The pics above are of a finished headband...Believe it or not the actual headband is supposed to be adult sized but i think it is better child sized...I used to do these years and years ago and sold them ridiculously cheap...This one is covered with velvet ribbon but i also use satin ribbon as well...Everything is hand sewed on with the embellishments being sewn on before the ribbon is sewn to the headband...The inside has satin ribbon sewn on to a) hide all the sewing and b) to look better...Not all of them had these embellishments or the 'pearls' round the outside...I did do other designs as well...I think they make great head pieces for flower girls but maybe that's just me...They were extremely popular when i made them in the past but that could possibly have also been the price...I used to charge £1.50 for a satin one and £2.50 for a velvet one...Now even 14 years ago that was stupidly cheap considering the materials were just about covered lol...Now sadly the embellishment shown here i haven't been able to find for about 9 years...I do have a very limited amount of the pale blue, royal blue and red ones...I have a fair few emerald green ones though...However i have found gold ones and silver ones in a shop in town...Well i say silver she has none left and hasn't been able to get any more although she did say it's mainly at christmas she can get them...She's never seen the white ones with the coloured diamante centres...I have found black ones online that are different looking and i bought a metre of them...Problem is them being black with the clear diamante...Would rather have white as white goes with any colour...I know the pics are a bit fuzzy again but i just took them quick to post on here...White satin or velvet with the coloured embellishments looked really pretty and am so annoyed i cannot find them anymore...John lewis and other haberdashery stores used to sell them...I have looked and looked online and could only find the black which i will post a pic of when i finish that sample headband...Mind you it is hard to search when you don't know what they are called...They come on a strip not individually but obviously you can cut them up into individuals...If any ofyou have seen them or similar on your travels please let me know.
Apart from that i haven't much to say really...Our council apparently are in deeper animal poo than originally thought...So goodness knows what will be cut back on now...Councillor pay!!!! HAHAHAHA fat chance their's and high up heads of depts are protected...Less expenses perhaps!!!!! seriously doubt it...It's going to get worse because they were ordered to employ a troubleshooter for 6 months to sort out social services....He's costing them £100 grand for that 6 months!!!!
The weather was lovely until today where it has been a bit overcast but still not that cold...Sadly on mon there was a big road accident up near mums which even made it on to national teletext news pages...3 young people were killed in the head on collision...When i was at the corner shop yesterday 2 of the old men there were going on about young drivers speeding and killing themselves...They weren't that impressed when i chipped in and said from the photograph i don't believe the young 22 year old driving the car was at fault...The transit style van is the one in the photo on the wrong side of the road and the 2 men (in their 40's) in it survived with minor injuries...But the 2 girls (sisters) and lad come from my home village :o( That makes 4 young people from there to have been killed in a road crash this year :o( So tragic and at times am glad that Kerry is unable to be given a drivers licence and that the boys don't wish to learn to drive...Garath is off out to the cinema and has just been texted to ask if he wants to go paintballing on mon...Just as well i haven't yet thrown out his jeans that are beyond decent use and he does have a couple of old tops left that still haven't gone in the bin...But i did chuck out old trainers recently <sigh>
Toodle pip tc xx
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It's a beautiful headband Cathy and looks beautifully finished too - the satin inside band and edging really make it top class.
Does Garath know that sometimes a hit from paintballing can hurt?
A couple of years ago a young local man was killed on his bike on my lane, just where it bends around the corner of my paddock. When I wanted to give a chunk of the corner to the council so that they could take the hedge out and make the corner safer they refused because they would have had to pay their own solicitors fee - even tho I wanted to give them the land for free!
Caff your headbands are lovely can imagine how much work goes into making them have you decided how much you will charge for them yet ?? I think it should be a lot more than you charged 14 years ago :o) ~
LOL I think cutting the Councillors pay is a very good idea !!!!! ~ I am sure they would be prepared to do this :o)
So sad about those three young people being killed in that road accident ~ glad you chipped in and put those old men right about who caused the accident ~ Ally x
The headbands are lovely Caff, as you say great for bridesmaids and also little girls who love dressing up. Hope you have more luck in finding different colours. Yes, I saw and read about those young people, so very sad.
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