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

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

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!!

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

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

3 weeks left (not even that) FMP

This week I have spent a lot of time adding everything into my book. Photos and pictures illustrating what I have written. I added all my designs to my sketchbook from the separate pages.
I added my research into codes, hieroglyphs and symbols into the sketchbook.

I didn't make as much progress this week as I wanted to upgrade my sample folder from last term to get the highest mark I only just missed out on.


Before my sewing lesson I sampled overlocking without the knife to see how this might work on my scallops. In the lesson I worked on perfecting my legging details and started toiling my vest top.

I couldn't find crepe for my garment so I am using chiffon instead which will be harder to sew but will give the same effect. The chiffon is more similar to crepe than  I had expected so still goes well with my jersey.

Management lesson was used to cut and stick research. Design methods was more sticking and designing - annotating my designs too. Aer was resubmission work, designing and checking my material choices with tutors.
Over my weekend I overlocked  my hem, roll hemmed my chiffon hem and pinned together.