Flower headdresses are everywhere, and as spring approaches I predict we’ll see more and more of them. Luckily, they’re spectacularly easy to make.
What you’ll need:
Ta-da! You’re ready for the debutante ball.
I get some of my style sense and most of my wacky theatrics from my mom Carolyn. She’s an incredible writer, a junior Italian chef, a budding painter, and the ultimate “mom’s mom,” showering me and all my friends with love, advice, and more pasta than we could eat in a week!
She’s also found me a sampling of her signature looks from decades past . If anyone’s wondering where I get that big hair…
The obligatory embarrassing prom shot with my future godfather Joe. That fabulous beehive puts us in the early 1960s.
Lake Tahoe, California circa 1975
She’s also a talented seamstress and imaginative costume maker. When I was a kid, we had an unbelievable collection of dress-up clothes, and I’m lending friends capes, kimonos, and corsets to this day.
My Fair Lady, 1980
Aye, mamacita!
The bar wench, 1981
She was a costume designer, props mistress, and all-around “stage mom” during all of my high school (and a few of my college) productions. She’s now sewing for Stockton Civic Theater in her spare time, and hopes to someday step up to the stage.
Mama Carolina, you’ll always be a star.
1988 Amabile Family Reunion. I think I’m a bun in the oven!
