Put away your accessories

Flowers and fans stored for the next season.  

After several ferias under your belt, you start accumulating several flowers, earrings, fans and other accessories.  You pay good money for them, so treat them with care.  Before putting your accessories away,  just like with your dress, grab a a piece of paper and write down a list of things to do immediately of before next feria, like buy new yellow earrings, because you lost them, or one of them broke.  Or your fake red rose is starting to look wilted, and it is time to buy a new one.  Maybe your accessories are too old fashioned, and need to be updated.  This is good advice, because after a whole year of living in a closet, tucked away, you won't remember what it was that you had to do to them to make the outfit work. I do it, and still forget to look at the list.

These boxes from IKEA are great for storing my flowers and feria accessories
I love them because they are multi-level and don't crush my flowers

Store big earrings and combs in a box, but smaller ones can fit in one of these jewelry bags

If you can repair your accessories,  do it right away, it is better, otherwise right it down in your list so next year when you pull out the box, you remember to fix them before wearing them.

I like to repair mine right before feria, but it can be tricky because if not careful you may end up loosing pieces.

IKEA has boxes of different sizes.  You can also find at "los chinos", Euro stores here in spain, really nice cardboard boxes with cute designs on the outside.  Not transparent, but you can label them.

Until next year.