One wedding, three creations

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Last week we went to a wedding, my husband's niece was getting married.
To prove the well-known proverb "The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot" wrong, I decided to create a cocktail hat for myself (for once! :-D) to wear at the wedding. It gave me a chance to try my new hat block, a mini beret. I covered the base with a beautiful quilted dupioni silk and decorated with a spray of rumbling roses in purple. 

Floral cocktail hat

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Wedding corsages&buttonholes

Albeit a bit late, I would like to share some pictures of the roses buttonholes&corsages I have made for me and Alex to wear on the wedding day of our relatives last Sunday. The small rose buds are made in the Japanese technique and hand painted to match our outfits for the day

So the pinky-browny-cafe one was for me and the more conventional pink-and-green was for Alex. Here they are with our outfits (and us)

And I think they looked lovely))

Now when the work on previous orders has finished it is time to reveal the results and compare with the original prototype pictures. Although I must say the inspirational photo for violets has been changed to one of pansies during the process of creation. So here are the little pansies:

As for the peony, despite the fact that is was my very first silk flower hair pin the experiment was extremely successful and I am very pleased with the final result. See for yourselves: