The fun-fair!

Another January, another fair...and boom!!! All sorts of ideas! :)
It's been quite a tough period at the shop, of course Christmas doesn't count, but before..and now after, I'm really asking myself what to do next.

Unfortunately, the Romanian market for selling house deco is not at its best. With complete sadness, I've seen that another shop in Bucharest decided to close and keep the online shop only. That's totally understandable, having a shop ain't easy. There are days, like today, when you pretty much sell nothing. And then you start asking all sorts of questions: maybe the address is not good, maybe I don't have the right products, and maybe baby...what if. And so on.

The roller coaster

When I started the shop I think I was way to deep in my bubble :) I just didn't know in what I was just launching myself, I had no clue how challenging this will turn up.

But here I am, in 2015. Been trying to write some resolutions for this year, and still planning to do. The end of the year was so eventful. I've learned my lesson... Since this roller coaster ride started, I've learned that from A to B are many loops and turns, and the situation is usually twisted. But always enjoying the ride. That's the only trick we must learn...to enjoy the ride. If your intention has been set, if you do everything straight from the heart, you just have to adapt..because things always come along nicely. We must have patience.

What's cooking....princess?

Well, I must definitely create an "entrepreneurship" category on this blog! My dream that I will write about healthy recipes, alternative life style and similar stuff is put on pause a bit :))
My life at this point sums up to healthy take aways, crazy sleep hours and long working days. And you know what? I love it this way. Maybe this is what this should be all about.

Now that the Christmas is coming (yes, I know, I keep on repeating that since September) everything happens really quick. Last weekend me and my mom have been decorating the shop....for 3 days! And there are still stuff to do in here... It is never ending, honestly. I didn't even get the chance to put the products on the website, and now when I checked ...I realised that the Halloween banner is still up on the slide. Argh!

I love being busy with interesting stuff. And last week, besides my never ending Christmas plans, I helped my mom with a pitch for her events company. Well, the whole concept was amazing... All about the future. We created a hand made vortex tunel, 3D projections and super crazy lights show. I loved it.

Also, at TMT Finance (the job for which I went to Warsaw) I have an event in exactly 10days - TMT Finance World Congress. Luckily I'm not going to London this time. And I say luckily, because there's something BIG "cooking" in Clou's "kitchen"

Until everything comes all together, follow my instagram, you know what they say: a picture is worth a 1000 words (or something like that). So keep an eye there, and hopefully at one point my blog posts will be more often.

Lots of love,
Roxana

Le fantastic!

Oh my, what a week I had! I'm so happy to see that everything comes together after a looot of work.
One of this week's achievements is that I'm getting closer to the moment when I'm going to launch the English version of the website! Whoop, whoop!  :) I can finally ship to all of you! :D I really hope this will be on time for Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, I know most you don't even started to think about it, but I honestly had enough already. This week I've been working with some of my fabulous friends and we organised a very nice photo shooting. I'm so grateful for working with such amazing people! I can't wait to share the results with you!!

Today is my mom's birthday, hooray! She is such a fantastic (crazy) woman.... I love her so much!

Wishing you all a super happy weekend...and until then here's a sneak peek from this week's photo shooting!

Everything connects.

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I never really knew what I was going to do, where I was heading and which direction. And honestly, I still don't know.

When I finished school and faced the "choose a University" moment, I didn't know either. All I knew was that I envied my colleagues who were soooo sure where they want to go to: law school, medical school and so on. They knew so well. All I knew was that I had to do it and finish it asap. 

So I initially thought that going to a "Marketing and PR" Uni is going to be the good thing for me - I was social, my mom had an advertising agency (which seemed fun) and I could develop my creative side. Well, my parents forced me to go to an economical school too. And I did. 

Of course I ended up finishing just one - the "Business Administration" Uni, the economical school. 

Then, I decided that I had to finish my masters degree quickly too. In Romania the master is 2 years long....too long for me. But in UK it's only 1 year - so that was my escape ticket. 

After finishing my masters I've found myself in the "wtf have I done?" crisis. Why did I do such a horrible thing?! Why economics, why business? Why have I learned so much crap?! I'm A CREATIVE PERSON!!! someone please help!!! ....so there I was...in the oh so discussed "post graduation crisis"...Then the white flag was spotted at the horizon and my shop was founded. With no design background, without any knowledge about the market - I did it.