Chocolate Cupcakes

Here are two more brooches, both made from the faux leather.
It reminds me of a chocolate glaze, which inspired me to use them with the cupcakes. Hence the title Chocolate Cupcakes LOL.

The one on the left is an orange liquer base with lavendar scented icingtop, whereas the one on the right is a blueberry base with rose petal scented icing on top.

HAHA not really but if they WERE real cupcakes that is what they would be made of.

Getting a bit excited as my annual holiday is coming up, and i can't wait. We'll be staying in a luxury hotel (i hope lol), and be waited on hand and foot. After the massive upheaval of moving home, and with the various health issues with both myself and my dear husband, this holiday will be a very welcome break.

I've found a tutorial for making a dahlia brooch, which is made from ric rac, and hope to make several of these next week (when i've got the ric rac from ebay lol).

One good thing about putting the pictures of the brooches here on blog first, is that i can see exactly what needs adjusting.

The faux leather one with the vintage buttons definitely needs some additions and also the white lace one. So these will be done before placing them on etsy Friday evening.

Have a good day my friends

Fabric Brooches

Here are my latest fabric brooches

Faux Leather brooch
with vintage buttons and gold bugle beads


White Lace and pearls brooch
with tiny pearl seeds and gold bugle beads,
and white butterfly bead.

These will be going in my etsy shop on Friday evening, and will encased in a pure white organza bag.

FABRIC JEWELLERY

Here are my first attempts at f abric jewellery.

Flower brooch/corsage
Liberty fabric
approx 2.5"/6cm across


Flower brooch/corsage
Kaffe Fassett fabric
approx 2.5"/6cm across

These are the first two brooches i have made, and have completely hand sewn them. Not a big lover of machine sewing (even though Ern has promised me a lovely embroidery sewing machine yeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaah), and did try sewing the circle on my old machine, but oh boy no no no no no.

Quite addictive these things are, and have made even smaller flowers (3/4" /2cm) in co-ordinating fabric to make bracelets. They will be interspersed with beads. If nobody likes em i can keep em myself HAHAHAHA.

These will be added to my etsy shop later this week, as i need to make a few more in different colours.

I'm making a white lace one with pearls and pearl buttons. I thought these would be lovely as Wedding corsages instead of the run of the mill carnation buttonholes. These would then be a lasting momento of the occasion.

Will show you that one tomorrow.

I have ideas to make some really arty farty ones, so will see what happens, both with the making and the sales if any.