Showing posts with label spring 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spring 2014. Show all posts

Monday, December 9, 2013

On the mend


Well hello Lovelies!  It's been quite the busy past couple of weeks for me. I can't believe Christmas is around the corner! I'm so glad I finished my Christmas shopping in October. (Lol)  As you can tell, I am not a procrastinator.  If I don't get to something it's because I'm dead or I already have 500 things going on.


With that said, I've finally started working on new pieces. My new business plan is one I've come to terms with after taking the past 6 months off.  Unlike some of my dear friends whom are clothing designers, I have two little boys and a husband. Therefore, devoting my life to my brand is really not an option for me.  You know that saying, "you can't have your cake and eat it too?" (Umm..wait, that just didn't make any sense to me) Anyways you get the point of that saying, well I'm here to tell you, you can! In other words you may not be able to eat your cake right at that moment you want to but you can lick the frosting while you wait for that moment to come. Is this making any sense at all?!  Well I've said it once and I'll say it again, my family comes before my career. I will be "licking the frosting" until my time comes.  I wouldn't want to miss a moment of raising my sons.

So come Spring 2014, I will be releasing one of a kind pieces in different sizes, colors, fabrics and textures. Not a collection but more of my creativity gone wild. Which in all honesty, I feel collections sometimes limit my creativity all together. I've put aside any plans to wholesale at this time, therefore price points will be low for designer originals. So God Willing, this Spring I'll be hosting pop up shops all around town with all the new stuff. I'll be posting previews till then on Instagram. 

Hope your week is inspirational, Lovelies!

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Cell Phone Blogging


Who needs a laptop when you've got an iPhone?! Ha! I can't believe I'm actually blogging from my cell phone right now. Yes, ladies and gents, I'm back (for the hundredth time) and this time I'm might just be blogging more then ever before, now that I can do it from my cell phone! (I might be a bit late on this) Never the less, I'm so impressed.

So lets get to the where and what from my world. Where have I been? Moving! Did it really take me 6 months to move? Yes! If my fashion world is not completely set up, I just can't get any work done at all. So as of this week, my little fashion world is all set up and ready to.....create! I have big plans for this Spring. Now that I'm back home in LA, I've got a whole new direction in this business adventure. Stay tuned for all the details, Darlins. For now, I just wanted to say Hello and try out this phone blogging thing. I shall be back tomorrow for some more chit-chat!

Xo,
Mel

Monday, May 6, 2013

I'm Back

Hello Lovely Readers,

It's been awhile hasn't it?  Last month was simply crazy for me.  So much so, I had to put my whole world on hold, including my company because.....

 
 
...after much prayer, my husband and I decided to sell our home in Murrieta, CA and move back to L.A.  It was truly one of the most stressful things I've ever had to do.  I'm surprise I still have hair on my head! Although, I did gain ten stress pounds.  I would have never guessed that some people would negotiate so many petty things when buying a house, that I'm surprised they did ask to throw in one of my sons as part of the deal. In the end, we walked away with what we really wanted and a sense of adventure ahead.
 
 
After eight years of living in other cites, it felt good to be back home in LaLaLand, minus the traffic and some of the rude people (I'm just saying).  God Willing we will be buying our new home here at the end of this year but for now it will be apartment living.  Which means my work space/ studio/ office will be in a walk-in closet.  Yes you read right, I will be putting together my summer pieces and spring 2014 in that little box.  Lord only knows how I will pull this off but I'm going to try because a month of not designing, creating or working, just killed me.  I breath fashion.
 
So now you know where I've been the past month and what's to come from Melissa Velia.  I'm back to work today and I'm back in L.A. Cheers!!
 
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