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We had a wonderful family holiday, spending half term exploring Venice
a whole week of walking, gazing, drinking and eating
A week of spending time together and being inspired.
and today I am back in the workshop, slightly overwhelmed by the scale of the sewing pile
but still making time to kick through the piles of leaves in the sunshine outside.
Some people may celebrate the growth of their business with new shoes and handbags or bottles of champagne but I'm afraid that what I get excited about is being able to afford new packaging.
Since last Christmas we have been wanting to change the way we wrap our mirrors - we always like to make our parcels look nice, and everything has always arrived with customers wrapped in tissue and paper.However the number of people wanting us to wrap everything individually always increases around Christmas and with some orders having 20 mirrors in them it was very time consuming and confusing as they all had to be labelled too.
We also noticed that people, quite understandably, opened the wrapping when it arrived and we just knew that however neatly they put it back together it wouldn't be quite right.
So over the summer we designed these gift pouches - they fit a single mirror and are tied at the top with fine satin ribbon. We can add a gift label if its needed. They can be opened and then put back together . . . we can label them easily (or check if we lose count!)
Earlier this week 12,000 of them arrived.
From next week all mirror orders will be going out in them.
I hope you like them,
Jane x
Well we read through all the entries - and this one was the one we picked
So MFinthree a bag will be winging its way to you.
Thank you to everyone - the bags are now up on the website - as are some matching mugs.
Anything else we should be considering?
Over the weekend I was busy designing a typewriter embroidery.
Using fabrics from my special "Do not touch" box to create the applique
- a cannibalised flannel skirt I made in my early teens, silk taffetta from an flouncy evening dress, a 1930s cotton underskirt, some suiting samples and some silver nylon.
Then we shall print it onto bags (and mugs, possibly t-shirts) with personalised text printed onto the sheet of paper.
So - what would you write?
Let me know and we will pick one suggestion on Wednesday and its writer will get a free bespoke bag.
As bags are light to post, the competition is open to everyone - UK based or otherwise!
