HEADBANDS HEADBANDS AND MORE HEADBANDS

HEADBANDS 

GLORIOUS BEAUTIFUL HEADBANDS!

That is exactly what I've been doing today! I made 5 different headbands. I bought 7 packs of headbands at the dollar store and I wrapped them all in ribbon. Then I added a different embellishment to each one.  Here they are:

This one I wrapped in a cream colored ribbon. Then I made an oversized bow out of the same ribbon and covered it in a black lace.

Check out the new camera I snuck into this pic!!!!

This headband is covered in a teal ribbon with fabric rosettes.

This one is also a teal ribbon, with a big pink daisy from a dollar store bouquet.

Here is one with another dollar store flower. This one is on a cream colored ribbon. (Sorry for the last pic- i had to crop myself out and the zoom looks bad)

Finally, I made one of those pom poms out of fabric and put it on a black ribbon.

Which one is your favorite?!

More Headbands

I told you more were coming. This isn't even the last of em. I bought 7 to redo. So far, I only finished 3. The one you saw in the earlier post. Then I created these two.

Covered in black ribbon with purple fabric flowers.

Then I did this one, that I got the idea from paisley pink polka dots. It came out really cute. 

Stay tuned. 4 more to come!

Cork Board TOTALLY redone!

So  I was walking down the hallway at school and one of the teachers was throwing away a double sided cork board. I couldn't figure out why it was double sided because how could you possible used both sides at once?! Anyways, it was a little beat up but I knew I could get some use out of it. It ended up sitting in my basement until I decided what I wanted to make- a message/cork/picture holder. 

Materials Needed:

- 16 bottle caps

-16 pushpins

-1 old junky cork board

-ribbon in your choice of colors

- buttons in your choice of colors and styles

- fabric to cover bottle caps

-Fabric to cover board (size depends on the size of your board)

- Deco Art Americana Acrylic Paint (I used Lamp (Ebony) Black and Calypso Blue)

-Glue gun

1) I started by removing the frame and covering the board with pink fabric. I hot glued it only on the back because hot glue dries hard and I knew if it was on the front the push pins wouldn't go through.

2) Next I ran striped of different colored ribbon diagonally up and down the board. I didn't measure this, just eyed it until I thought they looked even. Again, I only glued the ribbon in the back.

This is what the back looks like after its fully glued. You can put a piece of cardboard over it to cover the mess but I just hung it on the wall, because then you can't see it anyway.

3) I secured the intersections with colorful buttons. Each button got a small dot of hot glue and then I placed them where the ribbon intersected. This way the ribbon was taught enough to hold things, even though it was not glued down in the front. 

The polka dotted things are actually the pushpins. Keep reading to learn how to do them!

4) I then painted the frame that I removed with the Deco Art Lamp (Ebony) Black paint and allowed it to dry. I only used one coat. 

5) While the frame dried I started the push pins. Who wants a fancy board with ugly old pins? I cut the polka dot fabric into squares. Placed a bottle cap on top and hot glued the corners into the cap. Then using another dot of glue I glued the pin into the cap. (see photo below)

See the pin?

Here's a side view. You can see the pin sticks up past the cap so it can go into the board. 

Finished pin.

6) Now that the board was done I had to finish the frame. I scooped up a big glob of Deco Art Calypso Blue paint and went to town flinging it onto the black painted frame.  This can get really messy, so you may want to do it outside. It does give the project a great pop of color!

 7) Once it all dried I slid the board back in and hot glued it shut (seeing a pattern here?! I love HOT GLUE!). 

8) Finally, I made a bow out of purple ribbon and hot glued it on the top for a decorative touch.

Here's the finished product. I'm obsessed!!!!!

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Winter Gear

The Dollar Tree has to be one of my favorite stores. I can find super simple things that allow me to be creative and go nuts at the same time. The other day I found these. 

Now, I wear scarfs once in a while, but not very often. Hats? I'm not a hat person. I try. Put them on, walk out of the house, feel silly, and thats the end of my hat. I really don't know what I would even buy a hat, but the matched. They were soft and seemed worthy of my $1.00 bills. The lady at the register seemed to think they were a good deal too and when I told her I was going to embellish them she looked at me like I had 47 heads. I had red fabric in my house from a old Halloween costume and decided to make those nice big fabric flowers I seem to love so much (bc i do them constantly now). So I cut out my circles and made this. 

I was worried at first that the fabric wouldn't curl bc it was cotton but it worked. Though, it did leave the edges black and burned looking. Normally I would hate that but it made the flower look so vintage and it fit perfectly with my color scheme. 

Try not to stare at my fat stomach. I was trying to show you the scarf actually being worn. It's about the crafts people! LOL. 

Sorry. No make up. SHIELD YOURE EYES!

I liked the way the black scarf turned out so I went to Walmart bought teal cotton fabric and decided to do the same thing with the gray hat and scarf. DISASTER. Although the red cotton fabric curled the teal one just burned. No curl just puuuure burn. AWESOME. Now I was sitting there with like 56789 fabric circles in front of me and nothing. So i improvised. I cut some fabric circles in a spiral shape and sewed them like you would in order to make the flowers i made on the washer necklace. These made pom pom shapes is they were pulled tight and flower like shapes if kept loose. Therefore each larger flower is one flower shape and one pom pom shape for the middle. The smaller flowers are loose flower shapes with button centers. Take a look! 

WARNING- I already mentioned I'm not a hat person. These pictures prove it. Please be easy on me. I'm well aware I look ridiculously bad in these pictures.