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! :) 

New Born Photos

There is something about photos that tell a story to me and tell me so much. I love everything about photos.

At one point in my life I actually wanted to do photography because I am so in love with photos. I decided not to continue down that path because I really hate how tedious editing is!

One of the families that I nanny for just had a baby. And they asked me to come up to their house and take some photos of their newest addition to their family, I was completely honored!! BUT MOST OF ALL, quite nervous. I had thoughts like " I am no professional." "Why would they ask me?" "Im sure the pictures I take wont turn out, they are just wasting their time by asking me."

So like any normal girl in this world, I got on Pinterest and started researching new born photos to get ideas. And we all know that Pinterest is a LIFE SAVER!

So I got great ideas from Pinterest and here is one of the ideas that I decided to do, make a crown.



Go to Walmart and buy any kind of lace ribbon. Make sure that one side has points and the other side is flat.

Since the crown is for a new born, it of course needs to be small. Cut a piece of ribbon to 10.5 inches.

Next I bought a small bottle of "gold" spray paint and sprayed the front side of the crown. I waited for the crown to dry and spray painted the back side of the crown.

After both sides of the crown dried I sprayed stuff called "Stiffen Quick". This makes the crown stand without it being flimsy. I think it is pretty much glue and water.

I then got a Solo cup and put the crown around it so that it would be round when it hardened. After the crown hardened, I applied a small dab of glue to the crown to  hold it together.

I let the crown sit around the Solo cup over night, and the next day took this picture!!!

P.S. Everything can be found at Walmart!! Goodluck, Happy picture taking!!