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).

Here are some more pictures of the new handbags we are launching at the end of the month.

The same design applies to 3 large bags and 3 small bags, showing here is the large black chenille and the large grey flannel (also comes in Red chenille). Also below the small red chenille and the small black chenille (also comes in grey flannel).

The brooches come on the bag but are detachable and can also be bought separately on their own. The large bag will retail for £49.00 and the small bag will retail for £35.00.

We are working on the new handbag concepts at the moment and as always there are last minute glitches! Fabric and handles being ours. But as ever I am confident it will all go to plan and the six new designs will launch along side the new jewellery ranges at the end of the month.

Our agents are already selling the new Autumn / Winter jewellery lines even though they don’t come into stock for another 4 weeks, this is great news for us.

Our Little Lello stock has sold out in 4 weeks, WOW!. We knew it would be popular but it has taken us by surprise. More is on order and I think the new lines for Autumn / Winter, a pretty glass pearl necklace and bracelet and a metal finish necklace and bracelet will go down a storm.

We’d better get our thinking caps on for Spring / Summer 2010.

Karen

We have finalised this week the new range of handbags we are launching for Autumn / Winter 09/10. Just a small range of six large bags and six smaller bags, ‘to test the water’.

The bags we hope will be a great addition to our jewellery offer. The design and colour of the bags is simple, tasteful and elegant and we hope to suit women of all ages. The bags will be made locally here in Leicester and some of the fabric we have used was in a former life ‘plastic bottles’.

It was not our intention for the bags to carry the recycled ‘tab’ however we are pleased that we have managed to incorporate a part of the bag which is made from recycled material. This will follow the theme of some of our recycled greeting cards, having them made locally is also a huge bonus!

The new bags will be launched alongside the Autumn / Winter jewellery at the end of August.

Karen