Monday 02.03.09 (this day was so long that we had to split it in to two sections)
PART 1- THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
What a beautiful day it was. Sun is shining and I'm off work just to do more work. Today we are not messing around. We need to get stuff sorted because the London Clothes show is in 3 months and we have no garments!! 3 months is not long given the fact that we have so much to do and not enough money (I can barely eat) jokes aside, but yea we need to find a manufacturer TODAY as we need to start calculating how much all this is going to cost before the end of the month!!
So we start our journey in Croydon at the boutique (that is meant to be stocking our dresses), explaining to them why we have been delayed and they completely understand. We really believe it's always best to be honest with people and let them know what's going on so they don't think you are just slacking and messing them about. After that we go to meet our 'manufacturer', who has not manufactured a damn thing for us for past 3weeks!! KMT. We walk into the factory and he is prepared, he packed all our things in one place; the materials, the patterns, EVERYTHING and when he saw us he just walked straight over to our things and attempted to hand them over...well little did he know J was not having it!!
I was not having it at all!!!!! I just put my hands up and said "NO"!!!!!! LMAO. We're laughing now, but at the time there was nothing funny about the situation. We didn't have anybody else, and to be honest we didn't want anyone else..why you ask, because the price he gave was tooooooooo good.
So..like a typical man, he gave plenty of excuses and says "I really wanna help you girls, I just don't wanna let you down, give me until the weekend and I'll have something for you" and like typical women, we say "OK" leaving the factory praying that he does just what he said he would..but this has to be the last chance we give him because we are really behind schedule.
PART 1- THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
What a beautiful day it was. Sun is shining and I'm off work just to do more work. Today we are not messing around. We need to get stuff sorted because the London Clothes show is in 3 months and we have no garments!! 3 months is not long given the fact that we have so much to do and not enough money (I can barely eat) jokes aside, but yea we need to find a manufacturer TODAY as we need to start calculating how much all this is going to cost before the end of the month!!
So we start our journey in Croydon at the boutique (that is meant to be stocking our dresses), explaining to them why we have been delayed and they completely understand. We really believe it's always best to be honest with people and let them know what's going on so they don't think you are just slacking and messing them about. After that we go to meet our 'manufacturer', who has not manufactured a damn thing for us for past 3weeks!! KMT. We walk into the factory and he is prepared, he packed all our things in one place; the materials, the patterns, EVERYTHING and when he saw us he just walked straight over to our things and attempted to hand them over...well little did he know J was not having it!!
I was not having it at all!!!!! I just put my hands up and said "NO"!!!!!! LMAO. We're laughing now, but at the time there was nothing funny about the situation. We didn't have anybody else, and to be honest we didn't want anyone else..why you ask, because the price he gave was tooooooooo good.
So..like a typical man, he gave plenty of excuses and says "I really wanna help you girls, I just don't wanna let you down, give me until the weekend and I'll have something for you" and like typical women, we say "OK" leaving the factory praying that he does just what he said he would..but this has to be the last chance we give him because we are really behind schedule.
PART 2 - LONDON TOWN ROAD TRIP
Everything written above happened before midday, sounds crazy eh???? But this was just the tip of the iceberg and our day was far from over, because we still had to make our way around what seemed like the whole of London in just 6 hours. We had made several appointments to find other manufacturers that could help us in case our guy did not deliver, we needed back up! They were scattered all over London.
After we left our manufacturer's factory, we made our way to west London, and then from there we had two meetings in east London. Now, the day would have been over for us after our last meeting in east but we did something very silly..we left one of our samples in west London, and had to go back to get it before going home. We got there at 6:15pm!!!!! Let me help you put things in to perspective, we left home at 9am that day, travelled all over London, got home around 8.30pm and didn't eat a thing, the only thing we had was a bottle of Coca Cola L bought that we shared! Hard times, LOL!!!!! Even though the day was long and very tiring we did accomplish a lot and had a better idea of exactly what needed to be done, when it had to be done by and probably most importantly who would do it.
We learnt quite a few things that day. It's always best to sort things out face to face, whether it's business, relationships, etc, this way everyone knows exactly where they stand and you can truly see if someone understands exactly what you expect of them and decide for yourself if you genuinely believe what they're saying. You'll see later on just how good it is to sort things out face to face, especially when it comes to manufacturers, LOL!!!!
Oh and I can't forget another equally important lesson...TRAVELCARD IS GOOD!!!! LMAO!!! There is no way we could have made all those meetings, travelling from south to west then east and then back to west London all within 6hrs without a travelcard- get one!!!
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