Sakura circlet
Technically, since I have my Award of Arms, I have the right to wear a circlet. Once, a long time ago, I had a thin copper one that I would occasionally wear. One move, it got bent a little too far and broke, and not really ever seeing anything I liked, I never replaced it.
On our A&S Expedition across town, we visited Discount Beads, and they had these really cool plastic flower beads for sale, and I was like ‘cherry blossoms!’ and bought a bunch, plus tiny yellow beads for stamens, and a length of open copper chain thinking I would make a necklace or something.
When we were at Highland War or Great Western War however(I forget which), I passed by a merchant who did gold and silver smithing and had these very cool jointed circlets. I could not come close to affording one, but I thought it a neat idea. I was already halfway through making cherry blossoms with copper wire stamens, and when I returned to working on them, I had the thought that yes, I could make a necklace, but this open chain would make a really nice circlet, actually… So I decided to change gears and do that instead.
That is a beautiful circlet. How did you make it?
Copper flat jewelry pins were glued into the yellow seed beads to make stamens, and then were threaded through the flowers from the open side. Out the back, the wire was twisted a few times to hold it together, combined with a second flower, and looped around one of the ovals, where all the wire was twisted together to attach them firmly, and then I used plain copper wire, I want to say 18g but unsure, to wind around the twists to cover all the potentially pokey wire ends.