FASCINATING
Jul. 27th, 2017 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wigglewhizIt's my argument that you can never really go to a wedding without something on your head. A hat. A fascinator. SOMETHING. This is mostly because I love hats and fascinators and would wear one every day if I could get away with it. ONE DAY it is my fervent dream that I will get to buy something from Pearls and Swine, particularly something huge and delicious and bonkers like THIS ONE, but until that day your ordinary, everyday wedding fascinator is the only chance I'll get. *sigh*
So, to go with the navy dress and it's laceness, and the shoes and handbag (which also feature lace), I got this very plain fascinator.
Which looks like this on my actual noggin:
So it's lacy, and the lace pattern featured a little five-petalled flower, which echoes the flowers on the shoes and bag. (Full disclosure: the fact that it is harmoniously lacy is really just a bonus. I bought this because it was on sale and I wasn't spending £40+ on a bloody fascinator).
BUT
It's dark, and my hair is dark, and I feel like fascinators usually have an element of MOVEMENT about them - generally acheived with feathery bits - which this is lacking. SO. Here's the list of STUFF I BOUGHT to jazz up this fascinator, and tie it in with my shoes and handbag:
My plan is to discombobulate the artificial flowers and sew some of the flower heads onto some of the loops of the fascinator bow, glitter some of the other loops, leave some as plain lace, and create one navy and one periwinkle satin flower to put in the middle, rather like the shoes and bag. I MIGHT also, depending on how that goes, suspend some of the small forget-me-not flower heads on fishing wire and dangle them out of the centre of the bow, for movement.
This is THE PLAN. What I am capable of might be very different. Wish me luck!
So, to go with the navy dress and it's laceness, and the shoes and handbag (which also feature lace), I got this very plain fascinator.
Which looks like this on my actual noggin:
So it's lacy, and the lace pattern featured a little five-petalled flower, which echoes the flowers on the shoes and bag. (Full disclosure: the fact that it is harmoniously lacy is really just a bonus. I bought this because it was on sale and I wasn't spending £40+ on a bloody fascinator).
BUT
It's dark, and my hair is dark, and I feel like fascinators usually have an element of MOVEMENT about them - generally acheived with feathery bits - which this is lacking. SO. Here's the list of STUFF I BOUGHT to jazz up this fascinator, and tie it in with my shoes and handbag:
- One stem of artificial hydrangeas
- One stem of artificial forget-me-nots
- Blue pearl flower stamens (not the right navy blue, but gawd help me everywhere I tried was SOLD OUT of navy blue)
- Greyish pearly flower stamens (technically to salvage the handbag first and foremost. Not a perfect match for the stamens on the shoes, but as near as I could humanly get AND I KNOW because I bought silvery ones that were ALL RONG and then bought some more and... gah)
- Clear fishing wire
- A cool melt glue gun and glue sticks
- Modge Podge for fabric
- applicator brushes
- Navy blue superfine (nail art quality) glitter
- A half metre (because I have no idea of sensible fabric measurements or how badly/how many times I might Fuck It Up before I get a fabric flower right) of navy blue satin
- A half metre of periwinkle satin
- A sheet of deep blue felt
My plan is to discombobulate the artificial flowers and sew some of the flower heads onto some of the loops of the fascinator bow, glitter some of the other loops, leave some as plain lace, and create one navy and one periwinkle satin flower to put in the middle, rather like the shoes and bag. I MIGHT also, depending on how that goes, suspend some of the small forget-me-not flower heads on fishing wire and dangle them out of the centre of the bow, for movement.
This is THE PLAN. What I am capable of might be very different. Wish me luck!
