| How-To: Create a Luscious Bridal Bouquet My lovely friend Leandra was willing to let me create anything I wanted for her bridal bouquet this weekend. Her only requirement was that I used "all the colors in the rainbow." So I went to the San Francisco Flower Mart, and picked out everything that called to me. The morning of her wedding, I set to work, and 5 minutes before she walked down the aisle, I handed off the most amazing, luscious bridal flowers I have ever created.Making a bouquet for the bride to carry is a very rewarding, but intense task. The pressure is astounding- not only are you trying to give the her the perfect accessory, you are working with very fragile and perishable materials. The hard part is not going overboard with things, and keeping the bouquet as tasteful as possible. My original concept used hydrangea and green mums, but I had a moment where Tim Gunn from Project Runway came into my head and asked me to, "Use my editing eye!" I left out those flowers because when I really thought about it, they made the bride's bouquet look more like a birthday party arrangement. The final piece was the perfect compliment to her beautiful, dreamy, colorful bridal style.Read this article | Comment on this article blog.craftzine.com |
Embroidered Digital Commons Embroidered Digital Commons is a participatory artwork facilitated by Ele Carpenter. You can sign up to embroider a patch of text for display at the AND Festival in Manchester UK this coming October: The Embroidered Digital Commons is a collectively stitched version of the Raqs Media Collective's text 'A Concise lexicon of / for the Digital Commons' 2003, facilitated by Ele Carpenter. The term 'Zone' is being facilitated by ArtYarn and Madlab for the 'Analogue is the New Digital' exhibition curated by Simon Blackmore and Andrea Zapp, part of the AND Festival, Manchester October 2010. If you would like to embroider a patch or co-ordinate a group to embroider a whole term, please get in touch through the open source embroidery google group.Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Arts & Design | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
How-To: Make an Engagement Ring Gareth @ Make: Online writes: When I got married, many, many moons ago, my wife and I designed our own rings and worked with the jeweler who made them. It was a wonderful experience and the rings became even more deeply encoded with meaning. Software developer Matt Katz got even more hands-on with the romance tech by fabricating his fiance's engagement ring out of some white gold, a few flecks of rose gold, and a Moissanite gemstone. Such a thoughtful, handcrafted offering will surly be treasured in an extra special way. On his blog, Matt documents the build process. The resulting ring is quite lovely. Congrats to Matt (and the lucky lady)!Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Jewelry | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
Gaga for Meat Projects Meat in fashion's been getting a lot of attention lately, especially with Lady Gaga's meat outfits on the cover of Vogue Hommes and at the VMAs. We have a long standing appreciation for meat projects here at CRAFT, mainly because they make our stomachs turn with delightful controversy. Is raw meat any better or worse than fur or leather? Gaga certainly draws attention to the beef industry, which we all know could use some work. Here's a roundup of our favorite fleshy fashionable foods. Ellen offered up a veggie bikini in response; let us know your thoughts in a comment below.Meat DressBeef Jerky PurseRead on for the rest!Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Fashion | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |
Halloween Mask Etsy Roundup From performance to ritual, the functional to the fashionable, masks hold a certain crepuscular character. And with Halloween right around the corner, what better way to get excited about the witching hour than ogling a little Etsy mask goodness? While crafting a mask can of course be an elaborate undertaking, it can also be one of the simplest and most compelling ways to alter appearance. What masks might you be making this season?Clockwise from top left: great horned owl mask; little rabbit mask; birch bark mask; leather rabbit mask; white-tailed deer mask; sugar skull mask; speckled gray beardling mask; lacy leaf art nouveau mask.And be sure to check out our Halloween Fantasy Mask Tutorial here on CRAFT!Read the Full Story » | More on CRAFT » | Comments » | Read more articles in Roundups | Digg this! blog.craftzine.com |