So, just a few days to go until the launch party. The record is done, and the CDs should arrive any day. The video is done, and will be on You Tube for the launch. An X-factor style trailer should be on You Tube tomorrow.

I've sent out press releases to the local papers, radio and TV. I've managed to get a local shop to agree to stock the record and put a poster in their window. The Children's Hospice people are also putting out press releases.

So now we can look forward to partying!

Here is the second cover image - well done Josie! This one will appear on Amazon and i-tunes for the download generation. At last the single is finished - there was a last minute panic but now it's done and , considering we aren't all singers , Alan and Andy have worked miracles and it sounds great - not slick like the WI but sounds as though we're having a lot more fun! Tess has also finished the video , with some great special effects, and put the two together, and it's really fantastic. Now we juts need to cultivate lots of fans and buyers!

This is my first attempt at the CD cover. I think the stars will eventually be a bit paler, so that the lettering stands out, ( and Christmas will have a capital C!) but I suppose people aren't really going to worry about what it looks like, as long as it shows what it is. I was hoping to get all the fairies on it but it just didn't work, and was getting rather complex. We will have a different, more modern , cover to show on the download sites, and my niece Josie has been working on that. She brought me a folder full of fantastic spray paint designs today, really clever, based on a stencil of our fairy logo. It's hard to decide which one to use. It's tempting to use just one design for both, but I think the CD needs to have information on it, whereas her designs for the download sites will have accompanying information so can stand on their own. And maybe our market for the physical CD is a bit more traditional. Just as long as there is a market!

80 days to go!

80 days until we launch the single! Can't believe how the time is flying. It's been a bit of a lull while Tess is editing the video and Alan and Andy editing the record, so I'd not really taken note of how the time is going by. ( Also Santa and I have been just a little distracted by finding a new house and putting ours on the market. But we've found somewhere with a fantastic parking place for the sleigh so really have to take the opportunity to snap it up!)
I've seen the very first video shot with special effects from Tess today and it looks great. On Friday I'm going over to see the first cut of the whole thing - can't wait!
We've set up a Friends group - Treetoppers Friends of the Children's Hospice South West, and a bank account, ready for when the money starts pouring in - we hope!
My fairies don't seem to need the winter weather to get up to mischief - I caught a couple having a sneaky glass of wine in the garden last week when they should have been sorting a pile of teeth - the children seem to have far too many toffees in the school holidays and the tooth fairy needs a lot of help.
A fairy's lot is not an easy one!

Santa and I are making plans! Well, it's now only 95 days to launch . I missed the 100 days - hadn't realised how fast the time was flying. Still waiting for the record and the video be be finished, and it's been a bit of a quiet time, but having missed the 100 day mark I realised I ought to start planning for our big publicity blitz, so am making a list ( Santa's good at that so he's helping!), and thinking about ways to make our publicity stand out.

And the knitting fairy has turned to sewing for a change, to make a lovely doll to be our 12th fairy. and we will invite people to pay to guess her name, with the winner getting our Dyson vacuum cleaner - brand new and unused except for some invisible fairy dust! The name, and the winner, will be announced at our launch party.

Here we are - the TG Treetoppers in all our glory, on an A1 poster that's going up at Green Park Station in Bath for the whole of August. It might have been better to have the poster spot a bit later in the year, but still, it will tell people we're coming!

We're in the Townswoman today, so I thought I'd put up a picture of our business fairy reading our own TG Times. It's one of the photos we had taken in the garden recently. I've been sending them off with various press releases, as everyone says it's never too early to start telling people what we're doing, especially as the WI are starting to get publicity for their million pound record deal. Huh! Who needs that!

We wouldn't say no, I suppose, but never mind, we're Townswomen doing it for themselves!