New Treasuries

Today has been quite a fruitful day full of new Etsy treasuries featuring our flowers. The focus has been on our poppy brooches in CUTE POPPIES, hand painted butterflies in BLUE TO GOLD, BIRDS TO BUTTERFLIES and a sweet blue cornflower corsage in CORNFLOWER - MY EVER FAVOURITE

It is always very nice to see your creations being appreciated and picked by other people for their treasuries. Thank you, guys! :-)

How to approach commercial art and craft galleries

Here is a useful article giving you top 10 tips for approaching commercial art and craft galleries by Katy Cowan, Creative Boom online magazine.

Poppy field

Here is another Treasury on Etsy featuring a red poppy hair clip this time. To view the whole FIELD OF RED POPPIES Treasury, please click here

Butterfly morning

Good morning to everyone! What type of morning is it for you? Well, for some it is a Butterfly type of a morning ☺ And our hand painted silk butterflies have been featured again, now in this turqouise treasury full of these fascinating creatures!
Have a peek at my other butterflies here

LB Fascinator

Here is another headband, or rather a little fascinator to compliment an LBD, or in fact any cocktail dress. It might look gothic at first but beads and lace add a lot of femininity to it let alone fragile peacock feather antennae! ☺

Had to model myself this time as nobody else was available

A bridal treasury featuring the white orchid

Our feathers and beads orchid has been featured in SUMPTUOUS Treasury on Etsy!

First ever Craft Fair to take part

Craft Fairs season was officially opened last Saturday when we took part in our first ever Craft Fair in a small village of Methwold, Norfolk. Having read a number of articles in both English and Russian on how to prepare oneself for the first fair I can say that we have done a very good job! The Fair took place in the Village Hall which turned out to be a pleasant and well-lit building. Tables were laid out in a circle letting potential craft hunters flow freely around the Hall making several rounds. Here is the picture of our display:

We also used a laptop slide show to demonstrate stages of flower making process and more flowers.
I have to admit that despite a decent footfall the public was not ready for hand made from scratch and hand painted silk flowers. We did give out some business cards, but people who stopped and got interested in the silk flowers were mainly thinking weddings and occasions. It is a pity because most of my creations were perfect for everyday wear and one does not need a special occasion or a wedding invitation to wear a silk flower brooch. I guess a lot of work needs to be done to make people see silk flowers as a very nice and stylish, extremely feminine accessory, be it a brooch, a hair clip or a headband

Sweet peas

Today I would like you to meet probably the most iconic flower of  the English cottage garden: the sweet peas. They come in endless shades of  pink, red, violet, purple, in fact any shade between white and chocolate brown.

Sweet peas corsage is made of 3 types fabric (100% pure silk) and mounted on a brooch base.

Friends&flowers

Woo hoo! This week I  have got my first picture of a model wearing one of my creations and they both look lovely! Now you have a look:

Model: Yana Zile
Accessories: Scarlet poppy hair clip by PresentPerfect Creations