Here it is - and sorry - you can't print it out yourself! These will only be available at the Wedding Fair itself this Sunday, (see previous post). Designed beautifully by my husband Jonny :-) Thank you, J....
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A couple of new photos just added of my black wedding dress sample. Will add the location shots when they eventually get done, but these show the dress in a studio setting.
Don't forget the Wedding Fair this Sunday at Banbury House Hotel, Oxford Rd., Banbury. 11am - 3pm, where I will be showing my work, and you can chat/discuss/look/arrange a meeting for free PLUS get £50 off a completed commission if you go ahead! Free admission, refreshments, and I will have nibbles too... Hi Everyone,
Just wondering if you could do me a tiny favour, and it's just to google 'wedding dresses Banbury' and please let me know whereabouts my website (www.bobbiesroom.co.uk) is coming in the search results. Doesn't have to be too precise i.e. halfway down the second page' or some such would be great, thank you! Jonny and I have done a lot of work on SEO, (getting the rankings up), and I'm wondering how it's paying off. The significance of this is that if the website comes up in the first couple of pages, I have more chance of business coming my way, and we all need to keep the work coming in I'm sure you'll agree! Having done just what I'm asking you to do myself, embarrassingly, I'm not coming up until the 5th page, having been on the 2nd/3rd for the last few days!! These results change all the time, but that's a surprise. However, the first ever Google + post I put up is on the first page, and my url is in the post, so I guess it could be worse.... Thanks in advance, and if I can do anything in return, please let me know. :-) Bobbie This pattern cutting book has very good reviews all round for basic stuff - I'll be buying it as a reference for teaching, and have recommended it already to one of my students. But I still think the best is Helen Joseph Armstrong's 'Pattern Making for Fashion Design', for a totally comprehensive in depth detailed book that contains instructions for virtually anything you can think of in the flat pattern cutting line! I see she has a book out on draping (a method for making patterns by working directly on the dress stand), now as well, but haven't seen it myself. Anybody out there seen/used it?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1856697509/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_dp_GNO-qb0QZST2C Hi Everyone! A bit of 'preview' news....I have been asked to take part in a Wedding Fair at the Banbury House Hotel (left) in my local town, Banbury, Oxfordshire, on the 24th February. I normally steer clear of these for several reasons: Do they have the right image for my business? Am I right for them?! Will potential customers for me attend such events? Well, I have made the decision to do this, as it's going to be well promoted, it's in my local area, will apparently have some other very good local wedding based businesses. Plus, a past customer, who is involved in the organisation and is now a friend asked me to do it! So, fingers crossed everyone. If you are reading this and are getting married this year, or if you know of someone doing the same, please send them along. There will apparently be coffee, afternoon tea and bucks fizz at appropriate times throughout the day, to keep you refreshed, and it's from 11am to 3pm. More formal advertising stuff to come. Hope to see you there, if you're a contender! Bobbie New page just added to my website - it's called 'About', and tries to sum up succinctly what the business is about. Let me know if it makes sense to you! It seems so hard to get the tone just right....http://www.bobbiesroom.co.uk/about-atelier.html
I've just joined Google +......why? Well, for business and networking purposes I suppose.
Looking at it, I think one of the best things is that, unlike Facebook, you don't have to 'belong' as such, just have to have an emaiI address, and hey presto! I can communicate....and I promise, I'll try not to bore you silly with trivia! So now I hopefully won't have to email certain people connected with my business who don't use Facebook, separately from those that I contact on Facebook, so it's more inclusive, which must be a good thing.... So anything newsworthy connected with my business www.bobbiesroom.co.uk such as Atelier Classes, Atelier Bespoke Wedding Dresses, or Atelier Natural History can be broadcast on google + as well as facebook and this blog. (Anyone would think that I worked for them, the way I'm pushing it here!) But on the surface it seems good. I'll let you know in a month or two how it goes. Anyone else out there use it - comments?? Latest wonderful find for those just setting up home together/getting married is http://www.athomemodern.com They are in the US, but say they will ship anywhere in the world, plus it's another Bobbie who runs it, so I'm slightly biased! Speak soon, Bobbie Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know that my revamped website is up with a new logo for the business (above), and lots of 'optimisation' having gone on! (That's where you do things to make the business name come up quicker in google searches, if you're interested!) I don't blame you if you're not - it's very technical!! My resident tec expert (my husband, Jonny), does all that, and whew, what a lot of work it's been. I only touch that kind of thing under his direction, but did design the new logo ALL by myself in photoshop, with only one or two questions asked along the way.... of which I am humbly proud (if there is such a thing! And I don't mean proud of the questions). Anyway, this is the new logo, above, and please have a look at the website if you have a moment. Any comments gratefully received! Speak soon and a belated Happy New Year! Bobbie http://www.businessoffashion.com/2012/09/colin%E2%80%99s-column-looking-back-at-london.html
FROM 'THE BUSINESS OF FASHION' online 'newspaper' Phew! Read the first two paragraphs from the link above .....I don't think I've ever read such a scathing report of any fashion event! And this is a subject close to my heart - and I don't mean just fashion - I mean the gradual loss of practical skills in fashion education, and believe me, I am witness to this very recently. I could go on and on and on about this, but suffice to say, I am pretty appalled at what I have seen and heard. Tempting to go on, but my lips must remain sealed for professional reasons! The one good thing I heard recently, and this from someone directly involved, is that Newham College, London currently have approx 30 students involved in work experience/intern type positions in Saville Row, home of world famous tailoring in London. The college runs in conjunction with the Fashion and Textiles Museum, London, and I saw a class in progress in a beautiful state of the art education room on a recent visit there, and this isn't a degree course, but a course at Newham College of Further Education. I am not denigrating degree courses in the least, but it seems that not enough of them are teaching students (the fashion designers of the future) what they need to know regarding practical skills. It seems that a lot of the time they favour academic prowess when employing staff, and while that is hugely important, academic excellence and top notch practical skills don't often seem to go hand in hand. We need to keep the practical skills base up in this country or, within a generation they could be lost. More thoughts on ways forward to follow. Meanwhile I'd better get on with some practical work!! |
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