I searched high and low to find a hat to wear to a Kentucky Derby Gala (to benefit Emmaus Community of Pittsburgh, a great organization that provides residential homes for persons with disabilities). After trying on more than a dozen different styles of hats, I realized I was never going to feel comfortable in anything large or "hat-like" that day.
I started to think about last year's Halloween costume and the hairpiece I wore that day...hmmm...
Then I thought about Princess Kate...
I wandered into Claire's looking for some sort of hairpiece that might pass for a hat. I ended up with $17 worth of hair clips as supplies to create my own "fascinator".
I ended up choosing two clips, one flat with feathers and one with loops of ribbon for some height:
I decided I was going to create a "fascinator" that would match my dress since I had gone about things backward and chosen a dress before the hat...gasp!
I added 2 peacock feathers I already had at home to pick up the green in my dress and sandwiched them between the two hair clips then clipped the top clip to the bottom clip - It didn't even require glue so I can dissemble and use them again for another project or add different feathers to match another dress!
It clips in easy-peasy, I hardly even feel it! It's like wearing a barrette so I'm totally comfortable and the green in the feathers matches my dress spot on! Off the the Kentucky Derby...