week 5 - spring bling success

Last Thursday night was our 3^rd Annual Spring Bling Event at the Izzy Showroom in the Merchandise Mart. Wow! This event gets better and better every year for mesh! Thank you again to the Spring Bling Hosts for continuing to invite us!...and a BIG thank you to our supporters who come every year!

In addition to our classic one-of-a-kind necklaces, mesh launched a list of new accessories which included rings, scarves, hair clips and purses. They were a hit! By an overwhelming response we have concluded that citron yellow has not yet faded as our first love. And bold purple…takes a close second place this season.

What’s next for mesh? We have two home sales booked for next month and will be working diligently to replenish our stock for those! Thanks to Alli & Nici for hosting these sales!

We also greatly appreciate all of the boutique contacts we received at Spring Bling! We will keep you posted on any new shops that we lucky enough to showcase our goods in.

For those of you who have inquired about purchasing a one-of-a-kind crazy quilt clutch from our “Marilyn’s Revival” collection, we have uploaded some of those onto etsy for purchase. http://www.mesh.etsy.com/

-mesh

mesh has arrived !

Yes! mesh has a blog! I think this makes us really official.

What do you do on Monday nights? Well, on any given Monday, you will find mesh at Melissa’s kitchen table in Oak Park, Illinois. Whether its beading necklaces, strategizing about our next product launch or trying to figure out those darn sales tax forms…mesh is in action!

Everyone asks…When DO you guys do this with your full time jobs…and side gigs…and personal lives….

This is what it looks like. We leave work on 5:00 on Mondays. Sherry usually stops and grabs dinner in route, while Melissa makes her famous quesadillas in the microwave in 1:00 minute flat. Then we pull every bin and box of creative goods out of the table side credenza and we destroy the entire kitchen in about 6 minutes. Really, it looks like a tornado of beads, fabric and ribbon just ripped through town. ..Wizard of Oz Style. We work on our “project of the night” while tediously discussing everything that has happened in each of our lives in the last 6 days...work, wedding details, shopping excursions, dreams of travel, haircuts…etc.…..then sluggishly put everything back in the credenza about 9:00 p.m.

Here is the plan…2010 is going to be the BIG year for mesh. Why? I’m glad you asked. mesh is expanding. Certainly we will always hold true to our first love…one-of-a-kind chunky-funky beaded necklaces. It’s what put us on the map! Our follow up collections of T-shirts, quilt clutches, bangles…they have been successful also….but we have so much more inspiration in us!

The Blog is our next step…to the ever expanding craze known as ‘mesh’.

Our next show is Spring Bling…on the evening of Thursday, April 22 at The Merchandise Mart…more details to follow!

melissa & sherry