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I made another fascinator today, with the fake leaves and orchids I bought on my shopping tour a week ago. It's quite a bit bigger than the previous two I made, and I think it should probably be on a "proper" sinamay fascinator base, but they were expensive, so it's just on a hair comb. It holds together just fine, but it's a smidgen on the heavy side, so I'm not sure how much I trust the glue to hold forever (ordinary craft glue is holding it onto the comb; the superglue was being persnickety and sticking to nothing at all except my fingers).
Photobucket is being weird, so I'm having to use pics.livejournal.com. It's interesting, but I think I like Photobucket better; Livejournal Scrapbook is, as the name suggests, more of an online photo scrapbook than just a receptacle for image files I want to link to, and as such I feel like I need to keep it neat and organised or something :-/ Other people being able to see your images away from the context you personally place them in is kind of like having people go through your underwear drawer. Or maybe I'm just a big self-conscious dork :P
( Anyway, here it is: green orchid fascinator )
I need a box or cupboard to put my hat making supplies in. And something to put the hats in, too, so they are not lying around my house getting squashed, buries or sat on by cats...
I should probably be considering ways to sell these. I don't really have any need for three fascinators, but I enjoy making them, and will probably want to make more. Also, having something creative to do with my hands during the long, boring, lonely days is kind of nice, (more so than usual, somehow, when it isn't being assessed)! Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm a little nervous of doing something like taking a stall at a market or something, because then I'd need lots of stock...and I might not sell anything. I should probably just do it anyway, but...you know. Argh. *wibbles nervously* I could set up a website and sell things online, I suppose. Or even do both. I don't know! It seems like a crazy and wildly ambitious part time job...but it is something I can do reasonably well, it is something I like doing, and it is something people might actually pay money for. It's also not as stressful as dressmaking (and requires less refined skills - the same fascinators fit everybody and don't need patterns or adjustments!). This one cost about $6 to make, and the others were around $7 and $11, so I could sell them for $20 (which is quite cheap for hand-made millinery!) and still make a profit.
As soon as I get my hat blocks I can add felt top hats to the stock, too :D though they would be considerably more expensive (the felt alone is $30 per hat!) and I will be equipped to produce them in one size only. But if they were successful I could source more blocks and...um. I'm getting carried away. But still. How does one go about selling one's creations?
( Random SMS interlude )
Is LJ telling anyone else they need to change their password because it's too easy to guess? I'm quite fond of my password :(
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