That was a day my friend

It has been a long time I've not updated my blog right.
I wanna write a lot of things, to tell you about how hardworking we tried to make our shop better.
We came out...We had two first stores at a flea market and Sunday market at the same time.
And especial, we had our first sales, day by day, from 18 Oct until now.
Today is the Vietnamese women day so I wish all of my two beloved partners and all of you a good day to shopping, to  relax, to do whatever you like.

This is some picture to show off our store. :)

Q.A

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Oriental colour Corner

This is our earrings hanger.

The hanger is made and also designed  by us :).

Enjoy it!

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Love is love

 

One of our clients :D

Today, we attended LGBT flash-mob. 

Have you ever heard about LGBT flash-mob? This is an event organized and sponsored by Vietnam's Institute for Social, Economic and Environment (iSee) to support  the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community  in Vietnam. LGBT flash mob's slogan is "Love is Love" - love with no discrimination. Everyone deserves to be loved and is equal in love no matter what their gender and race are, and whether they are invalids or normal persons. It's so warm and amiable as every one shares the same feelings and a single message that "let's share and spread sincere love, you will see how wonderful life is, how "love is love" is".

There were about 100 people attending the flash-mob and many others as supporters. With 2 weeks of preparation and practice, we had a successful event. We had a lot of fun and met many new friends as well. The event made our life more meaningful as we can do something for our community, spread our love and strive for others' love. It also "moves" our routine life and gives it more "spice".

Our team

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Starting point - Point de départ- my Oriental

This is the period for promoting our shops. It takes time,I swear.... :)

I must join all the social media, such as facebook, twiter, linkedin, pinterest.

Nearly one months passed by with 1500 view but no sales. :))

"No" that means "not yet" but not "never"  :))

I think right?

So, for next time Things to do is:

• ·  gain more traffic
• ·  lead to more sales
• ·  build my brand
• ·  build relationships and interact with mycustomers outside of Etsy
• ·  increase my Google rank
• ·  create more time to be creative!
• ·  create more time for my customers

Our spirit is hot like Autumn fire so allez!!!!!! 

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Good things come to those who wait

I saw a phrase from an article on internet :"Vietnam at a glance: Good things come to those who wait" - HSBC.

Hope that it will be the same with all of us. :)

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DIY - How to make painted lace earrings

We came up with the idea of creating lace earrings as this product is such a simple product to be made but you can bring your own charm with your own style, totally up to your creativeness. We are happy to share our simple techniques. Hope this help. This topic is open to discussion as well. Your contributions are certainly valuable additions to enrich the products, and by the end of the day, what we need is OUR TRULY CHARM

All we need are:
- a scissor
- a pincer
- an awl
- a clip and a paint brush
To create styles for the earings we also need:
- glue or nail colour
- water colour
- a plastic sheet or any sheet of the same kind for colour mixing (you’d better make use of anything that is available in your house)
- small wires
- pinches and beads

Step 1: Snip apart the individual flowers/pattern of the lace. Be sure just to cut the connecting threads and not cut into the flower/pattern itself. In this step, make use of your imagination and creativeness to choose and cut the pattern. The chosen pattern/flower will be something unique – something that is created by you, and there won’t be any second earring of the same pattern!

Step 2: Paint the glue/nail colour to make the lace stiffened

Step 3: Mix the colours that you want and paint on both sides of the lace. We use the colour paint that is waterproof (we already made a test by leaving the painted lace in water for a few minutes)

Step 4: Wait until the first colour is dry, then paint the second colour to create a fading effect. You can use darker or lighter colour, or another colour, totally up to your creativeness.

Step 5: After both sides of the lace are dry, snip apart the individual flowers/pattern of the lace. Be sure just to cut the connecting threads and not cut into the flower/pattern itself.

Step 6: Prick holes and use the pincer to put in the wire and beads.

And tada!!! This is your own style earring!

Tips: With non-color earings, you only need step #1, 2 and 5 & 6. Note that you need to choose the right side of the lace (the up side). Look at the lace and figure out what piece of the pattern you’d like and trim around it. Decide how you want the lace to look like when they become earrings. More of our products for your reference are available at Our Etsy shop .

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to share with us.

Good luck with your DIY and please show your works as well. It’s something you’ll be proud of.

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