New Year, New Start.... (like you haven't heard that one before!)

Ok, so I am making a New Years Resolution... 10 days late!

I am going to blog more.

And this time I really do mean it, at least once a week. I just better hope I find interesting things to babble on about!

So firstly, last week I had a telephone interview for Harrods!! (*contains giddy dance*)I doubt I'll get on their Retail Graduate Scheme, let alone to the assessment centre, (the next stage of the application), but the fact I even got an interview makes me smile, they had 150,000 applicants last year...

College is as busy as ever! Just handed one assignment in, have another 2 and an exam before the end of January! Then 3 weeks off in February, talk about a storm before the calm!

Alongside getting a mountain of work done I have a trip to London and a trip to Manchester coming up. I am hoping to go to China Town in London, so will hopefully have some pretty pictures to share!

Currently I am covering at Bolsita on Micklegate, York. I love this shop, it's like an Aladdin's cave of bags, scarves, waistcoats and all things pretty! I can't wait to go into the material store later and pick out some fabrics for my tailor-made waistcoat! I will definitely be posting a picture of that!

If you haven't noticed already, my sister is now blogging, and doing a much better job than me so go check out Rosie when you've done here, (it's likely more people read hers anyway, it's more interesting! I am going to try harder...)

So stay tuned to see if I actually stick to it this time! And if anyone has any suggestions about what they would like to see from this blog, leave me a comment. Thanks muchly

Until next time... 

(ideally in less than 7 days...)

Appalling Really

So I haven't posted in forever, and that is really bad!

College is busy and is taking up a lot of my time! I have assignments coming out of my ears!

I have a telephone interview for Harrods on Thursday and I am mad nervous!

Xmas was awesome! Hello Vivienne Westwood ankle wellies :D

The business is going well but I need more days, will have to get some networking done. 

I don't want to bore you with a load of drivel. I will do my best to post more and babble less. For now back to enjoying my box of matchmakers, I quite enjoy this 'flat to myself while the bf is at home' lark :D

It wasn't as scary as I thought...

So I'm three weeks into my new course at York College and so far I am really enjoying it! =D

The content is a lot meatier than it was on my last course, so now I actually feel like I am learning something, and that something is going to help me in the future. I have met some lovely people and the college itself is very modern and has great facilities. So, so far so good :D

Besides college I have a lot of work days with 'The Shop Sitter' lined up this month. So all in all I am being kept very busy, which is good for me, I like to be doing things.

So as and when interesting things crop up, I will be sure to post them. I don't see the need to post all the time, as I really don't have all that much to talk about from day to day, so things would get very boring, very quickly. I like the way things are for now, so will continue like this.

I have the House of Colour event again on Wednesday, so that should be a fun evening! I'll leave it at that for now, have my Pilates session in 25 minutes!

Sort of dreading college on Monday...

...so to take my mind off it I decided to put a lot of my Edinburgh photos on Deviant Art so take a looksie if you have some time. Comments and criticisms welcome :D

Short post for now, need to go and get my curry out of the slow cooker. Date night with the bf tonight, definitely in need for some R&R after my blood test this morning, ugh!

A step back? Or a better plan?

Today I went for a business meeting at the York Eco Business Centre, whom I can wholly recommend to anyone planning to start a business, they give such good advice. 

Anyway, whilst there, my advisor, Heidi, raised some very good points. Such as, what will happen when I return to full time education? How will I cope if I am required in two places on the same day? Am I underpricing myself? All this has led to a rethink and a new plan. Speaking of plans, my business plan is a MUST and I really need to get on with some market research, (for someone who has studied marketing for 2 years, you would think that would be my first point of call!). 

So after 2 weeks resting at home, I am back in York, with a refreshed attitude and a new plan, and I am determined to do this the right way. It is going to take longer than I anticipated, but I will get there, and this time next year I want to look back at this and be sure that the decisions I have made now were the best ones for the direction in which I am heading.

So there we have it, I will still be becoming self employed as soon as possible, but I will be taking the business slower, and I hope that in the end, this will work to my advantage, so watch this space!

On another note, I am, hopefully, attending an eco fashion show tomorrow night in York, at The Pitcher and Piano, (for anyone who is interested), so I will hopefully be able to take some pictures. 

And on Thursday I am attending York College open day to see the place I will be studying in September. As I have now passed my Foundation Degree, YEY, I am pretty sure of my place, and I can't wait to see what it's like.

AND... another exciting note, I am about to order a pretty pink point and shoot camera, happy days :D

A week's R and R

I have decided to come home to Flamborough for a week to take a break from trying to sort my business out.

After having attended a couple of business courses now, I know what I need to do, and I have arranged an appointment with a business advisor to finally get on with it, as there is not much else I can do on my own. 

So, there's not much new there. But on a different note, I have now nearly finished my skirt in my tailoring and dressmaking course, and I am really pleased with how it is going, so I will post a picture of that when it is completed :)

I know this is not a lengthy post, but just a small update of things going on in 'Lucy's Lil World'!

Japan

Also, just a very very short post to just express my thoughts to Japan and the other areas affected by the devastating earthquake and tsunami, such a devastating act by Mother Nature :( 


I am following the live updates on the BBC website, sounds like there has been several more powerful aftershocks, which is such a tragedy. 


I hope that the people of Japan get the help they need very soon <3