Or maybe that should read ‘We are alive!’.

CycleStyle is officially open for business, and our excitement holds no bounds.

The store has been our passion, our waking thoughts, our middle-of-the-night to-do lists and constant conversation topic for months. We’ve been planning, writing, buying, designing and building the business, while dealing with full time work, three blogs, five weddings, an interstate trip, an overseas honeymoon and then being given notice to vacate by our landlord.

Busy doesn’t even begin to describe these past few months.

But we’re here and we’re happy and we hope that you love the store as much as we do!

Finally, we must give a big thank you e-hug to the following people for their advice, support and hard work: Tim; the parents; London agents Huy and Nathan; super-supportive friends Jenny, Brendan, Michael and Andrea; site designer and blog crush Karishma; business and design guru Nikita; friend and stockist Alex from Eco Fashionista, our countless supporters and friend Kimberley and hairdresser Stelios for planting the seed for CycleStyle in the first place.

We’ve been told to ‘go where your customers are’ and millions of you are on Facebook. So we’ve come to you!

On our Facebook page you’ll be able to keep track of all things CycleStyle. We’ll put up photos of new products, let you know about events and run competitions for our fans.

Our first goal is to hit 100 friends as quickly as possible, so that we can we can have CycleStyle in our Facebook URL and not have a random jumble of letters and characters (that won’t fit nicely on a business card).

So we’d really appreciate your help – please become our friend by ‘liking’ us and tell your Facebook friends about us too!

As an added incentive, our 100th follower will receive a gift from us – a pair of unisex Freehands tech tip liners for the winter ahead. These waterproof, triple-layer gloves have silver conductive thread on the thumb and forefinger, which means you can use a touch screen like an iphone/ipod touch without taking your gloves off. No more answering your phone with your nose or dropping your glove in the gutter while you scramble around for that ringtone!