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30/06/2023

👋it’s been forever! I have had lots of really beautiful messages over the last while asking what I’m up to and what’s next. Well here’s the update…. I was never really sure how to answer as the devastation of closing a business and walking out after the horrific ending that started way before covid has taken way longer to work through than I ever expected. Financially yes but personally more than anything. What I saw as failure for several years has in actual fact offered me so many lessons in business, people and my unravelling with a diagnosis of ADHD and Autism (no surprise at all to those who know and have worked with me apparently 🤦🏼‍♀️). At the end of 2021 we bundled our little loves up and caravanned North to a place that felt safe for me. A place that showed me how to do business when I started out in 2006 and I left with so many more plans in 2015 when we moved South. Unfinished I thought at the time but now I know I had so much more to learn about integrity, following your knowing and creating the things you love and not letting arseholes tell you are worthless and believing them! It’s been several years, several jobs (I make a great employee by the way 🤣) and I’ve come full circle. My values will always be front and centre in everything I choose to do. Follow along as I birth my happy space with into the world in the North. And keep your eyes peeled as my beautiful friend Jessie who you will all know from your coffee and shakes creates her little space in Ballarat over the coming months with me cheerleading from the North! Let me know what you would like me to do with KFS page….. would you love to see recipes, business related, neurodivergence questions, general hospo chit chat? I’d love to hear! Big ❤️as always! Kylee x

03/01/2022

💔 this is the reality for so many of my colleagues Aus wise as covid wreaks havoc to what should be a brighter 2022 for so many business owners. I’ve had the privilege of so many conversations travelling through to QLD over the last few weeks from VIC and the hurt and pessimism is real and government support and clarity is nil. Please please please support your local businesses particularly - ask how they are going and truly care - owners, teams and everyone in between are honestly fragile and not dealing with this at all in a festive spirit as should be this time of year. You don’t need to fix them or offer your opinion - a listening ear, a supportive smile, being patient and understanding is all part of keeping these businesses self belief that they can keep going in the most trying of times. To all the amazing business owners that definitely did not sign up for doing business in a pandemic 2 years in reach out id you need to I am always willing to listen x Thank you once again for being a listening ear and voice for 🙌🙌🙌 honest words by 💔

24/12/2021

CHRISTMAS + NEW YEAR WISHES ❤️| from our Family to yours we wish you a magical Christmastime filled with all the important moments to savour + all the things that bring you joy. Thank you for all the moments of kindness and community that have been shown to us since we closed KFS,our happy place. It’s hard to believe another year has passed, lessons learned and grievances forgiven. As we move on to new projects away from Ballarat in 2022 (never say never😉) we wish everyone all the positive adjectives and optimism that a new year invites. K x as always the chaos of our family captured by the gorgeous Zoe who captured our first and last photo shoot in Ballarat x

07/01/2021

The question where do we all start? 2020 was the year of the smack in the face personal + business unravelling that had been simmering away for several years behind the happy face of a hospitality business owner who dare not be smiley and joyful. 12 years of smiles mostly happy + optimistic ones and 3 years (almost to the day symbolic ✨) of forced resentful ones since that same Human asked for help through tears of lost hope after years of business building. What was to follow could have defined the ending and most certainly nearly did (only a minor planning hiccup occurred 🤦🏼‍♀️) - an ending that would have been the one that left a partner and 3 little people under the age of 8 without their favourite Human 🙋‍♀️. It went on to define the next + last 3 years of a business that was started to sprinkle joy + happy + love in every part of it when secretly the downward spiral had started. 2020 was the unravelling + 2021 I cannot wait to sprinkle joy again. 📸

04/01/2021

2020 REFLECTIONS ✨✨✨ oh 2020 you gave me some (insert so many adjectives) moments, allowed me a breather and then made sure it would be a year I (like so many others) never forgot. I said a virtual good bye to too many colleagues (I have now stopped counting), I grieved a business before I was truly ready (now know you never are) I loved my family more than I ever have (in person), I fought (harder than it should be for a working parent let alone any parent in 2020) for my middle little love to find who/what he needed most, and I made a promise (to someone who matters) that I will be raw and authentic about my business journey so as to start a conversation about the realities of and and in that 🤞a small business owner less alone in the middle of a sleepless night. Let the conversations begin. ✨

18/11/2020

ONCE UPON A TIME

14/11/2020

✖️Marble plates $ 50 set of 6 ✖️white plates $20 set 6 ✖️soup/pasta bowls $15 set of 6 ✖️mustard dinner plates $10 set 4 ✖️box mixed kids cutlery+ 16 plates +28 plastic cups $50 ✖️maxwell + Williams cup and saucer $12 set 6 message for more info/collection

29/10/2020

REFLECTIONS ✨| with the endings and beginnings 2020 has shared with me I am taking the time to reflect on business, family, friendships and values I wish to carry forward into my next chapter. The next chapter is very decadent + allows me to spread happiness, sprinkles and fun throughout Aus 😉 I have had both snippets and huge plans offered going forward all of them basking back in the sunshine ☀️ for now as the last chapter is packed up this weekend (don’t forget the pack up sale) I want to say thank you to those who shared joy + made memories in our pink walls, and personally thank those who asked and truly cared how I was during the really dark teary days, months and ultimately years of torment allowing me to see the sparkle in the world is there and would once again return. The super happy parts I will never forget, the really 💩 parts have served as a cracker of a lesson in business, boundaries and behaviour of what is and is not ok from other human beings. K x

09/10/2020

GARAGE SALE SUNDAY 10-2 ✨✨✨ all the things are waiting to go to their new homes and ready for you to grab a bargain 😉 photos to come *no eftpos available

09/09/2020

ARE YOU OK? The question may be easy to ask but it may not be not so easy to answer or actually listen to the answer. 📷

08/09/2020

JUST BE THOUGHTFUL OF OTHERS | yesterday my industry lost another talented soul to despair and I lost a friend and mentor of over 20 years 😢 I am not going to use social media for a rant about politics or right or wrong decisions- what I am going to ask is that anyone reading this ask a business owner how they are, really are and take the time to listen. Many aren’t ok, they are in a pause not edited by them, but do want to do the right thing all the while caring about their futures, their families, their Teams, pondering the insecurity of cash flow and business and anxiously awaiting what is next. My heartfelt wish is for genuine empathy to follow so much darkness. ⛅️ 🌈☀️ 📷

08/08/2020

THIS! 👇 Honesty. I do hope people take the time to read and reflect on this article from the point of view of hospitality owners (this man is an absolute gem 😉) who have no clue on what or when our new normal will be. Pivoting, planning and positivity do not change the fact that statistically myself and many of my colleagues will lose everything - business, family homes, relationships and friendships - livelihoods are one thing (and can be rebuilt) but the dignity of others and their security and life should not be in a daily dance around by Governments in an industry where we do not build our business on square metres, hand sanitiser and keeping your distance. We are a people industry and I so hope that it is one that will be looked after as much as we look after others once all is said and done. My question - why are we not showing compassion to these workers who are stranded here also by none of their own doing and have contributed to the betterment of our country in paying their tax contribution many trying to make a better life for their family. I know I personally have employed several visa holders over my 30 years and without them I would never have been able to run my businesses to the level of success I have. That is a lot of years and a lot of financial contribution by them don’t you think? Enough that we could surely look after them first and then let’s talk about the future of an industry that looks bleak. That bleakness also will affect the bottoms line of the country’s economy also. Just a thought in a time where the tag line seems to be we are all in this together.

“I am writing this letter as a cry for help. I am worried beyond measure that the industry I love is facing total ruin.”