Blooming Violets Gifts

10/23/2021

09/23/2021

“Going to Market” by Sherry Shine (Fabric Art)

05/16/2021

SISTERS MENTALLY MOBILIZED, INLAND EMPIRE presents the Black Doll Project. Join us for this amazing virtual workshop and sister circle. It's FREE. When: Sun. May 23, 2021 03:00 PM - 5:00 PM and Sun. May 30, 2021 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST.

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkfuiurj4vE9WoxXdLkeLam91L_RRy4Xgz

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

04/29/2021

An elegant African violet corsage made of two silk African flower stems and adorned with medium or large-sized leaves in the back. White organza and satin ribbon complement the corsage at its base and crown. Pearl sprays shimmer amongst the blooms of the corsage. A convenient and easy-to-fasten pin back is used to secure the corsage. The corsage comes in a beautiful box for storage. THE FLOWER COLOR IS THE DEEP EGGPLANT/PURPLE AS FEATURED ON THE MODEL. This flower is no longer available anywhere in the country. You may check for yourself before purchasing this violet. There are 50 of these corsages available for sell. After these corsages are sold, there will be no more made by Blooming Violets. The price is non-negotiable and is the same price whether purchased singularly or in bulk.

11/12/2020

The Blooming Violets Crown Collection. Hand crafted fabric cards that celebrate the Queen 👸🏾 in you. 💜🧡 Available in red & white ❤️🤍, pink & green 💗💚, green & white 💚🤍, or kente fabric ❤️🖤💚

11/10/2020

Black Christmas Ornaments and more at our annual virtual pop-up shop. Shop now!

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11/10/2020

Virtual Pop-up Shop. Black Christmas ornaments and more.

11/10/2020

Virtual Pop-up Shop featuring Black Christmas Ornaments and more.

10/05/2020

Mailing these violet corsages all over the country. Alabama, California, New York and Virginia chapters your corsages are on the way.🔺❤️

03/07/2020

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02/18/2020

Do Ballerinas Boogie?
The answer to that question is a resounding YES! At least this Black ballerina did. When I was a little girl, I remember my mother taking my sister and me to the Inner City Cultural Center (ICCC) in the heart of Los Angeles for modern dance classes. The ICCC was a dance studio in Los Angeles that offered a host of dance classes (ballet, modern, jazz and African) to primarily Black residents in the city.
Before this, when I was around 7, I took ballet classes early at a local college thanks to my mother who decided that her girls would learn ballet; a luxury that she could not enjoy as a girl growing up in the heart of the Jim Crow South. Living in Los Angeles in the 1980s, our weekly Saturday drives to dance class were riddled with the visual realities of the ugliness of the crack co***ne epidemic in the city at that time. As we drove through the city observing the ugly realities of drug addiction, we frequently listened to Stevie Wonder's album "Hotter Than July." Stevie's album was on repeat on our cassette player. One of my favorite songs on that album was Stevie's "Boogie on Reggae Woman." It was my favorite. To this day, when I hear this song I stop everything I'm doing and boogie. Seriously I do. The song takes me back to the fun my sister and I had dancing as hard as we could with other Black dancers at our dance school.
Those dance classes were instrumental in helping me build confidence and establish poise; Generally speaking, I can enter any room at any time and establish my presence with a level of comfort that only a prima ballerina knows. When I hear Stevie's "Boogie on Reggae Woman," my mind goes to my childhood when momma drove us to ballet class on Saturday mornings to boogie as I thought all ballerinas did.
It wasn't until college that I learned, according to my Ballet professor at that time, that my body type and color were not welcomed in the ballet world. I shrugged it off because I knew that he was wrong; and I didn't push it because my goal was not to become a professional ballerina but, rather, simply to take an elective that I thought would be fun. I dropped ballet and took African dance classes the next semester and fell in love with African dance and especially the Katherine Dunham Technique of African Dance thanks to Professor Leticia (my dance mentor).
I love dance to dance although my age limits my ability to dance as I once did. I love Black dancers and especially Black ballerinas because I know it took spiritual and mental fortitude to press on in the art from despite rejection. For this reason, I collect Black ballerina figurines to remind myself that Black girls ballet and this Black girl ballerina will boogie until she can't dance any longer. Feel free to check out my vast array of Black ballerina figurines in the Blooming Violets Shop. Boogie on!