For a new generation of creators and consumers alike, the pandemic was a chance to break away and begin again. And one such COVID entrepreneur is Susan Cameron, founder of Echo Beach Designs. The year 2020 began badly for Susan Cameron – having come to the end of her fixed-contract as a project manager at…
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Back in February Jane Brand’s world was shattered. Grant, her husband of 20 years, father to her children and business partner at East Fortune Farm took his own life. There were no warning signs, nothing to alert Jane or the wider family that Grant was struggling with his mental health. Overnight, Jane found herself a…
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In August a short film, aimed at raising the feel-good factor amongst Scotland’s farmers, launched on social media. ‘We all need a farmer’ is the work of award-winning director, Jason Connery, and narrated by renowned Scottish actor Ian Pirie. The Brand family have been enormously touched by the release of a short film ‘We all…
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Combining a love of reading with delicious paired cocktails and great conversation inspired Kirsty Herriot on a new business venture. Taking time to curl up in your favourite chair, with a drink in hand and devour a good book is one of life’s great pleasures. But if you want to share your love for an…
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The art of collage may have a long and varied history stretching back centuries, but as demonstrated by pop superstar Beyoncé’s recent unveiling of a collage to mark her 40th birthday, it’s having A Moment. Now, a group of Scottish artists, including comedian Phill Jupitus, is cutting and pasting its way to a new way…
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Over the next six issues we gain insight into the working lives of the people who make up Garden Stirling Burnet, one of East Lothian’s oldest law firms. For many, if not most, the law can be, well, a bit intimidating. Perhaps it’s all the TV shows that depict drama within, and between firms, cases…
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Claire Maclachlan answers the common question, what exactly does a copywriter do and does my business need one? Let’s start with what copy is? It is written persuasive content which is a direct conversation with your customer, designed to turn readers into buyers. Copy is everywhere; on your website, your social media, blogs, emails, newsletters,…
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It was Emma’s unusual up-bringing, which inspired her to become an interior designer. As a child she lived in a large home in Bruntsfield, where her mother was the live-in nanny and they had the annex flat adjoined to the main house. A large Georgian villa which needed a lot of work, Emma spent her…
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Crafting is officially cool. Knitting, embroidery, sewing and a host of other crafts have cast of their unglamorous image and are enjoying a boom thanks to television shows such as The Great British Sewing Bee. And for Rosie Creyke, who started sewing on a vintage Singer sewing machine when she was eight-years-old, this rise in…
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