Iam so happy as well millinery is my passion and its taken all this time and effort to get the Ghanaian millinery industry picking up. I will do my best to exchange pics and share some ideas. Thanks Pearl.
Many thanks for your kind comment about my website. I look forward to receiving news letters. I would also love to be featured in your newsletter some time. Many thanks Sue
What a lovely welcome and thanks for passing on the kinds comments about our hat blocks, positive feedback from all of our customers is what spurs us on!
Hi Elaine!Thanks for your invitation!I hope to learnig soon all I can from your lesson!My dreams is the HATS!...So,I tray to make my first hats some years ago using crinolina,plums and I like .I continue,my fantasy working...But I've got to learn more, and i find your site!Thanks!Happy new years!...and...see you soon!Sorry for my english!Alina
What a wonderful welcome, to get a personal message from you Elaine! Unexpected and delightful. Your website is perfect for someone like me. Home base is where my education and inspiration must continue. My kiddies still need me, but my creativity and desire to move forward and learn will mesh well with your website and online lessons...onward! :)
Hi Elaine,
I'm really looking forward to continuously following your site and postings. I love learning , colabouration, ..sharing knowledge and inspiration.
It's an exciting time to be re- embracing hand making hats .
Even though I am passionatly interested in all hats through the centuries..and have a lot of experience in modern street wear as well...
I'm so glad that my personal default interest ( La Belle Epoche ) SO popular worldwide through Downton Abbey . I think we will see the popularity of romantic hats surge ..which will in turn raise the comfort level for hats generally even more!!!! Nice to be aboard!
I have mastered technique of making silk flowers as well , but leather flowers are my passion now. It looks like that there is a big difference in flower-making technique between Russia and Australia. From my Millinery FB friends from Perth I found that even we use different solution for processing silk and r leather. So definitely it will be interesting for me to share my knowledge and experience. I have an agreement with North Brisbane TAFE to run my making flowers course this March.
Thanks Elaine . Love what you have created here. Such a slick and easy to navigate website . Now I think I'll make a nice cup of tea and sit down to watch one of your fantastic tutorials.xx
Thank you for your warm welcome... It has been a mad couple of weeks, the lovely rain turned into quite a deluge. I do hope you and yours were safe and not effected by the floods. Where I am in Flinders View it is fine, if the floods got us Ipswich would need Noah's ark !!
I am so excited to have found your site, I am sure that I will find it very helpful and inspiring. I have never had any formal millinery training, my darling mum did millinery at (?TAFE) many many years ago and has taught me so much. I also love to experiment and teach myself new ways of using materials, as well as utilising tutorials and sharing knowledge with friends.
I am very blessed to have a good friend who has also studied millinery, and I now have my daughter and another young girl learning from me, so it's wonderful to see the knowledge passed down and shared.
One day maybe I will be lucky enough to be able to take a course or two with you when my health improves - I have severe chemical sensitivities from a work accident and find it difficult to be out in public due to perfumes etc... But I am improving and I am hoping my future lies more full time in millinery rather than Practice Management..
I shall be in touch, and thank you again for sharing with us all...
Thank you Elaine - I thoroughly enjoyed the Feather lesson and excited when I saw you using the hair curling wand. Others have instructed me using the back of the knife routine where the spine is broken and tried using a curling wand - mine has 3 different sizes which is great for being creative. All I wasn't doing was heating the spine first, which I will now do. Thanks again, looking forward to scouring for more inspiring lessons.. :) :)
Dear Elaine - thank you for your very nice welcome message. Would I be allowed to post a photo and some information about our millinery workshops at Chateau Dumas? I quite understand if you'd rather I didn't. If so, would it be on Headlines? Thanks a lot, Lizzie
Thank you so much for welcoming me. I am so excited to find a discussion board for milliners. It is so important for the craft that we all can come together to ask advice.
Thanks very much for your warm welcome. I am looking forward to being part of Hat Academy and learning many wonderful things.
My experience of hat making has been limited to a 3 day course that I did last September where I made a fascinator and a large picture hat. But I came away from it feeling empowered and thrilled with what I had achieved.
My goal now that I am retired is to have a little hat business of my own.
Right, so now I'm going to sit and watch my first tutorial. Have a great day...
Thanks Elaine looking forward to brushing up on some new techniques. I love making hats and fascinators for my daughters and their friends for raving season. Cyclone looks like its missed us thank goodness.
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Thanks for the invitation. I also look forward to sharing ideas with you on my creations and learning from you as well.
Hi Elaine
Many thanks for your kind comment about my website. I look forward to receiving news letters. I would also love to be featured in your newsletter some time. Many thanks Sue
Hi Elaine,
What a lovely welcome and thanks for passing on the kinds comments about our hat blocks, positive feedback from all of our customers is what spurs us on!
Warm wishes, Catherine
Hi Elaine,
You make this website feeling like a big family, bonded by the love of millenery.... Thanks so much for you passion!!!
I look forward to get to know your site better!
Have a wonderful week-end! I'm leaving for a month of vacation.. so we'll talk in january.. :)
Many thanks! Emilie
Thanks, Elaine. I'm thrilled to have found your website. I'm looking forward to learning everything I can from your lessons.
Happy New Year!
Hi Elaine!Thanks for your invitation!I hope to learnig soon all I can from your lesson!My dreams is the HATS!...So,I tray to make my first hats some years ago using crinolina,plums and I like .I continue,my fantasy working...But I've got to learn more, and i find your site!Thanks!Happy new years!...and...see you soon!Sorry for my english!Alina
What a wonderful welcome, to get a personal message from you Elaine! Unexpected and delightful. Your website is perfect for someone like me. Home base is where my education and inspiration must continue. My kiddies still need me, but my creativity and desire to move forward and learn will mesh well with your website and online lessons...onward! :)
Hi Elaine, Thanks very much for the kind words:)
I'm really looking forward to continuously following your site and postings. I love learning , colabouration, ..sharing knowledge and inspiration.
It's an exciting time to be re- embracing hand making hats .
Even though I am passionatly interested in all hats through the centuries..and have a lot of experience in modern street wear as well...
I'm so glad that my personal default interest ( La Belle Epoche ) SO popular worldwide through Downton Abbey . I think we will see the popularity of romantic hats surge ..which will in turn raise the comfort level for hats generally even more!!!! Nice to be aboard!
HI, Elaine,
thank you for your nice comment.
I have mastered technique of making silk flowers as well , but leather flowers are my passion now. It looks like that there is a big difference in flower-making technique between Russia and Australia. From my Millinery FB friends from Perth I found that even we use different solution for processing silk and r leather. So definitely it will be interesting for me to share my knowledge and experience. I have an agreement with North Brisbane TAFE to run my making flowers course this March.
Thanks Elaine . Love what you have created here. Such a slick and easy to navigate website . Now I think I'll make a nice cup of tea and sit down to watch one of your fantastic tutorials.xx
Hi Elaine
Thank you for your warm welcome... It has been a mad couple of weeks, the lovely rain turned into quite a deluge. I do hope you and yours were safe and not effected by the floods. Where I am in Flinders View it is fine, if the floods got us Ipswich would need Noah's ark !!
I am so excited to have found your site, I am sure that I will find it very helpful and inspiring. I have never had any formal millinery training, my darling mum did millinery at (?TAFE) many many years ago and has taught me so much. I also love to experiment and teach myself new ways of using materials, as well as utilising tutorials and sharing knowledge with friends.
I am very blessed to have a good friend who has also studied millinery, and I now have my daughter and another young girl learning from me, so it's wonderful to see the knowledge passed down and shared.
One day maybe I will be lucky enough to be able to take a course or two with you when my health improves - I have severe chemical sensitivities from a work accident and find it difficult to be out in public due to perfumes etc... But I am improving and I am hoping my future lies more full time in millinery rather than Practice Management..
I shall be in touch, and thank you again for sharing with us all...
Kindest regards..Fay
Thank you Elaine - I thoroughly enjoyed the Feather lesson and excited when I saw you using the hair curling wand. Others have instructed me using the back of the knife routine where the spine is broken and tried using a curling wand - mine has 3 different sizes which is great for being creative. All I wasn't doing was heating the spine first, which I will now do. Thanks again, looking forward to scouring for more inspiring lessons.. :) :)
Dear Elaine - thank you for your very nice welcome message. Would I be allowed to post a photo and some information about our millinery workshops at Chateau Dumas? I quite understand if you'd rather I didn't. If so, would it be on Headlines? Thanks a lot, Lizzie
Dear Elaine,
Thank you so much for welcoming me. I am so excited to find a discussion board for milliners. It is so important for the craft that we all can come together to ask advice.
Best, Timothy
Dear Elaine,
Thank you for your wonderfully kind message. We are very glad to be part of Hat Academy!
We have also uploaded a couple of photos. Let us know if you wish to receive some more for the Newsletter.
Looking forward to sharing our hat experiences with each other!
Love,
Yashka & Thor
Thanks very much for your warm welcome. I am looking forward to being part of Hat Academy and learning many wonderful things.
My experience of hat making has been limited to a 3 day course that I did last September where I made a fascinator and a large picture hat. But I came away from it feeling empowered and thrilled with what I had achieved.
My goal now that I am retired is to have a little hat business of my own.
Right, so now I'm going to sit and watch my first tutorial. Have a great day...
Regards
Bev
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