Feather Eyelashes

I really love it when I find a new feather product or fashion that I didn’t see before.

Feather eyelashes are one of those pleasant surprises.

You can buy all sorts of feather eyelashes on line or of course you can make them yourself with real feathers (of course that will be my next post).

From what I have gathered the trend of creating feather eyelash extensions has its roots somewhere in China.

There are also two different way to make feather eyelashes.

One way is to attach feathers to you eyelashes and another way is to style your own lashes to look like feathers.

My favorite picture here is from this great fashion bog that I came across.

Take a look at these stunning pictures.

Turkey Feathers

It’s that time of year that everyone is talking about the great American bird.

No I am not talking about the bald eagle; I am talking about the other great American bird the turkey.

So in the name of the season I wanted to dedicate a post to all the different types of turkey feathers we have to offer at FeatherStore.com.

First up for our turkey feather products that have to do with Thanksgiving are our turkey feather quills. They come already tipped for that pilgrim in you to write a quick note.

TURKEY QUILLS - TIPPED

Next up are our turkey ruff fringes. These are great to easily give almost any piece of clothing an Indian look and feel.

TURKEY RUFF FRINGE - SMALL

We also have these cool looking dyed turkey quills for the more modern pilgrims.

TURKEY QUILLS

 Enough with the pilgrims and Indians now let’s talk strictly turkey feather.

Here are a few more great turkey feather products that you can find on FeatherStore.com.

TURKEY FEATHER PADS

TURKEY FEATHER BOAS

TURKEY FEATHER PETALS 

HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Hurricanes For The Birds

What do our feathered friends do during a hurricane?
Like use birds know ahead of time that a hurricane is coming. They are extremely sensitive to even slight shifts in barometric pressure. Depending on the kind of the bird and the location that it finds itself in when it catches the news of bad weather, the bird will chose from one of three options.
Some birds will chose to sit tight and ride out the storm on the ground. Wood peckers for instance will hunker down in their hollowed out tree until the storm passes. This option just like all of the others has its possible down fall. In this case it would be the obvious, which if the tree doesn't make it through the storm then the bird is out of luck.
Some birds just evacuate. The problem with this is that even if they get caught up in the outer winds of the storm they could still wind up hundreds if not thousands of miles away from the homes.
Some birds take the braves rout and fly with the storm itself. They can either stay in the eye of the storm where the weather is calm or the can actually ride the winds in order to increase their flying speed. This course of actions is very trying on the birds because it forces them to go long stretches of time without food or rest. These brave birds can also find themselves at the end of the storm many miles from home.
With Hurricane Sandy many birds were lucky because of its coming late in the migration season most of the birds had already migrated south for the winter.

All Of Our Halloween Feather Posts In One Place

Because some times blogs are a bit hard to navigate I put together this list with links to all of our Halloween posts so that you can easily see them all together and visit the ones that you like.

How To Make a Halloween Feather Wreath

The Best Halloween Feather Boas

Make A Feather Halloween Tree

How To Make A Feather Wig

How To Make A Las Vegas Showgirl Headpiece

How To Make Your Own Costume Wings

How To Make An African Tribal Mask With Real Feathers

How To Make An Indian Bonnet – Feather Head Piece

How To Create Your Own Bird Mask Using Real Feathers

Make Your Own Peacock Costume Using Real Peacock Feathers

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

How To Make a Halloween Feather Wreath

You can make a feather wreath for Halloween really easily.
All you need is a feather boa, wire hanger, masking tape and some fishing wire.
All you need to do is make a circle with the wire hanger using the making tape to connect the two ends. Then attach one end of the feather boa to the wire hanger using the fishing wire.
Now all you need to do is wrap the boa around the wire hanger and attach the other end using the fishing wire.
After this your wreath is ready, now it is up to you to haunt it with some skeletons, witches and goblins and stuff.
If you want to see some of my personal favorite Halloween feather wreaths take a look at my post
The Best Halloween Feather Boas 
Also if you want to see what one other person on the net did with such a wreath take a look at this easy to make Halloween wreath.

The Best Halloween Feather Boas

Our dark black extra large feather boa could go great with a number of Halloween costumes for both males and females.
The extra large boa may be too large for smaller children but if you kid wants to dress up as a vampire queen then one of our smaller size black or red boas could be perfect.
Also you could choose our other colors such as orange or pink to suite your costume.
Boas can be the perfect added touch to any kind of Halloween costume.
I think that the three best feather boas for Halloween are:
1- Turkey Ruff Boa Two-Tone – Oversized
2- Turkey Ruff Boa – Oversized
3- Turkey Ruff Boa w/ Ostrich
I really like these boas for Halloween because I just feel that red and black are two of the best colors for the occasion.
Order now from FeatherStore.com to get your feather boas and other feather products in time for Halloween!

Make A Feather Halloween Tree

Germans started to make their Christmas trees out of feather because they didn’t want to chop down real trees.
Now they would make these as Christmas trees but by just changing up the colors you can make a Halloween tree and decorate it with plastic skulls and pumpkin heads.
 The process of making these really cool trees is pretty simple and I am going to explain it to you here.
What you will need
1- Orange  feathers
2- Thick wire that you can bend but will hold its shape
3- Black floral tape
4- Small Black plastic berries
5- Black crepe paper
6- Paper glue
7- Thin wire for wrapping (about 26 gauge)
8- 3 inch wood cube with a hole drilled in the center to use as a base
First measure out thirteen pieces of the thicker wire.
1 piece – 13 inches (gets 3 inches of feather wrapping)
3 pieces – 5 inches (get 2 inches of feather wrapping)
4 pieces – 6 inches (get 4 inches of feather wrapping)
5 pieces – 9.5 inches (get 5.5 inches of feather wrapping)
The instructions are the same as the ones I give in “How To Make A Feather Tree”.
Now cover each piece with the black floral tape and attaché a plastic berry to the end, these are the branches of your tree. To create the leaves on the branches attach a feather to the end of the branch right under the berry attach the stem of the feather to the branch so that the hairs on the feather start by the berry and go out over the end of the branch. Wrap the feather around the branch so that the feather hairs should fan out to create the leaves. Follow the list above for how many inches of feather wrapping each branch should get.
Bend each branch except for the thirteen inch one, to a ninety degrees angle right at the end of the flower wrapping. Attach the braches to the long straight piece which is the trunk, using the floral tape. The three five inch pieces go directly under the top feather wrapping on the trunk. Then the four pieces get attached three inches under them. And the five pieces three inches under them. Put some glue along the trunk and cover the whole trunk with the black crepe paper. Stand the tree up in the base and you are ready to decorate it.