Showing posts with label Bonnets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bonnets. Show all posts

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Easter Parade

Enjoying the colorful festivities! Helen, Valerie, Me and Ari
The Easter Parade is a time where New Yorkers and visitors alike celebrate the joy of Easter, the renewal of spring and the color that results.  One cannot help but feel spirited amongst the rainbow of wonderful homemade bonnets that roam 5th Avenue each year.  It is a parade of people, some of the most wonderful in New York! 
This is one you don't want to MIS.  I'll be dreaming about the floral explosions, peep sombreros and egg bonnets until next Easter Sunday!

Enjoy, 
Margo Isadora 
My Golden Egg Bonnet!
Captured by Tom 
Cathey
See Tom's wonderful Easter parade coverage here.
This year I created a "Golden Egg" by plastering a balloon and covering it in hot glue, after creating a wire cage for support I sprayed it with gold paint! After filling it with 3 cute chicks I was ready for the parade :)

A handsome gentleman... loved his bunny cane! 

Chick Perfection

Flower Boys

Fellow Eggs!

A Chic Bonnet

Me and Ari Seth Cohen of Advanced Style

A Spirited Man

PEEPS!

Flower Mama and Child

Spring has Sprung!

My Wonderful Crew!
Don, Me, Jane, and Tom

Scootering away! 

Mama's Blooming Bonnet Matched!

I met an Aussie bunny at the Parade!
Visiting from Melbourne to 'show off her carrots'!

Spring has SPRUNG!

Tom and Don's fantastic Eggery!

Sweet Farm Figures

Mom and I in our Bonnets
Captured by Tom Cathey

Till Next Year...
See previous Easter Parade Festivities here, here, and here!

Sunday, April 8, 2012

A Parade of Bonnets!

Soul Sisters!
The Easter Parade was filled with all sorts of wonderful characters this year.  It is a DIYer's heaven, filled with inspiring bonnets and outfits.  Here are a few of my favorite shots, I hope your Easter was as happy as mine!  

Enjoy,
Margo Isadora

p.s. Check out the tutorial for my bonnet here!

A Wee One with Attitude!

Like Mother, Like Daughter


Forest Goddess

Flower Power!

Carrot Queen

Button Boy

Regal in Aqua and Fuschia

Gardening Buds


Matching Flower Bags!


Feathers?! Yes, please!

Floral Explosion

Chillin' with My Pink and Orange Friends!

My Easter Bunny, Mochi, made sure to keep a few eggs for us!

DIY Flower Easter Bonnet

My DIY Flower Easter Bonnet!
The homemade bonnets that parade down 5th Avenue each year on Easter Sunday always brighten my day.  I have worn vintage bonnets every year, but this is the first Easter that I made my own.  This is a quick tutorial for the fun flower bonnet that I will don at the parade today!  

Celebrate the color, the bunnies, the bonnets, and the springtime fun that Easter brings!

Enjoy,
Margo Isadora 

1. Buy Inexpensive Flowers

2.Pull the flowers off the stem and separate the petals from the green base and center.

3. Begin to reassemble your petals.  Combining different colors and types on one center.  Use the original green flower backing to secure it. 

4. Find an old hat, to become the base of your bonnet.

5. Detach any decorations from your hat.

6. Heat up your glue gun, and have your pile of flowers and hat  ready!

7. Place flowers around hat to insure that you have enough before you start gluing.  

8.Cut off tip of green stem backing.


9. Glue back of flower and begin to build your bonnet!
10.  Add on a couple butterflies and you have one festive flower bonnet!

Side View

11. Pair it with a yellow dress, flower tights, and fuchsia shoes and you are good to go!

Happy Easter!