{"id":373,"date":"2009-02-07T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T15:43:01","slug":"time-to-relax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/time-to-relax\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to relax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since my husband &amp; I gave up our jobs, we have been watching the pennies. As to give us the best possible chance of making it as full-time badge makers. We have been doing really well selling our badges &amp; people seem to like them and often come back for more or recommend us to their friend, which is soooooo nice!!!!! We have the best customers &amp; they are super enthusiastic about our badges.<\/p>\n<p>This week we decided to have a day out &amp; a rest from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\">koolbadges workshop<\/a>. Which has been sinking in a sea of valentines badges. People are really spreading the love out there and are buying handmade, which we think is great. All our badges are made by hand in the koolbadges workshop.<\/p>\n<p>We went to Liverpool on the train.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-375\" title=\"train\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/train.jpg?resize=300%2C231&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"train\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used to live in Liverpool about 8 years ago (went to Uni there) we have forgotten how much there is to see &amp; do. First off we went to the Walker Art Gallery, WOW what a place that is, Its amazing &amp; its FREE!!!!<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-374\" title=\"walkerartgallery\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/walkerartgallery.jpg?resize=187%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"walkerartgallery\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\nThen right next door was the <strong>Liverpool Museum<\/strong>, where we were surprised to find an aquarium, Egyptian mummies, Dinosaur bones, a bug house &amp; lots of other things.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-376\" title=\"museum\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/museum.jpg?resize=300%2C224&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"museum\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><br \/>\nThen we rounded the day off with lunch in Wagamamma.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-378\" title=\"yum\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/yum.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"yum\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-379\" title=\"drimk\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/drimk.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"drimk\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the poor photo quality, the light was dull in Liverpool \ud83d\ude41<br \/>\nI will be back later with some badge pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since my husband &amp; I gave up our jobs, we have been watching the pennies. As to give us the best possible chance of making it as full-time badge makers. We have been doing really well selling our badges &amp; people seem to like them and often come back for more or recommend us to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/time-to-relax\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to relax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3007,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/3007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolbadges.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}