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!

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.