I have gone for something comfortable and pretty today. Nothing too high fashion and ideal for current weather conditions.

Fiona is wearing this pretty pink ruffle blouse by Miss Selfridge £32.00 with coordinating pink swing cardi by Warehouse £40.00. Matched with pretty floral scarf by Miss Selfridge £12.00.

Pretty in Pink

I usually update this blog every morning but I don’t know where today has gone.

I have had quite a multi tasking day today with orders, inquiries, children rushing in and out of the office and trying to think of an anniversary present for my husband.
All accomplished I think.

We have some new lines of jewellery coming into stock in just over a week which I am really pleased about.
Some pretty little bracelets for children and some of the adult range which are currently out of stock on our website.

Once they are in I will let everyone know on the blog and upload some pictures.
I have a feeling tomorrow will be even busier!
Karen

Happy 17th Birthday to ‘Molly’ who is one of our Lello models!!!

Eleanor Roosevelt, activist:
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

What are we up to today? getting orders packed, sending brochures out to new cutomers, getting to grips with our new data base.
Picture below, ‘fun during the holiday’s our youngest two on their way to the park, lucky them!

Keeping the kid's amused during the holidays!

I am a bit late with this today, but nevertheless, pictured below is Chris, our Midlands sales agent, after she popped into the office to get some new samples.

Chris is wearing our ‘Loganberry‘ earrings, metal antique finish, £3.99. These earring are lovely and they go with anything.

What are we up to today? Designing new card ranges due to launch in September.

A place to visit: I popped into Narborough Hall today to get my husband an Anniversary card. I haven’t been there for sometime and I forgot what a lovely shop it is! they have a huge selection of very pretty greeting cards and some lovely jewellery including our own Lello jewellery. Great presents for all occasions. If you are local and have not been, it’s a real must!

It is the place to go at Christmas as well!!

I had thought the forecast was not good for today but pleased to say the sun is shining, which makes a difference on a Monday morning.

Today we turn our attentions towards a new handmade card range or maybe two. Instead of launching as we do every January we have decided to bring it forward this year and launch some new designs for the Autumn to keep our trade customers happy and to keep things fresh.

Designing will start in earnest later this week, once we have spent some time going through our current ranges and those ranges we have produced in the past.

Today’s find of the week is this lovely black and cream lace cardigan £32.00 from Miss Selfridge. Very on trend for the Autumn Season. Thanks again to Outfit at Thurmaston for their continued support.

Miss Selfridge Cardigan £32.00

Please take a look at our Emporium Gifts page on the Lello site we have some lovely gifts. Pictured below is a beautiful grey/silver lace make up bag /evening bag, Very pretty!   27cm wide by 20cm high.

What are we up to at Lello today?
We have some large card and album orders going out today to our retail customers.

Our lovely handmade cards and photo albums will become available direct through our website in the next few weeks! so keep logging on.

Log on tomorrow for our ‘fashion find of the week’ supported by Outfit.

Lace make-up bag/evening bag £15.99.

My wise words for today are:
In the middle of difficulty, lies opportunity. Albert Einstein

How true! when things seem really bad it is amazing what new opportunities or avenues become available to you, ones you may never of thought of and quite possibly for the best!

Below see pictured our lovely little black dress we have for sale on our emporium gifts page. There are only a couple of these left now, in sizes, 8, 10, 12 and 14-16. Fab for a night out!
£25.00

Lello LBD £25.00.

Today, Fiona is wearing our red miracle bead necklace £13.00. Available in lots of other colours with coordinating bracelets at £6.00.

Red miracle bead necklace £13.00

I am sat at my my desk at the moment with my hair in lots of little sections of paper while I have my colour done. We’ve never had much time to get to the hairdressers and are lucky that our trusted hairdresser comes to us here at Lello every couple of months. I’ve just nipped out to my car in our car park and received some very strange looks from passers by! Oh well, it’s got to be done.

Getting on with orders today and still finalising some of the new Aut/Wint jewellery and sending out the remainder of our news letters.

Fiona pictured below today is wearing her trusted, ‘Ho bracelet’ £7.00 which has matching ‘Tally’ necklace £17.00 made from blue and white stripe acrylic beads.

'Ho' bracelet £7.00