I am in the office this morning and waiting for the call from my colleague Karen at the Spring Fair as I am due to be there with her today. But the show has quietened down from the rush of customers we had on the Sun and Mon so my services may not be needed.

Shame as I am sat here in my pink sweatshirt and matching converse (with my badge round my neck) wishing I had dressed a little warmer had I known I wasn’t needed today. Oh well! I might still be dashing up there in the next hour or so to help her.

I thought I’d upload the picture below, not a great one I realise but it’s of me on a night out last week wearing one of our lovely new wrist corsages! I wore a plain black dress and a red wrist corsage with our matching red pearl earrings (£5.00). It made a nice change from wearing jewellery and I had some lovely comments about it not only from my friends but from other women I met in the toilets! I thought it would a good trial run!

Our new corsages for proms/weddings and any sort of celebration come in 6 colours, red, black, lilac, ivory, beige and pink (£15.99). They all have a large rose on the top with little metal Lello tag and tie with a ribbon round your wrist, packaged in a lovely ribbon tied box.

I loved wearing it and will definitely wear one of the other colours when I next go out. I did my best to get the corsage in the photo (I am on the end on the right) but you can only just see it amidst all the wine glasses! The corsages will go on our website in the next week or two and joining them will be some lovely new handbags and scarves all to match our jewellery ranges.

Gemma, Wendy, Rachael, Carla & Karen (me).

It should be what are we wearing at Lello today but because we are exhibiting at the Spring Fair Birmingham till Thursday I thought I’d up load some images of our stand instead.
Sunday and Monday were great days and the comments about our new jewellery were just great. We took lots of orders and it has been very worthwhile.
Today however the show appears to be very quiet.

Fiona on our stand on Sunday with our handmade cards in the background.
We were both dressed in pink and yellow to match the stand! which customers found quite amusing!

A few customers.

Our range of black glitzy cards which were very well received.

Some of the jewellery on show.

Sorry to disappoint you today but it is all hands to the pump to prepare for our Spring Fair at the NEC in Birmingham which sets up today and starts on Sunday. We are screwing legs to tables, mounting handmade cards and loading our van aiming to be away for the NEC at around 11am. I am the van driver! so it should be fun.

But I do have something to show you which could be classed as a fashion find of the week!

Our lovely new wrist corsages for proms, weddings, parties etc. In fact I am going to wear one to night when I go out for dinner just to see what all my friends think. They are lovely and I do anticipate women just wearing them to ‘spruce’ up an outfit and not necessarily for a special occasion.

They will be available in Red, Black, Beige, Ivory, Pink, Lilac and tie round your wrist with a cordinating ribbon and little Lello metal tag. Each corsage comes beautifully boxed.

The corsages will retail for £15.99 and they will be available 1st week of March.

I will upload a couple of pictures this afternoon of the corsages and also of our stand at the NEC.

Lello is featured ‘quite nicely’ in this weeks ‘Women’ magazine in a feature on Valentine’s gifts.

Not sure the editor realised that they had uploaded an image from our ‘Little Lello‘ range so it would only be suitable for little girls and teenagers. Mind you it does fit me so as long as your wrist isn’t too large you’d be ok. Secondly… it’s currently out of stock, oh dear!

But of cause there are many more styles to choose from our website.

Many of the images which appear in magazines like this are uploaded from a company many of us manufacturers subscribe to. The editor simply types in ‘heart shaped jewellery‘ a hundreds of images from companies like Lello, pop up! So we have absolutely no control over which image they choose, nor the opportunity to suggest images, nor do we know when the image will be published.

Nevertheless we are very grateful they choose us!
(thanks to my friend Mel who spotted this)

Little Lello bracelet, top left £3.99. Due in stock early March!

It feels like a bit of a crazy day as we rush to get everything ready for the Spring Fair at the NEC. Set up starts Friday when we drive over and set the stand up and the show starts on Sunday and runs through to Thursday.

I really enjoy the Sunday as there is always a buzz but the following days are long and you can sometimes have to wait several hours before anyone gets to your stand each day.

The show starts at 9am, though we have to get there for about 8-8.30am and finishes at 6pm!

Lello will be exhibiting there for the 10th year in row, but for the first time in the Gift Hall, hall 4. Our stand no. is K40.
Please note the Spring Fair is only for trade buyers and not open to the public.

We will be showing all our new jewellery for Spring Summer plus current lines and also our new handmade cards and matching photo albums.

I will take our camera and upload some pics of the stand next week!

Fingers crossed it will be very busy and not like last year when the snow stopped a lot of people from attending.
Karen

I have snapped Fiona this morning wearing a new set of our Spring Summer jewellery, ‘Pewter’ necklace made from a light weight metal large chain with white leather strap, £14.99 and matching chain and white leather bracelet, ‘Zinc’ £7.99. The bracelet wraps round your wrist so you see both the chain and the leather strap.

I don’t think this one will stay in stock for very long!

I know you don’t want a weather forecast when you log on to our site but nevertheless it is freezing. Roll on Spring.

The last of our production samples arrived this morning, Yippee! A lovely long ‘Anchor’ necklace to add to our nautical designs with matching charm bracelet with anchor, light house, ships wheel etc.and a few others which I have uploaded pictures of below. All we need now is the stock which will arrive mid/late Feb!

Glad to see our customers are buying to trend! Current online favourites are our nautical bracelets, pictured below is Fiona wearing a set last summer, please note we only have the bracelet in stock for 2010! Made from navy and white stripe glass beads with little silver coloured beads in between and red ships wheel, £6.00.

Fiona wearing our Nautical bracelet, summer 2009, a popular line with our customers
online at the moment. This item has been carried into our range for 2010.

New for Feb, our lovely long antique metal effect chain necklace with ships anchor, matching charm bracelet shown below. Price £7.99.