ABOUT THE WITCHES...

This year the WITCHES are not your ordinary "garden variety!"  Sitting on my desk in a the tiny area I call, "my office",  is a pile of papers that comprise the original manuscript for a fantasy I am writing.  For most of my career, I have been in both the visual and performing arts and have had the great pleasure of being submerged in my passions.

The  collection of headwear pieces called,  The WITCHES, are all inspired this year by my story.   When I am not lost in sewing, I am the choreographer for a performing dance company.  Most of my pieces are story telling dances about, "Things that go Bump in the Night" and other intoxicating subjects! So very often my choreography's inspire my designs and vise versa.   Last year when I sat down to design the witches, I was inspired to create the "good" side of a witch!  I mean after all,  isn't that what makes them so much fun!

This summer I spent a lot of time in an area called Silent Valley, located just below Idyllwild.  It was a heavily forested area and many of the paths were suspicious at best!  It was a great environment to write....and so I continued to develop a new type of WITCH!

This years designs are inspired by characters who will appear in my story.  There is a place I write about called, GOBLINS BEND.  Herein lives the witches, goblins, trolls and fairies that are all part of a magical adventure centered around....A Magic Hat.

About the hat I called ABSINTHE,...(SOLD)
This glamorous over sized hat, made from a beautiful emerald green velvet material, is the witches crowning glory!  It has an unusually large brim, to shade her face from the light and to allow birds and butterflies to rest upon it. Under the brim there is shade for the  small fairy creatures who fly about.  The hat is covered with vintage flowers that resemble wild foliage found in the deepest part of the forest and secret gardens.  Green dyed wheat, hand made green organza rose buds, tiny green and brown feathers make this, the quintessential  "good witch" hat.  It honors all things green, a crown to be worn by only the most revered witch in the forest!

If you are not on my preview mailing list, you can begin to see all the witches in my etsy store starting this week.  Please contact me personally regarding the "WITCH with GREEN HAIR" or would like your name added to the viewing list.  ENJOY!