WE are getting ready for Xmas. Sweewing and having fun!

We love craft and we love to wear nice things. Oh!! We had a lovely time in the Sunny Spain, gave us a boost of energy and we came back to London with new ideas and propositions in our little heads!!!

We have been lately amazed by fascinators and brooches so, why not having both of them at once? We are working in amazing brooches that can be fascinators or other way around.
We like quality and at the moment we are working with a gorgeous pieces of fabric to make those lovely fasbro, as we like to call our brooches fascinators. London has been sunny until recently and we still keep the bright rays of light with us so for this winter we propose Cheerful and Colourful fasbros to cheer up your  lovely coats and hair!!

What is our main inspiration: Happiness translated into bright colours and collage.

Hope you'll enjoy with them.

Here our first one.

As always, you can ask us to customize something specially for you or if you have something special poping out in your head and would like us to make it, just ask and we will quote it for you!

Lots of love!

Greeny fasbo

How did we do Isabel's fabric rose necklace?

Isabel's fabric rose necklace

If you do craft  is purely because you love to do it. You spend so long time doing everything!!! Why do I say this? Unfortunately I've notice in markets I've been doing recently people don't appreciate something done handmade... And that is a bit sad :-(
Some many of my craft colleagues with whom I've done some markets repeat the same thing:

"People don't appreciate what is handmade and with good quality, most of the people want to buy cheap and don't consider neither the quality, neither the creativity or time spent in making an item".

Unfortunately not everyone is like that but somehow is true that that is happening... What can we do to change that and make the beauty of the craft items get the value that really have? I do my bit, I share with you how Isabel's necklace is done. I spent nearly 6 hours doing it in between designing, choosing fabrics and making the pieces and sewing.


Here you have all the steps to make it:

First we need to cut strings of fabric, some pieces work.

We make a not at one extreme of the string and roll over it so that's how we make our fabric rose

And we make more roses of different sizes

Now we have to decide the shape we will give to our necklace

We cut a piece of jeans with the shape we chose and sew each rose over it

Sewing and sewing...

We have our roses in place! Now strings for the necklace

We take a 100% cotton old T-shirt and cut some strings

We make the knot

Adding the strings, knot and go

Isabel Necklace

And you were wondering how did we made that knot... Please check in HOW TO MAKE A KNOT

How do you make the knot?

The knot is really easy to make, here you have step by step how to make it! Enjoy!

Cut some strings from an old T-shirt 100% cotton (the oldest the better because strings roll over them easily)

With the string fold it once and make a ribbon shape. Fold over the other string and place it as a smile over the ribbon

Take the right extreme of the smile and place under the right extreme of the ribbon

Take the left extreme of the smile and place it under the loop of the ribbon

Take the right extreme of the smile and pass over the right side of the ribbon, under the left extreme of the smile and over the left side of the ribbon

Pull from the four extremes in opposite directions and you have your knot ready!!

We have use it for our necklace but you can do whatever your creativity will bring you to with this ribbon: headbands, bracelets, customization of clothes, handbags....

Black Leather Handmade Flower Brooch

Flower leather brooch

Oh!!! We were asked to do another leather flower brooch and this is what we did!!
Steps are the same we follow as the rose brooch but here you have some pics of how we did it.
A tip: The round edges are possible burning a bit the leather and of course, leather needs to be top quality!!
Petals glue with each other using PVA glue.
All you need is love, passion and time.

Please enjoy. If you have any question, please ask me!!

Love!!

Cutting out the leather

All parts are out already

Rolling and rolling

At the back

Nice even as ring

Some updates from our Traktor Collection

Just a taster... 

It's nearly done...

Do you want to contact me??

Please drop me a line at

DORADO

I'll be very happy to read your message and answer you back. I'm always reading my messages and I answer within a day so if you want to get any earrings or you want to ask me for a specific set of earrings specially designed for you or you just feel like writing me, then here you have my FACEBOOK PAGE!

Traktor Collection on its way

We got another new design... Cooking already in the kitchen.... We have to wait until tomorrow to see it but here you have an advance of it!!

Enjoyyyy!

1. First we have to draw the idea

2. We now pass it into hard paper

3. Cutting.....

4. Choosing the leather

5. Looking at other leather

6. Passing into leather

7. Doing the wheels

8. More wheels doing

9. "Otto taktor" as my son says

10. Choosing the other bits

11. Wheels already mounted

WE ARE SELLING IN YOKABOO

Finally we made it!! Yes!! We are selling our earrings in Yokaboo!!! Hurry!! Items are a limited edition!!!!!!

OUR SHOP IN YOKABOO, COME AND HAVE A LOOK

Run, run from COCO COLLECTION

Here is another one for COCO COLLECTION.
All the cars have a dialogue at the back. RUN, RUN's is : "Hurry up- We haven't got all week!" "Hm! I think....."

Front

Back

Another exclusive pair of Earrings!!!

Boom Boom Boooooo!!!

The starts have been shining lately quite hard and we have been just dreaming of the Sidereal Space......

1. Make design and cut it out

2. Choose leather and cut, cut, cut

3. Bit of fabric to give it some pattern

4. Stick our phrase "Come back, boy!"

5. Ready to flyyyyyyyy!

COCO

Spring is coming, the sun is up and flowers start to burst all over!!! I've been traveling a bit lately and went back to live to Italy for a month with my little one. He loves, cars and all what it moves around so my new "Coco Collection" is inspired in the passion my little one has for cars ("coco" for him). My earrings are available at markets all around London or if you are far away, write me a line and I can post to you. Easy payments by Paypal, easy transactions!!! All the earrings are unique, and each of them is exclusive absolutely hand-made!! This time I'll show you how the process of earring-making goes!! Big Love!

BLACK IS BLACK COLLECTION

These earrings are fantastic, no weight at all!!! Made out of superb quality black leather, silver plated chain and in some of them also some colorful real turquoise.

Good for any occasion.

I love these ones. Just tide up your hair in a pony tail and let them embrace your face. They are not trendy but supertrendy!!!

I'm a fan

This pair is exquisite, both have a different design, which makes them even more unique!!! Size is just perfect to captive all the attention in your face!!! I love them so much!!!

I'm different and I like it

Asian turquoise were added to give a bit of color to this lovely pair of earrings. They are trendy and easy to wear for a night out or for the office. Extremely versatile!!!!

Twinkling  little turquoise

They really rock you: Some leather strings and some chains.... Just to look absolutely fab with some smokey eyes for a night out???? You won't need anything else. Or rock them with a cool pair of sunglasses during the day. A really catcher, girls will compliment you for them and will love to know where did you get them from, believe me.

Wanna rock with you

I love this pair of earrings. They remind me a little flower hidden by leaves. The lovely little stone is a wonderful pinkish Asian Turquoise. A lovely pair of earrings for a easy day. They will be the finished touch of your outfit.

Hidden behind the leaf