Our new website!

We are slowly making these changes as previously mentioned.

Our website is still under construction, but please feel free to visit us at

http://www.laceylou.com.au/

Changes ahead!

Wow! I can't believe it's almost been a month since my last blog post. I have been extremely busy with your orders and loving every second of it.

It's now at that exciting time where the brides and grooms I have worked with are finally celebrating their wedding days. I do have a list of all my clients I have worked with and get a little excited on their wedding days!

Meaning, it's getting even closer to my own big day! I am now started to slow down my orders, just so I have enough time to concentrate on my current clients and give them a decent amount of time to complete their orders. After my ebay listings have finished, I will not be re-listing these until after I come back from our Honeymoon. So for all of those currently thinking of using my services, please get in contact with me ASAP so I can hopefully help you :)

Once we are back from the Honeymoon, Lacey Lou Designs will receiving a make over. A new website, where orders can be placed directly through the site, with lots more stationery ideas, and my favourite! Bride of the Month. Each month I will choose my favourite client and let you know the process of their order and how we came to the decision. This will be more focused on my custom orders, than the items I have currently listed.

Thank you to all my wonderful clients, you have all been amazing! It's been an absolute pleasure to be able to work with you on one of the biggest days of your life.

So please stay tuned for the new look website in the next few months. Until then! Happy planning :)

Kiss the Bride

Lacey Lou Designs has now started advertising on a great new site for you Brides (and Grooms!)-to-be!

Kiss the Bride is a Wedding Directory created by Damon and Vanessa Taylor, after being sick of trying to find time to organise their own wedding.

"We wanted to be different to the existing Wedding directories. Instead of again trawling through the directory sites, we wanted to make things simple. We just wanted couples to leave their details with Kiss the Bride and we would do all the clever stuff to contact Wedding providers for them. Wedding providers can then contact couples directly."

My type of directory! No more wasting hours of your time getting in contact with suppliers, taking days, sometimes weeks to get back to you. As my past clients will tell you, terrible communication is my pet hate. This is a great way to know that these suppliers will be contacting you who want your business. Not those terrible time wasters!

The directory contains all aspects you need to plan your wedding, whether it be Australia wide or your local supplier just around the corner.

Drop in and have a look around :)

http://www.kissthebride.com.au/

I caved in.....

Personally I'm not into following trends....skinny jeans, those weird weird shoes....eek! Not for me, I follow what suits my style, those do not rate highly in my book. However I have finally caved into the world of Twitter...yes, me, Stacey is on Twitter!

I refused for months to join, seriously I don't need to know what and when my friends and family are eating or that today they caught the train. Business wise, it's a great way to stay in touch with your clients.

Please feel free to follow me http://twitter.com/laceyloudesigns you never know, I may just put up a few sales every so often :)

Welcome Danielle!

All my designs are named after special people in my life. Please welcome Danielle....

Danielle is a gorgeous, stunning invitation, which is new to Lacey Lou Designs. Currently she is at a discounted introduction price on my Ebay items. Danielle would look also look stunning with a different coloured ribbon, red being the next in line.

The Black Floral Glitter pocket is just stunning, and comes in different patterns and colours. If this is something you are interested in please contact me and I can supply you with some more information and photos of the other pockets we could use.

I'm working on a few more designs currently which will hopefully be revealed shortly :)

Going green...

I love doing my part for the environment.

FH and I constantly turn everything off at the switch...it did take a while to get use too....you sit down on the couch ready with the remote to turn on the TV on a cold winters night...only to find when you press the 'on' button that you have to get up and turn everything on at the switch.

Now it's just our nature. We are targetting our water '155l per person per day' FH and I are proud to admit we are using under 155l a day between the two of us per day.

What's the harm in sharing your shower time with your loved one? As much as I hog the water, FH and I are proud to be doing our bit. We have our 4 minute timer in our shower, the race is to who can get out the fastest!

As much as we recycle, sometimes it sickens me to notice how much of my paper wastage is going nowhere. At the start I wasn't too fussed...now I recycle every off cut possible. Is there a way to create environmentally friendly invitations?....the answer is no!

But what I can create is a environmentally friendly workspace. Every custom order, every sample order I create, I recycle! Every teeny tiny piece of paper not suitable for another order is recycled. Currently only in our recycling rubbish bin, however I'm looking into ways where my off-cuts are going to great use. Watch my Ebay items, soon I will be selling my off-cuts to handy crafters, maybe they could use these in their scrapbook albums!

I have recently discussed the 'Nicole' invitation. The patterned paper, which comes in many different colours, is made from recycled material.

You can check out their website for more eco-friendly designs

http://www.arteesupplies.com.au/Products.asp?ProdGroup=1066

I love using this paper, it just makes me feel great that I'm doing something great for our wonderful world.

I have just released a new design to my range called Kaisey. You can check out the item here

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110433346219&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

This was created for a Bride to Be with her wedding. She LOVED the design I had added to my items....

However, she wanted to use a frangipani as her flower, so we came up with this.....

This gorgeous little flower (which also comes in a wonderful pink!) came from another fantastic Ebay seller! You can check out her items here....

http://shop.ebay.com.au/samscrapbooking/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=

You can also check out her website here.... http://www.my2angels.net/

Tracy is fantastic!! Very friendly seller, who would go out of her way to help anyone out...I can't wait to order some more materials for my designs :)

Happy planning!!! :)

Things to be excited about!

Well I thought it was time to talk a little more about my own wedding! Yes, if you're wondering we are currently in the middle of planning our own dream wedding.

We've been planning our wedding for over a year now. Due to some factors we had to have an almost 2 year engagement. This has given us plenty of time to pick the best suppliers, get in early and of course save all those extra dollars. One thing my fiance isn't keen on is spending money! Which I may say has rubbed off on myself....

Well the next few days are going to be spent on my own wedding, of course while doing all your orders! We will be
-ordering the bridemaid dresses. All picked, just have to be order to have in by Christmas!
-looking at suits for groom and groomsmen. We have the colours, just need to find the perfect suit!
-meeting with our jeweller to organise our wedding rings!

All very big and exciting things for us over the next few days.

So yes, I understand there are so many factors involved when it comes to your wedding and if I can just take some of that pressure away from you, that would make my day!

I will be back very shortly with some photos of some great custom orders :)