Aloha! Hey, so just quickly, a few people have said they are reading this...hummm. Basically set this up for me mum, friends (hiya fisher!) and family (yo ali!), but as this is after all the www, most people have access - so maybe I need to think about getting a password, doing another online diary thingy to share my YO's with you - as some people say a) they are worried about me sharing to much info - being to honest, could be bad for business b) not sure what B is. Anyway so give me some ideas to be sneaky, or just carry on.

So last night had to stand up in class (business class, I love) and share with the class all the failings and success of launch, I went very red.

Success:

MASSIVE support from Portland, all the hair stylists, make up artists, beauty bar - all free

Press online at the Mercury

Contacts - met/in talks with owner at 220 to have a Poppe up shop in her place soon

- got a photographer who has offered to snap away for website (free!)

- make up artist Alana, is also a high school graphic design/fashion teacher for A level students so she's going to present project to class to design YO's logo

- sold some bits

- soooo satisfying when I went to the bank yesterday to put my first lot of money into my business YO VINTAGE account - woooop!

- got a mailing list so I can now annoy people

Not so successful:

- People's feedback - clothes were too cheap/too expensive - but it's all learning the market

- Not enough time to shop before the show started (true)

- confusion whether people could buy the clothes in the fashion show and how (my fault - in hindsight should have put rail out before so people could have dibs - panic buying!) could have made some more cash

- website not up and running yet - things getting a bit complicated with web man, he lives in San Fran, and I live here, I sooo should have got a web designer here (yes I have paid him a deposit, can't really move out of it)

- I NEED AN ACCOUNTANT RIGHT NOW, I have no idea about tax etc etc, need to start paying some taxes somewhere, business leader gave me a good recommendation, so on to that this week

- ummm, the last one is actually really embarrassing, ummmm the stamp that I stamped everywhere, on people's bodyparts, the shopping bags, everywhere, I only noticed this yesterday.....

ummm, my phone number is actually 503 724 3521 - not 503 724 2521...WHOOPS! So, I'm off to the stamp place now!