Just returned from having fun beside the seaside at The Brighton Baby Expo at The Brighton Centre. I have very sore aching feet but it was certainly worthwhile as we now have 5 more party plan agents who signed up at the show. A big warm welcome ladies, I hope you will enjoy joining our team and earning extra selling Tish Tash Toys at toy parties, coffee mornings etc!

This and all the enquiries we’ve had today about working for Tish Tash Toys at home, is really wonderful and makes it all worthwhile. I’ve left my little family in their Daddy’s capable hands for three days to do this show and can’t wait to be back home in North Yorkshire again.

The show itself was very well organised by Suzanne Borrell and her team at Sussex based SMB Events. I’m not sure how many people came through the doors today but it was jam-packed from about 11am – 1pm. Then busy until about 3pm, tailing off a bit after that. We gave out over 500 Tish Tash Toys catalogues, lots of purple balloons and had literally hundreds of people enter our prize draw. The stand was so busy at times – there were queues of people waiting to get to the front – how exciting!

The weather was amazing and there were so many fantastic stands covering everything possible for Mums to be and new mothers and their babies. My favourite stands were Yummy Lollies, Pushy Mothers, JAC Designs, Jakabel, JBPR Junior and Little Frog Interiors.

Great product ideas were to be found at the Hands Free Brolly Co Ltd and Beyond Chocolate. Amanda’s Action Kids was a small but hectic stand, with the music drawing people in. Sally Gunnell (who opened the show) looked radiant as she whooshed past my stand.

It was great to see Sam who runs Mummy Looks Fab again (hello!) and other businesses I’ve had the pleasure to exhibit with before like Little Timbers, Cuddledry and ABC Magazine. New friends include KitchenMonkey.co.uk who were lovely friendly neighbours all day. Hope you got back to Leicester safely and I will be in touch about the newsletter idea, thank you.

And finally – a big thank you to the simply superb Lauren who runs Fresh Agents in Brighton and came to help me out for the day. I could not have wished for better help and wouldn’t hesitate to use Fresh to source promotional or events staff in Sussex again.