Pretty Packaging: Inspirations

I've been collecting photos of pretty packaging to inspire my own little packages from Altered Chic.













Enjoy!

Lisa x

Outdoor Photo Session

The weather was lovely, bright and warm on friday so I took advantage and decided to photograph some of my brand new products outdoors for Altered Chic. I love taking photos with interesting backdrops. I thought I'd share this little peek into one of our new products - available soon!

The cats weren't being too helpful though. They kept interupting my photo shoot and walking into the shots. I decided to give them a bit of what they wanted (plus here's another sneaky peek)...

Lisa x

Pretty Packaging

I came across this lady's pretty blog today and her post about her packaging. I've been thinking about making my shop packaging prettier recently.

It was covered as part of the Indie Biz class I was part of earlier this year but I've not had chance to go back and look at it since. I'm now collecting inspiration for my packaging.

At the moment all my products are wrapped in tissue paper, then either wrapped in bubble wrap or put in a box and then covered with brown parcel paper with the address handwritten on the front.

Ideas I've found to make prettier packaging:
- ribbon or twine
- thank you note
- postcard
- little free gift
- pin badge

I'm going to continue collecting ideas and photos and then decide which options work best for my little shop. If you have any ideas - let me know!

Lisa x

A new look...

Our new website is taking alot more work than we originally thought to get everything working the way we want it to. So in the meantime, I've given Altered Chic's current website a new look with our prettier branding.


I'm also working hard getting ready to add lots more products to the website as well as designing and making brand new Halloween and Christmas products. I'll be showing sneaks over the coming weeks of these brand new products!

For now, go over and take a proper look at my pretty new look shop.

Lisa x

Goals...

"What keeps me going is goals." - Mahummaad Ali

I saw this quote today and began thinking again about what I want from life. I've been doing alot of thinking about the future recently. I also read this post on Elsie's blog about goals for the rest of this year and decided it is exactly what I need right now.

Here are my 4 simple goals...

1. Reguarly spend more time creating just for me. Iim always making things for my business or because there's a birthday or other occasion. I love scrapbooking and I'm now trying to learn to crochet. I want to put more effort into making time for this in my life. 2. Keep a tidier and more organised home. Our home still needs lots of finishing touches - especially to get it more organised. I want to make a huge effort to get these completed to make our lives so much easier and less stressful. 3. Make more time for my camera. (And keep the batteries charged!) I do take my camera with me when we go out somewhere new, but I want to make more of an effort to photograph my daily life, record the everyday important things, the little things - not just the big things. 4. Begin my journal. I used to journal as a teenger almost every day for about 2 years. I now want to be able to use my journal to record my feelings and thoughts. And just things we've done, memories we have. I'll then be able to use it as a place to reference for my scrapbooking. Making journalling so much easier.

What are your 4 simple goals?

Lisa x