Want to paint

So when I grow up I'd like to paint pictures a lot and do paper mache sculpture. Never seem to have time to do anything like that these days I draw all day long but I never get to be really messy and paint - I'm itching to paint perhaps this easter weekend I might even get the opportunity........

who knows???

Key rings and Key to viral blogging

I knocked up some keyring designs this week for my friends at North East Gifts. Really like the Workie ticket one - based on old ticket designs.  They are only 99p from www.northeastgifts.co.uk which is fab!  Then something awesome happened my biz got featured in a blog by whatculture (click on the image to see the article) and it WENT VIRAL!! Currently has been viewed 404,000 times and facebooked 12,500 times!! Can you believe it - first I knew was when I saw huge amounts of web traffic coming in then loads of orders! Many thanks to Nina Cresswell the journalist for mentioning me!Woohoo!! Another good week over! yeehaa!

Chucky Egg

Eeeeh chucky egg - we love a bit of bright sunshine and daffodils. Easter is just round the corner.  How lovely!

Running a Successful Biz

This week I learned two things.
1.  Blatantly copying someones design style is in my opinion theft - (not my work I'm talking about btw) I saw an example of good design blatantly ripped off by someone with some design software.  Incidently having design software does not make a designer. Each "real" designer has their own handwriting and has spent many years developing this style.  Karma is a bitch so I just hope it comes knocking to those who deserve it.

2. Social Media - great but not as good as "Great Products and Innovative Design"

Facebook likes are not a reflection on how successful a business is. Many of the leading greeting card publishers today who sell tens of thousands of cards each month have very few facebook likes - they are spending their time on good innovative design and developing and establishing relationships with buyers! I do believe in social media but sales are a better way of measuring success in my opinion!

It has actually been a GREAT week - not moaning honestly just wanting to make a point!!

New Website!! Woo Hoo

 

Lots to celebrate this week! First of all I (Jo designer aka bykerlass) have been given the all clear after enduring years of chemotherapy for an auto immune condition so that was GREAT NEWS.  Alongside the launch of our all new singing and dancing website.  It's totally brilliant and includes intuitive shopping - we are totally loving it as are our customers.  It was definitely worth all the effort to get it up and running.  Then we got a retweet mention by Lauren Laverne on twitter have a look (she has almost 300,000 followers). Sales are going really well, new products are being added and a new range is about to hit the shops!  Happy Happy Happy! (just like Pharrell)

Mam Stuff on Sale now!

Mam range now on sale - dead happy got loads of new stockists - even down in Wales where they also have Mam's!  www.wotmalike.co.uk

Its Mam not Mum

Not even Valentines Day and I'm already finalising the marketing for my Mam range!  AND bizarrely I have been thinking about Christmas production this year already!! I do feel for those poor people who are flooded who just want their homes back who don't really care if its Valentines day or not.