It's about time!

I've spent absolutely ages fiddling with the designs I might like for my business cards.
Making the font bigger, better and brighter.

Then I lost them...
I spent so long wishing for them, fretting about if I could afford them that they'd been deleted from the server and I had to start all over again.

I had my colour scheme. Being a fashion designer I had to have something that would grab attention and I went for lovely bright Orange & Pink.

The colours are bright, fun and bubbly, just what I want my designs and my customers to feel!!


After losing the designs I had re-made and tweaked the designs again.
Then I thought I'm just likely to lose them again. So, not wanting my work to go to waste, I bought them.
It felt a bit of an impulse decision but I did it anyway. And I'm glad I did!!

They arrived yesterday and I am so happy!!!

They've come out great and I can't wait to give them out!!

So pleased with my business cards!!!!

Visit charhar.wix.com/cherish 

Or pop along to the Facebook page www.facebook.com/CherishEveryHeartbeat

ITS HERE

MY STORE'S ONLINE!!!!!!!!

get out the confetti



share and enjoy with me, my baby, Cherish Every Heartbeat

click here to be taken to the website
or copy charhar.wix.com/cherish into your url bar

and you could get 50% off with code FIRST
Yes you heard right 50% off for first five customers

Why are you still here - go to the website!!

I'm So Excited

And cue the music....

(While jumping around the house listening to music)
I'm so excited,, and I just can't hide it

This year I'm ridiculously excited for my birthday!! XD its my 21st and although I' not doing anything I'm still all hyped up
BUT
That may be because I open my online store tomorrow!!!

It will go live tomorrow morning and I'll be giving away a brilliant 50% off to the first 5 customers who quote FIRST 

I will be adding all the time. I'm currently just waiting for some content labels (wash care) before I put up some great tops - perfect for summer or spring with a cute cardi.

But as I said

MEGA EXCITED!!!!

So Close, So Excited

Ahhhh 6 Days til I open!!!


The shop starts selling six days! So make sure your up for the challenge of fighting for those first 5 promotional codes - Just enter FIRST at the checkout and see if you have been lucky enough for 50% off!!

Lovely Bags, Amazing Jewellery and don't forget I can design things specifically for you. Loads of you have prom coming up and I could design great dresses for you to wear!

Just visit www.charhar.wix.com/cherish 

Follow on facebook
Or even on twitter

Exciting times

8 days to go!!

You can buy through my website in just 8 days!!!

& don't forget 50% off for first five customers - promotional code : FIRST

just visit www.charhar.wix.com/cherish

Website?! Business?! Almost there !?!?!?!

Yep, you heard me right!!!!!!

ALMOST THERE!!!!!!!

New products - so check that


AND the online store will be opening soon - How did that happen?!

Check me out - pride and happiness right now


Website is live and the store will be open from April 1st =O
First five customers get an amazing 50% off - WHAT!!!!!!!

just type in code - FIRST for an amazing discount!!!!

So just click
http://charhar.wix.com/cherish

AW14/15 - LFW

What will be wearing in six months time?

Some of the predicted trends:

Pattern + texture

Oversized Outerwear

Fuzzy Furry Fabrics

Old Patterns New Shapes

Glitz and Glam

Embellished Jumpers

Mix day and evening wear

and my favourite - Muted tones with colour pop

KTZ have done just this and nailed monochrome

Mark Fast - Colour pop, Glitz 

Jasper Conran - Glitz

PPQ - Monochrome, colour pop, textures

 Sibling - Texture, Colour pop

House of Holland - Textures, Colour Pop

Matthew Williamson - Embellished Jumpers, Glitz, Colour pop, Texture

David Koma 

Looking at these I think I might have found a new favourite designer or two. David Koma and Matthew Williamson have great collections and if the commercial designs bought about from these is half as great next AW will be GREAT!!!

What are you favourite LFW designs?

Hours later...

After many hours sat on the computer I have finally finished updating my website.
With lines being added all the time check back regularly so you never miss a deal!

I have also put together a facebook page for my business. You might think this was quite simple but, as a bit of a perfectionist, trying to make it great took time. I have never been very up with social media and being able to promote myself feels a little big headed BUT after putting together this page I feel great!!
Click here to visit my facebook page or type in the URL facebook.com/CherishEveryHeartbeat.

I still need to work on my logo but first I'll have to find my photoshop discs to edit my images professionally.

Making progress both on my facebook presence and my online store makes me feel so proud but I must try and rain in my head now. Its floating away as I type this because it's so big and full of hot gas. =P

Have a look and leave a message to say what you think!

Next Steps - Promoting my business

All business' need to promote themselves, how else would they win over new customers.
Some go with expensive flashy tv ads you can't forget.
Some have bland billboard images you drive passed and never even saw.
Those really with technology, who understand their customers have interactive ads making you the subject.

Unsurprisingly I can't afford the flashy adverts but I have used pictures of my work and a great song and put together the video below.

This is a video promoting me - the designer, and my brand Cherish Every Heartbeat.

Hope you enjoy watching it as much as I did making it

Website Update

Even after an 8 hour shift and an hour with my friend.
EVEN after a much needed lay in.
I took another look at my website and have almost finished it!!!!

Exciting times!!!!!

When I have a few more items I'll add them which will make the store look a little better and when I have a constant supply of stock I'll upgrade so purchases can be made on the site instead of through ebay. But not may changes to be made now!!!!!

Take a look at My Boutique ! =D

Next Steps

Just made a huge leap forward with my business!

Its still under construction and requires you to use ebay for the time being BUT
I have my own website!!!!!

Check me out http://charhar.wix.com/cherish


Short ad sweet!!

Its been forever

It feels like forever since I last posted but I've just been so busy with work, picking up the overtime while I can.

Only a brief post today. I have worked at my local Morrison's supermarket for a year and I have just been promoted to checkout supervisor =D

I still hope to open my own store but this promotion gives me the perfect chance to practice being in charge of workers, how to deal with customers and staff no matter how difficult they are being and to be trained to be a great leader. With people there to support me I can improve without the worry of going wrong as others will be able to help out which is so much better than if I had opened my store soon without this experience where I would have no support from my staff.

I have to work still on how i talk to people and this way I can practice with the safety net of others around me. Trying to run a store without this experience would have been foolish as any mistakes would cost me money but now I've had my training and I have got the job I'm much more confident about being able to handle situations in my own store when my time comes.

I'm so grateful of the opportunity to progress and that they looked passed the fact I hadn't been with them long to see the potential I hold. Now the world is my oyster and things are going well, why stop now =D

Aw13 (miss selfridge)

With a new season and a host of new trends, weather turning miserable and a need for layers now is a great time to go shopping.

Especially for students who can't afford too many luxuries or even the price of turning up the thermostat now is the time for some great buys. 

Take this lovely sweater and great pu trim skirt - both Miss Selfridge.

Seperately these were £37 and £35 for the skirt. Together they came to just £17. 

Sale and bogof, WHAT!!! 

They have some great pieces, this seasons and an outfit for £17?! Don't mind of I do!! 

Seen any great bargains why not comment below and share the wonder. 

Pure London - Wholesale Fashion Trade Show

So yesterday I visited PURE London a wholesale trade show, showcasing just about every supplier for your store. Where to start?

Well first I'd like to start with 'Why do the signs for Kensington Olympia just stop?' I was almost there when I took one wrong turn when the signs stopped 20 mins later I was back at shepards bush station -.-

Secondly it was massive. I mean MASSIVE. I wasn't sure where to start!

The size of this pink glamorous stall was a small retailer to give you perspective !!

With so many wholesalers (9 pages worth!) 

 all wanting to show you they're the best they gave out lots!! Being young and not pushy I barely got anything!! But all the same I was over laden with everything! No wonder at the end of the day it felt like my back and feet were broken. 

The amount of bags I was carrying!

All in all a VERY good day, very fun, now know who I want to stock! and spent the whole of this morning sat on the floor sorting every business card and leaflet!!

Just the free magazines!

After sorting through all my favourite wholesalers!

When pricing goes your way

Today we headed out to the shops at Romford in search of some new work trousers. So I didn't find any but my friend found hers so it wasn't the end of the world. 

We managed some great feats this week!!

Sunday night we went to Leicester Square casinos and managed to make a great profit considering we barely put anything on the table. I came back with £10 up and my friend, the gambling master, came back with a £30 profit. So obviously thats what the shopping came out of =P

Here are my two brlliant purchases that I'm very proud of!
This purse is a present for a friend (shush she'll never know of the bargain!!) So at the end of finding great cosmetics bags but weren't suitable as purses, cute purses but tooexpensive we ended in primark. My last chance at a present and I found this adorable purse ticketed at only £2. BARGAIN!! So I went to pay and it only rung up at a pound, £1!

 I was so happy especially as the same happened in New Look with this great bracelet/ring combi. Again ticketed at £2 but only costing £1!! SCORE =D

Getting Somewhere

After numerous hours teaching myself As Business Studies, researching laws, licences and money and typing up everything its done!!

You may be a little confused as to what I'm talking about so here it is.
I have finished writing my business plan!
I have written my terms of employment, cash flow forecasting table and everything needed for my business plan.

A long stretch down a very long road but now I'm wel on my way.

This coming Monday I will be attending Pure London's Wholesale trade fair making connections and seeing every option I have for buying. Should be fun, even with an early morning!

And on top of all this I'm even making a profit in my first year!! Good times ahead after Monday next step - The bank!

Summer Holidays

Although I've been back for the last 3 weeks I thought I should mention . . .

This summer my only holiday has already been. I spent a few days with a friend in Bournemouth and even though we didn't  do much I got a lovely view from my window and a great view if the pier. 

This was my packing thought I did a great job with such a small bag!! 

Since we got back the weather has got a lot better and have been enjoying writing my business plan while topping up my (non-existent) tan =P

Enjoy your summers!!! 

1w&1d left argh!! (FMP)

So I started typing the info for my fabric folder - SOOO many materials













This week I : Cut my dress

Started embellishments
finish altering my top patterns
lay plan/costing and cut my vest top
Started my working drawings





Wednesday I sewed leggings most of my leggings
I start sewing my dress. because it sheer I have to use french seams - which made it harder when I forgot to add my back shoulder panels: qhwn you rush you make mistakes!!!
Also I cover stitched my toile and final vest top


I sewed and coverstitched my lining



We discussed the vest tops overlocked hem - if a rolled hem would look better?

Today has ben about adding 2nd stage designs to my book, updating my diary,
writing my blog, reviewing my time management and setting my goals, careers day and updating my CV.

Plan for tomorrow - sew dress and cover stitch hem
finish leggings
bind neck
embellishments

2 weeks left (FMP)

Tops can be finished so nicely with a double row of stitching and I found out last week that this is cover stitching and we can do this at college =0 (bit late to tell us)
I came in early to practice cover seaming but with the amount of work and ease of being distracted I didn't use it  on my garments this week.

With such little time I'd be stupid not to work from home so I put in my back panels into my vest unitl I broke the over locker oops. I managed in lesson to alter my lining pattern, alter my dress pattern adding seam allowence for coverstitching. I had to change my design slightly as binding wouldn't work in material I wanted and I didn't know we could cover stitch.I planned to cut my top but I forgot my jersey so couldn't. I did my lay plan for my lining and legging contrast. Then I ran out of thread =S

I managed to do more theme research into alphabets and language. Next I cut those I had done my lay plan for as well as finishing off my vest panels.

Productive week but it had to be to pass!!!!

Little treat for everyone - playing with scraps is fun!! =P

Thats enough of that now