It
is sponsored by Paypal. Every month Paypal donate £5000 to Enterprise
Nation for Fund 101. So if you are a small British Business owner, I
strongly suggest you put your bid in. You can apply for as little as £25
or £500 which is the maximum amount. I thought I would aim high and apply
for £500. The application process is tough and every month they get
swamped by thousands of applicants. But be patient, if you are not
successful one month, try the next.
I
plan to use the money to design and make a high end evening wear
collection. I have designed and made allot of wedding dresses and prom
dresses for commission customers last year, a few examples of which can be see
on my facebook page. It is an aspect of sewing I really love. I
really want to push my business more towards bespoke, one of, couture style dresses.
Although I love making day dresses in brightly coloured fabric, I do
think the market is saturated with small business using Alexander Henry and
Michael Miller fabric. I love the fabric and I want stop using it
altogether, will just be putting more emphasise on evening wear.
I
have been using Pinterest allot recently. It’s great to keep track of
inspiration and where they come from. One board in particular I have
enjoyed working on has been the Prom Dress board. Here are some of my
favourite finds.
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I
do not want to copy these beautiful designs directly. I plan on sketching
my little heart out and experimenting with ideas. I plan on making about
6 dresses in total. All various lengths, styles and colours. But I
also want them to work in collection or a family. I want to use these six
designs as examples, in which I can show my customers in face to face meetings.
They can feel and even try on the dresses. I can then either make
them that dress to their measurements. Or I can design and make them
something bespoke.
I
will then organise a beautiful photoshoot for these dresses. My girls,
Flashes and Lashes are doing the shoot. I have worked with them allot I
the past. I have quite a lot to think about for the shoot, location
models and accessories. I want to use as much local and small business
talent as I can in this shoot. I will most probably use Pinterest to
start mood boards for ideas for the location,, models, makeup, accessories and
styling ideas.
With
the images I get back from the shoot. I will use in new marketing
material. New flyers, new blog posts and also on my website.
£500
won’t cover the entire cost of what I have planned for this project but will
certainly help. All I ask from you is a little vote. Please clickon the link below.
Click
the purple box ‘sign up’ just below my picture, enter your details, now you are
logged in. Please vote, the icon to vote is a big star burst under my
picture. Don’t worry you wont get spammed with emails from them. By
voting you will receive two emails. One confirming your log in details
and another asking if you want t join their mailing list. If you don’t
want to receive any more emails, just ignore and delete the two emails.
Thanks
again guys, I hope you are just as excited about my little project as I am.
I will be recording my progress and ideas on this blog, facebook, twitter
and Pinterest. So if you are on any of these sites do stop by and
follow/like me!
(and if you do follow me on twitter and facebook, i would like to take this opportunity to appologise for spamming you with please vote for me tweets and posts!)
(and if you do follow me on twitter and facebook, i would like to take this opportunity to appologise for spamming you with please vote for me tweets and posts!)
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