Rubies, Denim and Pearls---Oh My!

How old do you think this little packet of pearls is?

Hmmmm....at least the 1970's is my guess.

I was thrilled to be able to use these in my latest craze---hair ornaments.

You can see the denim flower petals I cut out. I used fray check on the edges, so there was no machine sewing involved in this project.

I did hand sew the pearls to the light denim.

I attached some pronged ruby jewels to the dark denim. .. no sewing--the prongs just bend over the jewel.

Then I put gold-glittered purple flower petals behind all of the denim and added a purple cloth covered button.........and....................

Voila!

A flower hair accessory was finished.

I did it in colors to coordinate with this multi-colored jacket.

I am planning to wear it in my hair when I wear an updo.

Last week I made a couple other hair ornaments. I posted these in one of my other blogs, but I will repost here for those who don't read my other blogs.

They were so easy to make! I just cut out a flower shape in different sizes from a few different fabrics--two denim and one felt and layered them on top of each other. The only sewing was a few hand stitches to hold all the layers together and to sew the fabric-covered button on. In less than 30 minutes, I had this done:

It was so much fun, I made another in black vinyl and red. It goes with the red/black handbag.

Either of these can be used in the hair or as a lapel pin like I am showing you tonight. My hair is not in an updo, so I can't try them out in the hair.