Family Flowers

I have been lectured on the importance of family members wearing flowers bearing a resemblance to the bridal bouquet, so I decided that I should get on with it whilst I still have some practice with the flower making.


The first two are smaller versions of the original as they are for children, but the principle for each flower will be similar: satin rose on a short stalk, metal beads around a white mini rose and 3 wired diamantes, with brooch bars attached to the back in case they don't have button holes to stick the flowers through.

Alterations for the women will be white roses instead of satin, diamantes in the rose and a silver mini rose instead of the white one.

Corset making update

I am about 1/3 through with it now. The week has, again, been going slowly, owing mainly to the fact that I have been working pretty much straight from 5.30am to 10pm every day, what with family and my job to sort out. I have to admit that I didn't do any wedding preparation during the week, as by 10pm I was usually falling asleep on the sofa about 10min after I'd finished working.

Next week is barely looking better work-wise (intensive phase, hopefully followed by quite a calm one in 2 weeks' time and holidays a few weeks after that), but I should be getting a lot more done after it's passed. There are still 4 cards here, which is a little annoying, but they are slowly moving into the last few hands, or so I am told.

My corset is going well; I have indeed overestimated my body a little, so I have plenty of room for playing with the material at the back edge, and even on the side, should I consider a zip there for ease on the actual wedding day - otherwise, who will lace me up?
The cable ties are strong, but flexible enough to allow plenty of movement, and the bones spaced out in a way to tuck most of my belly away.

The middle layer still needs its boning, but the rest is done, save from the top and bottom, for which I am still considering support with thinner cable ties. It looks quite messy on the picture, but it gives my curves a nice fit. My boobs are also nicely enhanced :-)

So the next thing will be to look at the fastenings, which would also be attached to the inner layer, as well as the elastic, which goes all the way across. I would rather like to get the fastenings too short rather than too long - too short would mean that I could work with a modesty plate to cover up any gaps at the back, whereas too long would just ruin the point of the whole corset.

Tiara time

After a few hours of inventing new swear words to suit my situation - namely, that my first attempt at making a tiara ended up in a huge crown and my second was still way too massive - I finally managed to pull off a small, understating tiara, from pearl beads, tiara-making flowers, diamond beads, silver-plated wire and a few other beads I found in my jewellery making box.





The glue gun, which has already become my best friend in the card-making process lately, was useful in ensuring the wire ends did not end up getting stuck in and ultimately damaging my hair.

Oops, looks like the in-laws just arrived. Future Mr is sleeping on the sofa next to me, better stop writing and waking him up.

Edited:
What did I do?
I bought a plain silver-plated hairband, used 4mm silver-plated wire to stick on 1 large bead or up to 5 smaller ones at a time and simply attached them by wrapping the wire around the hairband as tightly as I could. I started with the flowers and spaced them out fairly evenly, then added the large pearls and used ever smaller beads to hide the wiring at the top - no-one will see the bottom, so that doesn't really matter.
I have fine hair and it gets caught in things really easily, so after trying the tiara on once I decided that, despite my best efforts, the wire still stuck out at the ends, potentially leading to pain and torn hair. That's when I used the glue gun to smooth the bottom bits out. It worked a treat, as long as I made sure that it didn't dry too thickly.