Life has swooshed by in such a blur, lately. I don’t find as much time to sit at my PC composing posts – but I am still making stuff. Right now I’m working on 3 major quilt UFOs in between “urgent” little projects such as this latest completed work:
My sis got married a couple weeks ago. I made her “brooch bouquet” and the groom’s “broochonniere”
But this is not your average brooch bouquet, because Beth was not your average bride… Her baubles came from various stops along her life journey:
a flag from Russia, a Georgian cross from her time spent in the vicinity of the Caucasus
a locket from our grandmother (complete with pictures inside), rhinestone earrings from our other grandma…The pieces were unified by affixing them to kanzashi flowers. But first I had to twist miles & miles of jewelry & florist wire. (I borrowed the hubs’ drill to save my fatigued hands!)
You might notice an elk pin which 
There are many more stories, but that is for another time…
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