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Recently I made a brooch for a woman who loves airplanes. When I cut from felt the first plane in my life and sewed it with a purple thread on a black square, I remembered how much I like making and wearing brooches. Fall leaves, umbrellas, fat cats, birds, butterflies, vintage phones, doggies, and strawberries. Shapes took out from reality sprinkled with feelings and meetings.
I think a brooch is an awesome piece of clothing. It can emphasize your individuality as you wander in the crowd. For a long time, I wore in rainy Ireland, a strawberry pinned in, which is a synonym of summer, lightness, and smile to me. Your brooch can be a ray of sunshine on a gloomy day or an act of courage, sometimes.
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A few years ago, I dared to stand with my handmade brooches on Grafton Street, in Dublin. It was a day full of songs because this walk is famous for that too. And I remember well that a girl from New Zealand bought from me a brooch with a yellow telephone.
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Art of reality
I lately attached my felt brooches to a cotton ribbon and went to the river to take a picture of them. While tying the ribbon from tree to tree, against the background of a meadow, street, or buildings, I saw in my little art a combination of reality. I got the impression that I was flying away to some parallel world. But that was still the same world we live in.
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The brooch you pinned to your denim jacket or shirt collar can be your temporary tattoo which you wear if you want to share a part of yourself, without any world, just through the simple picture: a plane, a strawberry, or favourite colours composition.
What do you think about brooches? Do you like to wear them?
*I can make a brooch on request 🙂