This is what romance looks like… husbands take note

These flowers are a special gift for a lovely wife. A nice man from the US asked me to make them for her. That’s just nice in itself, but wait there’s more…

Every year for their anniversary this nice man gets his wife flowers made from the old traditional anniversary guide. So this means he has had made (or made himself) flowers from: paper, cotton, leather, linen, wood, iron, copper, bronze, pottery, tin, steel, silk and now lace.

I’m dying to see flowers made from rubies and sapphires and of course gold and diamonds! Perhaps that’s a few years down the track though.

I am told that the ladies she works with look forward to her anniversary more than their own!

 

So my husband has been told to take note. This is romance… saying ‘oh, did you want me to get you something?’ on the actual day of the anniversary isn’t. :)

If you want to make the flowers, you can use this tutorial

And the vase is also lace that I wrapped around a jar and coated several times with modge podge so it would stand up alone. If you do this remember to wrap cling film around the jar first… otherwise your attempts to remove it when dry wont end happily :) (yes I found that out the hard way)

So now that you’ve had a little romance, I hope you have a little smile too!

On the jewellery side of things

Still catching up so I thought I’d show you some of the ideas I’ve had for jewellery lately:

These are two I really want to make, especially the green one.

And here’s one I prepared earlier as they say. It features a moonstone, rubilite and garnet. 

  It was for my cousins' 21st birthday present, but there was a small hitch in that it was too small. So back to the drawing board to make another one… 

 

Pretty Packages

What's in them?

Maybe there's one of these...





which will be worn with these...



And then there could be 3 of these...





which will be worn with these...



I'm hoping they will look stunning (but not so stunning as the bride) on the big day!

p.s Thanks to everyone who suggested a way to deal with my little 'issue' (sorry Scott). I will be plucking up my courage one of these days!

Pretty as a Princess

I was asked to make something rather special recently.



This brooch is for a lovely lady who's husband calls her 'Princess', how sweet is that. She asked me to design and make a sterling silver brooch in the shape of a tiara. So this was what I came up with!





That's an amethyst in the center.







It's completely sterling silver, even the safety chain and pin.

She also ordered this jewellery tree... and look at the inscription she asked for ! :)









If you can't read the last one, it says 'The Family Jewels' he he he... I have a 5 year old boy's sense of humor!

Well I really hope she enjoys them, I'm especially nervous about the brooch because it signifies such an important bond! I hope it lives up to it!

I am available for custom work any time, just shoot me an email!