I help your hands create something beautiful
I know you maybe thinking, why should I even contemplate thinking about purchasing Festive Girl Pink especially in this weather, but I would say to you dear friend, why not? Things will pick up, at the moment with the current situation of going into autumn, the world is locking down, jobs are being lost, sometimes we need a little bit of colour to come into our lives to give us hope that the world and everything is going to change. x
How to wear Festive Girl Pink?
I created this flower crown while sitting at my stall in Greenwich Market, I knew flowers had come to the forefront in fashion with all types of flowers growns seemed to be emerging. As I was researching through Pinterest and other stalls, Etsy and Amazon I came across the plastic flowers, (which I had purchased), just working with the plastic didn’t feel right, the texture of the plastic through my hands and trying to incorporate that into a flower crown wasn’t working for me. I decided to stick with what I know and that is making fabric flowers and adding embellishment through buttons and making it simple as possible for the wearer to feel comfortable.
https://folksy.com/items/7489861-Festive-Girl-Pink-Festival-Wedding-
So you have decided you want to wear The Leaf Miner, but where and with what colours?
So you have finally plucked up the courage to get a ticket to the gala, charity event or decided that you want to go to the theatre, (these are all suggestions to give you ideas of where to go) and of course my dear reader you will have many ideas and options of where you want to wear this fascinator, …….. you may even be wearing it at home while doing the cleaning.
Sometimes when I am even bold enough I would be wearing it shopping, to give me the added encouragement and reminder that I am a beautiful woman and I need to remind myself to be beautiful in my choice of clothes.
I would suggest either wearing a green, gold, black or navy blue dress either whole block or alternatively you could wear a blouse with a skirt, some skirt suggestions could be a pencil or circular shape in either of the colours mentioned to work out the right combination for the fascinator. If you are wearing an open neck satin shirt you may want the extra boldness of wearing a silk, satin or chiffon scarf to complement the outfit, and then there are the shoes to wear and the tights.
https://folksy.com/items/7513297-Leaf-Miner-Wedding-Proms-Fringe-Festival-Horse-Race-Fashion
There are many events to wear The Charleston at, when you do know that you will be looking fab! x
I created The Charleston, because I had bought some feathers to create other fascinators with and wanted to make something a little bit quirky and smaller. As a designer maker specialising in embroidery and all things textile base, I have seemed to have collected many fun items to work with over the years and I found ribbon knit, (I cannot remember the technical name, or even if there is one) that is purple, but it has been dyed with multi colours, so some of the ribbon knit is green then fades into pink and then into purple. I then realised that I needed some form of buttons to top the design off and with the buttons I have been collecting I was able to find some buttons from the ever growing stash to sew into the hairband.
Leaf Miner and Leaf Miner Feather are both listen on Folksy, but why call this fascinator Leaf Miner Feather, for one simple reason, I have attached feathers between the green and gold petals. The feathers bring the fascinator into another dimension with more life and movement flowing through it.
During lockdown I was craving to see my sister, as I hadn’t seen her for six months, sometimes I can go longer and not see her for eight months. I was in a relationship and unfortunately we broke up a few weeks before while we were in lockdown and it would have been nice to have spent some of my birthday with him, but then I wouldn’t of had the same opportunity to be shown around Madeleine’s garden. I was looking intently at the leafs and absorbing the colour combinations against an intense heat radiating from out sun, that day was a hot sunny day temperatures in the early 30’s, (which I am not always great in), and then I was captivated by a certain leaf, which my sister plucked from the branch of the bush. The leaf had a strange pattern on it, a squirly line around the leaf, the line that was evident to the naked eye was cream or gold in the sunlight and depending on how far I positioned the leaf away from the camera. This picture inserted is the last picture I took, you can see the leaf is quite dark green against the gold/cream line that has been left from the leaf miner. To gardener’s they are a pest, but to the trained eye of a designer it is beauty with possible creative ideas to be shown to the world in a new medium.
