I'm have bloggers block today.

Here's some photos of what the last few days have consisited of.

Making things:


Getting my hair highlighted - very attractive...


Making fascinators for a client in Texas


Entertaining 5 year olds after school


I've also been taking more fascinator orders and answering queries about designs and I'm really happy to have an order for a wedding in Scotland that will be using the Flower of Scotland Tartan design to match the male's kilts. That will be great fun to make.

I have to take the cat for his booster injections tomorrow. That will be fun! I think I need to get out more!

N x

Nitty Gritty!

Uh-Oh... P got a letter back from school saying that someone in her class had nits... We've been stealthily trying to find out who it is, but with no luck. Anyway, I've been out and stocked up on nit repellant shampoo and nit combs and I'm convinced no nit is coming anywhere near our heads. Although, at the mention of nits, I always get an itchy head. It's psychological, but I have imaginary nits now.

P is off next week on half term and I've booked her into High School Musical and cheerleading dance classes with her friend Jodie. That should be fun for them. All the kids love a bit of HSM! They argue over who's going to be Gabriella (the main female lead if you're not into HSM), and my friend told me she found her 5 year old daughter kissing her mirror the other day saying she was kissing Troy (the male lead). Maybe the government's proposal that came out today to teach 4 and 5 year olds basic relationship education is a good idea!!


On a crafty note, I have been featured in a blog by HerePrettyKitty. She wrote about my Viktoria fascinator which was lovely. I really appreciate it when people like my work enough to talk about it.

I posted my crystal hairpin to California yesterday and because the client had to wait over the weekend due to the wedding I put some crystal earrings in for her too as a thank you. I hope she likes them. (bad photos, I need a new camera I think...)


I have an order off my friend Anna for a Rachael Fascinator which I'll make tomorrow. She's off to a wedding in a great royal purple, black and white top so we're tying in those colours to accessorise.

My friend Jo just had a baby so I have to make him a new baby card and get him a present tomorrow too as we're off to see them on saturday. His name is Patrick (her maiden name), how cool is that!?

My sister is having a great time on her honeymoon in the Maldives, lucky thing. It's hot and beautiful, unlike here which is wet and windy!

I'd better write myself a list before I forget what I need to do!

N x

Oooh Lots!

I have lots to tell you!

We went out to Frankie & Benny's for my birthday dinner. It was lovely. I had a cake at the end and the lights went down and they sang Cliff Richard's 'Congratulations'. It is hysterical. I got balloons too! The cake lasted approximately 3 and a half minutes...


I've finished off R's tiara... I am SO pleased with it. It's the most intricate thing I've done and it's turned out just perfect. She's thrilled with it and we've all had our hair trials this week for the wedding so it was so great to see it in her hair. I'm so pleased that my little sister will be wearing something that I've made especially for her on her big day. It really means a lot to me that she wanted me to make it and that she likes it enough to wear it.

I've included crystal and diamanté butterflies as this ties in with her theme, and the pearl and crystal flowers just look amazing. The best thing was that I really enjoyed making it. I am always a bit nervous when I make things for people close to me. I worry that if they don't like it they won't speak up so I can put it right and end up with something that they're not quite happy with, but I know R and she would DEFINITELY tell me if it wasn't right, so it must be! I will post a pic when I take a good one!

I've had lots of enquiries this week from Etsy which have all turned into orders which is brilliant! My fascinators seem to be a hit in the US and the majority of my business is there at the moment which is so cool! I love America. Rob's gone over to Florida for 3 weeks and we were joking that it would have been brilliant if he could have taken over the fascinator I'm making at the moment for a lady over there. Personally delivered by a 6ft 2 english man. That really would have been so cool!



I've been hand rolling sinamay leaves today for that fascinator, the pic shows them half done. It's a killer. First I cut out the leaf shape, then i spray the edges with water, roll the sides in then hold them tight whilst blasting them with the hairdryer. The sinamay I buy is stiffened which means it's been soaked in a solution of basically watered down PVA glue then dried. When you re-wet it, form it then dry it again, the glue softens then resets into the position you've moulded it into, hence how you get the edges of the leaves rolled so neatly. It takes ages and makes my fingers feel funny after a while but it's a really professional effect which I love.

I sent a gorgous crystal haircomb to a lovely lady in Atlanta, Georgia yesterday. I was in love with it! It just looks SO sparkly and she can wear it either as a tiara or push it into her up-doo and you just see 4 rows of the sparkle. I might have to make one for myself I love it that much! There's nearly 100 Swarovski crystals in this...


I wanted to get JoJo's hair pins done this weekend as she's back home but unfortunately the suppliers were out of stock so I can't get them until monday. She'll have to wait and get a lovely present in the post instead!

Spent the rest of the week playing on our new Wii that Kris bought for P the other day! She's scarily good...

N x