Blooming Bows Belt

Not too long ago a friend gave me a pretty silk scarf  that I have worn mostly as a belt.  Though I like the look of a scarf casually thrown over the shoulders, I'm a bit to uncoordinated to carry it off.  My mother-in-law can so gracefully move about with her beautiful Herme's scarves insouciantly staying in place.  So, for me, generally scarves are rolled ( which is another matter of keeping all its parts in place) into belts.

Back to this scarf my friend gave me--which I love the colors, how it looks around jeans--and I thought about making one with my Anna Maria Horner Good Folks fabrics.  But then I started to tinker with this German ribbon I bought last year and came up with the belt pictured above.   I've christened it "Blooming Bows".

 

Corsage Revival

In the 18th century pinning posies, or any other cluster of buds, on your bodice, between your cleavage was quite the chic thing to do.  Back then they also called the bodice a corsage, and somehow, corsage came to mean the cluster of flowers pinned to a prom date or mother of the bride/groom.  Hmm, seems like there should be more corsage occasions in between those two rights of passage.  

In my favorite classic old movies cocktails at a club meant white dinner jackets, dresses with tulle underskirts and a corsage pinned to a satin clutch.  In homage to that look I've been playing with fabric flowers on bags.   

This one's exclusively at 1000markets.com

Sparkling

Once again, my Etsy friend from Texas has a brilliant (literally) idea to bring together a patchwork belt with a rhinestone buckle.  Why do we northeasterners never think of stuff like this on our own--perhaps its just me?  Hmm, time I work on my sparkle sensitivity a bit more.