by Kate Shaw | Dec 17, 2024 | Peonies
Peony season at the farmlet always seems to arrive in a rush, but this year, it was even quicker than usual! Thanks to a warm late winter, everything kicked off much earlier, with the first Corals blooming in mid-October. By early November, the rest of the patch...
by Kate Shaw | Dec 10, 2022 | Peonies
It was a wild spring in the ranges. Peony season started on the 29th October with the early Coral Peonies. The rest of the patch started the appear in early November. I picked our final peony on the 2nd December. We had a few groups in to pick this year and a big...
by Kate Shaw | Nov 30, 2021 | Peonies
This years peony season was wild. The weather in Melbourne was much colder and wetter than average, plus a couple of massive storms. Luckily the peonies didn’t seem to mind too much. I was away at the beginning of the season visiting family in Tassie, but I...
by Kate Shaw | Aug 29, 2021 | Renovating
Living in the Yarra Valley, an hour outside of Melbourne, we are are usually treated as rural (especially when it comes to deliveries). Unfortunately during the Covid-19 pandemic all of a sudden we became part of metropolitan Melbourne and got locked down with...
by Kate Shaw | May 12, 2021 | Digital Marketing
What is email marketing automation? Well put simply it’s automating your repetitive emails actions using software to assist in increasing leads & sales. Once set-up it allows you to focus on other areas of your business. I’m going to teach you a couple...
by Kate Shaw | Nov 13, 2019 | Renovating
They say first impressions count…. Well, when we first purchased the farm back in 2011, my first thought as I walked onto the front porch was – argghh we need to update this. Unfortunately after all the other parts of the house that needed work plus the...
by Kate Shaw | Jan 7, 2018 | Digital Marketing, Web Design
I googled my website and I’m not on the first page. I hear this often from new clients so I’ve put together a comprehensive list of my top ten DIY tips to get your website ranking in Google. 1. Business objectives It’s all well and good to spend $$...
by Kate Shaw | Dec 10, 2017 | Peonies
It’s finally arrived, the peony season Australia. Every year from late October to early December our Peony Patch comes awash with colour as our peonies flower. The season is not long and differs each year depending on the weather. This year the season started...
by Kate Shaw | Oct 18, 2017 | Digital Marketing, Web Design
So you have a shop in WordPress using WooCommerce and you’re getting some sales but you feel like you could be doing more. I’ve set up a few shops since I started on my freelance journey and coming from a background in corporate where data driven...
by Kate Shaw | Jul 5, 2017 | Renovating
So phase 3 of our home renos included converting the old kitchen in half into a walk in wardrobe and now the laundry renovation is almost finished. After doing some research we found that laundry’s do not sell houses so we didn’t want to put too much...
Thanks for visiting my website. I am a web designer, digital marketer, renovator and peony grower. 