Clips, combs and Slides:

When a hat or fascinator is a little too much then there are always a wide selections of clips, combs and slides. Easy to wear and striking to behold .Fun and funky and full of pizzazz!

Below are a few of N.Joy.Millinery’s favourite pieces.

Hazel-£40
This little fascinator is made using  pheasant neck feathers that shimmer with iridescent tones of browns, creams and pinks. decorated with vintage lace and sprinkled with glass beads  in matching tonal colours, and bronze seed beads. Attached on a comb

Celestia-£45
Beautiful vintage Royal blue feather spray with hand embroidered beaded lace diamante glass beads and Swarovski crystals! Attached to a clip can be worn as a broach or fascinator the choice is yours!

Philomena-£40
A colourful peacock feather fascinator. With vintage lace detail with black stitching and glass beading. Attached on a comb.  A mini show stopper.

Hallie-£45
A spray of dark chocolate feathers, embroidered with coffee coloured lace with silver cord. Embroidered with stunning gold and bronze glass beads. A glittering piece of headwear for that sophisticated lady.

Damelza-£40
A Beautiful floral lace slide, that sparkles with hand embroidered diamante and glass silver beads. Easy to slip into your hair adding gorgeous glamour to any outfit

Eloise-£55
An elegant Great Gatsby inspired fan comb. Hand beaded, with white pearl imitations, silver glass beads and diamante. With a spray of curled white feathers. A Stunning 1920′s piece perfect for a bridal headpiece or for a glamorous night out!

Ariel-£45
This beautiful clam shell styled comb is covered in an array of imitation pearls, In shades of gold, white and Ivory. Encircling  sparkling diamante. It looks stunning in a classic up do, or placed  in loose curls.

Regina-£50
This stunning little fan comb is all hand beaded using imitation pearls, glass beading and diamante to create a 1920 style,  perfect for any art deco bride.

Cora-£45
This little comb has a 1920 feel to it. With heavily beaded lace white feathers and diamante the perfect accessory for any deco bride.

Cho-£45
This stunning coy carp hair comb is intricately embroidered with glass beads in gold, silver and cream with diamante that glistens like real fish scales. Attached on two combs that slides easily into your hair.

New Designs

N.Joy has been working on some new designs. Not yet available on her website. What do you think!

For the sophisticated Lady:
                       A  large black sinamay disc, decorated with a stunning, over sized, double headed silk rose, hand dyed in a black to white ombre effect. With curled ostrich spine and stripped feathers. Finished with a spray of ivory netting. And attached on a lightweight couture headband.

For the temptress:
                         A sinamay base covered in flocked velvet leopard print. With a large satin bow and decorative buckle finished with chocolate coloured netting. All on an easy to wear handmade headband. The purrfect cocktail hat.

For the style icon:
                        A royal blue velvet cocktail hat. With large silk and velvet rose sprinkled with grey and blue Swarovski crystals. Surrounded by large pink sinamay loops and navy and baby pink veiling. Attached on a lightweight headband.

For the demure lady:
                   A dusky pink and ivory teardrop fascinator, with sinamay roses and sinamay loops. And light pink veiling .All attached on a handmade headband.

For the fabulous:
                  An Elegant new 1920’s  cloche hat in navy blue felt. With a light blue band. Embellished with two large roses and surrounded by a spray of pearls.    

Which one are you?

December Commissions

After N.Joy.Millinery’s successes at Made in Cornwall. December became a busy month for N.Joy.

Often N.Joy.Millinery gets commissions from people who have found the perfect outfits and have thought finding a hat or fascinator to match would be the easy part. You can pick up a relatively cheap hat or fascinator in most large department stores. In the generic shades of white navy and black and perhaps a handful of this seasons colours. But to find a true match nothing beats having a piece hand made for you.

Of course having a handmade piece costs money and takes time. But here at N.Joy.Millinery. We strive to work within most budgets and within your time frame. N.Joy usually likes a month to make a head piece this guaranties material deliveries and gives N.Joy the time needed to make your headpiece as stunning as you imagined it. However over the December month N.Joy was put to the test with three commissions two of which she had three weeks for, the other just over a week! It was a challenge to say the least but N.joy loves a challenge.

(Above: Previous Commissions)

The first piece was for a bride having a small ceremony in a stunning white and silver Saks dress suit. She wanted a sophisticated piece that tied in with her outfit and was similar to a piece of N.Joy’s she had already seen.

The piece N.Joy created for her was made on a white, oval, sinamay base with large silk silver roses covered in one hundred Swarovski crystals that sparkled from every angle. Nestled between the two largest roses was a curled ostrich spine and diamond stripped feathers. The base sat at an angle on a  handmade headband made of lightweight wire that is flexible to different head shapes and easy to wear.  Simply sophisticated like the bride to be herself.

The second piece was for a fashionable mother of the bride, who had a glitzy vintage inspired outfit that needed the perfect fascinator to tie it all together.

N.Joy made a chocolate brown, sinamay, teardrop base. Under laid with shimmering gold sinamay that brought a subtle sparkle to the base. The top of the base had hand sculpted sinamay loops made into a bow with stripped pheasant neck feathers. Draped across the bow was stunning vintage lace with delicate hand beading using fine glass beads and delicate seed pearls. Over the top was a layer of light brown veiling that added to that vintage quality. The fascinator was then attached on a handmade headband dyed to the shade of the ladies hair colour.

The third piece was for a step mother of the bride who had a stunning emerald green lace dress that no hat or fascinator seemed to match.

The colour was a rich highly saturated royal green that even N.Joy struggled to match. N.joy ordered  the closes shade of green sinamay she could find and then hand died it until she was satisfied it was the right colour.  She then turned this into a teardrop base with a layer of gold sinamay underneath giving the shimmer effect like the last piece.  Using sinamay loops in gold and green she sculpted a tiered bow effect  at the top end of the fascinator centred with a stunning vintage broach. The vintage broach was antique gold coloured with delicate filigree and tiny gemstones in white and green. The fascinator was finished off with stripped and curled feathers in white and antique gold and sparkling metallic gold veiling. The fascinator was then attached on a handmade headband dyed to the shade of the ladies hair colour. A very festive piece for a Christmas wedding.

                Each commission was as individual as each of the ladies. The final pieces tied in both the ladies out fits and accessories perfectly .For your own commission please contact N.Joy.Millinery.

(Below: Previous Commissions)

N.Joy.Millinery’s Studio.

One question N.Joy frequently gets asked is where do you work from? Well here are the answers!

N.Joy.Millinery was first born in N.Joy’s little bedroom in her parents’ old fashioned farm house, but as her business grew, she out grew her room and  she slowly started taking over ever room in the house. So her stressed out family agreed for her to build her studio. The studio is still undergoing a lot of work including a new ceiling and new plasterwork on the walls but here is a sneaky insight to the N.Joy.Millinery  studio. Welcome to the world of feathers, fascinators and all things that sparkle!

Newbies

Heres a few new pieces from N.Joy.Millinery that are not on the site yet enjoy!

An oval saucer shaped hat in ivory sinamay . Embelished with two large dusky pink silk flowers, entwined around a curled ostrich spine, with diamond shaped stripped feathers, in shades of pink and cream! An enchanting piece perfect for the races or a summer wedding

 
A beautiful new bridal piece. Delicate ivory floral lace embroidered with flecks of silver and gold threads. Embelished with glass beads and imatation pearls. Attached on a golden/ivory satin ribbon, edged in a cluster of beads with combs for easy attachment. For an alternative to the traditional tiara.

Another lovely new bridal piece. White, floral corded lace embelished with tiny silver glass beads and sparkerling diamante, attached on a graduated sized chain with diamante pendant. It can be worn across the forehead or at headband height.

An ivory ripple sinamay base, with a pair of hand sculped, pale blue roses and sinnamay loops gathered on a large bow decorated with goose biot feathers and floral lace.

Dark chocolate feathers, embroidered with coffee colured lace with silver cord, embroidered with stunning gold and bronze glass beads. A glittering piece of headwear for that sophisticated lady.

‘Diamonds are Forever‘  The Marie Curie ball featuring N.Joy.Millinery.

Natalie-Joy was delighted to exhibit some of her work with the beautiful dresses of cargo in a fashion show  at the ‘Diamonds are Forever’  Marie Curie ball. The ball was in aid of the tremendous work  the Marie Curie nurses do, raising funds  to help them in their admirable charity work they do.
The evening started with a lovely three course meal and speeches  from the supporters  and workers of Marie Curie. After this money was raised  in auctions, raffles and a fun casino. There were fabulous prizes including  long weekends away , an acoustic guitar and beautiful jewellery. Even a gift voucher from N.Joy.Millinery. 

                The highlight of the evening was a dazzling display of dresses from Cargo topped with creative headwear from N.Joy.Millinery. Models of all shapes and sizes showed how fascinators can be worn for any occasions and look particularly stunning with such glamorous dresses. They looked like real bond girls.

Several of the ball goers also wore N.Joy.Millinery headwear. The event was a wonderful display of the work of N.Joy.Millinery, and a fantastic fundraisers for a worthy charity.

Truro Trend: Couture in the Cathedral

      Truro trend is a weeklong event that happens yearly in Truro Cornwall local business but on special offers and event to highlight what they offer. The Highlight of the week features couture  in the cathedral.
 

         Set in the beautiful Victorian Cathedral that is Truro’s center piece a huge catwalk is erected through the center aisle and stand surround the perimeter showing the local talent at its finest.

Everyone from makeup artist to hairdressers from shows and clothes to hats and accessories. Anyone whose anyone turned up to see local models of all shapes and sizes draped in this seasons must haves from comfy casuals to sophisticated formal wear.

                The Number eight hair salon outdid themselves creating elaborate hairstyles from edgy up dos to vintage curls. The Body Shop made everyone sparkle with their latest pallets and the shops and boutiques showed off a selection of their autumnal essentials.

        Naturally N.Joy.Millinery made an alluring appearance displaying some of Natalie-Joys stunning hats, fascinators and hair pieces for all to see.

    Natalie-Joy even took to the catwalk wearing clothes from C.C and shoes from Ryker, and even a sparkly head dress of her own creation. A wonderful evening was had by all everyone ‘N.Joyed’ seeing the talents Truro has to offer, not bad for a little city in Cornwall or a local farmer girl turned milliner.

Diamonds are for  Marie Curie.

                Natalie-Joy is delighted to announce she will be exhibiting her latest N.Joy.Millinery creations alongside the dazzling dresses from Cargo at the Diamonds are forever fashion show and ball at the Atlantic hotel Newquay  for the Marie Curie charity.
       

                A stunning event that brings the James Bond Style and Glamour to Cornwall, In order to raise money for the charity Marie Curie. Marie Curie help and support people with cancer and people who are affected by cancer. They offer priceless advice and support that helps people through some of the darkest days of their lives. They allow terminal illness sufferers the chance to spend their final days in their own homes surrounded by their friends and family but with the safe care of Marie Curie nurses. In a world where cancer effects one in three of us. Each one of us knows someone who has or has had cancer.  It’s a charity that we all may need to turn to one day. 

            
   
On the 18th of October in the seaside destination of Newquay in the beautiful Atlantic Hotel.
      Marie Curie will be raising money by having A Diamonds are Forever ball. With  a fun casino and stunning fashion show  to support the charity and all the hard work it does.

Cargo are a Penryn company who stock breathtaking gowns for formal occasions from prom wear to cocktail dresses it’s a one stop location for any bejewel loving girl. Teaming up with N.Joy’s imaginative headwear its sure to be a fashion show to remember full of pizzazz and sparkle.
         

There are still a few tickets available ring  01872 260500 for more information.

Hope to see you there!

                    In the picturesque county of Cornwall, Once a year for three days The Royal Cornwall Show takes place.  It’s a show that brings the crème de la crème of Cornwall together.        

                Originally The Royal Cornwall was a once a year

meeting of the farmers from the west country area.  Nowadays it’s a huge event that brings people from all walks of life to celebrate the pride of Cornwall.

Natalie-Joy, the owner of N.Joy.Millinery was born and raised on a beautiful  dairy farm in Cornwall . With cows for neighbours and chickens for friends. The farm was her playground.  She grew up making Cornish pasties and milking cows.  But the farmer’s daughter soon swapped the overalls for dresses and the wellies for heels. However the Royal Cornwall soon  brings out the cowgirl again only this time you find her in a hat she even found a cow with a hat on!

                Natalie Joy spent the day enjoying Pims and talking hats, spreading the word about N.Joy.Millinery and proving any days an excuse to wear a hat!

(Follow the below Link to see a short video of The Royal Cornwall Show)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShWNNOvRSMU&list=UUQoMiRrAeIVHlv3TquEBU9A

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