Archive for December, 2008

Wow! Christmas has come on us so quickly again. We have been MAD busy in the workshop, with all the girls working sooo hard and staying late trying to get all those late orders posted. They all did brilliantly, and are now probably slumped on a sofa  enjoying a well deserved rest.

As for me, we had our lovely carol do outside our house on Monday. It really kicks Christmas off for us all. The Salvation Army head quarters is near us, so they come along and play for everyone, and all the neighbours come, and we sing carols. Denise makes a huge pot of mulled wine, and I cook hot dogs. Here we are outside our house singing along.

Carols outside our house

And today I took the kids ice skating at Somerset House (another family tradition). At least I didn’t fall over this time!

Somerset house

Tom (nephew), Me, and my Connie

Libby, Verity, and Sue, not bad scores for a beginner.

Tomorrow is Christmas day, we are 12 for lunch so I’ve been preparing food this afternoon. But now it’s time for a drink!

Happy Christmas!

はじめまして。こんにちは！まよです。
アレックスモンローのホームページも新しくなり、スタッフのブログのページも始まりました。
私のとんでもない英語がウェブで世界に・・・と思って完全にビビっていましたが、
ご機嫌アレックスが日本のお客様向けに得意の日本語で書いたらいいじゃなーい。と言ってくれたので張り切って更新していきたいと思います!!

さて、私たちの事務所があるIliffe yardという通りは貸しスタジオがズラッと並んでる通りで、
先週末、みんなで一斉にオープンスタジオを行いました。
近くにもう２本スタジオ通りがあるので道３本揃ってのイベントです。

クリスマスムードたっぷりの中、それぞれのアーティストが普段なかなか見ることのできない仕事場で展示会をしていたりセールをしていたり、大盛り上がりの大成功でした☆

We had a lovely time at the Christmas Open Studio last weekend!! Many artists were selling original articles at their work spaces in the whole 3 yards.

It was a great success with a lovely Christmas atmosphere.

Here is our studio ‘9a’. I love this antiquy door.
この古びたドアから入った２階が私たちのスタジオです。
自然を愛するアレックスなのでモジャモジャです。

It started from 6 at Friday.
Little lights look nice!! These make me so happy everyday.
冬限定のこのささやかなイルミネーションを見るだけで毎日ウキウキ♪♪

Our brand new table was suitable to show our jewellery!!
改装したてのお部屋とおニューのテーブル。

One of my favorite pieces.
お気に入りのキノコのネックレス

Christmas♪♪ Christmas♪♪

Unfortunately… no!! Fortunately, I didn’t have any time to take some pictures after it started.
We all are so happy. Thank you soooo much!!!

We are also doing a sale at St Mary’s Church in Primrose Hill at 13th December.
Please come and enjoy the time with us.

では、また。

Bye

Mayo xx

Well, how exciting - our ‘Trunk Show’ at Liberty was a huge success!

November was ‘Jewellery Month’ at Liberty, with different designers visiting the store each weekend. Apparently, our event was by far the most successful of the whole month, so we are really really chuffed.

We made lots of one-off pieces especially for the trunk show, which was the first time we’d had one here in the UK, having tested the water earlier this year in Japan.

Arriving in Carnaby Street on a cold wintry morning, these giant snowmen started to make me feel a bit Christmassy!

As I’m normally in the office, I really enjoyed selling jewellery directly to our customers, and everyone was so lovely.Lots of Alex Monroe fans came especially to visit us, but we were so busy I think we must have gained a few new ones too!

Here is our display in the handbag room:

And a customer looking at the jewellery . . .

Liberty is such a gorgeous shop, and perfect for our jewellery - it just seems to fit in perfectly. Look at these Umbrellas, with Birds, Leaves and Flowers, they could have been made especially to compliment Alex Monroe Jewellery!

And I couldn’t resist having a little look around the shop myself . . .

Here are a couple of my favourite things!
(Sigh….!)

Alex popped up to see how we were getting on, and brought two of his daughters, Connie and Libby.
Here they are enjoying afternoon tea!

So we would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who made the event such a success.
Bye for Now!
Emma x