Christmas in THE STUDIO
Well, the cut off point for Christmas orders has been and gone. It seems to have come and gone in a flash this year! The studio has been in full xmas wrapping swing, tissue paper everywhere, beautiful personalised accessories lined up ready to wrap and meters of black ribbon cascading down every work top! This years top sellers have been flying out:
I decided on 'disco balls and baubles' as the main studio décor vibe this year and whether it's pure fluke or I've been influenced somehow, I've been seeing them everywhere! Every shop I've visited lately has disco balls either dangling from the ceiling or on the shelves next to shoes and handbags.
I bought ours back in September and feel very 'I thought of it first' ha ha! maybe it was Pinterest that unknowingly fed me the idea?!
My first official Christmas order was placed August. A customer purchased the item via my own website and had the order (along with gift message) sent direct to their friend in LA, USA.
I had orders from 8 different countries in December!
Along with the crazy Christmas shopping period, I've been designing multiple collections for future release. 4 Collections in total! Some are ongoing. I've been adding bits and tweaking designs over at least 2 years, other collections have been a quick mad painting session that have developed quick over a short space of time and one of the collections may never see the light of day. Who knows where it will lead?!
Lots of orders have been wrapped complete with a little snowflake decoration this year, because why not! And I can't go on without mentioning the royal mail strikes. It's been a tough one for small businesses this year who rely solely on the one postage method. After publicising our last postage days, the goal posts were moved and more strikes were announced. Bringing our working days much closer to the deadline. I'd usually work right up to the day before Christmas eve but this year it was far too risky.
The Christmas festivities are not over quite yet though, I've got a cute giveaway lined up this weekend as we creep nearer to Christmas, stay tuned!
