My niece is really keen on celebrating her birthday (which she does during her entire birthday month) but on her actual birthday, she wears a tiara out and about, and has done so since she was 25.

I used to make hats and I had been promising to make her a tiara, a much nicer one than the little cheap-y ones she'd been buying for years. So, for her 35th birthday, I found my milliner's wire to make the tiara base. I ripped apart the bunches of artificial grapes that I bought years ago at a Double Discount Store that were made out of 3/8" round faceted glass beads on wire "stems". I wrapped the beads around the tiara base with the wire stems and covered the rough ends w strips of old black tights.

She wore to her big birthday bash and my younger niece wants to wear it to her junior high school prom next year--it is on its way to becoming an official family heirloom :-)