Our first year

Today is our one year anniversary and how strange, I'm in an airport drawing destinations on a map and with my notebook full of doodles that will soon mean the beginning of a new collection! 

What a great year we have had, my dears! Who would have told us a year ago, when we brought out our first collection and our nervous smiles to the world, that today the same butterflies would be fluttering around us when it comes to choosing where to continue to grow!

Last night we were talking to Martina on the phone, when you are about to give birth, you don't know what the baby will be like or how you will exercise your role as a mother. You have expectations, but everything is unknown. Today, when our baby is already crawling and looking at the world with a thirst for everything, we already know how we are as moms, and all those expectations of a year ago are more real than ever, because many of them have been fulfilled and the others are coming.

 

Lo de Manuela is in its first year and we are where we want to be. Our beloved objects are desired from 3 of the most beautiful decoration stores, and from our website, where every day more and more people fall in love with our philosophy. We, the team, continue to teach what we do best, which is to capture the beauty in objects, and I am still about to embark and crown another destination, full of emotion for what I have just lived, and full of illusions for what is yet to come, what better way to face our second year of life!

Dear team, thank you for the passion you put every day in our common project, thank you for listening and magnifying my delusions, and thank you for standing up for me, which after a year, you have shown that you do it wonderfully. Let's continue to create these synergies and the most beautiful collections.   

And as we were saying with Martina, let's be very attentive because our offspring is about to start walking on its own, and with that, the pace of life will be, if possible, even more hectic.

In front of an imaginary red fruit cake (by Yann Deusche, my favorite) and with our first candle flaming in the center, I close my eyes and make a wish (or is it three? I make three wishes!), I look into your eyes from my soul and toast for more and better . And I turn off my cell phone because the stewardess is threatening to throw me out of the plane. This one has slept less than me, poor thing.

Goodbye!