Reasons why we want at least twenty of these:
1. Because we're becoming obsessed with flowers
2. Because these might actually make a decent gift for Mother's Day
3. Because whenever we get a cute bobby pin, we lose it immediately
4. Because the red will really suit our hair color (or anyone's)
5. Because we're getting into muggy heat territory, and these are better than just plain black ones to hold up braids
6. Because sometimes, it's the littlest details that really make a look
posted by kimmi
May 09, 2008 3:59PM
I think it's funny that the seller named her store after A Fine Frenzy because she's been so "inpired" by the music. Adventures in copyright, anyone?
posted by guest
May 09, 2008 4:44PM
the link is showing sold out but if you click on items for sale you can buy them there. It looks like she is relisting them as they sell! I just bought some too!
posted by guest
May 09, 2008 7:07PM
These look a lot like the poppies sold in New Zealand on ANZAC day by the RSA. (It's also a rememberance day
posted by guest
May 10, 2008 8:13AM
I agree with 6:15 and 7:07. It's almost a little disrespectful...nobody wears poppies except ANZAC and Remembrance Day.
posted by guest
May 11, 2008 11:23AM
They look like the poppies used for Remembrance Day--Reason #7: They help us to show our love and remembrance for our veterans!
posted by guest
May 11, 2008 10:25PM
I just went to the shop and it is gone! But it looks like she has moved locations to inafrenzy.etsy.com! Go visit, I just bought some red ones!
posted by guest
May 12, 2008 4:21PM
theres another seller on etsy who sells these but she has more colours
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=1583
posted by guest
May 12, 2008 6:37PM
i have ordered from the guest shown at 4:21 and the quality is awful! the edges are burnt black, you may want to think through who you buy from!
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Wow, these are a flashback to growing up in a small town and the wives from the American Legion selling these on November 11. If you WIKI-pedia paper poppy, you get the backstory:
The charity organises a fund-raising drive each year during which artificial poppies, meant to be worn on clothing, are offered to the public in return for a charitable donation. Over the course of the preceding year disabled people are employed making the poppies. The idea of poppies dates back to the poem In Flanders' Fields about the First World War, after which the Legion was founded. The idea is that the poppies are worn from November to Remembrance Day to remember the fallen of the First World War, and implicitly the dead of other wars.