Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A Crown of Dead Bugs Sounds So Much Less Appealing

Oh, guys! Oh, guys! You know how my lifetime project is to make a classical tutu embellished in beetle wing embroidery? Well, I just found this incredible tiara online:
Did you just DIE? It's part of a parure (set with tiara, necklace, and earrings) made in 1884 or 1885 for Lady Granville from beetles given to her husband (the foreign secretary at the time) by the ambassador of Portugal.

On a different note: I am in the process of moving right now, and I am feeling decidedly low on energy as well as time. So, I apologize for the lateness of this announcement, but I want to thank Mercie et Chatons and The Traveling Dancer for nominating me for a Liebster Award. The "award" is actually not an award at all, it's a sort of meme, a pay-it-forward kind of way to help promote blogs that you read and love. I have basically no time (or brain power) to address it right now, but I will get around to it, I swear. Right about the time I can fish my actual computer out from behind the pile of boxes that is, in theory, supposed to transform a rather stuffy bedroom in to a sewing studio. I will keep you posted!



6 comments:

  1. Do you sew? So do I! :) How cool that you'll have a sewing studio! I've been using the dining room but I haven't really sewn since I decided to hand make all of my Christmas presents and got totally burnt out.

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    1. I make costumes for a musical theater for a living and run a teeny tiny little fashion design company on Etsy, all of which probably sounds more exciting than it actually is. I am currently hip-deep in a massive pile of repair work that I volunteered to do to the costumes for my ballet studio's upcoming recital. It's perfect timing, though because having my own sewing studio means that I can keep my cat/s out of my work. One of them is especially fond of clawing holes in mesh, net, and lace (in other words TUTUS!), which I discovered when she ripped a giant hole in the petticoat to my wedding dress about 3 days before the wedding.

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  2. OMG!!! LOVE!!!! (But I am a jeweler so this kind of stuff is like candy)

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    1. oh cool! You might like this one, too:
      http://tinyurl.com/os24hun

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  3. Speaking of Liebster, I gave you a shout-out in the post below! It takes a LONG time to complete, so don't feel obligated, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your blog!

    http://barrebarreblacksheep.blogspot.com/2013/05/liebing-it-up.html

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