Last year we planned to sell our house and move to Scotland. Here's how it went...
This is the getting ready to sell part. Sorting out 30 years and several small businesses and well as many hobbies. This will probably take several blogs to tell the whole story. Many people have asked us about the process, so this is what we did from my viewpoint. We have made our living as artists for the last three decades. That puts us in the rarified air of the 10% who make a living with their art. It was not a plush living, there were lots of ups and downs and sometimes the Boss was a real jerk. But we always figured that our 2 acre property with a lovely refurbished house and our gorgeous strawbale studio that we built would be our retirement. The big plan was to sell up and retire overseas. So we started in January of 2025 - we had to retire then as we had lost so many of our stockists (ugh - I hate that word - the stores who bought our jewelry to sell in their stores - better) to Covid and further to just the general decline in retail sales. We spent several months workin...
