Colour Page

For college to create our final dresses I have to create a colour page using relevant images to our theme and to choose a number of colours that I want to use for my final piece.  

So this is the page that I have Created so far: 

These probably wont be the final colour page as I ted to change my mind a lot with these kind of things.

Thanks for reading! What do you think of my colour page?

Jenny xxx

Kanzashi Flowers

Kanzashi Flowers are the hair ornaments that used in traditional Japanese hairstyles, I've already said in a previous post how I got to Geisha's Hair pieces in mu sketch book thread here.

I found that they have seasonal kanzashi flowers and different types of kanzashi such as the Bira-bira, Kogai, Kanoko Dome, Tsumami Kanzashi.

I had a go at making Tsumami Kanzashi which literally means 'folded fabric hair ornament'. Tsumami kanzashi are made from mall squares of silk which are folded into petals using origami techniques. These flowers can have anywhere from 5 to 75 petals, for these I only used 5 petals, I also used different fabrics for each flower to see which fabric works best, out of the fabrics I tried the Georgette worked best, I found that chiffon was way too light to hold its shape well and the lace I used was too rough and stiff.

The kanzashi that I made would be most likely be worn in April, these include soft pink cherry blossom (sakura) usually mixed with butterflies and bonbori lanterns, signalling the approach of summer.

Thanks for reading! What do you think about my Kanzashi flowers??

Jenny xxx

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue...

I thought I would do a valentine's themed post today as its valentine's day,  Secret life of a bio nerd has just posted a tutorial on how to make nylon flowers. There a great alternative to real flowers if like me you have hayfever, they look just as beautiful and last all year round.

I first saw my mums friends making these for a Thai restaurant when I was little and I've wanted to make these for years now but I've never had the supplies to make them, but I have finally found some floral tape and as soon as I can find my tights and some cheap dye I am going to make these asap!!

The women at the restaurant always used to make beautiful bouquets of Lilly's or orchids but I really want to make some pink roses!

Thanks for reading I hope you all had a great valentine's day!!

What did you do for valentines day??

What do you guys think of my new blog header?? I can't decide weather or not I like it, I'm quite tempted to change it again!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Jenny xxx