About a year ago, I stumbled upon a ruffly purple, peach, and cream piece of glass after doing a search on Etsy. I honestly don't even remember what I was looking for. It was to be the first of several purchases from that particular glass artist, I'm afraid I became a bit of an addict. I've always liked colorful glass, and the swoopy unique shapes just won me over. Plus this particular piece reminded me of an iris, and I like irises. I mean the flower... not so much the part of the eye. Though I do quite like being able to see, and some eyes are really pretty, so I guess either one works.
Anyway, I wired some cheap purple pressed glass leaves onto it and hung it from a ribbon. It was pretty. It got compliments. But I wasn't entirely happy with it. Then I found some fantastic ribbon that was the perfect mix of colors to match the glass, with the exception of a bit of green. There was a simple way to fix that though, I just had to replace the cheap purple leaves with nice green ones. Sparkly handmade green ones from the same artist who made the freeform piece in the first place. It was like they had all been made to go together, except they weren't. Sometimes things just come together that way. Pity it took me over a year to find all the pieces.
Up next, I'm working on a really simple shoe mod (I just need to go buy some matching thread) and I'll re-post the one project (also shoes) that made it into The Hutch before it got locked up.
