Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Labor Day Sale 2017 at My Handmade and Vintage & Supplies Shops

This year for the first time, both of my shops on Etsy are running Labor Day Sales. The sales are starting on 25th August, and ending on 4th September for handmade shop HandcraftKu and on 5th for my vintage & supplies shop JagataraArtVintSup. But each shop offers 20% off for all items.

To get the discount, simply enter the coupon codes at checkout. For HandcraftKu, use coupon code HKLDSALE1 and for JagataraArtVintSup, use coupon code JALABDAY1.

In case you'd like to shop from both of my shop and wouldn't like to pay double shipping cost, please contact me via one of my shops and let me know which item (s) from which shop you'd like to have a combined shipping and I'll work out something. For example purchasing a kanzashi flower stick pin or a pair of hair pins from HandcraftKu and a kimono jacket from JagataraArtVintSup such as these. You'd just pay the shipping fee for the kimono.

Vintage silk Japanese kimono jacket in brown with abstract motif with a pair of kanzashi flower hair pins in tan.

Vintage Japanese kimono jacket in ombre violet with purple chrysanthemum kanzashi flower brooch stick pin

Vintage Japanese silk kimono jacket in thulian pin with pink hydrangea kanzashi flower brooch stick pin.

Vintage Japanese silk kimono yellow and orange with shibori motif and yellow kanzashi flower (inspired from buttercup flower) hair pins.

Anyway, whichever items you are planning to buy from both shops, feel free to drop me a message via my etsy shop inbox.

Happy Labor Day shopping!

Tuesday, 1 August 2017

Iris Flower Stick Pins Ayame Kanzashi Inspired

If I go by the seasonal tsumami kanzashi, iris flower or ayame in Japanese should be the flower of May. And now it's August. But I don't follow this principle, so why not enjoying iris flower or any other kanzashi flowers even though they're not in season, right :)

I've been very much into making a variety of petals out of two basic petals: round and pointed by making several folds. The three large petals of this rendition of iris are made of pointed petals. Instead of creating just one fold, I made 3 extra folds. For the other small petals, I just used regular pointed and round petals.

I've made three different irises. One is blue, another is pink and the other is gold tone. These iris flower stick pins can be worn by ladies as scarf pins or hat pins and they can be worn by men as wedding boutonnieres or lapel pins.

Blue Iris Stick Pin Ayame Kanzashi Inspired.

Pink Iris Stick Pin Ayame Kanzashi Inspired.

Gold Toned Stick Pin Ayame Kanzashi Inspired.

To purchase these stick pins, simply visit my Etsy shop. I also accept custom orders.

Wednesday, 19 July 2017

Hydrangea Kanzashi Flower Inspired Scarf Pin Boutonnieres

One of the most loved flowers in summer should be the hydrangeas. A group of tiny flowers makes an adorable half globe shape with a variety of colors such as white - green, pinks, violets, blues.

These floral shrubs have their own unique beauty that has inspired the kanzashi and tsumami zaiku artists and crafters including me. I have included hydrangea inspired tsumami zaiku for a while, and this year I have made three hydrangea inspired stick pins that can be worn as scarf pin for women and a boutonniere for men. They come in three colors: pink, blue and purple. Mounted on metal stick pins with clutches.

I made these with habutai silk, rice glue paste, white craft glue and swarovski crystals beads and mounted them on stick pins with E6000 glue for strength.

Pink Hydrangea Flower Stick Pin/ Kanzashi Inspired Flower.

Blue Hydrangea Flower Stick Pin/ Kanzashi Inspired Flower.

Purple Hydrangea Flower Stick Pin/ Kanzashi Inspired Flower.

These stick pins will make a beautiful scarf pin for ladies and wedding boutonniere for men. Click the links above or click HandcraftKu to shop at my Etsy shop.

Sunday, 8 January 2017

Vintage Kimono Jacket in Pink Shades

Happy New Year!

I hope it's not too late to say it.

It's been a while since my last post where I wrote about some vintage haori or kimono jackets that had just arrived. However, I hadn't really written about each kimono. Well, I am starting today with some of them, the pink ones!

Pink kimono are so lovely. I fell in love with them when I was doing vintage kimono hunting and immediately my eyes were drawn to these pink kimonos. They come in different shades such as rose pink, ombre pink, coral pink, thulian pink and soft terracotta. Three of them are made of silk: terracotta shibori silk haori with tatebiki kanoko (linked dots) motif; soft coral pink rinzu silk kimono jacket with kasumi (mist) and tsuyushiba (dew drops on the grass); and thulian pink with Japanese scenic motif. The other two are made of synthetic fabric or polyester: coral pink haori with tatebiki kanoko shibori motif (but this one is not shibori itself) and momiji motif and ombre pink rose kimono jacket with momiji komon motif.