Winter is Here!

It is a chilly morning here at Lello. I am sat with my gillet on and big scarf wrapped a few times round my neck, it takes a few days for our building to warm up so Mondays are always a challenge.

We have recently started selling on Amazon which is a whole new ball game for us but the first indications are that it seems to be working. It wasn't something I'd thought of until I realised that I bought quite a lot through them and thought there must be more people like me out there. The prices are the same as on our website but it does open up new possibilities for people finding out about our jewellery.

This week sees the start of The Clothes Show at the NEC in Birmingham, (it begins on Friday) so later today we will start preparing for it. There is a lot to organise, stock, tables, samples and so forth
not mention the organisation of children and husbands!
We are in the Style Show part of the Clothes Show in hall 19, so please come and see us if you are attending.
Karen

Children In Need

Here is a photo of my sister Fiona (also my bus part at Lello) along with two of her 'gym buddies' Bev and Gwen.
The three of them all dressed in fancy dress for their pump class last Saturday morning along with the rest of the class to raise money for Children In Need. They raised approx £200 between the 3 of them. Well Done!

Bev, Fiona & Gwen (Santa's little helper, Jane Fonder's assistant and Little Miss Pirate).

It's a nice quiet morning.

What a lovely quiet morning it is here in Lello-land. Everyone is busy at work while my colleague Karen (there are two of us) tries to figure out what's wrong with our emails as my usual 40-100 I receive each morning was only 3 today.... so there must be something wrong.

We are planning out our stand at The Clothes Show Live (NEC 4th-9th Dec) today making sure we have the back boards designed and have the stand covered for each of the 6 days it is on. It's quite an undertaking. We are part of the style show within the Clothes Show quite near the Catwalk, stand LX44 in hall 19.

If last year is anything to go by we will be rushed off our feet. So if you are attending please come and see us. We will be there with our camera snapping picture of our customers to upload onto our blog!!

Meanwhile today we are also working on a few 'Halloween' jewellery concepts for 2010 which look lovely, I know my little girl is definitely going to want to wear a bracelet with a Spider on it!


Fiona and Melanie sifting through the spec's for the new Spring Summer/Aut-Wint designs.

Funny Friends!

I thought I'd share this joke with you which was emailed to me yesterday by a dear neighbour and friend. I am a bit stuck for what to write on the blog today as we are up to our necks in orders, which is great but leaves little time for anything else, so I thought a joke would be a good idea.

*** Once upon a time a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" . The girl said "No" and she lived happily ever after. She went shopping, drank vodka with friends, always had a clean house, never had to cook, had a wardrobe full of shoes and bags, stayed skinny and was never farted upon. The End.

If you have any jokes you think would go down well with our Lello customers please email them to me at info@lellodirect.com and I'll post it on the blog. Keep them clean! thanks Karen

If any of our customers have got photo's of themselves wearing our jewellery please email them to me at the same address and I will upload them onto our blog and give you a mention.

What are we wearing at Lello Today?

Hi, it's Tuesday and it's 'what are we wearing at Lello today'.
Once again I have picked on my sister Fiona, this time sat at her desk. Fiona is all in pale pink today and as you can see is wearing one of our all time favourites, Vintage Rose, a pale pink glass bead bracelet with pretty flowers inside the beads, glass heart and Lello tag attachment. With matching pale pink glass pearl sterling silver earrings.
Bracelet £7.00, Earrings £5.00!

It's a windy Friday.

Thankfully we have been unaffected here at Lello by all the flooding but my heart goes out to those people round the country who have suffered and will suffer damage this week.

We are all too aware of how it can affect a business as our last premises were hit by flooding several times and it was simply awful. A factory of stock, offices full of computers and a children's playroom all damaged at least 3 times. The mess the smell, the upset was horrible.

Needless to say the building we occupy now is in a much safer position but everytime there is heavy rainfall I sit at home wondering if it will affect us again.

We have a had a visit by another of our Lello traders this morning, Victoria and her gorgeous little girl, who was passed around the office so we could all have a cuddle!. Our Lello ladies/traders are booked out with parties in the lead up to Christmas and earning some well earned extra cash for themselves.
If you'd like to know more about becoming a trader please email me at info@lellodirect.com

Meanwhile it is a busy Friday morning, completing artwork for several adverts we are doing in publications for the new year and lots of orders to dispatch.

Mulled Wine & shopping - Local Event to Leicestershire
I attended Inside Out's mulled wine event last night in Keyham, Leicestershire. The girls are also open all day today and this evening so please go along. Their new ranges of clothes are beautiful and I picked up some lovely Christmas decorations.

Clothes Show NEC
Don't forget we have a stand at the forthcoming Clothes Show at the NEC from Dec 4th to 9th.

Please come and see us!!!

New stock!

We have taken delivery of lots of new stock this morning, so my next task will be to update our website of the lines which currently read 'out of stock'.

Also Kerry one of Lello Ladies has popped in this morning and although a bit shy I have taken a short video of her sat with Fiona to show you the Lello jewellery they are both wearing today.

Excuse my mistake I was put on the spot when Kerry rolled up her sleeve. She is wearing our Trove bracelet and not Trinket as I originally said. Even I get mixed up sometimes!

If you would like to become a Lello Lady selling our jewellery at parties like Kerry does please email at info@lellodirect.com Karen.

New stock arriving tomorrow!

We have the first of several shipments of jewellery arriving tomorrow to top up our stock levels just in time for Christmas. Much of our 'antique' metal finish jewellery arrives tomorrow, followed in a few days by our Little Lello and the bulk of our other lines.

So please, if you want to order something which is out of stock please log on again in a few days and it should be showing that it is 'in stock'!.

Also, we invite you to take advantage of our offer of some Free Sparkle. If you are happy to introduce us to 3 of your friends we will send you a FREE Eva bracelet, perfect for your Christmas parties!

NEWS
Now we are getting the hang of our new camera which will enable us to upload short films onto our blog we thought we would start sharing more about Lello, with our customers! In the next few weeks we will show you how we decorate our Tree here in the office, so it might be fun to watch. More info next week.

Karen

What are we wearing at Lello Today?

Fiona, Guinea Pig, of the day!
First of all I'd like to say that it took us about 25! goes to even get this far, it was so funny. We are not intending for this to be taken too seriously but thought it would give our customers the chance to see the jewellery as it is worn by us all here at Lello, everyday of the week. Next Tuesday we will try to be a little more relaxed with it and make it a bit more light hearted!

Each Tuesday from now on we will film one of us here at Lello and the jewellery we are wearing. We may even become a little more adventurous as time goes on.

If anyone viewing this has any requests, jewellery from our website which they would like to see us wearing, just drop me an email to info@lellodirect.com or please make a comment under this blog and we will do our best to organise it for you.

Karen

The panic's on this morning

There always seems to be so much to do on a Monday. We have gone through all our internet, ebay and Amazon sales, welcomed Laura back after being off sick and caught up with everyone after the weekend. I am in a hurry to get them all organised, before I dash off to an Integra meeting today at the Hilton Hotel in Leicester.

Integra is a Women In Business Chamber of Commerce group who meet regularly. I have some Lello give-aways to hand out to all the women and will get the chance to say a few words about Lello.

I hope to take a few pictures while I am there which I will upload towards the end of today.

Karen

Remember to Log on tomorrow for a new 'what are we wearing at Lello today'!

Fridays!

Friday is here once again and I have my 3 year old daughter Heidi in the office waiting for her granny to pick her up. We have had her playing with samples, drawing, throwing beads and running after them, performing a dance routine, step step, turn, shimmy..... and it's still only 9.40am! Granny is running late.
She has now started to help Melanie and is making her own bracelet, oh dear, she is chatting away ten to the dozen! Meanwhile I watch her and answer emails.



NEED SOME SPARKLE FOR CHRISTMAS?
Lastly we are running a short campaign over the next few weeks, you only have till Wed 16th Dec to take us up on our offer. If you would like to email us the contact details of 3 friends who we can introduce to Lello; name, address, post code and email address, plus your own details we will send you one of our gorgeous Eva bracelets FREE OF CHARGE! Made from black glass cut beads with a large crystal shape heart, just perfect for those Christmas parties!
email: info@lellodirect.com

Lets have a bit of colour!

Our staff is depleted somewhat today with a couple of people off sick, poor things! So I am sat by the phone today and won't be going anywhere, apart from the school run.

I thought I'd show you the bracelets I am wearing today. Not quite the norm, green and blue. But my cardigan has green blue and orange stripes so I thought I'd coordinate our Lello jewellery to match.

The blue bracelet is from our Sale page and it's only £2! it also comes in pale pink and yellow, all are made with 3 contrasting strands of similar coloured plastic beads with a diamanté bar for a bit of sparkle and silver effect heart!

The green miracle bead bracelet is from our ever current range of best sellers and a great one for those who like to wear more colourful clothes. It is £6.00 made from plastic beads with silver effect heart.

I think we have coloured bracelet to go with almost any outfit!

Lello Loves

Hello,

If you click on 'About Us' on our website, you will see a new page, 'Lello Loves'.
We have started to compile a list of links to sites that we love and hope that you will like too!

We will keep adding to the list over time, so please keep looking. At the top of our list is a link to the website of Hannah Beighton, singer song writer. Please listen to some of Hannah's tracks she really is 'pretty fantastic'.
We also have links to home decorating sites, design and pattern sites and numerous others.
In particular we love 'making it lovely', a US site.
Karen

What are we wearing at Lello Today?

Hi everyone, I am hoping to add a new dimension to Tuesday's, 'what are we wearing at Lello'. This will happen next week so make sure you log on next Tuesday! I am hoping it might be quite a laugh for you and for us.

Today.
Fiona is all in red, grey and tartan today so I thought this would make a good a picture.
She is wearing our long black and red bead necklace, Saturn, made from plastic beads with matching bracelet 'Mars'. It is very light weight and lovely to wear.
Bracelet £4.99 and necklace £12.99 great to wear at Christmas!

Mondays!

It's not been the best start to a Monday morning, but any mother who works will know that obstacles are put in their way at every turn!

Our new format web site has just been uploaded. It might not look all that different to you, but we have done a lot to it and it will now be a case that we can add new pages and update it more frequently.

Tomorrow will be as usual, what are we wearing at Lello today, so please log on and have a look.

I think we'll make sure we are wearing some of the sale items from the website as they are selling like hotcakes!! Please note the sale won't be on for ever and stock is starting to run very low, so if you see something you like, buy it now!

Remember, Free delivery on everything.

Facebook Friend?

If you are not already a friend of Lello on Facebook, please join us, just type in Lello Direct!

We keep people updated with new lines and special offers just as we do through the blog but if you don't get a chance to log on for a while at least you will see us on Facebook.

We have a new delivery of Little Lello comming in next week, it all sold out so quickly we hadn't quite prepared ourselves for it being so popular! But at least we will have new stock in to keep our customers happy in time for Christmas.
Not only are the established coloured Little Lello lines still selling well but so to the 2 new designs we launched for Aut/Wint in a metal antique finish with 'For Keeps' heart and our mini glass pearl set. Just Lovely! Check out 'Children's Jewellery' on our website.
All Little Lello Bracelets £3.99 and Necklaces £5.99.

FREE DELIVERY ON EVERYTHING!

As modelled below by my little girl Heidi aged 3 and her cousin Sophie aged 11yrs.


Kitty aged 7.

Stumpted!

I am a bit stumpted this morning to know what to write about on our blog.
I am under strict instructions to up date it everyday as we not only very much value everyone who reads it but it also helps our google ranking.

The site has been undergoing some quite major changes (behind the scenes) over the past few weeks and you will notice in a few days that much of the content of our site will have been removed. We have wanted to clean it up and make it more user friendly. You will see that we have decided to remove all our cards, albums and gifts from the site and only concerntrate on our jewellery sales as we find that the old site better suits trade customers who are still able to purchase in the same way they always have done.

New pages will gradually be added to the site, so keep a look out for those. We will also continue to add items to our sale page so take a look every few weeks to see what's new. Our new offer of FREE DELIVERY, is a permanent one! (UK only). Please note that if we receive your order before midday, you order will be dispatched same day! We do use the post office and so far seem to have been un-affected but please bare this in mind in the run up to Christmas.

As Fiona and I are both wearing sets of jewellery today I thought I'd take a pic of us.
I am wearing our new Classic Barley glass pearl necklace and matching bracelet & earings.
Necklace, £15.00, bracelet £8.50 and earings £5.00. Fiona in blue (she asked me to cut off her head) is wearing, long grey chain and glass pearl necklace, Honey, unfortunatley we have sold out of this but it is available in ivory pearl for £20.00. Fiona is also wearing classic grey pearl earrings £5.00.

Have a great Nov 5th! if you are going to a bonfire display.

EVERYONE LOVES A BARGAIN!

It would appear everyone does love a bargain! as our sale items on-line are selling like hotcakes.
We have added a few more to the Special Offers Page, so if you are in need of some stocking fillers please take a look. FREE DELIVERY! from now on.

Lello Party Planning: all our local ladies appear to be very busy with parties in and around Leicestershire and it would appear Lello ladies further afield are starting to get busy as their orders become more frequent. If you would like to become a Lello trader, selling our jewellery to friends and family at parties, fête's etc. please email me at karen@lellodirect.com for more information or give me a call on 0116 2601004. We are currently updating our website and in the next few weeks we will have a dedicated page advertising this.
You can buy our jewellery at cost prices, minimum order value £75, and sell it on at parties.

I will start taking some snaps of our Lello ladies as they pop into us here and upload their pictures onto the blog with a few comments, for you all to read. If you know anyone else who has tried the usual 'greeting cards', 'make up' etc. and wants to try selling something different, please tell them about us. You can work round your family and earn some extra cash selling something women really like.
Karen



This is a picture of a party I held in my own home for my neighbours, it proved very popular.

What are we wearing today?

After a number of comments from well meaning people we have decided to start showing our faces on these pictures! thanks to all my friends for asking me to do this!
So now you get to us and the jewellery.
I must stress, these pictures are just to show you our jewellery and which items of the range we all wear to work each day. None of us believe we are budding models!! we just thought it would be fun and I know many of the people who read our blog particularly look on a Tuesday.

Its a chance for you to see how the jewellery looks on.

So first of all it's me.
I am wearing probably one of the best sets we have ever made, which is a matching sweetheart necklace (£16.00) and bracelet (£8.00). Made from glass beads and a large silver effect heart. This range will be revamped for 2010 to give it a slightly different look. The beads are a grey/green colour and go with most things.
I am also wearing a set of our new earrings, called Sweetheart (£5.00). The silver effect heart matches many of the hearts we use on our bracelets.

Karen.

It's Laura's turn now. I had to prise her big woolly scarf off her!!
Laura is wearing our Black wooden and plastic bead long necklace (Globe), £10.00 with matching black miracle bead bracelet, (£6.00) made from plastic beads and silver effect heart.

Laura.

Ooooooooooooo

That's what we all said when ex employee Kerry popped in with her gorgeous little girl Ava, 8 months. Everyone rushed for a hold and a squeeze. Kerry worked for Lello for (don't quote me) about 7 years before she left to have Ava last year.


Always lovely to see them both.


Here is Fiona this morning wearing our new 'Bootlace' Necklace (£15.00) made from strands of small black and grey beads, very light to wear. Fiona is also wearing one of our lovely sterling silver, glass pearl rings in grey (£10.99).