I finished up the sketchbook this week at work. I was able to print out a prototype on Wednesday and I started to cut out fabric swatches for each style (just waiting for a few more bulk fabric samples to come in) and it will be ready to show to John!!! Rachel is hoping to send it to a printer in the next couple of weeks!!! I stuffed some more envelopes too, for their retail customers. I'll have to stamp them next week because I never got a chance to go to the Post Office.
And I FINALLY got to talk to Rachel about my window concepts. I was sooooo excited and kind of nervous. First I told her about my cling idea for the market windows. Those windows should be changed more frequently since its where the shop door is and its in the market place, eye level. I mentioned my idea for a window calendar too, so the shop girls could stay up-to-date. Then I told her my idea for the other two sets, which she loved!!!! I proposed getting custom neon signs for each window to spell out a message using images, like UK Loves Braintree, Braintree Loves Earth. She really liked that idea. Then she started getting into all the other parts of the facade that she would like to see changed in some way. So I have a lot more branding to do now!!! She basically wants the whole outside redone!!! Then I need to put a proposal together with sources and estimates so that I can show it to John. I have to make sure there's a lot of pictures and that its very detailed, looked at from every angle. So I'm really excited about that :) Lots of work ahead of me!!!
Thursday Chelsea and I headed down to Harrod's to a salon. Chelsea was able to get her haircut for free there on Wednesday and they were doing color too. The girl that asked Chelsea to come in wasn't coming outside though! Maybe another day...so we decided to take a walk into the Chelsea/Kensington area and look at some of the shops there. That area is really nice, its where Chelsea works. Its similiar to the Upper East Side in NYC, there are not flats, there are houses. Lots of money in that area, which means lots of good clothes in the vintage and consignment shops :) We went into one called The Exchange which had REALLY REALLY nice stuff-Marc Jacobs, Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, Dries Van Noten. As I was looking through the racks, I saw a dress that I own!!! A Diane Von Furstenburg one!!! I thought that was pretty funny.
After that we went to Trafalgar's Square where they were having a screening of archived films depicting transportation in London from 1896-2009. It was pretty cool. The first half was all silent films so it was accompanied by a live pianist. The square was packed. The screening kicked off the London film Festival. We didn't stay for the whole thing because it was a little chilly and I didn't want to get sick again! So we took the tube to Convent Garden to have dinner at Bella Italia.
Today for our Multi Cultural London class we went to Brick Lane. The Old Spitalfields Market wasn't open yet when we first got there so we went into Christ Church which is on the corner of Commercial and Fournier Streets. The Nave was closed but we could still see inside. It was really pretty except that it just had chairs for pews which just didn't go with the rest of the church. From there we went up to the BanglaCity Supermarket to check out the odd vegetables and other foods it had there which was cool to see. After that we went back to Old Spitalfields and looked around at all the booths, some different from when I was there on Sunday. The Truman Brewery wasn't open because that's only a Sunday Market and the rest of Brick Lane was pretty empty. There was an inside vintage market going on but that was it. Sunday is definitely the better day to go. We did get to try a curry house called Tayyabs. It wasn't on Brick Lane but our professor looked a bunch up and this seemed to get the best reviews and it was PACKED. It specializes in Punjabi dishes from Pakistan. The food was pretty good, we tried a chicken dish with rice. Pretty spicy too. We also went to the right bagel place!!!! The Beigel Bake on Brick Lane. We waited on line and I got a plain with butter and I have to say the place next door could give the original a run for its money.
Chelsea and I did some research and hotel booking for our trip too. We have a place to stay in Brussels (THANK YOU SO MUCH MOM!) and a place in Amsterdam. We still need to figure out the in between :)
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