Posted by: gringrimaceandsqueak
on May 24, 2011
Bribery is a wonderful thing :)
We recently contacted the lovely Leona at Alt Fashion magazine and offered one of our little black numbers as a giveaway - not only did they run the competition but they've done us a lovely write-up too !
It's taken a lot of digging to find the right publications, catering to grown up goths but still with a sense of humour and avoiding the whole gother-than-though performance. Much as we like dressing up when the opportunity arises, we really don't take ourselves that seriously !
Speaking of such things, we are entertaining a couple of friends from across the pond next week and there may well be some photos of silly outfits to come :)
This has prompted a flurry of activity here at Grin HQ- the trouble with working at home is that it tends to take over and you get used to having to step over half built things and piles of paper to get to the sofa. We've succeeded in turning the stock room back into a spare bedroom, now we've just got to unearth the downstairs furniture....
Posted by: gringrimaceandsqueak
on May 06, 2011
In case our last blog post hasn't got every jeweller/hat maker on here frantically papering polystyrene heads, we though we'd share a bit of news :)
We recently found a bit of time to promote our UK website and wanted to get the maximum exposure for the minimum time so we can spend as much time as possible beading things.
We did another search for alternative fashion magazines and sent a couple of e-mails off with our new product shots attached, offering our little black number shown above as a competition prize.
Much to our astonishment and great delight, the lovely Leona at Alt Fashion magazine jumped at it and we've just posted the mask today. In addition to the giveaway, she is writing a review which we'll share as soon as we can.
We'd had some success before with this sort of thing but never to such a great response, our shop views are also up across the board and still growing.
We've also just found ourselves some fantastic new packaging from MidPac - black, satiny boxes with a magnetic closure just in time for our grand showing :) We'd tried out various alternatives but nothing seemed quite right, or if it was we couldn't find the size we needed.
Naturally, we are more excited about the boxes that what goes in them - what is it with creative types and stationary? Anyway, it has once again shown us that it's always worth putting in the extra time to get everything just right. When you've got that sorted, the rest just kind of comes together ;)
More soon,
Karen and Rich
