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

The Brooch

Et voilà

It was a long time already that we wanted to make a brooch with our roses.  A brooch that can be used in many different ways, for instance you can attach it to a headband and have a lovely detail in your hair.. What do you think?

Here you have our steps of how we did it:

Getting a bit of inspiration

Shaping the inspiration

How to assemble it

Brooch done

Hand sewed

Our soaps

As I promise, here you have our soaps.

I heard and it's true, absolutely agree with it.. "Don't put in your skin what you wouldn't eat", so following that mantra we do our soaps with organic ingredients and because we believe everyone has the right to live with dignity, we use only fair trade products.
So what are they made from?
This funny lovely soaps are our happy sweet orange and goat milk... They moisture your skin and leave a sweet scent of orange... Love them so so much... Soap has a 3 layers design and the best.. That color is all natural!! Spices... I'll say to you the trick in another post....
Plus kids find them cool so love to wash up hands and body with them!!!!

Happy orange soap

This one is such a luxury.. Feels so good in the skin!!! Oat Jazmin crazynest with a pinch of cinnamon surrounded by goat milk.

Jazmin crazynest soap

 And finally but not last, our Cinnamon and Oat Goat Milk soap.

Cinnamon Oat goat milk soap

Look at me

Feel me

What about some Earrings?

Of course!!! Here you have some fabric earrings. Absolutely stunning and so so light you barely will feel you wear them, only people pointing at them and saying how beautiful there are will remind you about wearing them!!

Rosa Earrings just for you!

Let me show you them better

Loving them

Blogs we like

Here you have a selection of blogs that we like. Sure you'll like them too!

1. +Vicki Mote Bodwell created this blog http://www.kidsbeddingblog.com/:

"My quest is to show moms how a creative life is simply better! My company, the Warm Biscuit Bedding Co. celebrates the handmade, handcrafted and custom made".

2. +Laura Walcot and her blog http://www.tapestryface.com/:

"I'm obsessively creating things for an imaginary world in my head. At the moment i live a daydream existance with my daughter. Pretending im a lady of leisure on a private income instead of the velour tracksuit clad, macdonalds going, single mum im supposed to be! oh and i have another one due anytime now, so i will have to find a box to squeeze him into while we live in this tiny shoebox flat....Until then its painted rainbows, giant stuffed animals and extravagant masks all the way....... please, no one wake me up".

3. +Candy Soap. Great handmade soaps made in London: http://naturalcandysoap.blogspot.com.es/ 

4. +Nickedshirts and his blog: http://www.nickedtshirts.co.uk/artworks

"The Nicked philosophy aims to make a difference by delivering individual, quality designs
that are hand screen printed and use only 100% organic cotton which helps to maintain
the brands environmental concious approach to quality art and design.

Nicked aims to spur its customers to have dignity and stand up for their individual rights".

5. +Nítdia created this great blog about recycling. Awesome ideas! http://compartetusecoideas.blogspot.com.es/search/label/Juguetes

6. +Christina Clouse is the owner of this so beautiful blog: http://coffee-girl-crafts.blogspot.com.es/

And more and more blogs.... We'll keep sharing with you our discoveries!!

x

Coming soon....

Here you have a little taster of what is coming soon by DORADO.....

Soon with you

Just few days away.... x

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DO YOU LIKE ISABEL NECKLACE? WHERE TO GET IT

If you liked Isabel Necklace and was wondering where could you get it.. Don't look more!

I made them upon request so,yes, exclusive for you! Just contact me in any of those places and after clear payment I'll send you the necklace.
How much does it cost? Only £30 P&P included. Payment by Paypal, the easiest way to do transactions online and Please allow 15 days to get it after payment if you live outside UK.

Love,

DORADO

Isabel Necklace

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....

Leather Free Collection 2013

2013. New year new collection new approach for DORADO. We have been asked to do some leather free items because there are lots of you guys that prefer to use other materials rather than leather. We love to hear what you have to say to us, to suggest and this is what we have done!!!

Isabel Necklace

Only fabric and love, lots of love!

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

DAY OFF

Today DORADO has a day off, after some crazy weeks working hard doing all of those markets, we well deserved a Sunday off!!! Day to enjoy the Xmas Spirit of London!!!

Merry Xmas to all of you my dear friends!!

A deserved party time with Vida

xx

ETSY UPDATES

We have update our shop in Etsy. If you are trying to find that special Xmas present, please check it out!!

Merry Xmas!!!

With Love.

THIS SUNDAY DORADO WILL BE AT HACKNEY WICK

DORADO will be rocking this Sunday at HACKNEY CUT a new venue in trendy Hackney Wick.

We will have a bit of everything: Nice crafty designs, music, yummy food, sunny weather, nice people around.

Come over and join us.

More info of the event in this Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/485169361516295/


Where to find us?? Beachy Road, London. Follow the link of our Google map: HACKNEY CUT MAP

See you all there!!

How did we do our TRAKTOR??

Our TRAKTOR was in our mind for a bit and these are the final steps we did... Nice work!! Have lots of fun doing it!!

With some of the tools we use

The funny phrase game

Some nice photos for the blog

At the back

Loving them

TRAKTOR, TRAKTOR, TRAKTOR

Traktor is running already

Our traktor seems to be ready to go to work. brrmmmm, brmmm!!!

Traktor absolutely unique, as all our earrings, 100% leather of the best quality and keeping our sense of humor with those phrases at the back... A really statement pair of earrings!!

What do you think of them? We'll love to hear what you have to say!