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The Anna Lou Christmas Wreath!
How excited are you getting about Christmas? We can't believe it's only a few more weeks to go (15 days to be precise)! If you haven't started putting your decorations up yet then perhaps today's blog post can give you a little inspiration! This weekend the ALOL team worked hard at putting together a festive Anna Lou Christmas wreath to hang outside the door to our offices and above is the finished result! Doesn't it look fab? We're feeling suitable festive now and suddenly have the urge to decorate the whole office in tinsel (but we won't, for now). We...
Everyone's Wearing... Slogan Jewellery!
You've heard of slogan tees but now allow us to introduce you to slogan jewellery (and the slogan necklace to be precise). Not to be confused with the name necklace or initial necklace, the slogan necklace is from an altogether different family of jewels! While the name and initial necklaces are personal, often quite dainty and fairly subtle, its slogan counterpart is bold, loud, powerful and aims to make a statement. First seen on the likes of Lanvin's AW13 catwalk show, this trend has slowly filtered down to the high street and strong messaging through jewellery is now big news....
#AnnasAdvent - A treat a day for 24 days!
Can you believe it's the 2nd of December already? Us neither but we are definitely getting excited for Christmas now that the official December countdown has begun! To make the Christmas countdown even more fun and to help you save a few pennies in the run up, we are hosting an advent calendar like no other. #Annasadvent will open the door to a treat a day for 24 days! You can expect to see a different product discounted by up to 50% on the website every day from now until the 24th December. The discount will run for 24 hours...
Ask Anna - Jewellery Styling Tips #3
Our Saturday style sessions continue with more 'Ask Anna' jewellery styling tips today. We really hope you've enjoyed reading these posts as much as we've enjoyed doing them, it's so great to hear from our customers and Anna really loves playing style advisor every Saturday morning so please keep those questions coming! If you've missed our last few posts then allow us to fill you in; throughout November, every Saturday Anna has been offering up her best tips and tricks on how to wear your jewellery, what to style it with and how to avoid those jewellery faux pas, by...
The Party Season!
It's almost party season folks and you know what that means - a month of mulled wine, mince pies, mistletoe, sparkles and Santa Hats! Chances are your diary is already full up with work do's, office shindigs, catch ups with friends, pre- Christmas get together's and long lunches. Although it means a lot of outfit planning, on the plus side you it's the one time of year you can swap your boring winter clothes for sparkly dresses, bling jewels and party hats! And who doesn't love a bit of sparkle? If you are in the midst of planning your Christmas...
Ask Anna - Jewellery Styling Tips #2
We are back for the second week in our Ask Anna series, where designer and founder Anna is giving jewellery styling tips by answering your questions on style and giving advice on what to team with what. Last week Anna answered a question on overcoming the fear of oversized jewellery and this week she talks how to wear the bib necklace. Q) l never really know how to mix and match a Bib necklace. Can you help? ANNA) Bib necklaces look best when worn with high cut t-shirts or collared shirts and jackets. Otherwise there will be an inch or...