Handmade Wedding Tiara

Last year I started a Wedding Collection. Since then, I have slowly but surely been adding to it with mostly tiaras and headbands. My latest wedding tiara is, by far, my favorite piece in this collection.

Introducing, the Snow Fairy tiara...

The design all stemmed from the carved mother of pearl centerpiece. It made me think of snow and flowers and thorns. The pearls in the piece represent snowflakes, and the copper represents vines and thorns surrounding the flower, and the heart under the flower represents love.

This tiara is customizable in other colors and would look lovely with an up do. My wedding designs are created to add to your dress but not take away. The dress is everything. My pieces just reflect and add to the beauty of the dress and you.

You can find the Snow Fairy tiara in my shop.

Let me know what you think or how I can improve the design.

Oversleeping, Love is in the Air, and Fairies

Oops. I overslept this morning. Dang it. Of all the mornings, I oversleep on the day I have to meet with K's teacher. You see, K is not paying attention in class or reading directions. Basically, she is just skirting by on the natural smarts that God gave her.

When I finally woke up this morning, I found that my Art Deco Love Cuff had been chosing as today's Art of the Day over on EBSQ. Their theme this week is love is in the air since Valentine's is tomorrow. Plus, my little cuff can be made into an Ecard. How fantastic is that?!

I started making my wedding tiaras again in case you know anyone getting married. I love making these tiaras. I got to see the pics of my last custom tiara on the bride recently, and they were phenomenal. I have several in the planning stage including a couple of combs. This one is called the Fairy Princess Tiara. It's inspired by fairies, mermaids, and all things fantasy. I love the look of the copper with the peacock and champagne colored pearls. It can be found in my Etsy shop.

Blue Monday

I'm not really blue except for the fact that it's Monday. Even as a stay at home mom, I dread Monday's for some reason.

How was your weekend, my duckies?

Mine was less event filled than past weekends. I did end up going to the auction that I love. I truly meant to bring my camera so I could take pics of the place, but it wasn't a good week for that as it wasn't filled to capacity with gobs of stuff. Plus, I forgot my camera. I did walk away with a couple of deals though. K and I both got two still with tags Kenneth Cole jackets for $3 a piece. I also got a great bentwood rocker with no broken cane free. Actually, I paid a dollar for it, but some guy wanted a desk out of the lot I bought so he gave me a dollar. I also found this amazing never been used faucet that I picked up for $27. That's a lot you say? Nope. It's a big one with a pullout sprayer built in to the faucet and everything. I looked them up online and one like the one I got is about $200. Steve got some stuff too but nothing worth talking about.

Sunday I spent looking for things to improve my pictures. Always improving. Actually, some of you know my trials and tribulations with my pics. It's a never ending circle of love and hate. I think my magazine article exasperated the situation. Plus, I'm trying to redo myself for the new year so why not my pics? Onward and upward. Always improving. So I like to think.

I got to thinking this weekend that we have not done a blog slumber party in oh, so long. We should do another one of those.

Well, duckies, on that note I bid you a fond farewell until tomorrow. I hope your Monday is not blue but bright and sunny. Oh, forgot to mention those earrings in the pic are my latest pair, Rasberry Smoothie Earrings, and not with my new and improved pics.

My Childhood Dream

We still have hot water in case you were wondering.

Hooray! Finally, I have finished a challenge on time and maybe even slightly early.
I had a little help from Jenn coming up with this week's challenge idea. It was to create something inspired by what you wanted to be when you grew up. Well, I always wanted to be a fashion designer. Yes, it's true. I had sketchbooks upon sketchbooks of designs. I still, to this day, create clothing designs. I suppose, in a way, I have become what I wanted to be. That's actually kind of fun to think about. Anyway, I designed the hairpiece you see in the picture for the challenge. I figured fashion designers create fashion and trends so why not create a designer piece?! With a bride in mind, I created copper swirls that will frame an upswept hairstyle or, when the swirls are worn down, will be lovely with a longer hairstyle. I added gold freshwater pearls along the center swirls and across the top of the piece. Surprisingly, it turned out just the way I wanted. I have plans to create matching earrings and perhaps a matching necklace. Because I used pearls, I can even take custom orders. This will be found in my shop later today.

Be here tomorrow because I will finally be revealing my 10 little known facts as I was tagged by both Jenn and Gillian. Does that mean I should do 20 facts? Also, as it is 1 week until my first anniversary at Etsy, I will be offering 25% off to anyone who mentions anniversary when checking out. Plus, if you are my 100th sale, I will send you a surprise gift. I'm hoping to make it to 100 sales by my anniversary.