New brooch - obidome

I found this vintage brooch, which is going to be a very nice obi-dome

Amazing trade

I have got these wonderfull kanzashi in a trade, and they are most exquisite.
It is Wisteria Gardens from IG who have made it, se more on her web http://kanzashi.weebly.com/

Customize geta

Since I have big feet even for a danish girl, I desided to remake som mens geta to fitt me.

The hano is a bit short, I will make
some new ones

I found that the paint was not fully dry,
when I took them ontheir test drive.

New stuff - on the way

I am slowly gathering kimono from all stages of in a kimono officiel life, and it will lasts a few years before I'm done.

My last purchase in this direction, was this set.

I also won all these...
I am very curious as to how they are, when they arrive.

And these hadajuban, those was just 600 yen...

SVScon

The the workshop at SVScon I had this combination on, since it is varm to dress others, the material is summer.

Sorry for the quality, I had forgotten my camera.

Kimono Show - Sakura Festival 2013

So it is over, so fast...

It was a pleasent day, a lot of work, but it was worth it.
I got so much help all the way, it was a pleasure..

Here is a picture from the day.

The hole group

Here is picture of my kimono set what was in the show, it was a joy to see them in action.

Making ready for kimonoshow

So the show is on sunday.


Exercising musubi.

I have not taken picture of them all, but I took of this one, since it was my very first try, I am not goin to use this type though.

This one I have made so many times, now...

And a looot of preparing, ironing, sewing, etc.
It's amazing how long it takes

 

The second try - Kanzashi

So I had my second try, the petals is more shaped and equally, and I'm down to 6, my goal is 5.

New Han-eri, 13 at a time, feel very lucky

Won this, 13 haneri some time ago for only 2500 yen, and today they arrived : D

They are so nice, and the color is way better than in the pictures, also compaired to the ones I have taken now.

3 is used and 10 is new.

My first Kanzashi

My first Kanzashi ..... : D

It has many opportunities for improvement, but I had not really expected that it would be so nice, you can actually see what it should be.

So it arrived

So my new Fukuro obi arrived, and it is as nice as I hoped : D

I have here tried it with my kurosomestode, and I like it.I'm a little unsure, if the obi is formal enough, it dose have a looot of silver, all over.
I have looked several competitions "those where the goal is to dress others" to see how far I can go with a color for a Fukuro to a kurosomestode.

This picture is with out accessories, and the traditionel flat obijme

New Fukuro

This one have two sides

Have yet to see this, but I am really looking forwar

Summer Fukuro

Nice but a little short, the color was a bit different, when it
got home. it is always difficoult to snap, metalic treads.

This was impulsive (mistake) buy, it is syntetic, but very long.

This one has a slightly lightred, colour all over.

Metalic, from dark green to purple, I hope...

Iromuji

Feel mighty lucky, I have got this iromuji, the fabric looks a bit shiny, but when it is 170 cm long and 142 cm sleeve to sleeve, then I can live with a some shiny fabric.

There was Zori with, but they are a bit bit small for me, unfortunately.