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.
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Monday, 29 November 2010
Pop-up preparation :)
Tonight we set out to make a couple of pairs of earrings and rings just to get us started again this week; we ended up making 22 pairs of earrings, 11 rings and a couple of new brooch ideas! (The brooches are an extension of an original brooch we do). They look lovely, but it's resulted in me having to place another very big online order, I really hope it comes just in time for the pop-up shop, if it doesn't we'll still have enough stock, it'd be nice though as I've got a couple more ideas I'd like to have done for then :)
The shop's just over a week away and we've got so much to do! I've also got my college deadline and my university application deadline all on the same day so it's a lot to handle at once :')
I'm so excited to see how people react to our designs, we've had nothing but good responses so far :D
'Lily Bones' will be at the Leeds College of Art pop-up shop 9th-11th December.
The shop's just over a week away and we've got so much to do! I've also got my college deadline and my university application deadline all on the same day so it's a lot to handle at once :')
I'm so excited to see how people react to our designs, we've had nothing but good responses so far :D
'Lily Bones' will be at the Leeds College of Art pop-up shop 9th-11th December.
Saturday, 27 November 2010
Lovely goodies :)
| Please excuse the quality of the pictures, nothing looks good in artificial light :') These are my lovely purchases from the vintage fair;  |
| lovely boots :) |
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| Blue handbag :) |
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| Brown purse/clutch :) |
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| Everything :) |
I've got a feeling my Doc Martens are going to be taking a bit of a back seat for a while with these boots on the scene :')
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/
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
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
Friday, 26 November 2010
Preparing for the pop-up shop :)
We had our second meeting about the pop-up shop yesterday afternoon/evening where we were discussing how to price our items and also what 'value for 'money' actually means. We also started to sort out what 'teams' we want to be on (eg. sales, promotion, design), and Mike and I have been asked to be head of sales! :) This means we'll actually be near our designs and will also be able to actually talk to customers about them which is great.
However, we only found out yesterday that we have to add 20% commission onto our original prices which will then go to Artsmix afterwards. This means our original more affordable prices will all be a bit odd now. For example, a £3.50 ring will now have to be £4.20, and our £4.50 brooches will now be £5.40 :(
Can't be helped though, just keep that in mind when/if you come to the stall :)
Also, our big online order just came last night so we're going to get cracking asap on a load of rings, earrings and brooches :) Need to do a bit more promotion for the stall too...
Excited!
x
However, we only found out yesterday that we have to add 20% commission onto our original prices which will then go to Artsmix afterwards. This means our original more affordable prices will all be a bit odd now. For example, a £3.50 ring will now have to be £4.20, and our £4.50 brooches will now be £5.40 :(
Can't be helped though, just keep that in mind when/if you come to the stall :)
Also, our big online order just came last night so we're going to get cracking asap on a load of rings, earrings and brooches :) Need to do a bit more promotion for the stall too...
Excited!
x
Monday, 22 November 2010
Very very very exciting :)
We've just been asked to do a very exciting commission by a friend :)
She wants a personalised charm necklace with an 'E' tile on it, with other cute little charms like cupcakes and teacups, and artsy type things :)
It's lovely, I'm in my element looking at all these different charms and thinking what I think would look good together :) With this one, because it's a commission, the buyer has a lot of say in what charms she wants and what she wants it to look like but I'm looking forward to making more afterwards where we can pick the charms and make some really interesting combinations! :D
It's so exciting! :D
Need to prepare for the pop-up shop, do my college work and now this too! Busy busy!
Byeee x
She wants a personalised charm necklace with an 'E' tile on it, with other cute little charms like cupcakes and teacups, and artsy type things :)
It's lovely, I'm in my element looking at all these different charms and thinking what I think would look good together :) With this one, because it's a commission, the buyer has a lot of say in what charms she wants and what she wants it to look like but I'm looking forward to making more afterwards where we can pick the charms and make some really interesting combinations! :D
It's so exciting! :D
Need to prepare for the pop-up shop, do my college work and now this too! Busy busy!
Byeee x
Insight...
We haven't put many pictures up before now, so here's to the start of many pictures to come :)
These are a selection of our designs, we have retained some images for personal reasons.
Enjoy!
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| Lily Bones' handpainted pumps |
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| 'City lights' earrings |
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| 'I lost my heart at sea' earrings and 'pretty little lady' earrings |
Please let us know what you think, and remember, this is only a selection of our designs, and we also do personalised designs and commissions :) We are also still working on the names of our products :)
Tatty bye x
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