By Delfi
@ Pimp My Strides.

Ok, so I know I'm a bit late in doing this post, but as a wise man once said 'better late than never.'

On Sunday 3rd Sept, Aaryn and I went to the Autumn Fair at the Birmingham NEC and boy wasn't that fun!!!

We started the day at 5:30am by getting up and dragging our weary bodies to the local train station. By 7:50am we were wending our way to the fun and frivolity that is the Autumn Fair.

We had decided not to stay the night in Birmingham, which gave us 5 scant hours to look around and decide what goodies we would be offering to our lovely customers in the run up to Christmas. There were 6 Halls in total, but when they say 'hall', they actually mean something the size of a small county.

We started off in Hall 1 (which seemed like a good idea at the time), but soon discovered that although it was packed with many great and wonderful items, they were not what we were looking for. Unfortunately we did not decide this until 2 hours after we'd first entered. We decided that we must be frugal with our remaining 3 hours, so we went for a cup of tea!

We then decided to scrap our initial plan of doing the Halls in numerical order and so went straight to Hall 5, which offered the promise of Gifts & Designer Led items. Our minds boggled as rows, upon rows of sparkly shiny jewellery and other accessories threatened to blind us with their brilliance.

We spoke to many wonderful people who enticed us into their particular corner and soon lost track of the time. Aaryn then noticed we had only 45mins left until we needed to be on the coach back to the train station, so the race was on. Dashing from stall to stall like women possessed, we rushed through the rows, pausing only to grab brochures and business cards from those whose items had really caught our eye.

Finally our time at the Autumn Fair was at an end and we trudged wearily to the coaches waiting for us. Tired, feet ablaze and yet buzzing with ideas we waited in line and started a conversation with a random lady who was waiting with us. 'Are you coming to the Spring Fair?' She asked. 'We don't know.' We replied. 'Oh, you should!!!' She said 'It's at least 3 times as big as this one.' At that point I may have started crying...I can't really remember.

But for all our pain and suffering has come the most wonderful items which we will be bringing to you shortly. We will be introducing a new range of accessories such as bag & mobile phone charms to 'charm' even the most discerning customer and some super-snazzy & uber-chic jewellery to really 'Pimp' up your wardrobe.