April 22nd, 2012

Ohhh my goodness, how long has it been since I linked up to Handmade Monday ?!  There is just no excuse....I have been busy though!

Lots been going on here, new products, new photography, new pricing structure, revamped Lucy Liz website...it's all go!  Of course none of it's finished yet, never is, but we're getting there.  Poor Andy gets to the end of the website "to do" list and I present him with another one...what a trooper!

There's lots of new products on there and I'm proud of all of them, especially this bag though!

I was excited even just to receive the fabric and thankfully it translated into a bag even better than I thought it would, such a vivid turquoise it really is a beautiful print "in the flesh"

Best get me to bed - ready to start it all again in the morning!

February 13th, 2012

(Being a little bit cheeky this week and linking to Handmade Monday  twice, but seeing as I'm blogging every day they're two different ones, so hopefully no-one will mind!)

Two important things to blog about today!

Firstly I must thank you all for the lovely comments regarding the bag I posted yesterday, always so great to get your feedback!  I did say that it wasn't my favourite and that the next one was, so here it is!

I just love this one, London is one of my favourite places ever so this one's just perfect for me.  I've been wanting to do something like this for ages but there's so many restrictions on things like the tube maps and London Underground logos that this fabric was a God send.  For those who've not seen it before, this fabric isn't of the London Tube Map as you know it, it's actually a version that someone put together which is the based on the existing tube maps but the locations are more geographically precise.  Oddly I almost prefer this version as it's not as perfect as the original versions.

Secondly - and perhaps more importantly - Lucy Liz will be closing for a couple of weeks.  Comments and feedback over recent months (and a very exciting bit of news I received today) have lead me to decisions to make some changes about my business, not about my products but more about the marketing and branding.  So the site will be down for a couple of weeks but will be back with a bang by March, loaded with lots of new products!  I'll still be available on email if anyone does want to order whilst the site is down though.

And with that, I'm off to bed!

www.lucyliz.co.uk

February 1st, 2012

February 1st already!  And must say well done to myself for managing to keep this "blog a day" thing going for a month!  Only 11 to go!

Quite a productive day today!  Didn't get any making done but lots of the "admin" side of Lucy Liz done, including buying in some new fabrics which is one of my favourite things - second only to the fabric actually arriving lol

Chosen two or three knew ones but with spring on the way and a lot hot British summer to look forward to (ahem!) this floral number is definitely my favourite and I cannot wait to get stitching it!!

And now a word of warning...Andy and I are heading London tomorrow so I will be blogging from my phone, so I appologise in advance for the mess I'm bound to make of it!  Wish me luck!

http://www.lucyliz.co.uk/

January 30th, 2012

Here we are again, Handmade Monday, never ceases to shock me how quickly it comes around!!

I'd hoped to have the proper products shots of my new coin purses ready by now but sadly not, I've not been feeling brilliant over the past week and now Andy's heading the same way so photographing products and Photoshopping were so far off the agenda it's untrue!  So instead you'll have to make do with a sneaky peak...

I do really like them, althoug they're quite small and the frames are so fiddly to attach I end up getting annoyed with them!  Not surprisingly I've done them in the fabrics to match the bags so hopefully at some point I can list the purse and bags online as sets rather than individual pieces.

The aim this week then is to have a batch of  purses finished, photographed, edited and listed online by the next Handmade Monday...wish me luck!

http://www.lucyliz.co.uk/

My New Year Resolution

I am, officially, the worst blogger ever.  EVER!  I have every good intention of doing it but I just never do, and I don't know why!  So, to that end, I have come up with a solution...

2012 promises to be a pretty big year for me, I'll be continuing to grow my business and am currently expanding my product ranges, but more importantly (for me, anyway!) 2012 is the year I'll be getting married.  So in what will be such a big year for me I've decided to take up the challenge of documenting it by taking a photo every single day, as a record of my business, wedding preperations and the big day itself.

AND I'LL BLOG THE WHOLE LOT!! 

I admit to having quite a strong OCD streak in me, so I know that if I start with January 1st, 2012 and continue, I won't be able to sleep if I miss one, so I HAVE to do it!  Desperate times call for desperate measures, hopefully it'll work!

Wish me luck!

http://www.lucyliz.co.uk/