Working holiday weekend

This weekend I did the designer market in Soho, why do I keep saying Soho? Its in Nolita, same thing anyway. It was a holiday weekend & I promised myself that I wouldnt work and just take it easy, but I did anyway. I just had to. I have so much stuff in production and paychecks are only coming in October/ November. I have no choice. Its really not easy being me. Next time this year I will have a staff and I dont mean interns but staff. Hallelujah! LAWD knows I need help! Its all good. everyday I am just thankful that I do what I love.
PICS FROM SATURDAY

Mother & daugher bought these similar dresses. The mother looked so young and she said she attributes it to lots of exercise , lots of water & no alcohol. The Grandma was even uber fab!
My darling BFF is off to Paris then Switzerland for two weeks. I will miss her dearly. I swear she lifts me up all the time. our phonecalls are filled with 90% laughter I guess that explains why we are so "YOUNG". She is a phenomenal woman and I am so inspired by her. I love my friends. check out her myspace http://www.myspace.com/aisscool


I will have to do another post entirely about Aissata and her amazing work. The picture above is my fave. She was doing a Yoga pose when this idea came up. She uses illustrator for all her work and recently just started doing HUGE paintings.

I also met a young business savvy woman called Cirese. Soon everybody will know about her. I was really blown away by her. She really inspired me and I will blog about her later this week because me and her have an event to attend on Thursday.

Event in Philly

Pictures from the evnt in Philly yesterday. I did the same event last fall and I complained about the goody bags on another blog I have and one of the organisers found it and was bothering me about it. Anyway I wont mention the event name because she'll be on my neck again. Needless to say the goody bags this time were ten times better. I have never seen people so excited to buy my cute lil clutches. A fight almost broke out for the last red one. YIKES!!


decisions, decisons....

Ok Koki, we'll take all 3

i'm back 4 more..

I just looove it Kokes, My friends are gonna be so Jealous..

Girl I'm loving this red, I got the perfect shoe for dis.. mmmmm hmmmmm!

I love it!
Yetunde I am sure u are happy now ;P

Bags, giveaways and Sample sale

The Sheckys events have been sooo much fun. I have been out of town every week since April. I've gone to Dallas, Philly, L.A & Minneapolis every single week doing these shopping events. Its been an experience watching how people shop from state to state and which of my products they are drawn to the most & yadi yada. THE highlight howeverrrr was two weeks ago when I did the designer Market in Soho and miss Tyra, Ty-Ty baby came to the market and bought one from me. I was really excited about that because I sell to a lot of stores and I don't really know who buys them, all I know is whoever is buying them is FIERCE with a capital F. lol
I didnt take a pic, I'll just be buying life& style weekly to see if I can see someting. My pet peeve is grown folk who like to act like fans and hound celebs for pics.. I just dont understand it. I used to have a boutique on the lower east side with my designer friends.We used to have everybody from Britney Spears to Vivica Fox to Bjork , Drew Barrymore come in there . the last thing they want is for you to start asking for pics when they are trying to do some shopping. At swag parties or style Lounges its appropriate because they are there for your products and u can use their images for Marketing purposes. Style lounges take place before major award ceremonies or film festivals.

They are product showcasing and gifting suites which allow your company to directly gift celebs and capture photos of them with your product.. They usually have Wireimage or Getty Images taking the pictures. At the end of the day be prepared to give away/gift about 100 products for pictures.
I will be in L.A for the MTV movie awards style lounge and I am going to have a sample sale at my friends house at the weekend so if anybody wants to come let me know so we can prepare a goody bag for you.
Some of the things you can expect at the sample sale



I also have some fabulous belts, and the cutes dresses. I have one coming up in New York and will keep u updated when its time.