One of my most favourite things to do (and I've just done it) is to go to Amitie and wander amidst all the beautiful fabrics and projects and finished quilts, soaking up the crafty atmosphere.
When I make my little hair clips, elastics and badges I choose small pieces of fabric in all different designs and colours. I like to get little bits so that I don't get tired of using the same stuff over and over again, and of course so that every pair I make are different. Amitie (and other places) have enormous steel buckets full of fat 16ths of fabric, carefully & tightly rolled into cylinders and secured with elastic bands. I love to trawl through these treasure troves and always come away with about 30 or 40 little delights. It's so hard to choose which I want the most, so I usually buy as many as I can carry in my hot little hands.
I can't resist just one more peek into the buckets after I have paid for my stash, then I race home lickety-split and turn the iron on. I unwrap them all, flatten & iron them & dream about how gorgeous they will look in combination.
I know you will all appreciate the loveliness of them too!
Some grownups like to wear funky & different clips....some people feel that grownups are maybe a tad past the clip-wearing stage and just buy them for the kiddies, but I disagree. So many of the commercially produced & available hair accessories are totally blah, yuck and tacky (not ALL I hasten to add) but go for a hand-made product! Someone has loved sourcing the materials, combining the colours, and stitching the bits together with care. Someone thinks that you or your mates would look super-cute wearing them in their hair or on their lapel. They are the best sorts of things to have I think.
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I wear hair clips every day ( the 'snap' schoolkind ), but mainly because I have fine hair, and they are the *only* type of clip that will securely fasten my hair back.
So yes, i'm sure some people think i'm trying to be quirky, but hey, it doesn't bother me ;)
Lovely fabrics - and great clips- where can we buy them?? Etsy?Made It????? and I dont think we are ever to old to spice up our style-even with clips - I always seem to have my daughters bobbles or clips in my hair without even realising!
Gorgeous fabrics and wonderful clips. You are so right most of the mass produced ones are awful, yours are just the opposite.
Oh yes Emma, quite the best things to have - we have lots around, all the time, I like to wear them too, makes me feel 'young' - think I shall be wearing hair clips well into my dodage!!
Oh PS, echoing loulou, where can I buy some of your clips?
The wonderful Meet Me At Mikes stock the "utter puffery" clips 'n stuff,
Lulu in Carlisle St, Balaclava &
My Poppet in Glenhuntly Rd.
Thanks for your extremely friendly comments. You know, sometimes I just despair at all the DROSS out there.
I am certainly making every attempt to have a handmade/Oxfam Unwrapped Christmas this year and to all the crafty people who love to create...Thank You too!!
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