While others have been busy baking bread and embarking on exercise regimes, two enterprising ladies from Staffordshire have decided to use the time to launch a brand new business.
Friends Jo Palmer and Emma Bourne both live between Tamworth and Lichfield and spent much of last year honing a business plan to launch a new candle and home fragrance business.
Jo explained: “I’ve had the idea in the back of my mind for many years and in that time I’ve spent a fortune buying other brands of candles. Some of them I have loved but they have been really expensive, others I’ve been disappointed with as the scent was very chemically and artificial.
“I mentioned my idea to Emma and she immediately jumped on board and said she’d like to be involved too.”