Faerie Enchantment

On The Way to The Emporium of Wonders!Post Three
Finally Sage and I have met at The Emporium of Wonders, which is located right next to the Carnival Toy Warehouse which resembles the toy factory from Babes in Toyland, like it came straight out of Coney Island's Dreamland. This place is huge and filled with tons of curious toys and wonderous carnival inventions, a must see place for all toymakers and cutting edge invention lovers, almost reminiscent of the Grand World's Fair Expositions.

To start I found these delightful pinwheels in the sweetest of pink and aqua colors, made by Miss Pemberton of Pemberton's Sweet Toys, I saw these just peaking around the Emporium's curtains.



Here I am holding my pinwheel, which I just bought, what do you think? Made from sturdy plastic like material, wood, hardware and pixie dust.

There are tons of goodies to buy and to left are some of the prizes you can with tokens or tickets from the Ski Ball, Water Shoot and Casino games, just trade in with with either your tickets or tokens painted by the carnival token crafters, in all the colors of the rainbow, while the Carnival Jewels are handcrafted by the Carnival Jewelers, Cranston LeRusse is the head jeweler with 40 years of experience.


Wow I didn't know there were more hats, these aren't as pricey as the ones from the tree, but still adorable, these hats are from the Dollie Adams Hat Company, they specialize in doll inspired hats and crowns.


This magical hat is made from a circus poster, wrapped into a cone, layered with handmade aqua crepe paper fringe which has been painted with light green color perfect pearls, and lime green party tinsel garland. A vintage bake light and rhinestone button has been glued to center, holiday tinsel stars have been added as well. The center is a vintage image of a lady cut into a circle shape and colored over with prismacolor oil pencils, and smoothed out with a paint brush dipped in paint thinner, the encased in antique silver color glitter, complete with ribbons for tying unto your head.
Project:
Materials
-photo copy of a vintage circus poster 8.5 by 11 inches (regular computer size paper)
-6 yards of Aqua crepe paper streamer (or color of choice), cut into 1 yard sections
-Sheet of card stock
-Light green perfect pearls or light green gouche paint (acrylic paint can be used if thinned out)
-4 strands of ribbon, cut 12 inches long each
-1 yard of party tinsel garland (found in gift wrap section of a craft store)
-2-3 holiday silver stars or make from glitter covered card stock
-2 strands of thin white floral wire
-Vintage image in color
-Antique silver color glitter or glitter color of choice.
-Scissors
-Glues: hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, tacky glue, regular paper glue stick
-Optional: Prismacolor oil pencils, paint thinner, bake light pieces, buttons, rhinestones, pins.

Directions
1. Roll photocopy of circus poster into a cone shape, hot glue closed, cut any un-even sections around head base.
2. Fold each cut crepe paper streamer section into halves, twice, cut half way into the folded crepe paper, every centimeter, creating a fringe like look, un-fold, repeat for each strand of crepe paper.
3. Now hot glue the head base of the hat a little at a time, gluing the fringe onto it, repeat this until you have went around the base of the hat a few times, for a layered fringe look. Make sure to reserve 1 yard of the crepe paper for top of the hat and 1 yard for the medallion.
4. Cut each floral wire piece in half, then attach one end to the stars and the next insert into the top of the hat, into the point section. go inside the hat and hot glue against the sides of the hat.
5. Next cut out the image of choice into a circle, with glue stick attach to card stock, re-cut, at this point you can color in with pencils and paint thinner or leave as is and move onto to this next step.
6. Hot glue one yard of crepe paper fridge behind the cut image, until layered twice, hot glue to center of hat, border with tacky glue and glitter, let dry, shake off excess.
7. Attach the ribbons to the inside of each hat. To do this take 2 strands of the cut ribbon, hot glue to the inside bottom left of the hat, about 2 inches in, repeat on other side.
8. Embellish with the party tinsel, bakelight buttons and rhinestones of choice.

For similar project: The Marie Antoinette Doll Hat, and images visit the inside of my book: Altered Art Circus!

Now to squeeze in a ride on the Woodsby Carousel located just outside the Emporium which Albious Woodsby and his crew have already been wound up, along with a visit to The Winchester Carousel located near the Carlisle Pavillion, Candyland Court and Food Pavillions.......