See the finished products in the “Blythe” section. :)

See the results of the giveaway at the blythe section!

Finished 5.5 flowers (haven’t sewn on leaves and backing for the last one, can’t decide whether to make it a brooch or a hair clip). Two’s sold, including the big one, but custom orders can be done. :)

Each flower is lovingly made with a leaf, mother of pearl button, lace and double sided satin ribbon. A pin is attached at the back. The flower can also be added to a blythe doll hat.

If you’d like one, just email me. If you’d like it as a gift I can send it for you.

Size: Small (18 petals) - $9, medium (24 petals) - $10, Super large: $14, and I plan on a gigantic one (more for a bag or hat I suppose) for $20.

The cost is mostly in the amount of time spent on each, including sewing, the mother of pearl button, especially the extra large one as it’s pretty thick as well. I also reject MOP buttons that are not shiny (have got a few lemons like that! ugh) and the lace and pearls.

Yarn colors: white, cream, dusty pink

Ribbon colors: black, baby pink, rose pink

Pearl colors: white, pink

Lace colors: usually white or beige

If you are using it as a bag decoration I can leave out the pin and extend the ribbon and lace longer for you to tie the flower to your bag handle instead.

Speaking of lace, have scouted out a few places to buy and I think this list of craft sources on a local blog, Bees & Tulips, is pretty comprehensive. My experience is summed up as below:

Spotlight (Dhoby Ghaut MRT): Not a great selection. It’s a large enough shelf but seems like most of them are repeated in a number of rolls of the same thing. It also seems quite expensive relative to other sources. But it is rather neat and browsing is easy.

Golden Dragon (Chinatown MRT): I know a lot of people like this place a lot but for the items that I look for (yarn, buttons, etc.) I don’t find a great selection and neither are the things that inexpensive (their Jap yarn selection is not extensive but more than I’ve seen in other places, but be prepared to pay top dollar). The lace look abandoned and some look kinda discolored or dirty. Not much of a selection, especially in terms of color, but I did find a pretty ruffled one for the blythe skirt I did.

Shops in People’s Park (Chinatown MRT): As far as my explorations have uncovered, there seems to be three main shops selling lace. There is one on the second floor full of sewing things that have quite a nice selection of lace (and buttons in small IKEA jars) neatly arranged by type and size. They look clean at least. Just supervise them when they are measuring and cutting cos one time they gave me the end of the roll and stuck on another small piece to make one yard (!!).  And again, I got had again when they gave me this horrible pearl string – I wasn’t vigilent enough!! I had already rejected one string cos part of it was barren and I didn’t supervise her when she cut a new yard for me. I really don’t think she could have missed this. I had to cut that portion off leaving two parts one of which I don’t know if I can use. I’ve been giving this shop a lot of business but I don’t think I will want to go again.

Another shop has their lace thrown in one shelf and they throw all purchases in newspaper. The last one didn’t have any lace that I could use, seemed to belong to another era (1930s Shanghai?).

Found another two shops selling lace and one of them had a really good variety of buttons in a myriad of forms and colors. Except most of the items in her shop seemed pretty expensive and I only got the above three cos they really attracted my attention and I hadn’t seen them anywhere else. She had Hello Kitty buttons selling for $12 each. For that price I really don’t know how one could do a complete outfit with them. I don’t think I would purchase more buttons or lace from her unless she has something really special.

The last one was also quite a “gem”. The store owner complained that I should have browsed her folders properly or I would ruin them. Well, if you had seen the state they were in I doubt I could have made them any worse for wear!! Oh, the irony!

Small shop atop Tekka Market (Little India MRT): This shop above the market is pretty small but quite chock full of cheap (rough) yarn and buttons, albeit none of them really my style. The lace are in messy heaps in front. The pricing seems very reasonable here, but do be careful. After coming back with a small haul I realised that one of them had fallen apart and I don’t know if I’ll be able to use it. Actually stared at it for a while wondering if it was the same one I had pointed to.

Had a request for a big big flower so tried it out. Here is the size comparison between it and the medium sized one. Brought the finished flower (picture later!) with a medium and small one and Jerl bought them all! :) Thanks to her I’m 20% to my goal. hehehehe….

The lace addiction/obsession has not yet been satiated! Realised that I quite like the look of the lace with these flower broaches, and got a string of small fakey pearls as well, which I had intended to stick (sew rather) somewhere on blythe clothes.

Used this as a broach and bag decoration, but think they could be put anywhere – e.g. door handle, curtains, etc. and they would be good wedding/bridal shower favors. Thot of the latter when in my search for lace realised the other things I googled were from people looking for such things for their wedding decor/favors.

such a cute and lovely one.

such a cute amigurumi!

sending out two broaches to a friend.

some people (horses/ponies rather) had come for lunch and the kitten’s on the table! papa’s so upset he fell down and what are they having for lunch – buttons??!

suddenly realised that I was wearing four types of lace…have been really attracted to lace on clothes recently!

couldn’t resist a new scarf.

Got a sweet dress and many other goodies from velvetchi! See my newly revamped Blythe Section for more. Will be keeping most of my blythe pursuits away from these main pages except for some small mentions if there are really exciting things happening.

finalement…

thot this particular picture was such a hoot when I got it in a mail completely on how dogs were “abused” by their owners.  Of course dorothy came to mind. One of my favorite series.

found the picture on cuteoverload but it didn’t have credits. hope it’s theirs then.

via email via cuteoverload

And then there is this. Trauamatised?

 can’t decide if that look says, “Help me!” or “Look away!”.

*yasuhiro via cuteoverload via  Urlesque.

As most of you have experienced, the weather has been dark and ominous and that means no great pictures with great lighting (not that I claim to have such).  BUT, I did want to leave a note to say that I’m so excited to have gotten my swap items from Velvetchi in a cute package with the sweetest things beautifully wrapped and a nice little note. And yes, my first swap ever. Must say it has been totally satisfying. :)

Button Hearts

Originally uploaded by Deep Indigo

Cute buttons in a rainbow of colors!

click on pics to go to their respective flickr pages.

Lovely Cerise (velvetchi) with my hat! Cool.

yarn bag by Elizabeth Cat.

whenever I see these, I think of my granny square WIP.