<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/597ae3d0-828d-4f8c-a847-d3d9f6e3ca67/5A9DC755-52D3-456A-8C35-DF141B58E572/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://uncommongrace.typepad.com/uncommongrace/2007/04/birthday_crowns.html" href="http://uncommongrace.typepad.com/uncommongrace/2007/04/birthday_crowns.html" style="font-size: 11px;">uncommongrace.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uncommongrace.typepad.com/uncommongrace/2007/04/birthday_crowns.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uncommongrace.typepad.com/img/BBF0F3BB-90F1-419E-B8F4-600486E30571" alt="birthday crowns" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uncommongrace.typepad.com/uncommongrace/2007/04/birthday_crowns.html">There <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonrose/375250321/">are</A> <A href="http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=crown&w=28723352%40N00">many</A> <A href="http://soulemama.typepad.com/soulemama/2007/03/a_little_about_.html">people</A> <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clothpaperstring/438774856/">making</A> and/or selling their own versions of felt birthday crowns; I imitated an illustration of a child wearing a crown on the cover of <A href="http://www.amazon.com/Birthday-Crafts-Festivals-Family-Activities/dp/1903458013/ref=pd_bbs_sr_7/002-3822639-3389652?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176781890&sr=8-7">The Birthday Book</A> for my design. I used plant-dyed 100% wool felt for the front, and plant-dyed wool-rayon blend felt for the lining (because the plant-dyed 100% wool pieces are not large enough for the entire lining). Using plant-dyed felt seemed very important to me for this project. Not only is it just lovely, special, earthy, and so appropriate for the spiritual significance of a birthday (a reminder of our connection to the earth, which is especially tangible in the moment of birth), but it is also thicker and stands up a bit better than a standard felt (even 100% wool) would.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uncommongrace.typepad.com/uncommongrace/2007/04/birthday_crowns.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uncommongrace.typepad.com/img/AD957152-613C-4C39-81C8-43F6F6401034" alt="jj's crown" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://uncommongrace.typepad.com/uncommongrace/2007/04/birthday_crowns.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/uncommongrace.typepad.com/img/B53B2AFC-2B6D-4F8C-9AB8-B43726237678" alt="Elisabeth's crown" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5A9DC755-52D3-456A-8C35-DF141B58E572/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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