Helen's summer was packed with new kanzashi, and she is glad to have had the opportunity to make so many new things! One thing she forgot to tell me about in time for the last post was a little collaboration she did with her friend Lannette. Lannette designs mostly bridal gowns in Southern California, and she creates flower girl dresses, too. She sent Helen some lovely plum, lavender and ivory satins, and asked for flowers for the dress's sash and a complementary hair clip. Here's what Helen came up with....
....and here's the dress!!! So pretty....
What else? A new chirimen silk necklace, (buy it here)....
Next, new lapel flowers! Helen has been posting these on the Instagrams, and has been getting a good deal of approval from men's fashion retailers and bloggers. Seriously! Here's a plaid dupioni silk one with a goldstone bead (buy it here)
....and an ume-shaped vintage kimono silk with a faux pearl here.....
.....a red and gold Chinese silk brocade lapel flower that Helen's friend Valerie bought on Etsy.....
....this fall colors linen one here.....
... this red chirimen silk flower here
and a black tie silk one that I can't figure out how to show you, but you can see it here.
Now, Helen has two things to announce. First, she is partnering with a friend who is a marketing professional, to sell most of her new flower lapel pins on her friend's website (yay)! They have just barely started this process, so I won't send you to any links yet, because there's nothing online to see at this moment. Helen is just thrilled that she has the support of a knowledgeable (and impressive!) person to sell these things, because selling is the Supreme Challenge, and Helen is an orchestra musician, so who do you think has the better chance of marketing this stuff successfully? More when we have something to show you!
The next thing is that Helen figured out a New Thing for kanzashi flower centers, and she is going to do a tutorial for me to post soon. She promises.
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