Bella Emerging

As many of you know, in January I threw on the brakes with my brick and mortar shop and completely switched gears, and boy howdy am I glad I did. It just goes to show, you should listen to your heart and gut. As much as I loved my shop, it wasn't really about me and my work and I really needed to be able to move forward with my ideas and with what I wanted. Since relieving myself of the shop, my creativity has blossomed like never before. My life has just got better, drastically better. And, as I have spent the last few months rebuilding Bella LuElla, it is finally taking shape and becoming what I had envisioned three years ago. Perhaps it took me the many detours, ups and downs and wandering to find my way. In many ways, I feel like I was a caterpillar moving along slowly and now, as a butterfly, I am emerging.

I am in the process of creating an e-commerce website and putting a few trial pieces on there - a mix of accessories and design. More on that to come. But, through out all of this, I am very pleased to see my vision of the Bella LuElla brand is really starting to take shape. I have chosen a few pieces here I want to showcase that really feel Bella to me. You can find all of these pieces on my Etsy site at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/BellaLuElla

And for all of you dedicated Bella LuElla fans, I truly want to thank you. You are greatly appreciated! I wanted to offer you guys a few free goodies!

Free Facebook Plopper, just slide your photos under this!

Free corset graphic! Make a pretty card!

Free shoe graphic, these are great for cards too!

*NEW* Customized Facebook Banners

Yay! I am now offering customized Facebook Banners on my Etsy site! I have a growing collection with lots more in the works! These are geared toward businesses, some especially for Etsians. Check them out here!

Here are a few samples of the ones I have up now. How fun are these??? I fully customize these with photos and text. Right now, they are a super bargain at $10 each.

Designing Graphically

I have been so busy rearranging my apartment, trying to make room to create and setting up a spot to do some photography. I still have so much to do and was starting to feel a little overwhelmed. I decided to take a break and sit down on the computer and whip up some graphics for Etsy, since my focus is moving back to items online. I was surprised how excited I was when I was working in my old programs. I was so burned out for so long, I forgot how fun it could be to create things graphically.

I whipped up some fun invitations and a few new corset designs. I wanted to show off some of the invitations available on my Etsy site.

I have several different colors available in this design. I had the most fun with them because they incorporated my much loved corsets.

This invitation actually took me a while to do. 

A different style than I normally create, but I wanted something fun and colorful for a baby shower.

Thank you notes, only have the one color currently. 

More to come soon and I wanted to do some more ploppers soon for facebook, just been super busy trying to get all my social media graphics updated and website working again - which I am still working on. I hope to get back to creating some fun accessories soon, just need to create a workable space, sigh.