Sunday, 4 August 2013

With the excitement finally starting to kick in there was a lot of buzz and hype in the group eagerly awaiting exhibition in the hope that our bags were going to sell very well. We went off to the shops and bought some hangers for the stall as well as collected our Thrift banner from Top Copy and bought an invoice book in order to keep track of the bags sold.

                                         Thrift banner

Saturday, 3 August 2013

With nothing left to do but sit and wait for the bags we decided to get going on the preparation of our stall for exhibition. Trying to stick with the Thrift theme was easy enough because we could pretty much turn anything into a Thrift vibe. We decided the best way to display the bags would be on clothing rails like you might find in a thrift store which would be ideal because they would be easily visible to the public and it would make it easier for us to monitor the sales of the bags collecting all the empty hangers from the bags that were sold.

Friday, 2 August 2013

We dropped off the leather at Evette at about 7 still hoping the bags would be ready by late this afternoon. Unfortunately when we arrived later we ran into a bit of an ordeal because the bags were still not ready because many of her workers had been sick that day and did not show up for work. This meant we might now only be able to collect the bags on Monday morning and put us all into a bit of a panic because if anything was to go wrong we weren’t going to be able to have the new batch on time.

Thursday, 1 August 2013

We ran into a slight issue today when we went to go and buy the buckle and adjusters for Evette, when we got to Woodheads they told us they were all out of bronze buckles and were not sure when they would be getting stock again. So we used implemented a little bit of bricolage and made do with the next best alternative which was to buy silver buckles and just kept our fingers crossed that it wouldn’t be too much of a train smash. We also collected our leather straps while we were at Woodheads because we had sent the in to get our thrift logo embossed on the one shoulder for all the new bags as we couldn’t do it for the previous ones because the embossing block was ready yet. The new straps looked awesome and very professional and all of us were overjoyed with the look of the.

The leather straps with the logo

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

We finally have our hands on some thrift back packs and they look awesome. It was the most rewarding feeling yesterday when we finally got to collect the bags because all the hard work, effort, long hours and pure dedication that went into getting this bag done finally paid off. Our bag was a success. I don’t think if our wildest dreams did we actually think we could pull this off but we did because we are baddy classic. We also broke the news to Evette about the extra bags and luckily she was more than happy to help us out. She has promised us that we will be able to collect the remaining 10 with the next 50 on Friday this week which might be cutting it fine but we have no other options if we want to have 150 bags at exhibition.

Monday, 29 July 2013

With exhibition just over a week away things were beginning to feel awfully stressful. At least we are off to Evette today to fetch the 90 bags that she has completed, she reckons the other 10 will be ready within the next week. However we also need to break it to her that we are going to need another 50 bags before exhibition which is next week Wednesday, not looking forward to that conversation but luckily Evette loves us and I’m sure she will do her best to help us out and get as many bags as possible to be ready by exhibition. We also have our directors meeting tonight which we have to be well prepared for. Kim’s chairing this week which I think she’s a little nervous for but we all know she’ll do fab. We haven’t met with the directors in a while so we have a lot of catching up to do, we need to inform them about Evette and how all the production is going as well as what our strategic plans are for the future of Thrift.

                                Dean and Murray's craziness before the Directors meeting