Author Joan Didion once said she believed in using the good silver every day, because "every day is all there is." It's in that spirit I'd like to embolden you to take some creative liberty and adorn yourself, any day, not just the holidays.

 


Carla fox
header from Carla S. Foxe's Facebook page


The Art of Adornment, that's the name of Carla S. Fox's Etsy shop.

How to define Carla…she's a jewelry designer, a milliner, or more acurately a Facinator , and I would say an embellisher. But her work transcends those terms. Her necklaces, cuffs, neckpieces and hats are works of sculptural art, like a cross between Coco Chanel and Dale Chihuly — elegant and nostalgic, playful and fantastical.

She creates dazzling assemblage pieces using found and discovered materials fabric scraps, antique buttons, bits of vintage jewelry, leaves and feathers.

"I seek out the unusual, the discarded, the overlooked. I see beauty
where it may not currently exist, but I'll coax it out and give it new
life."
 



Carla6
autumn rose

Carla2
coraline

Carla4

white mum

 

Rosegarden
rose garden necklace

 

Carla 11

bluette cuff bracelet

 

Carla5
dogwood

 

Carla 10
lucretia cuff bracelet

 

I'll finish with this dreamy creamy bridal headpiece. Happy EVERY day everyone!

Bridal
the flapper bride

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One response to “Adorn Yourself, It’s Later Than You Think”

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    carla fox

    Dear Sylvia,
    Thank you so much for your kind words. I’m speechless!! To say my work is a cross between Chanel and Chihuly….well, what can I say? I simply love to make adornments of any kind, and hope that someone out there will love them, too. Merci!

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