I feel awful for not making the time to update my blog. My writing skill is getting bad.. :(... But once I've grabbed my tweezers, rice glue, and stacks and stacks of fabric scraps, I can't stop making what recently has become one of my passions:
kanzashi..
I've been making loads of kanzashis.. Some of them were complete failure and some came out as I had expected or even more.
First, I begin with
ume hana or
plum blossoms. Plum blossoms precedes cherry blossoms. It blooms in very early spring. I managed to take some photos of these flowers before they fell.. Well, plum blossoms don't seem to get as much highlight as cherry blossom where TV or weather forecast faithfully report where the much-loved flower in Japan start to bloom. Whereas plum blossoms don't get that scale of attention. So when my father in-law told us that the plum trees in his field had begun flowering, I went there with my husband and took some photos.
Sorry for the bad quality, I had to fight the cold weather of early spring and the smell of organic fertilizer. I took these photos last February.
To celebrate these flowers, I made some
ume hana or
plum blossom themed hair accessories. I love to experiment with different styles so I tried also the
rustic style and
Mediterranean style of hair accessories aside from common
Japanese style of kanzashi. For more details of my works, simply click the title under each photo.
