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Blooming

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flowers pink Is it Spring yet? I seem to be all mixed up in the studio this week. I’ve been busily enjoying making fancy flowers and trying to ignore the fact that it will soon be Fall. It doesn’t feel like Fall in South Texas with temperatures still in the high 90s; so perhaps that’s the problem.

I just learned to make these flowers and, as usually happens with new things, I’ve gotten a bit carried away. I’m using organza and tulle in various color combination to produce flower brooches and hair accessories. One of the store owners where I sell jewelry asked why I was “sewing” instead of making jewelry. Do you think that was a hint? I made her a couple of necklaces and think she is happy now.

flowers blue

I’ve been seeing flowers on all sorts of things in the magazine ads and one of the boutiques just got in a sweater with velvet flowers on it. A boiled wool jacket at the same store has chiffon flowers already attached to it.

I took a basket of these to the nursing home today to show Mother and could hardly get down the hall for people stopping to look at them. I hope these folks are around when I need to sell them! In the meantime, I’ll just keep blooming.

Color, Hair Adornments, sewing

Counting Flowers on the Wall

From 1966 on, you could hear the Statler Brothers singing these lyrics,

      “Counting Flowers on the wall, that don’t bother me at all

       Playing solitaire ‘til one with a deck of 51”

It seems that each time I’ve finished a ribbon or felt flower that song pops back up in my head. I’m beginning to dislike it!

I started making the ribbon flowers after the Renegade Craft Fair that was held several months ago in Austin. One of the vendors, the Stitch Lab, taught how to make ribbon flowers and attach them to headbands. I was hooked! These are great fun to make and I just keep making and making and making them. I have a slew of them on clips and headbands at Paper Bear in San Marcos, Texas and have given many away to friends.ribbon flowers Now I’m seeing flowers everywhere I go. I’m trying not to accost every little girl who walks by me with a flower in her hair, but it’s been fun to notice the many ways they can be attached to hair.

My daughter told me that felt flowers would be good for fall and I was off and running again. I’m amazed at the beautiful colors of felt that can be located and had fun creating numerous rosettes for the pins below on the left. The flowers on the right are flatter and I haven’t decided what they will be. The smaller ones may be added to ribbon to become bookmarks. Do you have suggestions? I’d also be interested in vending opportunities for these little beauties. Ideas?

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By the way, I wait until after I leave the house to put a flower in my own hair. The concern on my husband’s face about whether or not at my age I’ve really lost it is just too much to bear.

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Counting Flowers on the Wall . . .

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headbands

I can’t help thinking of this old Statler Brothers’ song when I look at the decorative headbands I just finished. There are days when I wish that visual stimuli would NOT make me think of a song, but, alas, that’s just how I’m wired. It’s just part of the musical chatter than runs through a musician’s mind.

     “Counting flowers on the wall, that don’t bother me at all,

      Playing solitaire till dawn, with a deck of fifty-one . . . “

Personally, if I’m going to stay up until dawn, I’d prefer making jewelry to playing solitaire, but “to each his/her own.”

Headbands seem to be quite the thing right now among women with few years on their faces. However, even my 89 year old mother wears a headband to hold back her beautiful gray hair. mamw The newer embellished headbands, however, are no longer just for functionality, but rather for adornment.

The initial three headbands pictured and one hair clip at the bottom of the photo are the start of my learning to decorate hair ornaments. I want to continue to make some of these with beads, dangly chain, etc. They are quick to make and fun to create. Now, I just wonder if I can get my mother to wear one that I’ve embellished. You never know; it seems to me that any woman who would get her picture taken with a flower in her mouth would surely wear a fancy headband!