Trunk show TODAY!

It is finally here! Trunk show starts this afternoon. Here are the dresses. If you want to order one call M Boutique and Emily will ship it to you! If you are in the area come by M from 3-8. We will have cocktails and hors d'oeuvres and don't forget all M clothes are 15% off today!

Mustard velvet pocket dress, with wide elastic waist. Sizes: 2,4,6

Black stone dress with elastic belt, size 4

One shoulder sequin square cut out with scallop hem, sizes 2,4,6

Vintage print long sleeve dress, sizes 2,4,6

Teal satin, silver sequin bow dress, sizes 2,4,6

One shoulder scallop with blue metallic, sizes 4 & 6

Tie neck dress sizes 2,4,6

ellen&ollie Trunk Show

Trunk Show is almost here! I have finally finished all of the dresses. I will put up pictures tomorrow morning. M is offering 15% off all M merchandise during the trunk show. I can’t wait!!

Brian and Amy's Wedding

Brian and Amy’s wedding was beautiful. Despite the chiller than expected weather it was perfect. It was held outside at Rose Hill Estate in Aiken, which was such a gorgeous place. I wish I would have gotten more pictures, but I was just too cold.

Amy and me at the rehearsal dinner. I made 2 dresses to choose from for the rehearsal dinner. There will be one that resembles this one at the trunk show!

Will and I before the wedding. My brother loves to wear his ellen&ollie ties!

My family

A few of my cousins. Elizabeth, the girl in the middle, has on a dress from M!

I got so many compliments on the shawl I wore. It was my grandmother’s.

Brian's getting married!!

My cousin Brian is getting married this weekend. I can’t decide which dress to wear to the rehearsal dinner and which one to wear to the wedding. I want to wear a Mint dress to one and an ellen&ollie to the other. The dress I am wearing in the pictures is the Mint dress I am going to wear. It’s my favorite Mint dress. I want my grandmother and aunts to see it. The two girls on the right in the middle picture were my first ellen&ollie customers!

Dresses for fabricworm

I made these dresses for the girl I order the majority of my fabric from. I have been ordering fabric from fabricworm since before I was making dresses. The fabric I used for my very first dress came for fabricworm. I was honored when she asked me to make dresses for her to wear to the Quilt Market. I was so excited to work with the Japanese fabrics she picked out! I had enough of the strawberry fabric left over to make her a skirt!

Moving to NYC!!!

I do not know where to begin with this blog post. When I met Jodi Arnold last week she offered to help me out in any way she could. I was very surprised with how nice she was. I never imagined someone in her position wanting to help someone like me. She is so busy, how could she even think about helping me? I met with her again Thursday and she said I could come up for a week and stay with her!! I couldn’t believe she was going to let me stay with her. She said I could go to work with her everyday and see everything that goes on. I was freaking out so excited all weekend. I emailed her Monday to see when I could come, because I was so anxious to go and see everything. I was planning to go for a week after my trunk show on the 21^st. THEN she emailed me Tuesday and asked me to be a design intern!!!!!!!!! I cannot believe this is happening!! I’m leaving right after the trunk show!

A Chorus Line

My dad loves musicals, so this weekend we all went to Charlotte to see A Chorus Line. My mom, Laura Lee and I all wore ellen&ollie. We had great seats and the cast was amazing. I can’t wait for South Pacific!

Meeting Jodi Arnold!!

Last night was so fun. Jodi Arnold was really really nice! I can’t believe how down to earth she is. She was so easy to talk to. I wasn’t even nervous talking to her. I am glad Emily was there though! These are a few pictures of Emily and I with Jodi Arnold!

MINT by Jodi Arnold

Van Jean, a boutique on the same street as M, is having Jodi Arnold of MINT come to Columbia tonight to show her new winter and holiday collection. I can’t wait to see her new designs and meet her! I made this dress Monday night and I am considering wearing it! I am newly obsessed with sequins!

The weekend

My Clemson reunion weekend was amazing! We all said it felt like we had never left. I love that place. I wish we could have gone for a week.

Friday night I wore the gold dress and LL wore the dress with the cut out in the front. I did not get any good pictures of her in the dress, but I have a few of my gold dress.

It rained all day Saturday, so I mainly wore a raincoat, but I did get a picture of my butterfly dress with my cousin Sydney who is also wearing her ellen&ollie dress!

Clemson Weekend!

Friday night:

Gameday:

I can’t believe it’s finally here! We are going to Clemson today! I can’t wait to see everyone! I haven’t seen most of them since graduation. The first 2 pictures are what I am deciding between to wear tonight. I am leaning more towards the gold dress. I am going to make that dress with sequins where the gold is when I get home from this weekend. The next 2 pictures are my choices for the game. It is a 70% chance of rain on Saturday. My entire 4 years at Clemson it did not rain a single game until our very last game. This was the Carolina Clemson game and it has rained at all the games since then. Laura Lee has packed lots of ellen&ollie too so I will be sure to post pictures on Monday! Ahhhh I’m so excited!

Ole Miss!

The Carolina Ole Miss game is tonight. This dress just sold at M to an Ole Miss customer! I didn't even think about it being their colors! I'm thinking about wearing this style dress but in a purple fabric for the Clemson game this weekend. I will have dresses for both teams at the game tonight!! Go Cocks!!!

Labels

I cannot believe I had to order new labels already! I remember when my cousin Brian told me the smallest order I could make from the label company was 100. At the time I thought I would never use up all of them. 100 dresses is a lot. I ordered 250 this time, so I have a lot of dresses to come in the future!

New Dress for Sugar

Sugar sold out of this dress in the other fabric, shown in an earlier post, in 2 DAYS!! I couldn’t believe it when she told me Monday that they were all gone already! These are the new dresses for Sugar. I like this print with this style dress better than the last one.

Gameday Dresses

These are a few dresses I made for M for Carolina's first home game Saturday! Cait, the model, works at M and already bought the dress with the bow at the neck! I am going to the Clemson game next weekend and I am thinking about making the first dress in purple or a new style that I haven't put up on the blog yet.

The Business Cards are in!!

My grandmother with a few of my cousins!

My cousins, Samantha and Lucy, with Samantha wearing one of her ellen&ollie dresses.

Yesterday we had an 80th birthday party for my grandmother. My cousin, Brian, brought me the "first round" of business cards. He says the colors aren't right yet, but they look perfect to me! He made these on his new letterpress.

Sugar Boutique reorder!

Sugar has already reorder the navy dress with flowers! They also order this fun dress that's great for Clemson games!

Order Online!

I finally have an answer for all the emails I get from people not from South Carolina! I have opened an etsy store! You can order ellen&ollie dresses online now! Here is the link to my store: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=7261779

These are the dresses and skirts listed on etsy right now. Laura Lee is such a good model!