Meeting in Fashion

We have been meeting with the girls every week to keep on top of things, the dress we are making for Claire (fexinol moving the petals) is taking allot more time. The idea hasn't been done before and is very problematic. Its also costing allot of money, Myles has spent £200 on Arduinos and cables etc. and ive spent near £200 on Flexinol wire. Clare is also finding it difficult to fund the amount of material which is needed to make the dress. This is leaving us in a bit of a dilemma as the dress needs to be complete by May. We recently decided the only option we have is to look to get funding from the University, In the process to doing this we had a meeting with George Savva from www.ittakes7seconds.com (more information can be  found here) who had recently sat in on a presentation Clare was participating in. He seems like a very genuine guy who has heaps of knowledge on how to get funding and build the idea into what it should be, a commercial benefactor for the University of Wales Newport. He gave us advice such as


Confidence in your idea is key
work in percentages
Ask for more money than you need, gives you space to make mistakes
(I will hand in the sheet with further details on it)


But overall he seems a very good link to have and is some one we will be dealing with in the future.