I thought I would quickly write before you all (hopefully!) are off on your well deserved summer hols.

I hope you have been well and have been enjoying all the fab sales around at the moment.

So much has happened since I last wrote my blog and again apologies for leaving it so long. It’s been one of those manic times when even finding time to do the lovely things like writing my blog has proven difficult.

Last week I flew to New York to do a trunk show in Bloomingdales. This is where I stand by a table of Lola jewels and meet and greet customers. It is so much fun but I don’t envy anyone who has to stand all day long in high heels and still be smiling at the end of it. The true heroes! My feet are yet to recover! Leaving Fred this time had to be the worst yet, I guess because he is getting older and therefore I knew he was going to miss me this time. I know this may sound confusing, but the thought of Fred missing me hurts me far more than the thought of me missing him!!!!  Did that make sense at all???

I made a deal with Justin though that he would promise to take a video of him every morning London time and email it to me, so that when I woke up in New York it would be sitting there waiting for me to watch. It worked out great and set me up for the day with a huge smile.

Lola is crazy busy at the moment and Roger is flying to Japan this week to do a mini TSV with Shop Channel Japan. I have been poorly so he is kindly taking my place which gives me some time here in the UK to recharge my batteries, of course in time for our QVC TSV on the 23rd July! Another marathon 7 hours but I am almost positive that you are going to love this TSV as much as I do!!! Well… Here’s hoping! Be sure to let me know what you think afterwards – we have a lot of gorgeous stuff coming up.

This week is the UK Jewellery Awards and Lola Rose has been shortlisted for Jewellery Brand of the Year. It is a huge honour to be nominated alongside such huge international brands. The Awards take place on Thursday night at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London, so I will let you know all the winners when I next write to you. My Dad is convinced that if by chance Lola wins, he is going to make an Oscar-esque acceptance speech. Don’t think so Dad!

The New Autumn Winter range should be launching on the site next week, and I am so excited about some of the pieces. I have literally lived in my new charm bracelets all summer, they are so cute and lovely to wear, plus I literally have friends pulling them off my wrist. I have attached some images for you to have a sneak preview. The new stones are so rich and yummy! The cherry is still definitely my pick, followed closely behind by the peacock and the stunning fern! The Fern Quartzite looks so expensive, it is like a vintage Green Jade and has an air of mystery about it.  The Peacock also follows a vintage look but just looks absolute fantastic with denim – which is totally on trend right now. The black cherry is just so easy to wear, chic, glossy and goes with absolutely everything! I can’t wait to hear your thoughts on everything. I think we might be sneak previewing you a few of the new stones in the July TSV.

Once again sorry for not being in touch for a while and next week we will run a new competition so please keep checking in.

Much love and have a great week,

Nikki xxxxx

Congratulations and we hope you love Hyacinth and Jaqueline – our new deco flower multi strand necklace and bracelet in one of our most sought after stones for Autumn Winter 11 – Cherry Quartzite.

Thanks once again for all your gorgeous entries. I hope you all will get a chance to tune into QVC this weekend starting today at 2pm

Love to you all

Nikki

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Hyacinth and Jaqueline - Black Cherry Quartzite

Hope you have had a good week so far.

Well, we have had so much fun judging our first competition and again thank you so much for all your entries. We simply cannot choose – they are all so wonderful! I have therefore decided it is only fair if we put all of the entries into a hat and pick our winner this way. Each and every one of your answers has made me extremely proud and given me the inspiration to work even harder on all our future collections.

I have listed some of the team’s personal favourites below:

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel simply sexy, simply stunning and simply spectacular. “

Sally

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel dressed! Until I have my Lola Rose on I am not ready to leave the house! Lola Rose gives me confidence and makes me feel feminine and girly whether I am having a fat day, bad hair day or any other kind of day! Its amazing what a piece of jewellery can do for you. “

Ella Dee

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel….

Lovely & Gorgeous

Original & Unusual

Luxuriant & Distinctive

Adorned & Bejeweled

Rich & Colourful

Ornate & Decorated

Stylish & Special

Elegant & Chic

Especially if I have lots of pieces to choose from!“

Carol

“When I wear Lola Rose, I feel like a confident stylish lady who’s ready to rock anything that comes my way!”

Carol

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel……. like the woman I deserve to be!“

Maria

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel alive- young, flirty, beautiful and chic- the whole world smiles with me!”

Rubina

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel like I have a unique opportunity to ‘wear’ poetry around my neck, it lifts my soul and moves my mind.”

Pippa

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel like Little Miss Sunshine all day long…”

Veronica

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.“

Alison

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel I go from bore to……corrrrr!!!!!”

Sarah

Don’t forget to visit the blog tomorrow once we have picked the winner!

Nikki

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Hope you are all well and have had a great week.

Thank you so much for all your fab entries to our first competition.  I have been totally blown away by the effort that has been made and can’t tell you how happy it makes me to hear how Lola Rose makes you feel.

I shall be spending this weekend going through all of the entries and picking the winner, which I will announce next week.

Also make sure you check out the exclusive styles in Natural Blue Magnesite which will be appearing on the web next week.  I am absolutely  in love with the Brandy and Brownyn rings in that stone – they shout “summer and style” and are very on trend.  After I have taken one in all the styles, along with my mum and most of the Lola team, there is really not much stock left, so don’t hesitate to look if Natural Blue Magnesite is the stone for you.

Hope you have a fantastic weekend.

Much Love,

Nikki

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As you know, the website is now complete. I hope you’ll all agree that Naomi and Max have done a great job at getting it all ready, I just wanted to thank you all so much for sticking with us and hopefully your shopping experience now is a pleasant one!

As a little thank you, I thought it was about time I hosted a give-away. The prize will be a piece from the new Autumn Winter collection, in one of our new stones which won’t be available in stores until July!

To win I think it’s now time for you to tell me something……………So please complete the following sentence!

“When I wear Lola Rose I feel….”

Please send all entries to competitions@lolarose.co.uk by 10am on Friday 13th May.

We will also try to feature as many of the entries as possible on our blog next week.

Good luck and I am really looking forward to hearing how Lola Rose makes you feel!

Love Nikki

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The Competition commences straight away and will end at 10am on Friday 13th May 2011. You can only enter once. There will be one prize winner. The entries will be judged and selected by the Lola Rose team and Nikki and their decision will be final. The prize will be selected by Nikki from the Autumn / Winter 2011 collection. Entries may be published in upcoming blog postings. Entrants agree that we may contact them from time to time with details of offers – if you would prefer not to receive them just email: naomi@lolarose.co.uk.

I am so sorry I’ve not been in touch recently; we had murders with our new website but now we seem to (fingers crossed) be more settled.

Gosh I can’t believe it was New Year at my last blog – where does the time go?

This year has been as hectic and busy as usual, and we’ve just finished selling our Autumn Winter collection which should be in stores by July but we will preview you some pieces on our website earlier than this, promise! The colours are rich, sumptuous and very wintery, so I can’t wait to show you.

Have you all had wonderful bank holidays? Personally, I try to pack so much into mine as it is such a fab opportunity for me to spend all the hours given with Freddie that I actually have found them exhausting. Freddie is now a proper little boy, understands everything that you say and is literally turning from my baby into my best friend. I love hanging out with him as he has such a cheeky personality and is great company. The problem I foresee is that he is a complete clown and does anything he can to make you laugh and applaud. That is fine with us but I’m not sure his school teachers are going to appreciate him finding pouring a glass of water over his head (and probably theirs) as funny as he does! I have attached a photo of him below with his exhausted Dad in background. Sometimes I do wonder, being such a girly girl how I managed to create such a boy in every sense – its all about climbing, jumping, worms, fire engines, trucks, football and his favourite person in the world – his Dad!

Did you all watch the Royal Wedding? How amazing did Kate look and how gorgeous is William! I still can’t believe that our future Queen has worn a piece of Lola Rose. It has been featured so many times that I felt I was getting a little blasé about it, but when I watched a news report from America and they showed a picture of Kate in our heart pendant, it hit me what a fantastic accolade this is and how proud I should be… We have ordered some more of the Amazonite heart pendant that she wore and it should be back in stock in approx 6 weeks, however, we do have a waiting list for it so please email Naomi if you wish to be added to the list. I think after that I will discontinue this line and bring it back when Kate becomes our Queen! We still do have some Rose Quartz on promo on our website and this is equally as gorgeous and of course because in Rose Quartz, symbolizes LOVE! Also our Royal Wedding promo will still run this weekend and finish on Monday at 6pm so don’t forget to have one quick last look before then.

Please also check the blog early next week as I’m going to run a really fun competition and hope you’ll all get involved.

Have a great weekend, I hope you all forgive me for going so quiet and look forward to chatting more next week.

Much love

Nikki xxx

Well what can i say about ours/mine? As you all are probably aware we have had some teething problems with our new website, which has been keeping us all very busy indeed. I do feel terrible about this and want to let you know we are doing absolutely all we can to resolve these issues and get everything back on track so please bear with us. As you know technology is not one of my strong points, so i am not even going to begin to tell you what the problems have been, all I can say is that we have set up a fantastic team to help and assist with orders and your queries so hopefully it won’t be too much of an inconvenience to get your hands on some of our great sale items. There are going to be more pieces being loaded onto the site in the next two weeks, so please do keep coming back to check. Plus, very excitingly we will be getting more of our Spring Summer collection for the web.

This collection, as previously mentioned, excites me so much and i am so pleased by some of your emails and comments about the new Coral Quartzite and the Montana Agate. The colours, once we get all the collection up for you to see, work so well together. So, if you are layering or stacking your bracelets, the Coral, Grey Agate, Montana and Lemon work really well together.
Please do let me know if you have bought any of the new season and let me know what you think.
Also, please let me know your thoughts on the new Spring Summer Scarves. I gave them as Xmas presents to my family this year and my mum has literally not taken hers off. She looks so sweet and cosy in it, as well as looking as glam as always!

Moving on very quickly from the web to my gorgeous Freddie! Poor him, he had his MMR jab last week and had such a bad allergic reaction. His leg swelled up to the size of a balloon and it was hurting him so badly that he kept touching it and then telling the floor that it was naughty – he must have imagined it was hurting because he had fallen and banged it. Bless him.! Anyhow after a weekend of Piriton, doctors and lots of Calpol, he finally seems to be on the mend and running around like crazy agan! This new period of walking/running is so bad for my nerves as he does not go five minutes without banging his head. He is so used to me saying or rather screaming “Be careful of your head Freddie” that he now walks around the house holding his head! Poor boy i am making him neurotic already. I have attached some recent pics of him as you wont believe how grown up he has become. He is the image of Justin I think?

I am on QVC this Friday at 4pm and 10pm, on Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm, so if you do get the chance please do watch and try to text or phone in to say “HI”.

Diet began today and yesterday and everyday last week but not actually started yet! I am on my 8th Satsuma of the day not that they are doing the same trick as all the Xmas chocolate that we still have in the office. But i guess it is cold and dark and one piece wont make that much difference?

Have a fab week and catch up with you all next week once QVC is over.

Much Love

Nikki
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I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend despite this cold weather. The funny thing about snow for me is that although I dislike being out in it, I absolutely love what it does to our world. It just makes everything seem so peaceful and magical!!!! Saying that though one weekend of it is plenty! Funnily Fred did not like it at all and I think was a little freaked out by his world turning white and refused to walk in it. He did find huge enjoyment though out of watching Justin and I have a big snowball fight.

I really hope that you all have managed to get all your Xmas gifts and can now enjoy this lead up week without too much panic shopping. Due to my disorganisation this week always is stressful trailing the internet trying to find something that Justin will like! He is so difficult to buy for as is gadget crazy and has most of it just cluttering up every spare drawer and cupboard in our house. So my aim is to find something small enough to not cause any more mess!

The new Lola website……….please tell me your thoughts and share your experiences if you have time because without your invaluable comments and suggestions, we will not be able to continuously improve your shopping experiences. I am super excited though because hopefully Spring Summer 2011 will be launched next week, technology allowing! I know you have prob seen the new colours in stores, but I am truly excited to share them with you because they are so fresh and pretty for me and I hope you feel the same too.

If you are QVC watchers I am on for 10 minutes tonight at 10pm for a crazy easy pay hour. If you are still deliberating on gifts then please tune in as I am hoping for a crazy easy pay on my favourite set of bambi and velma bracelets. And please don’t be put off by thinking they are only for the dainty wrists! I wear them daily and you can hardly call me dainty!!! I know a couple of people have asked what colours I wear, well I actually don’t have a set rule with these bracelets and literally grab in the morning whatever comes out my drawer first… They most certainly never match what I am wearing though but you know I love that mismatch look! It’s all about having fun and playing and being able to accesorise without the stress of worrying about it …..well I hope so anyhow!!!

Also hopefully launching this week is our new Spring Summer scarves. The prints are super cute and just like the jewellery, whenever I am out in one someone always comments which still brightens my day. The wool is new to us and is very soft and wearable. Hopefully you will love them as much as I do and grab one early before they hit all the stores.

The Lola office is open all through the holidays apart from the bank holidays so I will definitely write again after Xmas. So if I don’t see you tomorrow night on QVC, I wish you all a very merry Xmas, enjoy your day, eat loads, relax and stay warm

Much love
Nik

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So sorry for not writing for a few weeks!
We have all been really, really busy with the launch of our new website and the Lola Rose 10th Birthday party.

The party was held at Home House – a beautiful Georgian townhouse in the centre of London.
Of course, before the event I had a major panic and didn’t know what to wear. I eventually settled on a full length gold dress which I accessorized with a Lola necklace, lots of stacked up tumble bracelets, earrings and one of our statement cocktail rings (Brandy in Gold and Peach).
We had 250 guests turn up to celebrate and they were a mix of magazine fashion editors, buyers from the big department stores plus my closest friends and family.
We spent the evening drinking delicious cocktails supplied courtesy of Chambord. They concocted a new cocktail in our honour called a Lola Rose Flirtini. Scarily scrumptious and incredibly popular with everyone there!!!

We also had the most amazing birthday cake made by Lisa at www.theboutiquecupcake.co.uk I honestly don’t think I have ever seen such a beautiful cake. It was so pretty that we almost didn’t want to eat it!

Once the excitement of the party had died down (and our sore heads had recovered!) it was time for us all to focus on the new website.
This has taken months and months to develop as we wanted to bring you the best shopping experience possible. There are many new features on there, such as being able to select items by colour group or individual stone, or even by price. You can also see pictures of the team and all the latest press. All in all it should make your shopping experience a much smoother process and more fun too!!
Having literally just launched we need to see how things go but there could be further tweaks to it later on, as we learn more about how user friendly people are finding it.
It should however, be a huge improvement on the old site. Please go on and have a good look because as you know, your feedback is invaluable to me.
Also, to celebrate the launch we are offering free shipping within the UK until the 21st December 2010 to all of our customers, so make the most of that whilst you can!

I hope that you will enjoy the new website whilst you are tucked up nice and warm at home. It’s been so cold hasn’t it??
Freddie saw his first snowfall last week which was hysterical as he thought the snowflakes were bubbles!!

Anyway, I must go and get ready for QVC now. Our TSV launches at midnight tonight and we are so excited about it. It is really easy to wear and such good value.
Sorry to be a tease but we can’t tell you what it is now – you’ll have to tune in tonight.
Alternatively if you can’t keep your eyes open until then, we will have several shows tomorrow 9th December…………….Roger is on the morning show at 9am and also on the 11.00am show (I will be spending time with Freddie) then I am on at 3pm, 7pm and 10pm.
Please tune in and watch me! There are some great new items and it’s nice to know that you are watching because believe it or not, I still get nervous!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Much love always
Nikki xxxx

I hope you’ve had a good week?

This week has been such a long and tedious one of admin and tying things up – Holly is going away for a few weeks so we’ve been busy trying to get everything booked and organised so things run smoothly whilst she’s away.  We’re also finishing off the last stages of the new website which means lots of double checking and proof-reading, hopefully I will be able to invite you to have a look at the new site very soon!  Every time I look at it, I feel like a child with a new present.  I am so excited for it to launch and to finally HOPEFULLY make all my very loyal customers much happier.  I know the last site has been a complete nightmare for you all, but anything technical is not really my forte and therefore I always put it on the back burner.  So sorry if that seems horribly selfish.  Anyhow I bit the bullet and we are nearly there – hurray!!!!!

Yesterday though had to be the best day as our new Autumn Winter 2011 samples arrived! It’s the most sparkly collection yet, we’ve introduced the most fantastic new facets which I’m really pleased with. The girls in the office have been enjoying trying on the new pieces and seeing a preview of pieces which will hopefully find their way into stores next Autumn.  There are some fab new shapes, very deco, along with some lovely new flower shapes and some really dramatic statement pieces which I can’t wait to share with you nearer the time.  You know me, I would show you them all now, but I need to wait patiently until someone at Lola photographs them all for me.

Latest Freddie news as you know I have to talk about him………….well he is as giggly and crazy as ever.  I have attached a video of us in his room at 6.30 am this morning.  Please please excuse the state of me, and concentrate on turning up your volumes as loud as possible.  Our nanny returned home this week so I have been able to get back to normal working hours and coming into the office for full days and you know what, I miss him so much and as I write this can’t wait to get home to give those gorgeous cheeks a kiss.

Enjoy your weekend and be safe if you are going to fireworks!!!

Much love always

Nik xxxx