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

Graziella's Earrings

Detail

These pair of earrings are very special for  me because two reasons. Firstly a dear friend of mine asked me to make them for somebody who is very very special. I know that person and is also somebody special for me too so I was very proud to make something for her, something I know she will wear and will make her think about my friend and I.

She like roses so roses is what I did for her. Here I mixed fabric and leather. It has also been a special earrings to make because it's the first time I work with the leather since I became vegan and that, obviously gives you quite a lot to think about... But I better leave you with the photos that always say much more than words.

Lots of love,

Azahara

Fabric Roses done.. choosing leather

Burned petals to shape them

Bit of leather at the back to hold

Detail of first finished

Both earrings

With the rose

Getting the photo right

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

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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

Carmen necklace from Leather Free Collection

Here you have another item from our successful Leather Free Collection!!

Carmen Necklace.

We have use handmade fabric roses and 100% cotton strings out of an old T-shirt. We added a little touch, a brown clip. I'll post the photos of how we did as soon as I get them edited! In the meantime, enjoy these ones!

Carmen Necklace

With a clip to put it on

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

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

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.

SUNDAY CAME AT ITS END AND WE CAN BE BACK TO ONE

Thanks so much guys for a day like today.. We manage to duplicate, triplicate, quintuplicate today!!! This morning we went to +HACKNEY CUT and our friend @ANTONIA PEÑA and @CANDY SOAP we managed to get all ready and ready for all of you guys!! Then he headed to CHRIST CHURCH SPITALFIELDS XMAS MARKET and did our second round!!!

We had lots of fun together, We loved to see you 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

Some updates from our Traktor Collection

Just a taster... 

It's nearly done...

Etsy shop Open

Our Etsy shop

Today is the BIG OPENING DAY of our shop at ETSY.

Do you want to have a look there, just follow the link

DORADO@ETSY

Busy Friday

Wow!! Today has been one of the busiest days of the last weeks!!! Our traktor is still there awaiting for the final touch ups parked inside the garage.... Soon baby, soon!!!!

Price List

Our Price List

Here you have the price list of all our earrings.

Click on each name to see the photo:


1. Coco Earrings                                          £12.50

2. Wanna TV Mum Earrings                        £12.50

3. Orange Earrings                                       £8.00

4. Frenches Earrings                                    £8.50

5. I'm a happy hippie Earrings                     £8.00

6. Tara Earrings                                            £8.00

7. Netty pop Earrings                                   £12.50

8. I'm that trendy that hurts Earrings           £12.50

9. Telitas Earrings                                        £10.00

10. 80's are Mine Earrings                            £12.00

11. I'm different and I like it Earrings           £7.00

12. Twinkling little turquoise Earrings          £10.00

13. Wanna rock with you Earrings                £12.00

14. Hidden behind the leaf Earrings             £8.00

15. What's up dude? Earrings                       £12.00