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

Pop-up preparation...new cards!

Last night we sorted out the cards so that we could mount the jewellery onto them, and this is the end result. I know the picture isn't the best quality because of the lighting but we'll put a better one on when we've finished.

This is less than half of the jewellery we have available, we just ran out of cards because we need the guillotine at college so we'll finish them tomorrow :)

They're looking lovely! Put all the pictures up on Facebook too now and we've had a great response so far :D

In another news, a bird was stuck down Mike's chimney for the past couple of days and his parents couldn't get it out because it was too far up to get out so they had to leave it but they could hear it scratching and it was so sad, but today they've smashed a hole in their bedroom wall to rescue it and it turns out it was a little baby owl! They've taken it to the vets and been told they need to feed it cat food with some tweezers, but apparently it's just happy sat in a cat basket on the kitchen table :) We're going over to see it tomorrow before they need to try release it back out into the open, so cute! <3

More tomorrow! Byeeeee x

New 'about me'...

For the pop-up shop we have had to write a sales pitch to briefly explain what 'Lily Bones' is and what we're about. I kept it fairly short and simple but the more I wrote it the more I started to like it and I'm now trying it out as our new about me (with a few bits and bobs taken out). 
Here's the piece in full:


"‘Lily Bones’ was born from a love of all things creative as well as the need to bring affordable, innovative design to a wider target audience. Run by two graphics students (Derrian and Mike) from Leeds college of Art, we create handmade and upcycled ‘stuff’ using anything we can get our hands on, including mass-produced products, found objects and modified buttons. Our quirky jewellery and accessories will make the ultimate statement!

Influenced by attending many vintage and crafts fairs, we often take inspiration from these events and try to incorporate themes into our designs. The idea for ‘Lily Bones’ first came about after many occasions of seeing overpriced and badly made jewellery and thinking ‘I can do that much better!’, and that is what we do. We are always trying out new ideas and welcome any commissions. Our stuff looks good enough to eat, but we wouldn’t advise that!

We love what we do and we hope you do too!
                 
Find us at: lilyboneshandmade.blogspot.com
Email us at: lilyboneshandmade@live.co.uk"


Let us know what you think! 


Got our sales team meeting this afternoon up at the other building, and we need to get our prices sorted and such. 
Busy!

Keeping it simple...

Last night we sought advice from a professional graphic designer on how to enhance the look of our business cards and the cards for us to put the jewellery on. We've still used the original typeface that I used for the original cards, and also the illustration that Mike produced, but the image is now at a much better quality and there is less pixelation altogether. 

We've also made the whole design into a completely black and white image so that we are able to print on any type of card we like without having to change the actual design at all. This means we can change colours depending on the products and such. We have picked out a colour for the card we want to use (gorgeous creamy peppermint!) but we need to order it in (and get the money for it!), which will be after the pop-up shop so for now all the cards are in black and white, but they actually look really nice because of how simple they are. 

We've got a lot of cutting out and mounting to do before thursday so we're going to be very very busy getting the cards ready and mounting the jewellery onto their cards. 

Phew!

On a less relevant note, my uni application is almost done and dusted so that'll be gone by the end of the week, so that's good :)

Going to work on my animation brief now,

Byeee! x