Flower Crown

I brainstormed for ideas for my next Renaissance headband/crown for this year's upcoming Pleasure Faire. I had a few things in my scrap box but it wasn't really working.

These headbands look cute by themselves with nothing extra added. 

I had some extra tiny silk roses that I use for various things and played around with them a little bit.





I wasn't thrilled with the results so I went to Joann's and got new silk flowers.  I bought more than I needed just in case I didn't have enough.  Floral tape is key.




This was the result before the ribbons were added.





And the results with ribbon.  I used the stems as the base by bending them into a circle.  I had floral wire just in case, but I ended up not needing it.

Renaissance pleasure faire 2014

I love going to Ren Faire.  I have been going off and on for the past 16 years.  I didn't start dressing up until 2001.  Dressing up is all a part of the experience.  I started working on a garland and it turned out to be huge.  The idea was to put all of these big roses all around and it was too much for my huge head. Haha!

 

 

So I combined some of my roses from my garland from last year.  The black roses stayed, the purple ones were removed.

 

This was still pretty big adding the white and red roses with the black, but I needed to put something on my head, so I made it work.

My friend Chevy and I decided to go to Faire on Pirate or Swashbuckler weekend. 

Chevy and I met up with her friends Delarie and Dana.  We had a great time walking around and looking for shade whenever possible.   It was hot out today and we stayed hydrated.  Most of the vendors that were there last year were here this year.  Many beautiful original pieces of art, jewelry and attire.  I felt inspired. 

One of my priorities was to pick up more of this fabulous incense.  They didn't have much chocolate left, so I bought two.  Here is the website.  http://pureincenseandoils.com/pureincensebrandcorelessincense.aspx

This stuff is incredible. 

Chevy rocked her pirate look.  

 

These caught my eye.  

Especially the Autobot mug. nice! 

Josting time.....

 

She made the hat herself!

 

Delarie and Dana! I love her skirt!

All in all, a great day with friends and the heat was worth it.  The food was great too!