After unintentionally taking the summer off from Just.Lovely.Things, but completely enjoying it.. I'm back. The shop opened up at 7pm last night with a beautiful new design that matches the vision for all this new branding I've had rolling around in my head. Of course none of the vision is possible without the help of my amazing friend Dana. If you are in need of design work she does custom stuff, but also has this adorable design shop envye that has great pre-made goodies. I'm so lucky to have her in my life, you know we co-own Fawn & Flora together so I get to rack this girls brain on the daily. Its beautiful!
The vision for my new branding was a mix of stuff: Gold, bits of floral, hints of black & white stripes, chalkboard and doodles. I would say we got there. Yesterday I had a couple of girlfriends come over and I took the product photos to get everything just the way I imagined. I love how the little twinkle lights pop with the gold on the home page!
For the shop inventory, I put in a few old favorites plus some new fall pretties and I introduced the Gold Label. These are a little more exclusive as only a couple are available. They are very unique to my usual styling and a maybe more on the dramatic side. I did get a couple of questions asking if I would be putting up my old stuff (the things I used to make that completely blew my business up) and at first I wasn't sure. I want to evolve as an artist and since I see copy cats constantly & have had about 20+ of my own customers open shops and sell identical items after buying from me its hard to go back to that style and not be in the same crowd, you know? ... but in short, I realized that my clientele is loyal and no matter how much I get discouraged they encourage me that my designs and my service is what they want- I can't ignore that. So revamped versions of my old designs will hit the shop along with some baby items later this week and my plan is to do new shop updates way more often!
...and before I forget
To everyone that entered the 5k facebook fan giveaway- thank you so much for the sweet comments, sharing it with your friends on fb & twitter.. with almost 2000 entries: the winner of the $50 shop credit is Amy Lynn Hunt!! You will be contacted by email and have 48 hours to claim your prize.
So friends, what do you think of the new shop and what types of things do you want to see in there?
I will be adding the older designs, simple stuff like bobbi's and braids and of course can't forget baby! Thank you for your continued support over the years, it really is what makes me love what I do even more. xo
