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

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

Today I'm sharing something very special for me with you

Last year when I started to think about "What am I gonna do. I have a baby, I need to do something to be able to provide this little one" I came across with the blog of +Mariella di Gregorio and found her jewellery absolutely stunning. As I liked so much what I saw I tried to know a bit more about her, which one was her background, where did she studied jewellery, from where she took the inspiration to do such a beautiful items and so and so. So I found out she was actually a graphic designer with passion for jewellery and one day decided to give up everything and start to make jewellery as she wanted. She risked as I intend that (with a job in Milan went back to her homeland to set up her business). That inspired me, yes, she did inspired me. I thought, why not? I love this, I always did, I don't have a formal education into that, on the contrary I've studied advertising and PR and a bit of design.. I was prepared to be the though business person who makes all the deals in the advert agencies, who knew about marketing, strategies of communication, law but out of my own love of learning, when I went to Italy to study I chose the subjects I liked like web design, graphic design, photography, lithography, sociology and Italian language. Went I moved to London I worked a bit in cinema so I did a course in art direction but jewellery?? Jewellery? I had no clue about it!! But, hey! I always loved earrings, I always loved leather and I thought, let's make what I like, let's make earrings... More I got into it, more I felt the need of doing different things, I started to sew, to make curtains, to customize prams, to do items for prams and recently I've moved into fabric leather free items. I love what I do, I found fulfillment each time I finish a new item. It's love what they carry and what I give to others.
Even if we don't know each other personally, thanks +Mariella di Gregorio for inspiring me!!

Here I leave you with some of her items and a link to her blog.

Please enjoy!

Aria by Mariella di Gregorio

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

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

I LIKE ORANGE COLLECTION

The photos are missing a bit of quality, so sorry about that. I've just made the pics with my phone... I wanted so much to post them for you!!!!!

I'll get them done properly tomorrow!!

Orange and I have a particular relationship. It never was a color that attracted me in any way but somehow recently this color has come to my life in a way that is absolutely invading all my existence and I cannot pass without it.
 

Orange Earrings

The fabric used in this ones was given to my by Laura (thanks Laura) and it's a lovely '70s pattern fabric which I adored as soon as I saw it. Love the colors (brown, orange, yellow, white) and its texture.

Frenches Earrings

There is not need to say that these earrings are also unique and a lovely craft made absolutely by hand from beginning to end.

Chain detail

These are a bit hippie style, pretty easy going. I can imagine wearing them with a floaty long skirt and a simple T-shirt... Simplicity so many times is just the key.

I'm a happy hippie

I'll define them as a really statement earrings. They are huge!!!!! So if you are a kind of person who likes to provoke, girl, these are the earrings you were looking for!! Plus, this are really symbolic for me, where my really first pair of earrings I ever created!!

Tara