So close i can almost feel it....

Once again i have left it a while since my last post but this time lots of things have happened so i will set down my cup of tea and get you up to date with it all.

After a long journey trying to get my website up and running i have had to cut my losses and start afresh, the lady the who was supposed to be doing my website was un responsive and had no interest in helping me finish it to a decent standard and so the day she disappeared off the radar was the day i decided to start again. When someone makes excuses every step of the way and plays the card that they didn't get your emails/text messages/ phone calls is definately a sign that they were a bad choice, there are only so many lies you can take so lets just say i wont be singing her praises any time soon.

So anyway i realised unless i got shot of her and got on with it the website would never happen so i took a close friends advice and contacted the lady that did her website. The difference was amazing, she was always on hand to talk, always emailing me updates on what she was doing, she gave me that extra push without hassling me and trust me when you have as many things to do as me then you need a little extra shove! A new logo has been designed and now i am finally on the edge of launching my brand new shiny website and i have loads of new products to show you and i am super excited!

Please keep your eyes peeled as i will be opening up for business in the next few days (got a few more products to add to the site yet) and let me know what you think!

Also if you like my website design then all credit goes to http://www.managemywebsite.co.uk/.

They have also designed my friends website http://www.deadlyisthefemale.com/ and my brothers new business venture http://www.yourexecutivecar.co.uk/.

xxx

A few of my favourite dresses..

To keep myself active on here instead of leaving my blog to fester over another year i thought i would put up a few pictures every other day or so and also use it to post some of my new items as i make them.

So here are a some pictures of my favourite dresses, some of them are child versions of adult ones i make under a different name so i will put those up as well...

The first one i have to show is this black and white striped nautical inspired dress with red anchor buttons, i made this after making an adult dress and i thought it would look adorable as a childs version, so here it is:

And the adult one i was inspired by:

The second one is my sailor dress, i made an adut version first and i loved it so much i decided it had to be made as a childs version, the first picture is me in Las Vegas wearing my sailor dress:

And here is my toddler version:

The red cheeky skull dress is one of the very first dresses i have made for Alternatots and i have some lovely pictures of my daughter modelling it for me:

She loved wearing it and had already put things in the pockets before i finished the pictures so i decided that she could have that one to keep!

All of these dresses are available to buy in my ebay shop at the moment:

http://stores.shop.ebay.co.uk/Alternatots-Childrens-Clothing

If that works!

That is all for the moment i will put up some of my brand new ones next! (or maybe some more of my old ones..)

My progress so far...

So it is official i am rubbish at blogging!

Loads of time has passed since i last blogged and i guess things have picked up quite a bit, unfortunately the website is still not finished but i would like it up and running by the end of April '10 so i can use fee-bay a bit less and stop the feeling that i am giving half the money i make straight back to them....i know it is useful and without it its harder to get your name out there but i cant stand their fees!

I have opened and etsy store as well so if you fancy a look then go to:

www.etsy.com/shop/alternatots

I am still adding things slowly so keep an eye out for new things.

I have a facebook fan page as well so please look up 'Alternatots Childrens Clothing' under brand/company then you should be able to find it.

I have built up quite a range of products now and have plenty of ideas for new things and i would love to be able to offer all the items in larger sizes as well so that will be something to work on when the website is up and running.

Instead of rambling on about what i want to do i will talk about some of my favourite things that i have made already and give myself some practise putting pictures in...

My corset print bodysuit is one of my favourite vinyl prints, it looks like you have laced up your baby, so far i have done white on black and pink on white, it can also be put on a t-shirt as well.

I will add some more pictures up later....

So im trying to sort out my website (and the rest of my life!)

I have been trying to get my website up and running for a while now and there always seems to be something to get in the way, it doesn't help that i only have one designated work day when i deposit by baby with the childminder and then work non stop till i pick her up again, so as you can imagine with that and working in the evenings i am going pretty much non stop!
I now have another distraction, i have booked a trip to Vegas to go to the Magic trade show and i am on a mission to get enough money together to pay for it, so once again all that sitting at my pc and sorting out the website has been put on hold for me to be a whore to my sewing machine and knock up dresses and everything else i can think of to sell on awful ebay!
I sometimes feel like i am doing two full time jobs and its exhausting!
So hopefully i will get back to it and sort it all out soon, i don't know about other crafty people but i sometimes find i have so many new ideas and things to do that i have no idea where to start....the website will be worth looking forward to i can guarantee it.

Starting a journey on the road to alternative childrens clothes

I have decided its time to start a blog as i thought it would be interesting to look back on the progress i make as i set up my business.
I am in the process of building up 'Alternatots' which is aimed at all the goth, punk, rockabilly and emo babies and children out there.
Since becoming a mum to my gorgeous daughter Alicia who is now 20 months old i did what most other mums do and thought 'i want to try making children's clothes!' Although unlike most people this wasn't a huge step away from what i did before i had her. Since graduating from the London College of Fashion i had a couple of jobs both designing punk, goth and rockabilly clothes for adults, first working for 'Living Dead Souls' and then 'Hell Bunny' and 'Mercy'. As well as designing and making my own 50's Rockabilly dresses and other bits and pieces.
When i was expecting Alicia i was on the look out for cool clothes i would want to put her in and funnily enough i couldn't find any! (Well the odd thing here and there, i do like Sourpuss!) so i decided that that would be my next venture, i found that most of the alternative children's clothes were just slogan t-shirts or plain bodysuits with a print on them so thats why i am embarking on 'Alternatots!'.