07/08/2011 SWANK ON SALE AT THE GLORIOUS DOLLY DAGGER IN BRIGHTON


Luckily I have lots of lovely new stockists all over the country to keep me out the gutter. Dolly Dagger is an amazing boutique in fancy Brighton selling all sorts of 40s and 50s inspired dresses which are gorgeous and surely make any woman into a sex bomb. And what would you accessorise such an amazing dress with I hear you cry, well dear readers I suggest nothing less than some Swank bling.

They also have the best logo ever






They are stocking some of the laser cut perspex jewellery. They have a great selection including last cut wildcat planes pictured above as well as the lobsters and of course the AAAAAARRGH pictured below.


Buy your 50s fashions and Swanky jewels at 6 Brighton Place, Brighton, BN1 1HJ

27/07/2011 GREAT REVIEW OF SWANK
Amazing write up from one of my customers on the Whiteboard Fashion blog. http://whiteboardfashion.tumblr.com/post/8127118117/today-we-love-aaaaargh

FLASH SALE AT SWANK.

Just in time for Christmas shopping, to celebrate the first week of December Swank is having a flash sale. What's that? I hear you cry, well readers, it means that on he 3rd of Dec, for 24 hours only everything in the Swank Jewellery online shop will have 40% off! Yes! A whole 40%. All you need to do to get in on this offer is become a Swank Fan on Facebook, or follow me on Twitter. The code for the discount will be posted on Facebook and Tweeted on Twitter from 9am on Friday morning. It will be useable until 9am the next morning. Please spread the word!

To become a Facebook fan follow this link- http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Swank-Jewellery/6278203660

To follow me on Twitter click on this link- http://twitter.com/#!/swankjewellery

FREE STALL OPPERTUNITY IN LEEDS.

Arts mix just emailed me with this great opportunity, I am actually back in Leeds at that point so might pop down myself. The Arlington business park is massive the O2 offices there are enormous. I used to work in the HSBC call centre myself!

Here is the message with all the details for interested people....

Opportunity for Stallholders Hi Everyone! We have been contacted by a company working with o2 mobile who are putting together a Christmas Market at their Leeds and Slough offices. The Leeds office are looking for 4 to 5 social enterprise stalls to add to the current list of small to medium sized businesses who'll be at the market, taking place on Monday 20th December. Divine Chocolate are already involved. The emphasis will be on selling to O2 staff (around 3,000) and they are offering some of our stallholders free space at the event. If you are interested please contact us asap on 0113 247 0066, or email amy@artsmix.co.uk. The Leeds office is at the Arlington Business Centre, Millshaw Park Lane, Leeds, LS11 0NE.

I AM SO TECH!

I have FINALLY linked my blog to my website. Wooo! So hopefully this will give me an incentive to blog more. I tihnk that's a good thing!

NEW MOO BUSINESS CARDS LOOKING GOOD!

I am very happy today as I received a lovely package in the post this morning. My shop hosting site BigCartel are offering free business cards in partnership with MOO, a company who makes business cards postcards etc. I got 50 cards for free which was brill as I have not had any in ages and people always ask me for them. Plus I love saying "oh, you can have one of my cards" when people ask for my website, phone number etc. It makes me feel important and business like!

Every card has a different picture of a pices of Swank jewellery on it, MOO have a really easy to use uploader and editer for the design on the cards, this was great as the reason I have not had any cards for ages was that companies kept rejecting my design file for various print related reasons, until I got fed up and just didn't buy them.

As an amazing bonus all my cards are made from recycled paper, which is great as I always pay extra for recycled cards. I don't want to add to more waste in the world I make sure all my packaging and advertising is as green as possible. All my boxes are made form recycled card as well as my jiffy bags getting reused, as you may have noticed. the jiffy bags might not look as slick as new ones but it's a small price to pay for saving on landfill if you ask me!

If you have a BigCartel account I suggest you get some free cards while you can. They have to have BigCartel written on them, I don't have a problem with this as I love BigCartel they have made running my web shop so simple and their pages are so customisable.

WHAT DOES YOUR WEB DESIGN SAY ABOUT YOU?

I just read an interesting article about what the colours and forts you use on your website say about you and your company as well as what colours your demographic are most attracted to. Apparently I am authoritative and powerful!! Though gold is not listed there as a colours and is featured a lot on my web site. I refuse to believe that the colour of my logo is a type of brown, in my head it's a lovely shiny gold!

You can find the article at http://sixrevisions.com/infographs/webdesign-says-about-you/

MO MONEY MO PROBLEMS

The good- I have sold a load of jewellery for Lady Volta, hooray! Thanks to people who have purchased, esp Mum! Now I look like the queen of the internet, which I clearly am!
The Bad- Now I have to give all the money to Jules and it's a lot. In Ghana cedis it feels like i am giving her my life savings!
The Ugly- SJP

People say shes attractive- she looks like a horse.

LADY VOLTA CATALOGUE FINISHED (FINALLY)

Finally!! After weeks and weeks of sweaty photo taking in African heat, endless resizing of photos and the final stress of the file being 190MB and possibly a little to big to email!! We have sorted it! everything from the Lady Volta Jewellery line in one catalogue. If anyone wants to see our handywork or buy something amazing and cool then please email me at swank.jewellery@gmail.com Now we just need to finish pimping the website and we're away! Urrrgh.... website.....
Bit of a blurry picture , but cant work this bloody pdf thingy out!

MIRACLE REALIZATION OF HOW TO LINK BLOG TO WEBSITE.

At last I have linked this blog to my BigCartel store. Don't get excited I haven't yet linked it to my real website, that is like a faraway dream to me! Anyway, I'm hoping that this will lead to more frequent blogging from Swank. I am currently in Ho, in Ghana working for the most excellent Lady Volta Project designing jewellery for them and promoting it over the internet. most exciting thing at the moment is that I have sold a load of stock over the net. Never before done at Lady Volta! Now my task for the day is to get the ladies to make up the orders quick smart. Not an easy task in Ghana, the people are not noted for their sense of urgency!