The specific advantage of floral in a cocktail context is that the print does the visual work that embellishment would otherwise need to do, which means a floral cocktail dress can create a strong, memorable impression in a simpler, lighter fabric than an embellished dress requires
Projects like my Live Edge Cookie Coat Rack or my Hairpin Leg Live Edge Coffee Table all started from a trip to the lumber mill for a different project
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Donate to organizations serving Indigenous women While many organizations serve Indigenous people, in honour of MMIWG+ weve highlighted organizations dedicated to serving Indigenous women in particular: Lil Red Dress project as reported by APTN, the project uses money raised from the sale of beaded earrings and pins in the shape of red dresses to create awareness about people who are missing online and through signs and billboards, mostly on Vancouver Island. GoFundMe campaigns raising money for private investigators, billboards and other supports in MMIWG+ cases, such as this campaign for April Lee-Ann Parisian, an Ojibwe woman with mixed heritage who has been missing since March 2020, and this campaign for Caitlin Potts, a mother from Samson Cree First Nation who has been missing since February 2016 and was last seen in Enderby, B.C