I have made my first foray into kanzashi flower crafting! A kanzashi is a traditional hair piece, often floral, used in Japanese hairstyles. These days, the term can refer to folded fabric flowers. Here is a handy link to the tutorial that I used. Thanks, Crafty Angels! It’s great for starters like me. I’d start […]
I recently got into hair clip fever! I had a look at my massive stash of ribbons and decided to use them all for hair clips. I ordered a lot of alligator and straight hair clips and got to work. Currently it’s looking mostly blue, but I’ll buy more colours soon…
I own a lot of Gutermann seed beads and I needed to figure out a way of using them up so I could make space for Toho beads. At first, I wanted to make a blue morpho butterfly, but I didn’t own any black seed beads, so that’ll be a project for some other time. […]
Firstly, I would like to direct you to this blog post published on the Hobbycraft website. I came across this when the Hobbycraft Facebook page posted it and it showed up in my feed (so many links!) and I was determined to make it! I have quite the obsession with small hat and feather accessories, and have […]
Since the time I made my blue flower hairband, I’ve been wearing it whenever I can. But I realised that its colour scheme does not suit all occasions, so I decided to make an “evening-themed” hairband. The process is very much the same, but the colours chosen and the decoration methods were different. Firstly, I […]
