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Margolily and Anne-Marie Pinkerton

2010-04-02T05:09:00.000-07:00

Anne-Marie and her flower girl looking truly gorgeous with a wee sprinkling of margolily magic xx

margolily at Helen and Duncan's wedding

2010-03-29T11:01:00.000-07:00

A raucously giant fascinator with golden pheasant feathers - survived wind and ceilidh dancing! Whooppee!

Margolily Newsletter - Spring has Sprung

2010-03-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

Hello to all you best dressed chickens,

Margolily here with a spring in her step and a snowdrop tucked behind her ear...and of course some stories and news from recent goings on.

As ever you are on this list because you are a friend of margolily, maybe a boutique, a customer, a bride, a fascinator and feather lover, or maybe a customer of the future, though if you are thinking why on earth am I on this list, do let me know and I'll remove your details.

So...where to begin? In their December issue Vogue fashion adventures suggested ... wear a tiara! Margolily couldn't agree more and creative endeavours have been spiralling ever since! As I write I have the wildest of creations atop my hairdo - found some gorgeously unusual, black vintage feathers in Herman Brown's in Edinburgh and embroidered all around a snippet of the glitziest gold sequin fabric - just as perfect for a wedding at the end of the month as emailing in your jammies! Margolily made a wonderful new friend in January with Anjali's Boutique and joined her at an Asian Wedding Show - most fabulous colours as well as the utterly brilliant Punjabi No.1 break dancing, hip hopping dance crew!

Margolily took her travelling bag of tricks and headed off to Broughty Ferry to bring a workshop to the loveliest gang of hens - and Margolily loved it! Each hen party goer made a beautiful, unique piece and kept margolily's energy going with tasty cakes and fancy tea!

Margolily met a taxi driver with the best chat ever, whilst talking about his days as a bush ranger in South Africa he came up with the idea of running workshops alongside falconry centres ... more news to come of extra special flights of fancy with birds of prey!

Margolily has even found time to set up a science laboratory in her bedroom and experiment with preserving real flowers in resin. The cat has become a little bit too curious so in the mean time, Margolily has sourced real flowers preserved in glycerin, which can be sewn into headpieces for an extra delicate and luxurious design. At the moment I've got some lavender hydrangea, cerise orchids, ivory gardenia and champagne roses to play with! Yeeha! These flowers are very special and will never ever fade, quite magic! Oh and Margolily is all signed up for an evening learning how to do Vivienne Westwood themed floristry ... ooohh ... expect some punky head gear in the future!

Anyone with eagle eyes may have spotted margolily decorating Alice and the red queen in this weekends' Sunday Herald Alice in Wonderland fashion story!

So here we go for a springtime blossoming with ideas and fancy pieces,

Kindest wishes,

Sara margolily xx

Find margolily at: Raw Vintage - Glasgow

Anjali's Boutique - Glasgow

Kakao - Edinburgh

Fabhatrix - Edinburgh

Hannah McLure Centre - Dundee

Coloured Earth - Wales

Or take a peek online at:

margolily.blogspot.com

www.myspace.com/margolily

www.velvetboutique.co.uk/acatalog/Margolily.html

Margolily in the News

2010-03-14T09:23:00.000-07:00

Margolily in Wonderland with the Sunday Herald! Margolily has fallen down the rabbit's hole with Alice in todays' Sunday Herald fashion story and looks fabulous; decorating both Alice and crowning a red queen xx

margolily workshop

2010-03-07T09:25:00.000-08:00

Hello,

Well...what a truly gorgeous day margolily spent yesterday! Invited to give a fascinator making workshop to Alison and her hens in an Alice in Wonderland themed mad hatters tea party! Everyone was fabulous and worked so hard to create beautiful and individual head pieces, we had a lot of fun, helped along by tea served in dainty china and the most incredible cheshire cat cake!

margolily and Anjali's Boutique

2010-01-31T12:07:00.000-08:00

Hello,

A little heads up...margolily has made an exciting new friend and joined Anjali's Boutique in Govanhill, Glasgow! Perfect timing to adorn Anjali's wedding exhibition at the Hilton, William Street on Sunday 7th February 11am - 8pm. Fashion shows are at 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. Expect to see gorgeous brides in the richest of colours and luscious sari silks and some margolily sparkle here and there too!

Come along if you can, dream if you can't xx Sara margolily xx

margolily newsletter - ostrich and llama

2009-12-05T17:07:00.000-08:00

So a year of treasure filled delights has passed for margolily!

Indeed from crazy fascinator making for shops in Glasgow and Edinburgh, fluffing the feathers of birds in theater, decorating brides and their gorgeous guests, going down the market with Made in the Shade, Beanscene and the very lovely Handmaid Heaven in Dundee, strutting down high fashion catwalks (always the best dressed chicken!), even going back to school and learning some very sparkley tiara making skills and also in the pipeline are fascinator making workshops for hens and friends... it's been a high old time for margolily! Margolily has even befriended an ornithologist who passionately collects and categorises bird feathers from the Aberdeenshire fields and skies. What a lucky lady margolily has been! And of course dear friend Michelle who has massaged tired of knitting elbows and limbs to spring back like new and get making, nimble like!

So to dreaming and sewing along to my talking books, with thoughts of an ostrich and a llama in my head...

Full feather and fig, kindest wishes,

Sara margolily xx

Find margolily at: Raw Vintage - Glasgow

Maisonette - Glasgow

Kakao - Edinburgh

Fabhatrix - Edinburgh

Coloured Earth - Wales

Or take a peek online at:

www.myspace.com/margolily

www.velvetboutique.co.uk/acatalog/Margolily.html

Maisonette and Margolily

2009-11-01T12:51:00.000-08:00

First sale at the very lovely brand spanking new Maisonette shop by the just as lovely Made in the Shade gals. This gorgeous moss and sparkling gold margolily fascinator was picked by editor of the new scottish fashion magazine Coveted. Here's a link to follow:

http://www.thecovetedmag.com/

Kakao by K Fashion Show pics

2009-10-28T13:47:00.001-07:00

Margolily struts her stuff, fluffing her feathers for Kakao by K.

http://kakaobyk.blogspot.com/

Songbird

2009-10-28T12:56:00.001-07:00

Margolily's first ever head piece for theatre, working alongside lovely wardrobe mistress

Jenny Loof and designer Brian Hartley to create a headpiece for an exotic bird in a piece of

children's theatre! The head piece underwent many transformations and I think it grew each time,

this is a photo in it's early days.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/stage-visual-arts/sweet-music-tells-story-of-a-true-labour-of-love-1.926053

Pearl and Mallard

2009-10-10T10:49:00.000-07:00

Wow! Coloured Earth boutique owner Michelle posted me some mallard feathers to create something for a wedding she was going to. I had a lot of fiddling and a few attempts at more demure pieces before coming up with this extravaganza...a bit of a departure for margolily! Michelle added the pearls and it's come together to look very magnificent! Good team work!

Glamorama at Raw Vintage

2009-08-12T11:40:00.000-07:00

Some gorgeous girlies pose in Raw Vintage fashions and a wee turquoise and butterfly margolily treat as photographed by the Evening Times!

margolily meets velvet boutique

2009-05-12T14:15:00.000-07:00

Woo...margolily to buy online for the first time ever, buy direct from velvet boutique!

http://www.velvetboutique.co.uk/acatalog/Margolily.html

Margolily Glitters

2009-05-05T08:27:00.000-07:00

Loved making this glitzy creation...I was given beautiful, decadent materials to work with...feathers, pearls, found button, velvet flower and the much coveted sparkley ribbon!

1920's Margolily extravaganza

2009-05-05T07:21:00.000-07:00

Commissioned specially for a 1920's themed hen night! Sounds like lots of fun xx

Margolily goes out hunting in her finest feathers...

2009-04-29T13:41:00.000-07:00

A gorgeous fun commission for Lucy M for her wedding, bright purple feathers and a touch of deep plum, adorned with a tartan flower using remnants of her corset material and a sparkley purple gem. All turned around in super fast time and the wonder of next day delivery!

Pearly Queen

2009-04-24T11:14:00.000-07:00

Everyone one seems to be loving hair combs just now...Just finished two of these simple and gorgeous pearly treats for lovely Emily who is off to Thailand for her wedding...barefoot on the beach xx

Lovely Jo Mango

2009-04-23T08:53:00.000-07:00

Jo on her wedding day, looking gorgeous. Fascinator a margolily creation xx

Margolily Sparkles

2009-04-20T12:42:00.000-07:00

Another wee vintage brooch transformed and adorned with a few pearls for a lovely and wild Algerian wedding this Saturday xx

Dainty Spring Wedding Comb

2009-04-17T11:18:00.000-07:00

Just finished this hair comb for a customer at Raw Vintage...really pleased how it looks...customer's brooch revamped into hair comb with little pearls. It's turned out all pretty and dainty xx

margolily memory

2009-04-14T14:45:00.000-07:00

Was having a wee peek through old photies and found this one. Treasure like it reminded me of stumbling around Paris searching for a guitar shop with Greg and on the hunt we found a very gorgeous haberdashery where I bought the giant felt flower...and then the sparkley bead was made for me by my friend...a lady bought this fascinator about a year ago as inspiration for her wedding dress and just recently it came back to me and I beaded it all to match her bridesmaids dresses and made her a wee haircomb and some corsages to match. Good when something has a wee story all of it's own.

A new dawn...

2009-04-13T10:37:00.000-07:00

...and so here we go. Dabbling in website creation ideas I realised how very expensive it all can be and thought I would have a wee go at blogging having peeked at a couple of other gorgeous blogs. So here is margolily experimenting with the techno futures and maybe picking up some tips, ideas and sparkles along the way xx