Composition Pin, ID# 10015

This pin is a bouquet of 6 flowers, each made with a different ribbon of a different color and a different ribbon flower making technique! Three of the flowers have glass beads at the center, the bi-color folded rose of hand dyed satin has vintage stamens in the center. A fringe of golden beads dangle from the lower edge of the pin.

11041-This fantasy flower pin features a richly beaded center. The larger glass faux pearls in the middle have a subtle pink tin, while the smaller glass beads surrounding the larger ones have a metallic lustre. Photographed against some real greenery in my garden, you can see the bed of Mokuba lace that the flower rests on, but sadly it's harder to see the dark green irredescent grossgrain leaves. A couple smaller leaves and a feather finish the composition.

#11024

This composition pin got snapped up less than 24 hours after I finished making it! All of the flowers are hand dyed silk, the large leaf at right is also hand dyed silk. The composition is set of by the Mokuba cotton lace around the top, accented with white buds at bottom and a speckled feather at top. The two flowers on top have glass beads at their centers, and there is also an hombre leaf at right and a tiny light grossgrain leaf barely visible below the white buds.

Each one of these petals was made individually from wired grossgrain ribbon. The center is an old button someone gave me in a plastic baggie full of old bits they though they would never use but I would. It only took me a couple decades to get around to using it!

#11012

This pin features an ivory satin folded rose, an organza bud, the rest of the ribbon all hand-dyed silk and a white feather which is difficult to see since I photographed this on a white background.

Pin, ID# 11010

This pin has black cotton lace peeking out from beneath the black satin (locally made ribbon) petals. At the center is a rondelle of hand dyed silk that goes from deep red at the outer edges to black in the center. that black center helps offset the Swaroski crystal beads, a large one surronded by smaller ones.

Composition Pin ID#10011

This pin is dominated by leaves and flowers of silk that I hand dyed. The centers of the petaled flowers are glass beads, and there is a little white folded rose of locally made satin, and a bow of Mokuba ribbons for an accent.

Composition Pin ID#10023

This pin features a large ivory satin flower with blue glass beaded center. Tucked under the main flower are hand dyed silk flowers of blue on the left, and two toned burgund to yellow on the right, and a folded satin ribbon rose of burgundy. Leaves of Satin. hombre and hand dyed silk fring the bottom of the composition, while a spray of hand painted buds provide an accent.

Composition Pin ID#10012

This pin features a folded rose and leaf of silk that I hand dyed. the main flower has a glass bead at the center, and is nestled on a leaf of locally made satin at the bottom, and some obre petals at top. On the upper left is a smaller folded rose of locally made satin, and the whole composition sits on lace that's poking out on the right side.

Headband ID# 10062

This photo really does not do this pin justice, I promise to re-shoot and upload a better photo soon. A rose of folded burgundy satin is framed by large bi-color petals of soft silk that I hand dyed from beets (the light iiner part of the petals) and accented with stronger artists' color dye on the edge. The warm colored leaf at right is locally made grossgrain, the large leaf at left is hand dyed silk and the smaller leaf is or hombre ribbon.

Composition Pin, ID#10010

All 4 flowers in this pin are of silk that I dyed myself, as is the large leaf at top right and the loop of rose/brown ribbon on the other side of the blue flower. leaves of locally made satin, hand tinted stamen/buds and a blue & rust silk leaf complete the composition.

Old fashioned Santa Ornament, ID#10030

My first Christmas ornament of 2010! Old fashioned scrap image is printed on reverse for the back of the ornament; the scrap sandwitches a ruffle of green grossgrain. This side of the ornament has the scrap image framed with old fashioned tinsel. At teh bottom is a tiny glass ball decorated with a ring of embossed gold foil and topped by a tiny bow. The top of the ornament features a double bow of burgundy satin. The ribbons are locally made.

Small Pin ID#10014

This pin features a black satin folded rose, with a glass bead at the center. It sits on a bit of black lace and green leaves of Satin, grossgrain and hand dyed silk, accented with some hand painted stamen/buds.

Pomander Ornament ID#09001

This pomander looks good from all sides. Here you can see the larger hand dyed silk rose and the profile of the large satin rose that has a folded center surrounded by individually made rolled petals.

Barrette ID#10050

This ribbon features a flower with hand dyed silk and glass beads at the center on a bed of satin petals, with three leaves of different colors and textures, one satin, one grossgrain and one hand dyed silk with "feathered" edges.

Pin, ID# 10014

This lovely little pin has an ivory rose of locally made satin with a glass bead faux pearl in the center, flanked by a red & black flower of hand dyed silk with a beaded center. The large leaf on the left is silk that I hand dyed, while the ombre leaf at right and the tiny satin leaf under it are from a local ribbon mill. Two feathers at the bottom complete the ensemble.

Composition Pin ID#10021

This is a slightly larger, more elaborate version of my classic flower composition pin. It has the large ivory satin flower with blue glass beaded center above a pansy made with two colors of hand dyed silk, with vintage stamens at the center, and also a small forget-me-not of blue hand dyed silk. Like the others in this series, it has the folded satin rose, and a variety of leaves including hand dyed silk, hombre & locally made satin.

Composition Pin ID#10013

This pin has two folded roses, the one on the left is hand dyed silk with vntage stamens in the center, witrh a little blue flower of hand dyed satin peeking out from underneath. The folded rose on the right combines hand dyed two-tone copper & blue silk with deep blue organze. The leaves are all from locally made rbbons, of hombre, grossgrain and satin respectively. The composition sits atop a ruffle of off-white cotton lace.

Headband ID #10060

Folded satin rose with grossgrain leaves, both locally made ribbon, sewen to a non-slip headband.

Headband ID# 10061

A lavendar Rose of satin sts atop a green satin ruffle, both of locally made ribbon, and streamers of this green and lavendar picot-edged ribbon. The actual headband part is a Goody brand non-slip headband. This headband is safe for the very young, it has no sharp or metal parts and will stay put on fine hair. (But you don't have to be young, only young at heart for this one.)

Pin, ID# 11046

this pin dark and bright at the same time! The generously sized bright purple satin folded rose is set off by electric green hand painted stamens. The rose sits on a a black organza ruff and a spray of black tulle. Blue hand dyed silk softens the transition from the purple to the black, as do the leaves of hand dyed silk and locally made satin.