Day 3 and a teaser!

This is day three of the modest fashion event over at Natasha's Blog! 



Green Shirt- Jc Penny $11

Button Down-$15?

Skirt-Cold Water Creek $20

Boots- Naturalizer-$140

Brooch- Vintage Jewelry Swap!



I love brooches and as I have so many just sitting there waiting for prince charming to come along (like me!) I decided I would let some of them see the light of day!



One of the other girls showed us her mismatched socks and said she liked the touch of whimsy it added to an outfit. It made me smile, but rather then the good reason she had, I'm just lazy and don't pair the socks up when I put them away and get dressed in the dark!

Guess what post is coming tomorrow?!



Vintage Jewelry Swap

Hi Folks! I am taking a break from NaNoWriMo to show you the goodies I received in a vintage jewelry swap that I participated in set up by Kjrsten over at http://haveacuteday.blogspot.com/! My swap partner lives in Canada which in and of it self was neat! I eagerly awaited my package and opened it to reveal the beautiful scarf you see the items photographed on wrapped around the jewelry.


The brooches will be joining the brooch boquet line up! She put the smaller tems on vintage photographs, how cool is that idea?=)

I loved this picture, it's an advertisement for men's shirts!

The cutest little clip on earrings, I will definitely find a way to re purpose these!

A close up of one of the cards, I loved her pose!

This pair of lovely ladies look just like my grandmother and her sister, who knows maybe they are! ;-)

Brooch Bouquet

(Picture via, http://fantasyfloraldesigns.com/)

Remember MY POST about brooch bouquets? I said that I was thinking about collecting the brooches to make my own..........

 

Well, I decided and now am on my way to collecting the 60-75 pieces that I need. In googling the making of them I found Fantasy Floral Designs , you need to look at all of the gorgeous bouquets that they have done. After looking through those, I was a little intimidated, but still willing to try. But, the only tutorials I could find used Styrofoam balls, and I did not want to use one, all of the ones made that way looked odd to me.

I persevered and then found this very good tutorial! http://mysanfranciscobudgetwedding.wordpress.com/tag/diy-brooch-bouquet/

Here are the pieces I've collected so far.

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Etsy~

Screw Back Earrings

~Christmas Present~

Brooch

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Michael's~

Pendant

~Christmas Present~

Lord of the Rings Brooch

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Etsy~

Brooch

~Someplace~

It's a flower that has been floating around my room for years, looking for something useful to do, it has finally found a purpose!

Brooch Bouquets

These bouquets are entirely made out of earrings and brooches. They are also entirely waaaaay to expensive for me to even contemplate having one, I may have to start collecting the pieces to make one for myself!!

Click here to see the rest of her amazing work!

Lionsgate Designs