Brainstorming session

Oh dear !! It is already May and still no business near to be launched...

I know I keep on saying the same thing: I am working on a Business Plan.
To be honest I am having a very long thought about the name I would like to give to my Company.

Many says that I should just use my name and that it would be fine. But for me, this is not so easy, when you consider the designers out there, that have lost the right to use their own names because it has become a brand and it has been sold to some rich investors when it all went wrong.
Can you imagine yourself, seeing your name tagged on clothes, adverts and other stuffs but you have not taking part in the design of these stuffs? Someone else can decide to put your name on a product and sell it and you get nothing? How would you feel?

Not so easy...

So I feel stuck and this cannot carry on. I can't finish polishing my business plan if I don't have a name.

I need your help, urgently. I need a brainstorming session.
Please suggest your ideas in the comment section.

After all you might have the solution.

Is it too late for Happy New Year ??!!

Alright, there have been quite some time since my last post. 

I am really sorry about that. I am not doing so well in writing as regularly as I should....I know, I know, but yeah guys we are in 2014. It is a new year, and yesterday it was the Chinese New Year.

So people before everything else, HAPPY NEW YEAR and KUNG HEI FAT CHOI !!! (hope I spell it right).

How was your end of year?
Mine was quite intense. I will try to be quick in summarising it. ;-)
As I said in my last post, I did not see Christmas coming. I had to rush to get my presents for my family, then worked like crazy for a few months and even on the last day I managed to work for 17 hours straight up in the morning until I flew back to France...I fell that I was just running everywhere try to get things done, trying to catch time. So with that, I have not really done anything about my projects unfortunately. :-(
But as this is a new year, new start, new beginning, new opportunities should come with it. Isn't it?

And I believe it is true. Right back after the Christmas break, I took on a great project: A friend asked me to design and made her a costume for a corporate party which the theme was "circus".

The idea

With her idea and my crazy touch both mixed up, a pretty nice costume was made.

People really liked the result and shared their compliments.

 Corset making

Corset making

Final Result

What do you think? Do you like it?
It was all very exciting for me. This experience helped reassuring myself on what I really want to do, and what I am able to do.

Also, it seems that I have made quite an impression with this project as I have been approached for another challenging one. A big one, which I should not say anything about for the moment. I hope to be able to share more with you in my next post. But for now, ssssshhhhhhuuuuut!!

Anyway until then, I have far more to do, now that the fun part seems to be back on track, I need to get on with the boring part: Finance and Legal...Ufffff !!! Yeah me!!! I am not going to have fun in the next months. But that is the deal; no business if no sweat and tears.
I'll keep you posted.

The Finishing line

Who would have thought that it would be that hard ??!!!
I knew I was not going to enjoy it fully but I never thought that I would be in the brick of the depression. Really!!
I don't know if it's because managing a fulltime job plus evening school plus tonnes of homework well the whole situation that is driving me nuts or it is because I am deeply disapointed by the school and that is leaving me really puzzled or it's because summer is coming, a lot of festivals and activities in perspective and everybody seems to have fun but not me, because I don't have the luxury of the time to have fun...I don't know but I feel quite sad and I don't know what to do to get better. Maybe time will help.
This is the finishing line, there are only 3 weeks left of school but my stress level is reaching hights: I feel that I am not doing enough, I am so late on every project but I am so tiered and really can't do more that I am already doing. I believe it would be almost impossible to get everything done by the time I have left.
Maybe I am being too ambitious and need to reduce my wishes? I certainly need help! I had my boyfriend doing all the "house management" so I can focus on my design homework, I even had my family helping me on a tremendous project... Is that enough ?! Not so sure, the list of things is never ending.
I am meeting with someone today which I hope will be of great help and will provide me with experts hands.
Will see, my hope is huge!
TBC...