Webcam update: Freelancing breakthrough for London fashion grad Lucy Nicholls

LONDON – Things are looking up for Lucy Nicholls.

The 22-year-old fashion graduate has landed a freelance job in set design for a new London jewelry boutique, which found Lucy through her blog.

The last few weeks have been a bit of a rollercoaster ride for the 22-year-old. The last time we met her, she was reeling from the blow of learning that the company she’d hired to print her graduation project, Wish Magazine, went bust — leaving her in a >2,000 ($3,100) hole.

She went on a frantic scramble for one-off jobs to help her make ends meet, picking up a couple of photography gigs but nothing to ease the sense of being flat broke.

“Before this I was really struggling,” she says.

Now life looks brighter. She managed to get her magazine printed and is shipping copies out.

And with her new work, she’s breathing a sigh of relief “knowing I’ll somehow be able to live.”

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