May 09, 2014

A Wedding Invite - Let's Create some Jewellery

A Wedding Invite – Let’s Create some Jewellery.

So I had a wedding Invite!…& these days, as I am getting older, invites are few and far between…but after my stepfather Reg died last October..(my Mum and Reg weren’t married, but I knew him as my dad for 25 years) …I was cordially invited to take his place and take my Mum to Reg’s Granddaughter’s Wedding…so needless to say I had to make myself some pretty jewellery to wear with my outfit…

I managed to find a dress that I would never usually wear, (I am a jeans gal) in a Charity Shop near me…it was a ‘Proper’ Rockabilly dress, made by ‘Vivian of Holloway’ a black sleeveless number  with a gathered skirt to the knee…I tried it on and thought Yep I can work with this and readily handed over the £6 purchase price. (if you are a smaller size, there are plenty of alternatives HERE)

At first I thought I shouldn’t wear black to a wedding, but out of respect to our lovely Reggie,  I thought I would be forgiven.  I decided to add pink and green which also matched my old but hardly used Cath Kidston doctors bag which was decorated with pink and green flowers on a cream background and decided that these colours would be ideal to make my accessories in…therefore bringing the whole outfit together…

I decided to purchase a plus size netted black petticoat and a fuschia satin bolero jacket as these are soooo 1950’s in style and in a last minute bid on Ebay, I also won this lovely black chiffon jacket decorated with pink and green roses…and to complete the whole look I bought some lovely pink kitten heel court shoes…I tried it all on a couple of times to meet with my Hubby’s approval and he loved me in it 😉 Now to make the accessories…

First I made the necklace, I used a coated metal wire to thread the beads that I bought at the Excel Jewellery Fair a few weeks ago(lol I didn’t even realise this was the colour I wanted when I purchased them!)I cut circles of 4mm felt and adhered the buttons and rose cabochons to them to form the main part of the necklace…then Freddy had a brainwave and asked me if i would like him to cut flowers out of the felt with his Vagabond cutting machine…for which I thought was a brilliant idea…and look at how it turned out once I had sewn the flowers on…

so I also made a brooch, a ring and a bracelet……and I so loved wearing them with my outfit…

I also managed to get a lovely flower clip … isn’t it lovely.  So all in all, I had created a lovely outfit for which I felt totally gorgeous in…I know I did because my Hubby, my Rosie and my Mum told me so 😉

I wore the pink bolero in the day and a floral one in the evening.

A picture of my Mum and me…she’s getting good at posing for selfies these days 😉

I also made the newly wed’s a lovely button horseshoe, but I’ll show you that next time…

Have you been invited to a wedding lately and if you have…did you make anything for it?