Speaking of mini hats (like you do, if you're me)

[cupcake_goth]

I think I just found the mini tricorn of my Cupcake Gothic pirate-y dreams!



Of course, it's TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS, so there's no way on earth I'm ever getting it. But good heavens, it's darling. Stripy! Pink! Adorned with a miniature pirate ship!

(Listen; do you hear that sound? That is the sound of stroppy_baggage rolling his eyes, sighing, and possibly muttering "Walk away from the computer, Jilli".)


::gazes longingly at the hat some more, then returns to editing work::


EDITED TO ADD: Handy clicky-link o' reference: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=17903748
::sighs some more::

Comments

[chrisrnps.livejournal.com]

TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS?

Step One: Wood, dowels, paper, string, netting, felt, block, steamer, ribbon, hat pins.

Step Two: ?

Step Three: PROFIT!

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Step Two: +/-Fifteen hours labour.

There's a reason I know longer make leather goods to sell, and your comment exemplifies it.

I have been Etsying

[maiaarts.livejournal.com]

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=sr_list_19&listing_id=17765964

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?ref=vl_other_1&listing_id=17661359

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14963035

[savannarama.livejournal.com]

Egregiously overpriced, but pretty and a new sight, for me. It also reminds me of the expression "[She looks like] a ship in full sail."

So...have you taken a hat-making course yet? Or bought a book? When I see prices like that for materials that cost so much less, it seems like hat-making is part of your destiny.

[ladylygeia.livejournal.com]

Wow!! That is TRULY fabulous. Wow. Love. Want.

[arian1.livejournal.com]

That is pretty damn spiffy.

we need to learn how to make these hats

[maiaarts.livejournal.com]

Seriously!
As a hat addict, I think it is time to break down.
I will ask Eric if I can get all the stuff,
and if Judith can't teach me, I think Nancy's Sewing Basket has classes...

Re: we need to learn how to make these hats

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I have a vague understanding of how to make them, I just haven't had the time to sit down and do some trial runs. You know me, no patience.

[maudelynn.livejournal.com]

we could make something like that! i could show you how! and then you could have all the hats you could ever imagine...
hmmm... wait... i think you might be able to imagine A LOT...

[ladylygeia.livejournal.com]

Where is this from? The topsyturvy seller on Etsy?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Not from Topsy Turvy (tho' she does *wonderful* work, and I have one of her hats). This is from heysailor on Etsy.

[chrisrnps.livejournal.com]

For $225, the ship had better have functioning miniature artillery.

[torreybird.livejournal.com]

now THAT's an idea. Jilli, we could do this with cap gun rounds... Actually, how about we just mount a set of miniature cannons on a mini tricorn, perhaps through gun-holes, and have it actually FIRE? The whole hat could be the ship...

hee hee hee... I'm a helper.

[master-cobweb.livejournal.com]

GORGEOUS! I wish I was very, very wealthy. If I was, I would buy you one. And get myself one in purple.

[moonfiregirl.livejournal.com]

::Pirate-Gasm::

That is gorgeous. It does seem pricey though.

[ms-tate.livejournal.com]

I was looking at this very same hat today as I attempted to avoid doing some evil chore. Several thoughts entered my mind:

1. It reminded me, at once, of you.

2. It would look truly lovely on you.

3. It is sadly expensive.

4. I would love to have one as well.

At least it doesn't cost anything to gaze longingly or dream wistfully.

[poh.livejournal.com]

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...I wanna see stroppy_baggage wear it.

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

...

Nope, I don't have a comeback that can match the horror of that image. Bastard.

[theblackdeer.livejournal.com]

I dunno - I think it's worth that price. I mean, I'd pay that much for a corset, so why not a hat?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I'd get more use out of a corset. Which is not to say that I think the hat ISN'T worth the price they're asking: I know enough about millinery to know how much time and work was involved in making it. I just can't justify spending $225 on a hat.

[bittergourd.livejournal.com]

Pete's not the only one muttering that. I am muttering it with him.

[icprncs.livejournal.com]

I find that all I can think is "How the hell do you store that?"

[chrisrnps.livejournal.com]

Combination hat-box / miniature drydock sold separately.

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

OH, my God. That is the best hat in the world.

[spitecandy.livejournal.com]

Now thats specific. lay away?

[stroppy-baggage.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised by the number of people who think it's expensive. It looks like a lot of work went into the hat, and $225 is a reasonable price for the work-hours it would have taken. Of course, the quality of the stitching cannot be judged from that photo so who knows...

Still not buying it, tho'.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

So, if I saved up my pennies and bought it, you won't disown me?

::plots::

[domestinatrix.livejournal.com]

Holy crap! Lions!
Let's put tall ships on hats! We can wear them to tea to celebrate the glorious armada, how could himself be opposed to that?

[josienutter.livejournal.com]

Woah. That's so awesome.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's overpriced at all. You're not paying for materials; you're paying for skill, imagination, and labor. What's a skilled laborer worth? A computer programmer can make $40-$50 an hour; this also takes a igh level of skill and a much more unique imagination - and I'd bet this did take a few hours to make. I sympathize with the budget issue - whether it's worth the money is not at all the same question as whather it's worth living on ramen for a month - but I do think it's worth the money.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think it's overpriced, either. The amount of time and skill that went into creating it is easily worth the price the maker is asking for it. It's just that I can't justify spending that much money on a hat I won't wear very often. I wish I could.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

that looks like it took a long time to make

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it just?

[shipchan.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I feel like you could make that fairly easily though.

You know. . .

[robespierrette.livejournal.com]

Just because I'm a natural enabler, I wanted to point out that the seller has several other *really* cool hats - and they are much less expensive.

I think I may need to ask her about making this number (http://www.hey-sailor.com/choccrawford.html) in a different set of colors, to go with the wonderful 18th century gown that the fabulous Marie (http://www.fittingroomcorsets.com/) is making for me. (It's gold and soft sea-green-blue. . . and needs a hat).