About Me and my Craft Shed

Saturday 15 August 2009

Tiara's & Jewellery Slideshow

Most people will know that I have designed many Tiara's - They have been an item of great interest to me for many years. Some of my designs are based around tiara's I have worn or seen during my time as Feltham & Bedfont Carnival Princess 1976, Deputy Queen 1977 and Carnival Queen 1978.

I wore a Tiara for my 1st Wedding in 1979 - then the norm was a very flowery headdress or a Juliet cap. I will get a picture of that tiara and insert it here soon, but basically it was a band of crystals, which had arches of crystals - 9 in all - the more central of the arches had Ivory drop pearls hanging from them.

When I married Chris in 2001, again I choose to wear a tiara, this one I had purchased and kept in store during my Carnival years, but it never actually got used. This tiara, is more what you would associate with mass produced tiara's. It is a metal base, with diamante's on the base, with 5 "Sun bursts" - 4 on the bottom, and one central on top. As with the other tiara I will add a picture of this tiara shortly.

A natural progression from designing and making tiara's is matching jewellery, some of which you will see along with the tiara's. I have also made a couple of Fairy Wands - the pictures will pop up on the slide show.

I thought I had better start showing some of the hours and hours of work I have done in the past. All of the designs are of my own creation, as I said I had years of seeing many different tiara's so plenty of food for thought there, plus I have been drawing my own designs for many years.

I hope you like my Tiara and Jewellery Slide show, I hope to add even more soon.

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