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Spring Window.

And so it begins.....

Mysecond window display was installed in Hepwrights today and it went a lot easier than the first window for valentine's day. This may of been for a few reasons maybe because I had already installed a window and because this installation would be some what simpler in the fact it had no painting on the window.

 

To hang the  flower poms in the window I used very fine fishing wire so it looked practically invisible from the outside on the window. I made the decision that I would either use something really bold to hang the poms with so that it was part of the display or use thin fishing wire so that they would appear to be floating. As I couldn't find anything that fitted the theme to hang them with fishing wire it was.

Hepwright's window has two parallel metal poles across the ceiling to hang things from which are perfect to tie the fishing wire around to hang the poms off.

 

Positioning the poms was  important so as to spread the colours and sizes out so that it looked random but there was not to many of the same colour together or of the same size hung at the same height.

The only real issue I had while hanging the pom poms was my height as the rails hang off the ceiling so I had to stretch up on my tip toes so it was difficult to tie the fishing wire. As soon as all the poms were tied to the rails it was easy to slide them from side to side to space them how I wanted.

The next step was the dress that was going to be the single central garment in the this display.

The dress I picked was a simple yellow dress with spaghetti straps a slight petticoat and a bodice embellished with beads.

To give the dress something extra I made a petticoat out of tissue paper  to fill the dress out.

 

The tissue paper petticoat was made of some of the colours from the pom poms mixed with white and then taped together and hung up inside the dress.

 

With the dress just pulled completely over the petticoat  it weighted it down and crushed it slightly so I decided that  pinning part of the dress up would stop the petticoat being crushed and would add movement to the dress.

 

This is a photograph of how I started to hold the dress up with fishing wire.

I also added a blue scarf as a belt and tied as a bow in the back  to make the petticoat stand out more.

So here it is my spring themed window bright and breezy let me no what you think.

Attempting to make flower pom's

To figure out how to make my flower pom's i decided to search the wonders of youtube.com as being able to watch how somebody make them is always easier than just following steps that have been written down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgeHGG-4EI8 

This was the video i decided to follow, take a look it will show you just how simple they are to make.

After watching the video I went to the craft shop to get tissue paper in different colours and string.

These were just some of the colours that I chose to make my poms out of.

The mix of bright colours with pastels means that they will  match with any garment that can be found in Hepwright's.

Pastels are the colour scheme that is associated with the spring season so it made sense that I used colours from the pastel palette but at the same time teaming them with bright colours it would keep the display away from having a  purely pastel theme to it.

 

Half way through my first pom and it was starting to take shape. The only difficult part of making the pom was folding it to the same size each time and then when separating each layer making sure not to rip the tissue paper.

 

Et Voila

 A homemade flower pom. This pom was made with nine sheets of tissue paper five pink four orange.

I am impressed with my first few attempts at flower poms i decided to experiment with making smaller sized ones.

 

The smaller poms look a lot fuller using nine layers. For the larger poms I might try experiment with more layers to see if they look better and more spherical.

 

I decided that eleven layers of tissue paper worked better for me with my poms and making my folds smaller so they were just under an inch helped make my poms keep there shape more.

 

As you can see I've been a very busy bee and flower poms have been taking over my life. 

I feel although I could make them in my sleep now I have made so many different sizes, mix of colours, different numbers of sheets of tissue paper, some with large folds and some with small.

Hopefully by having such a range of flower poms it will look better and more personal than all one size and one colour.

Let me know if any of you have tried out making these and if so how you got on .

Pom Pom's

 It's always incredibly satisfying when you find a way to make your ideas in to the real thing.

After days and days of trying to find a way to create a window display  without using real flowers I finally found the perfect way to reflect spring feeling with bright colours and still have a flowery feel to it .

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Flower Pom Pom's made out of tissue paper. they can be made in such a large variety of shapes and colours they are also incredibly cheap to make  which is perfect as I think it will take quite a few to fill up the window.

 

Flower pom's are often used as wedding decorations or for parties and baby showers. They are bright bold and fun which is just what i want for my window.

 

The next step was to figure out how to actually construct these flower Pom's next step ...... YouTube.com 

Abstract Flowers

Since both real flowers and artificial flowers were out of the action plan of my window  I began to looking through tumblr at how different people created flowers out of different things here are some of the interesting finding.

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This is the most creative way i have found of making abstract flowers and also the most Eco friendly.

 Who would of thought you could make something so pretty out of your food waste? Not only do these flowers look beautiful fresh and when they dry out but they would also smell amazing too!

 To make a big enough impact for a whole window display however I would have to make hundreds and that is a lot of oranges to eat !

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Paper origami flowers is an option that i could use for my window display these are so delicate and pretty  and can be decorated with gems  or buttons. They could be made in a wide range of colours and different sizes there is also different variations on the flowers  you can make. 

The only problem i can see about using these as part of my window is that they would be  time consuming to make and then would be difficult to transport to the shop with being damaged.

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This is another beautiful idea of how to make flowers out of waste. 

This flower globe is made out of pages of an old book or you could use news paper.

I personally like the idea of  the flowers being in a globe shape as it makes them visible from both the outside and inside of the shop.

These would be perfect for my window display apart from the fact they are black and white, as my window is spring themed i had imagined using more colours.

 

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Shortly after finding the paper book globes I found these! flower tissue paper poms. 

They are perfect for my window display I could make them in whatever colours I wanted.

Now all I had to do was figure out how to make them. 

Wish me luck! 

Spring window Idea.

After my first window had been on display for three weeks it was already time to start planning the next window display for Hepwright's. Even though it was still snowing and firmly still in the winter season. Planning a window that was spring themed was still the idea I wanted to follow, this was because i felt everyone needs something to brighten up there day and remind them that  spring is coming.

I began to look at window displays that have been created around the spring theme as inspiration, here are some of the displays that i found worked well and why.

The idea of using flowers really stood out to me as a spring themed window idea. After taking these idea's to Hepwright's  to ask Catherine her ideas we both decided that flowers would be a great idea to base the spring window on.

Real flowers would cause a massive problem because the would have to be changed every few days as there would be no way to keep them fresh. This made me look at different artificial flowers and if they would be more practical to use.

Artificial come in a large range of sizes and different types of flowers so in theory they would be perfect to use for a window display. The more I looked into artificial flowers the more that i decided against using them this was because  the smaller flowers that look more realistic  wouldn't have the impact I wanted for the window in contrast the flowers that were big enough to have an impact looked to fake. If the flowers were going to look fake I felt it would be better to make really fake flowers that didn't necessarily look like  flowers but gave the impression of them.

I decided my next step will be to look at different peoples ideas of more abstract flowers on tumblr.

Lettering Idea for Window.

While thinking about window idea's for my next window installation I came across the idea of making some kind of display using the word Hepwright's. This stemmed from a conversation that myself and Catherine had about using vinyls on the front of the window as the lettering on the shops header was quite high while walking along the street.

Vinyl lettering on glass is a great way to make a shops name more visible for passers by however it can also make it more difficult to build window displays around. This is where my idea came from would I be able to create a window display out of letters inside the window.

Here are some windows I found that used letters as part of them.

 

The idea of using giant foil inflatable balloons  is a great way of using lettering in a window display. If I used balloons as part of my window display I would attach them to interesting things as weights such as shoes or hat boxes

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This is a window display from Christian Louboutin. This is a very elaborate window display and would not be possible to recreate for Hepwright's the idea of using lights around lettering such as fairy lights could be interesting. 

 

This window using a combination of both vinyl and lettering made from boxes. The concept is a great one of using both two dimensional and three dimensional letters to give the window more depth  and texture to it. 

 

 This window display uses letters as more of a curtain of falling letters like rain. This is great visual impact however it is almost impossible to tell what it is meant to say.

 

I used this image in one of my spring window idea blogs as well. The idea of making letters out of fabrics is a good one however it may look to arts and crafts for Hepwrights and that's a theme  we wanted to stay away from.

 

Whistles windows is made of big three dimensional letters made from what looks like  thick card or cardboard painted.  This idea could be used to create letters for Hepwrights my only concern is that the window may not be large enough to have letters big enough to have an impact because Hepwright's is quite a long word.

I showed Catherine my idea and we decided that the foil balloons would definitely would be a great idea for a window display but it would lend itself more to the winter and Christmas season instead of spring.