Just a quick something....

Hello!

Just a quick post to say the stall's running okay and just to show you my new necklace that I bought off one of the other vendors :) I love it!

It's very kyoot :3
Bye for now <3

First day of pop-up...my feet are in agony!

I'll probably do a longer post about this another time but for now I'm very very very tired and I think we're going to just go to bed.

I took some pictures of the stall after I'd set it up, the only thing that changed after this was I put some refreshers sweets into the 'eat me' cup and saucer for people :)

Here they are:

Today we've sold:

1 'Build me up' ring
1 'Build me up' brooch
1 pair of 'Lost my heart at sea' earrings
1 'Lost my heart at sea' ring
1 pair of 'pretty little lady' earrings
1 'build me up man' brooch
1 pair of 'roses are red' earrings
1 letter brooch
1 letter ring
and the vintage button with the silver scissors brooch
:)

Lovely!
Please remember, any prices shown are our original prices + the 20% we have to add on for 'artsmix'.

Cheers guys, off to pass out now x

Should bring a suitcase of 'stuff' into college more often...

Today we brought all our stuff mounted onto the cards into college in a suitcase because we had a few things that people had asked us to bring in and we thought we'd be best just to bring the whole lot in to keep it together. 


We've had the case open on the desk for most of the day so people walking past could have a look if they wanted and we've ended up selling:
3 rings
5 pairs of 'City lights' earrings
1 set of 'Build me up' cufflinks
and 1 pair of the limited edition kitty earrings :)


Pretty good I'd say. However, some of the things we've sold we now won't have to sell at the pop-up shop over the next few days as our online order hasn't come through yet and it's tomorrow :( Oh well, there'll be other times :)


We're just waiting at college now to go down to the shop area where we're going to put our table up and put the tablecloth on it ready to set everything up on tomorrow :) Then we're going to Mike's quickly to see the little baby owl, then have tea, back to mine where we're going to be very very very busy glueing and mounting onto jewellery cards. Phew!


More later, bye! x

First customer product shot...

This is our first product shot of something on an actual customer. This is my friend Rae, she's bought a dark blue pair of 'City lights' earrings and I also got her to model my own personal 'Build me up' ring, so pretty! :) I seem to use her for every project where I need a model at college so expect to see a lot more of her :')

That's all for now, just wanted to share that with you <3

A bit of input from Mike...

It's Mike doing the blog this time because Derrian's busy doing college work :)

We've just finished our commission for 2 rings and 2 pairs of 'City lights' earrings, and are going to pick up more supplies for rings, brooches and earrings tomorrow. Also we are re-visiting the business card designs and the themed cards for our jewellery to be placed on tomorrow and mass printing in preparation for the pop-up shop :)

Hope to see you there.
Mike.

'Lily Bones' will be at the Leeds College of Art pop-up shop from the 9th-11th December.

Feeding my love of vintage...

Today we went to a vintage fair at Leeds met SU and it was lovely! It was run by the people who do the one we normally go to in Sheffield, and they didn't disappoint!

Their vintage fairs are so well organised and laid out, and everything's so lovely. They even run a little tea party with gorgeous mis-matching cups and saucers and cupcakes (so yummy!). I had a raspberry cupcake with crazy blue icing as always and it was so tasty!

I saw so many things that I wanted to buy and a LOT of things I couldn't afford (the joys of running Lily Bones) :')
I am very happy with what I did buy though; I got a blue vintage handbag and it's so lovely, a smaller brown bag/clutch type thing which looks very old and worn and it's so nice, and a gorgeous pair of boots which are exactly what I've been looking for for ages! (I'll post pictures when I've taken them). We went into town after and I also bought the Grinch on DVD because Mike's never seen it and he NEEDS to, as well as a new white bandana :) It's been nice today :)

If you want to check out dates for the vintage fair you can find them here:
http://www.thevintagefair.com/

I've also got the email address of the lady in charge of the vintage fair so I'm going to email her very soon about getting a stall with them, it would be so amazing if we could. I'm also going to email 'Culture Vulture' (a shop in Leeds) about getting a place for our 'stuff' in their shop; I've loved that shop since I was 14 so to be able to get our 'stuff' in there would be such an achievement!

This week we've sold 2 pairs of 'city lights' earrings, 2 rings and a pair of 'pretty little lady' earrings.

The girl who we sold the ring to was on a photoshoot the other day and she wore our ring and she said she had 4 different girls come up and ask her where she got it from! So proud!

That's all for now, I'll get these pictures posted now as Mike's very kindly taken them for me :)
Byee x

Update.

We went to our meeting on Thursday about the pop-up shop, it was interesting to see what other people are going to be selling, as well as thinking more about how we want to exhibit our work. We already had some ideas about what 'props' we could use to help display our work, but now we need to also look at where abouts in the area of the shop we want to display them. We thought we would be best off with a table, and just presenting it really nice, but a lot of other people seem to be wanting to put their work on the walls and on shelves ad things, and it's making us wonder whether we'd be better doing something like that. Decision, decisions.

I've also been on the hunt for new places for us to sell our 'stuff' and came across a lovely blog of a lady who organises craft events in the Corn Exchange in Leeds, which would be brilliant! I sent her a quick email and she replied very quickly and was very lovely, we just need to email her some pictures and she'll send us some forms and we'll be on our way!

In other news, we've sold another 3 rings, a brooch and a set of cufflinks this week, and we've been given even more commissions to do, which we've worked on today. We've had a small setback with the glue we were using but that's been solved already and we're using something now that's stronger than ever :)

The business cards went to print this week also, so thats another step forward for us, as well as the launch of our Facebook (facebook.com/lilyboneshandmade). It feels like we've made quite a bit of progress this week. Now we're just waiting on our big online order and looking at some other bits and bobs for new designs. We bought a lot of supplies yesterday with the money we made this week so that we're stocked up over Christmas too :)

Think we're going to look into doing some Christmassy designs, as well as our originals, either make great presents! :)

Today, we also started working on our mini vintage collection, made from modified vintage buttons, they're looking lovely if I do say so myself :) We'll put pictures up asap! We seem to be lacking in pictures on most of our websites so we will try sort that quickly quickly!

And finally, these lovely antlers that Mike's dad bought in York for his knifemaking :) Fear not animal lovers, as you probably know, deer grow and shed new antlers every year so no deer were harmed in the making of this photo!

Thanks for reading, sorry for the enormous post and I will keep you updated on the vintage collection amongst other exciting things :)

A very happy customer...

Last night we sold 3 pairs of earrings, a ring AND a brooch, all to the same lovely girl :) Tomorrow we're taking in what people have ordered into college, so that's another 3 rings, 1 brooch and a pair of commissioned cufflinks! We have our first seminar for the pop-up shop on Thursday and they want us to take our stock with us; seeing as we've just sold 10 things we really need to get cracking over the next couple of nights. Going into town after college tomorow to buy more supplies and doing some online ordering tonight so we'll be ready!


We've also got more commissions to do, and a few people wanting to have a good look at our designs before they order so we're very busy.

On top of all this I'm looking into getting us a space in either a shop or design studio to showcase our 'stuff', as well as organising our own event within the college (fingers crossed). The pop-up shop is less than a month away and we're sooo busy (adding in both of us having college deadlines!) but so excited.


I've just been raiding my Nana's button boxes and there's some in there that are over a hundred years old! There was so many, and she's said we can have any that we want so we've got a nice collection of vintage buttons to work with now! :)


On another note, Twitter doesn't seem to want to work on my laptop at the moment so I'm updating a lot less than I would be but still attempting it from my iPod!


Until next time, goodbye! xx

Need to update more

Sorry, been very very busy with college work the past few days, went to an animation workshop in Leeds today as well which was pretty cool :)

We've got a couple more commissions to do so we'll be busy busy tomorrow night. The business cards are also finally going to the printers I think which will take a weight off my mind, ready for the pop up shop.

We've also been looking at cute little pick'n'mix type bags to put our stuff in once someone's bought it, they're gorgeous!

Taking in the stuff people 'ordered' on Wednesday too, the ball is finally rolling! :D