Just a couple booths down from me at the bazaar was a really nice woman named Kyle who was selling the most decadent and amazing smelling lotions and soaps with a company called Dolce Mia. The products were awesome - the packing was great and the labels - very vintage and right up my alley. Oh my.... there was one Hula Girl Pikake lotion, so amazing! It smelled just like Hawaii and I was in LOVE!
Source: Dolce Mia Pikake Lotion |
Source: Dolce Mia |
They also have other great gift items - placements (like below), clocks, albums, growth charts and more!
Source: Dolce Mia |
Kyle was great - she ended up buying a garland and a brooch from me and I ended up with some of that lovely Pikake lotion. :) Nothing like spending all your profits, right?
Kyle and I kept in touch through our Facebook fan pages and recently she contacted me to make some personalized garland/bunting for her business. We worked via email - writing back and forth to come up with ideas. She went to a local store (Craft Warehouse) and found some fat quarters of fabric and some trim that she liked and then mailed it to me.
I had a great time coming up with ideas for this garland! I looked to Etsy and Pinterest for inspiration and came up with a great idea to incorporate some of the ribbon and trim that Kyle sent me. My one concern was making sure the lettering showed up on the fabrics - I ended up picking fabrics that weren't as 'busy' and used stencils to hand paint the business name on. Here's a peek at how the first set looked all painted:
And here's a peek at the final outcome for the aqua/yellow garland:
Kyle ended sending me a lot of fabric so I created a couple of extra smaller garlands that she could incorporate into her booth in other places.
These are just scraps of the fabrics tied onto some aqua ric rack! :) So simple but so cute! |
And now here's a look at the fall/winter fabric garland:
I used the more traditional pennant shape for this one - and a different font for the letters! |
I am really loving the addition of the baker's twine and jute rope tied in between each pennant! |
I used the extra fabric to make another plain garland too:
I did hear from Kyle once she got everything that she was REALLY happy with how it all turned out!
This little note was from her via my Facebook fan page:
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