props for my Miss Havisham design

I prepared a few props for my Miss Havisham design/ assessment. Because my design is showing Miss Havisham not too long after the "wedding day" I had to stain my veil a bit otherwise it would not look authentic. I shared the veil with my friend so we decided to stain the veil with some nice earl grey tea:) we left the veil soaking in the tea for a while and voila it didn't look so new anymore. But the thing was even though you could clearly see that the veil was now dirty looking it didn't really show when we took the pictures with it. I  decided to buy some flowers to dry myself because I didn't want to pay too much for dried flowers on the internet. So I bought a very small rose bouquet and hung them up in my room to dry. The bouquet is supposed to represent her withered wedding bouquet. I also ordered a lace necklace online. I thought it would fit quite well with the design. 

Here are some images

The veil

 The dried rose bouquet

The lace necklace

And yeah I also built a birds nest which was part of my Miss Havisham hair design for the final look

I just got some cheap stuff from the 99p shop and The Works and made it myself while our student residence hadn't got any internet. Somehow I had to keep myself entertained :D 

The image above was the first version of my birds nest. 

But then I thought I should add some pearls to the nest, which is supposed to symbolize the wedding as well.

Which you can see in the image below.

The reason I built the nest was that I wanted to show that time has passed but Miss Havisham is still stuck in her nightmare, unable to change. And because nothing changes and she stays in her wedding dress and things birds were able to 'built' a nest in her hair.