How to make a little girls headband?

If you're anything like me you probably wonder, how much are those little girl headbands that look so cute on newborn babies in pictures?

But if your also like me, you will find a way to make them instead of paying for the headbands, paying for shipping and paying for tax for it to get sent to you. 

So that's what I did. 

If you read my earlier post from a couple days ago you know that I made a crown for a newborn photo shoot. But you didn't know that I also made a headband!! The ones from the stores all look the same and sometimes even cheap. So I found a simple and cheap way for you to make your own!

First go to Walmart and go in the baby section. There should be premade headbands (4 pack of headbands for $2.50). They look like this:

Rip off the flower and cut the headband. Lay the headband out flat and measure it to be 10-11 inches. 

 

Dab a tiny bit of hot glue to one of the cut ends and connect the headband again. 

Now that you have the headband back together, it's time to make the flower!

Go to Walmart and pick out the color silk/satin material that you want. Get it cut to 6 inches (fabric should be about $4). 

Decide how big you want the flower to be. Cut a square out and trim off the corners of the square 

Take a lighter to the edges of the material. 

**dont be nervous that the material will catch on fire. It melts the material but doesn't burn it*** 

The fire melts the material and makes a plastic edge around it.

Then to make the other petals for the flower, you cut a smaller piece of fabric, and smaller and smaller until you are happy with the amount of petals. 

Do the same thing to those petals (trim the corners and burn the edges). 

Once all your petals are burned, take the largest petal and attach it to a small piece of felt. I attached mine by stitching it with a needle and thread. Then attach the next largest peddle. Keep doing this until all petals are attached. 

Next hot glue a fancy button in the middle of the flower. 

The last step is the hot glue the flower onto the headband! 

When you are finished,

You should have a gorgeous headband that looks like this!!! 

 With all the materials I bought, the headband should cost around $10. And that $10 makes you 4 headbands. Pretty cheap and easy! :) 

How to make a burlap wreath?

I got hired to make someone a wreath. My first project that I have ever been hired for, so its pretty EXCITING!!!

My requirements for the project:
Burlap
Lace (optional)
Letter "D"

This is the picture that I got inspired from:

I have only made one other type of wreath that I posted farther down on my blog. So I was very nervous to make this wreath, since I had no experience. Not to mention someone was paying me to make it and they were giving it to someone as a wedding gift. They will be putting it on the presents table for everyone to see.... SCARY!!!

So I went out and bought all the materials:

Wreath

Burlap

Cream Fabric

A letter "D"

Twine 

My first step was putting the twine all around the letter. It can be tricking making sure that the entire letter is covered, so I just pulled some string over to empty spots to make sure that the letter was covered. I used crafting glue to glue the letter down. 

I then decided to make the little swirls out of burlap. Which was pretty easy: I cut a piece of burlap ( I did not measure, I never really do, I just eyeball the material), folded it in half and then started rolling it.

The burlap flowers were a little tricky, I have to say. I watched a youtube video. They used burlap ribbon, and I just used burlap. Since it was frayed on the ends it made it a little harder than I thought it would be. But in the end I like that my flowers were frayed, it gives it more of a rustic feel.

These are my burlap flowers and rolled burlap!

Next I knew that I needed to make white swirl flowers to go in between the burlap flowers. So I did the same thing to the white swirls, as I did to the burlap swirls. I cut material, folded it in half and hot glued it together. Then I just started rolling it. But I didn't roll the white material too tight. I wanted to look loose and kind of messy. 

This is what the rolled white flowers look like when finished.

Once I had all the pieces I started arranging them onto the wreath. When I looked at the photo I thought there was a bunch of rolled white flowers all around it, but I realized they strategically placed fabric in between the white flowers and burlap flowers to give it a messy, shabby feel. 

I decided to put a white rose on the "D". I followed the same directions for the burlap roses as I did for the white flower on the "D".

All of the flowers are glued on with hot glue. I also put the "D" on with hot glue and fishing line, it gives a little more support to the "D" but you cant see that it is on it!

My pictures that I took kinda suck, but here is the FINISHED PRODUCT!!

What Do I Make Someone For Their 21st Birthday?

Of course when it is someones 21st birthday they expect alcohol. But I think its boring to go out and buy someone a bottle of alcohol. It's impersonal its just not my style!

I put together this bucket for one of my friends!

What you'll need: 

• bucket (people call it the puke bucket)
• florist styrofoam block (the green things that you stick flowers into) (I got a half moon shaped one so that I wouldn't have to cut any of the block.
• long wooden dowels 
• crafting glue
• glitter
• sparkly sticker foam stars
• hot glue gun 
• shots of alcohol
• tissue paper

How to make: 

1. Take crafting glue and apply it onto the wooden dowels (make sure that the glue is applied to the dowel evenly (I used my fingers to rub the glue onto the sticks))
2. Sprinkle the glitter all over the stick. (I used a paper plate to let all the extra glitter fall onto. All the access glitter that didn't go onto the stick I put back into the glitter container) Let the sticks dry overnight.
3. To put the 21 on the bucket-- I picked out the size and font on the computer that I wanted them to be. Then I printed the numbers, cut them out and traced them on the bucket with a sharpie and colored it in. 
4. The next day after the glue and sparkles dried on the dowels you can hot glue the alcohol shots onto the dowels. I also hot glued the sparkly stars onto the dowels. They will dry very quick, 5-10 minutes.
5. I put the florist styrofoam block into the bucket, put tissue paper in the bucket to make it look fancier, and started putting the wooden dowels with alcohol and stars around in the bucket.The dowel that are in the back of the bucket you should make them stand taller and the sticks in the front, you should push them down farther into the foam. (if you have too much tissue paper in one area it can be harder to poke the dowel in, but I just moved the paper, pushed the dowel in, and moved the tissue paper back)