Flower Crowns #2

Part of the Christmas gift I'm giving my friend this year is a flower crown (along with some other little goodies, but sshhhh). After creating a prototype (see below) I have made the final crown (above), which I think is pretty damn good, even if I do say so myself!

I then went to town to get some photos of myself wearing it in a photobooth. It was quite annoying though when I got there. Before inserting my money I had a look through the types of photo you could get and the choice was pretty shite. You could get 5 passport size and 5 for 'other ID' size in one range, so I clicked on the 'fun' range which was either one big portrait of you and your friends, 16 tiny little photos or one with a frame. Each of which cost £5! When did photobooths stop doing the usual strips of 4 or so photos, all different, so that you and your friends could pile in and take silly snapshots? So I ended up getting the passport style photos, which I am going to use in some art for the zine.

Someday I would like to build my own analogue photobooth, complete with red velvet curtain, but I think that day is pretty far off....

Flower Crowns

So, one of my favourite websites is http://www.rookiemag.com which is edited by Tavi Gevinson (she's brilliant!). I guess at 19 I'm a little older than the intended audience, but saying that, I think anyone can really enjoy it. I just wish that something like Rookie had been around a few years ago, it would have made being an awkward 13/14/15 year old a lot less, well, awkward.
The photographer Petra Collins (she's brilliant too!) often contributes to the site, and in October posted a DIY video on how to make these amazing flower crowns as inspired by Meadham Kirchhoff ss11 (go watch it! http://rookiemag.com/2011/10/crown-of-love/). How great is the room they are making them in?!?! Anywho, here are some examples of what I'm talking about (first picture credited to Meadham Kirchhoff and Petra Collins), and beneath is my attempt to make one myself! It's just a prototype as I wanted to try out my glue gun (yay), and also because I didn't have a hairband really wide enough. But I think it turned out ok! I'm going to make one for my friend as part of her christmas present (more on that later)!!