Not that I am counting the hours.
Wow what a busy day we have had pulling together all the final pieces of information for various projects and particulary the sales of Lello jewellery and cards going forward.
The new brochures drop at our doorstep this afternoon and Hayley is just finishing off the last few changes to the summer collection of jewellery.

I have quickly snapped her this afternoon trying on some new designs, named Time, Minute and Second, shown here are the short necklace and bracelet in this design, there is also a much longer necklace. The necklace sits beautifully in the neck, quite a weighty statement piece. Made from a mix of gold coloured and metal chains with clock face, glass bead and charm detail.

Another very busy week planned for next week in the run up to the Spring Fair Birmingham, see us in Hall 4 on the Carte Blanche Stand.

Back on Monday, have a great weekend from us all.

Back in the office today so I will include some thought provoking words which I’d normaly have done yesterday. Instead I spent the day down at Carte Blanche Greetings HQ ( I rarely leave my desk) to discuss all our Lello jewellery, I met some lovely people (just in case they read this)!, it was a very long drive home but a very worthwhile trip.

The topic for this week is:
Humour

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one’s bottom. ~Taki

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. ~Author Unknown

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity. ~James Thurber

After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor. ~Bill Kelly, “Mordillo”

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide. ~Mahatma Gandhi

Lastly here is a sneaky peak at a new necklace we plan to launch for summer, it will also be accompanied by a matching bracelet made from antique finish metal beads, you can see how thrilled Hayley was to model it this morning! I will make sure she smiles next time. Back tomorrow with more Lello news.

Well I can’t deny I am wearing one of our much older designs today but I guess it shows how much I love it.
Our painted wooden bead Russian doll necklace from 2007.
No longer in stock but my love for it has inspired us to create a new Russian doll range for women and children for Summer this year. The latest designs are based around metal beads with colour buttons, maybe that will become my second favourite design from Lello! We are in code and spread sheet land today working out new and up and coming ranges.
Fiona is glued to her Mac working on several projects and Hayley our right hand girl! is making last minute alterations to some jewellery.
Lastly to end the day we have a short photo session a new updated photo of Fiona and I and some images of our lovely new Lello point of sale for jewellery.

My Wednesday’s Wise words will move to Thursday as I will be out of the office tomorrow.

I am a bit late with my blog update today. It’s only Monday and I am feeling just a tad confused! We had a massive Mother’s Day card order go out, I swung back in my seat for 2 minutes to catch my breath and we were off again. Lots of codes, lists, mulling over and discussion of cards and jewellery re: the up and coming Spring Fair at the NEC today.
Pressed the go button for the new jewellery brochure, at last! I hope to have them in my hand on Wednesday.

Plus a puncture, which was fixed in an instant, lucky I realised as I was passing a tyre garage!! all in a day’s work.
Log on for ‘what are we wearing at Lello tomorrow’.

Looking forward to a cuddle with my children very soon when I am finally done with all my emails and I can get on my way with my repaired wheel, K.

On a Wednesday I Like to find random quotes on the same subject which I publish on our blog. I hope they will either make our customers smile, or think…..

As I have just been to our local shops to buy some flowers for a neighbour I thought I’d base todays quotes on ‘flowers’.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Afternoon on a Hill”

‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth, “Lines Written in Early Spring,” Lyrical Ballads, 1798

Flowers don’t worry about how the’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. ~Jim Carrey

Meanwhile at Lello we are all hard at work on a large Mothers Day order aswell as designing a new card range. We have a jewellery order on it’s way which should see us completely stocked up in time for The Spring Fair Birmingham in February,it is a very busy week.

Back tomorrow with some more Lello news, Karen

Today I am wearing some of our new earrings we have now in stock, called ‘Infantry’. They are made from dark coloured metal discs in a bronze finish with dark grey chain, very light weight with quite an ‘urban’ feel to them. To match we also have a braclet and both long and short necklaces.

We have finally after moving to this building in Nov 2010 got heating in our warehouse… yeyyyy! we’ve not tried it out yet so fingers crossed it works later.
Busy making Mother’s Day cards here at Lello all this week. Designing a new range of cards and jewellery and awaiting a delivery of our new jewellery brochure which should arrive at the end of this week.

Plans afoot for the Spring Fair Birmingham in February. You will find our cards and jewellery on the Carte Blanche Stand in Hall 4 of the NEC.

Back tomorrow with ‘What are we wearing at Lello today’.

It’s a chilly one today.
We are madly making cards for Mother’s Day, working on new jewellery concepts. Thinking about and planning for the Spring Fair which gets nearer daily.  Too many emails to send, too many letters to write before home time.

Back on Monday.

What are we up to today? we are waiting for a large delivery of cards to come in which have been printed locally. We will then do our magic with them and turn them into sparkly Mother’s Day cards.

We are adding the finishing touches to our new Summer jewellery collection which I feel is our best yet! Lots of metal and sparkle but also some bold colours which I am really looking forward to photographing in a few weeks. Our photoshoots bring the jewellery alive and we hope to recreate something even better that the current brochure which is out next week.

Apart from that several calls and emails to be getting on with and a major tidy in preparation for all the card making and the stock take continues!

Back tomorrow.

Back to my wise words now we are in 2012! wow the years are flying by, maybe that’s just me getting older?

Today’s quote are all about the New Year, sorry I am a week behind but I have been on my hols.
Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughan

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

I have a few resolutions myself, but nothing I don’t think  with some hard work and dedication I can’t uphold, but it’s all about breaking habits and instilling new ones, so here goes….. so far so good!

Back tomorrow with some more Lello news.

To our trade customers!! come and see us at the forthcoming Spring Fair at the NEC 5th-9th February, Lello will be part of the Carte Blanche Stand, HALL 4  GO8 – HO9. IT’S GONNA BE FUN!!!