High street dreams are made of this....

Sooooo have any of you crazy lot been watching High Street Dreams on BBC1 9pm Mondays?? Bit of a rubbish name I reckon  but there is a reason Im asking .

You see a few weeks before last christmas we received the email that was doing the rounds asking creatives if they wanted to apply to be on this new show with Jo Malone......so being the shrinking violets that we are we did..... we only then went and got offered an audition a few days later. So off we drove to a hotel in Manchester and sat and waited along with lots of other lovely creative people all clutching our wares......it was a bit like XFactor with props. We eventually were called into a room and had to stand on an infinity wall and look into a big studio camera...we were then asked some questions about our business by 2 lovely young men and then we had to pitch to Jo why we needed her help......I immediately resorted to blackmail and offered her a free bag if we went through.

Well it seemed to work as we got to the semi finals if you like....the last 15 in our category (which by the way fell under giftware....oh dear)...we were assured that we had all beat thousands of businesses and had done amazingly well.....we only went along in the hope there would be free cake. We then had to go to Kent and stay over....we were going to spend the day in a studio.....a real proper one!!!

We were picked up in a car early in the morning...and taken to the studio along with a guy who made lovely clocks, a family who invented a chic bag to carry dog poo in (obviously for when you were walking your dog) and a lady who made quirky shelves that looked like hands.......it was very random!

There was lots of waiting around....we were shown the studio which looked like the weakest link, we all had plinths to put our products on and the idea was we would stand in a line behind our plinth...then Jo and Nick would come and speak to us one by one...the aim being to convince them to choose our business to work with for 3 months and get us ready to pitch to a high street retailer.

Being filmed was great fun....we loved the whole experience.....the staff were lovely, the other creatives were all lovely, Jo and Nick were extremely lovely.and gave us some amazing feedback and tips......one big inspirational and extremely insightful day.

Did we get picked....well watch next Monday at 9pm to find out......if we didnt we will pop up at some point near the start..........hopefully not trying to bribe Jo with a handbag.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv-entertainment/tv/todays-tv/2010/05/10/high-street-dreams-bbc1-9pm-115875-22246698/