Kanzashi

Spring flowers!

I wanted to know how to make fabric flowers with no raw edges or close to it.

At first, I found nothing I really liked. Just felt flowers and rolled roses, but not really what I had in my mind.

Then I found Kanzashi.

The Japanese hair ornament, which is adorned in beautifully folded leaves and petals made of perfectly coordinated colored fabrics. There are rounded petals, pointed petals, delicate leaves and all hand fastened to a comb.

I found two photo tutorials:

Kurokami-kanzashi. deviantart.com

mookychick.com.

I grabbed some extra fabirc I had sitting around, and quickly folded and stitched.

I did not iron the fabric, like I should have and just quickly folded without properly pressing and cutting. However, I still like the way they came out and Just Think how nice yours will look when you do iron, cut and fold perfectly!!

My results so far.

I chose different fabrics just to get a feel for the folding . Terry cloth, felt, a soft cotton, and a shear eyelet fabric. The green leaves are fuzzy.

My favorite is the terry cloth flower. It's blue and all the way to the right. It makes me think of a cartoon. I made one with a stem, butI don't seem to have a picture of it. Well, I used a yellow flower pictured above and added the stem that fits a pen inside and it's got a leaf.

Super springfest over here!

Have fun

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I dig a pony

Everyday at the end of our street, the sun slowly disappears over this fence.

And it's vast pink hues hang behind these trees, in this yard.

Sometimes, if you're feeling lucky,

this sweet faced, miniature pony will trot over and smile for you.

I dig a pony, especially one as cute as this .

have fun!

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Gifts from the mail

It is sew exciting to receive things through the post .

Even more exciting getting something you can make for some lovely little lady!

This vintage wrap dress was sent to me by my lovely sister Summer,

you can see her here

www.allonasummersday.blogspot.com !

And from this fabulous peach dream of a dress I added an airy lining which doubles as a reversible dress with some fancy minty lace! I wish super much that it would have been closer to my size, but I know a young lady that will look just dashing in it!!

Sew, here it is, the soon to be mailed, along with some goodies from our past, this lovely little dress.

Don't you just love it, I do! Romance and fun all tied in to one!!

I hope Miss H enjoys it. I'm sure she will!

Have fun!

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Birthday well spent

The face of 28, well my face at 28!!

This was me the morning of my 28th birthday, January 5th,

And this, this beautiful item, is our new coffee maker. Gifted to us from my boss and his family.

We love it!

Instantly makes coffee, steams, and cleans it's self. It's space age coffee technology.

After indeluging in our coffee maker, we took Vena to the movies to see Avatar.

This is her in the theatre wearing her glasses. She had a lot of fun.

She said, " they sure make movies different these days!"

Vena in her Roy Orbison styling!

We ended our Birthday extravaganza with a silly photo shoot filled with laughing, everyone wearing ear muffs and soft kisses!

Soon to come:

Gifts from the mail,

What I got and what I did with it!!

Until then remember

Birthdays are fun!!

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