I've taken much advice & feedback from many of my friends & started to make hair accessories. Flower headbands & hair accessories are extremely popular right now & will be through the summer. Here is my first headband. It would look adorable with a black dress or black t-shirt. Look for more to come in bright, spring colors!
I love thrift shopping! I love rummaging around looking for that great bargain...that one of a kind that no one else has. Well, this was my find yesterday. A great Made in the U.S.A., yellow, antique piece that looks awesome on my craft table. A perfect holder for all my beautiful buttons!
I love shopping for buttons. I even have my mom shopping for me now! Came across some gems at the Mall of St. Paul, a huge location filled with over 50 antique vendors. Lucky for me, one of them just happens to specialize in buttons. :) Perfect for my felt brooches!
I'm creating new brooches...100% felt with a vintage button. I have felt in every color possible (it seems), so it's been a lot of fun making these new brooches. I will have them in my Etsy store soon...hopefully this weekend.
This was a recent custom order I did for my friend, Shannon. Her daughter's school colors are maroon & white & they wanted my brooches for teacher gifts this year. What a cute idea! Her order consisted of my regular fabric brooches and my new all felt brooches. It turned out to be a nice variation. Take a look!
p.s. I welcome custom orders of any kind, so feel free to contact me. :)
I was recently in my favorite store, Treadle Yarn Goods (again), on Grand Avenue in St. Paul & stumbled upon this beautiful, green trim. I've never bought trim before & had no idea what to do with it. Inspired by a couple other blogs that I follow, I created this sweater last night. I was going to a 40th birthday party/holiday party & thought this would be perfect. I bought the plain, black sweater at Target & just added all the embellishments myself. I really like the raw, frayed edges of the silk flowers. Just stitched them all right onto the sweater! Paired it with jeans. It was a hit! :)
This is a recent custom order I just finished. I thought it was SO cute that I had to share. I made these for a Hope College Alum. Hope College is a small college in Holland, MI. My customer wanted several brooches in the school colors of blue & orange for her alumni friends. I think they will make super cute X-mas gifts!
In my experimenting with different fabrics, I started using dupioni silk & just LOVE it. It's so great to work with & has such a rich texture. I thought this would be the fabric of choice for the holidays. It seems festive to me...especially when I start using other colors. I like the fact that the pearl button is very simple so it doesn't take away from the beautiful silk. I will be wearing one of these for the holidays!
I've replenished my Etsy Shop with some new items. This being one of my favorites as I just LOVE that button. Found it at a great vintage shop in St. Paul. Check out the new goodies!
Yes, it's true! I'm very happy to report that I just had my first wholesale order this last week! A store called Just For Ewe! picked up a few of my fabric flower brooches. Just For Ewe! is located in Columbus, GA at the Galleria Riverside...about two hours SW of Atlanta. I hope to get photos of the store, so will post those as soon as I get them. Now I need to get busy replenishing my inventory & restocking my Etsy Store!
