbean. There will be no blog for a while, this time next week we will be on our way! Entering competitions is my hobby and I have won some amazing prizes over the years. Just this year I have won a television, tickets to see Beyonce, a computer, gift cards, meal vouchers, dvds, books, trip to Switzerland, the cruise and plenty more. I never get bored with all the animals to care for and competitions to enter. It is very difficult and stressful trying to organise everything to look after itself for my two week break but I'm getting there. My daughter, son, mother in-law etc will do their best to cope but I suspect the furry pets will fare better than the six and eight legged ones! Thanks to the new website I have sold a lot of stock in the last few weeks and I am on track to have everything cleaned and fed ready for next week. Due to the planned postal strikes Tuesday will have to be my last posting day before our holiday. I know t...

Everything has changed forever. I think you have still got a few more weeks of me being obsessed by the new website! Orders have actually doubled and it's changing how I view my work as well as the day to day running. The system is much easier but I am still getting used to it and of course I am rushed off my feet trying to organise the bugs for my two weeks away. Lots of things have sold out but my bug house still looks full, I really did have too much stock. I now spend each morning Monday - Thursday packing and sending off orders and then when I return from the Post Office I start the feeding and cleaning regime. Somehow I seem to have less time than ever but I'm sure things will settle down soon. All the bugs are doing fine, I have a beautiful Chile Beauty spider with an egg sac and I am still in the process of mating several of my tarantula species. So far so good, none of the males have been eaten (thank goodness). It is such a shame when I have obscure adult males and no...

What a week, the new website is amazing. I think my orders have quadrupled since the site went live. I am absolutely delighted. I know people joke about doing less work for more money but I really needed to do something about the little that I earn for working often seven days a week. I am slightly concerned that most of the orders have come from new customers. I must find time this week to email some of my regular customers. If you are finding any problems using the site please do call me. It is proving incredibly easy, if I can do it anyone can. The stock counter is a godsend but I have found a couple of problems, hopefully (with hubby's help) I will sort them this weekend. We have already deleted the 'Tarantula Gallery', it wasn't possible to have spiders listed in two places if I only had the one spider. Once the spider was sold on a page it automatically went out of stock but the spider still appeared on the other page and therefore unless I noticed and removed ...