Girly Pamper day

Tonight was pretty good. I had my cousin come round and did a whole bunch of girly things. We braided hair, did nails and listened did a bit of dress up.

Having years in retail means I have lots of clothes to spare. The clothes rail in my room is buckling under the weight of all my outfits and the chest of drawers won't close anymore.

Luckily my cousin is the same size as me so we had a bit of dress up, tried on some dresses and tops. All the clothes I had literally only worn once and some still had tags on. Ever since I started working in fashion based retail I've had a problem with impulse buying. On the way home I would stop by at the shopping centres as I went through central and struggled to leave my favourite store empty handed.

Having someone who fits in my clothes and doesn't mind wearing my outfits is kind of a blessing in disguise.

Now that I've established my style and im happy with my wardrobe I'm hoping my spending on clothes will drop off and I wont need to recycle and hand-me-down my clothes as often. There's that but then again I really enjoy having girly days like this.

Tonight was unplanned and I'm glad it happened.

Lots of love

MLP

Store visit

I've found out that tomorrow is my store visit, where I get to go to a store that sells the kids clothes that I've been allocating to stores.

 It's something I've been looking forward to, this and the visit to the warehouse where all the clothes is stored.

The work I do can be really out of touch with the real world, and its really easy to start seeing everything as just a number and a  barcode. And sometimes when your trying to get stock out of the warehouse and into stores you dont always think about the reality of it all. 

Hopefully this visit will help me see the real world effects of all the work I've been doing.

There's only one thing that I'm dreading...and it's the journey to get there. For some reason the store they picked out for me to visit is in southeast london, which is going to take me about an hr and a half, getting the underground tube, the overground rail line and then a bus from there. I'm not massively happy about having to travel that far when there's a store 20 minutes from my house, but thats life.

So hopefully all goes well and I have a fun day in store.


Lots of love 

MLP


 

 

London Fashion Weekend

The olympics are over, the paralympics have finished and now the next thing to look forward to is London Fashion Weekend!! 

London fashion weekend started on friday and now it's in full swing. I've had a look around online and there are still a few tickets left so I might jump in and get some.

Luckily there are still tickets for shopping and the 2.30 trends catwalk show...I'm in two minds as to whether I should go or not. It's too late notice to get my friends to come along with me and not to mention the tickets might be a bit steap. So I get the feeling I'm going to invite my mum. She's dying to spend time with me and she loves shopping and dresses, so I'm sure she'll enjoy it and appreciate the clothes on show. 


If I finally make up my mind and decide to go I will most definately upload all the pictures and keep you updated on how it went.










Lots of love
 
MLP 

Vogue's Fashion Night Out London 2012

Vogue's Fashion Night out was great...There was soo much to take in. Every store was doing something different, and I just couldn't decide where to go first but I loved every minute of it.


Some stores had live music and DJs with music blaring through the streets, others were handing out goody bagsand champagne at the door...I must admit there's something rather surreal about walking around a store with a glass of champagne in one hand and your shopping in the other. It was something I could get used to...all I need now is a few promotions and to relocate to New York or somewhere where that kind of thing is normal.

Now I'm looking into possibly getting a ticket to London's Fashion Weekend, that's happening next weekend. 

There's something about clothes and shopping that   makes me happy. Even if I don't buy anything and just walk around browsing the store I actually enjoy it. Maybe this is my this can be my hobby/interest.


Lots of love 

MLP



 

First day

Today was my first official day at work....Yesterday was my induction day and I was shown around the building and I'm still in awe about it all...



The office is filled with clothes and where I work they do all their design and production ihe head office I'm working in so while I'm sitting at my desk I can look up and watch the designers cutting out the material and putting them on dummies and waiting for them to get apporoved and sent out to mass prouction. 

The entire office is open plan so its desk after desk of shoes and jeans and jewellery. 

You can see the web designer team putting the final touches on the clothes, designers pinning dresses together, the buyers throwing around samples of material they like and calling up suppliers to complain the labels are wrong...and then you have me, sitting at my desk looking at all the numbers....look at how many we sold, how many we ordered and how will actually turn up (you'd b amazed at how you order 300 and when the delivery comes they only give you 200)


Anyway, I finally have my own desk, the person above me has given me all this work to do because before I came she had to do it all herself and theres a bit of a backlog in the administrative parts....Long story short this is what my desk corrently looks like  ------>

Okay I may be exxagerating a little bit...but there is atleast 8 ring binders packed withe every of boyswear they are selling this season and since now is sales time all the prices have to be manually changed in the ledgers, base and the spreadsheets, which is my job for the day.

Overall I'm doing okay....I did have the awkward moment in the canteen where I was stood there with my tray off food looking around for someone to recognise and I must admit I felt like the geeky kid on their first day at school. I eventually found the person I was with who had went off to find us a seat. I like the job I just dread the commmute



Lots of love

MLP