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‘IT BRINGS ME SO MUCH HAPPINESS’

Kate Smith, 44, runs makerykate.com and lives in Bath with her husband Nigel, 43, and daughters Lyra, 12, and Florrie, 9.

Two weeks before my first daughter was born in September 2009, I picked up the keys to my brand new business, The Makery. After getting married, leaving London and my film-industry career behind me, travelling the world, settling in Bath and falling pregnant, I felt like I had one more goal to tick off – and I couldn’t put it off any longer.

With notepads filled with pages of ideas, and business plans detailing exactly what I was going to do and how to do it, I was ready to make that very first

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