Coming Soon!

I got woken up really early yesterday (just before 4am) and couldn't get back to sleep. So I decided that I would try my hand at some really cute flowers I had been picturing in my mind.

I think they turned out really cute and I can't wait to see them on some adorable little girl!

Each flower is hand crafted from satin frabric. The pink even has little specs of glitter in it. In the center 1-3 pearls are sewn to the flower. The first 2 headbands pictures also have a couple pieces of white shimmer tulle added for some flare. Next I'm going to make some with feathers!

I can't decided which one is my favorite. Which is yours?

*Have you entered the giveaway yet? It ends Wednesday evening, so hurry for your chance to win something really cute!*

wedding delight

My younger sister is getting married this summer. (Actually, both of my sisters are getting married this summer.) And she asked me to make her a hair piece to wear for the wedding. She had looked at buying one but just hadn't found exactly what she wanted. So for the last couple of weeks I have been playing with the flowers and feathers she brought me from the craft store. She wanted something fairly large, lots of flowers, stars, all white, feathers... So here is what I came up with.

 The flowers came in small bunches which I took carefully took apart, and then rearranged. Luckily the flowers were on wire which made them easy to twist and attach. I simply twisted their wires together until I got the shape I wanted, glued some felt to the back, glued the feathers to that, glued more felt on top of that, lined an alligator clip and glued that to the felt as well. Sounds like a lot of gluing huh?

 My sister loves stars and really wanted stars in her hair piece. She couldn't find any actual stars, buts he found these adorable little flowers that resemble stars.

 I placed a few of them spuradically throughout the other flowers.

 I think the feathers add a nice, soft touch.

Hopefully this ends up being exactly what she was hoping for! After he wedding I'll post pictures of it in her hair.

a project for me

The other day I decided that my house needed some cheer. I have been working on making things for the Spring Fling and trying to get my house all organized at the same time. We're planning a garage sale this summer so boxes of "stuff" are piling up. When I was going through the baby's room I found this beautiful blue vase that my parents gave me full of flowers when my middle son was born. The vase has just been sitting on a shelf because the blue doesn't match anything in the house. So last week I decided to do something with it.

I have a shelf full of kids toys just off the stairs in the basement that needed some dressing up. I don't ever keep fresh flowers in the house because it gets expensive, and we all have wonderful allergies. Not to mention flowers die, and then you have to replace them. So I decided to make some flowers that would be bright and never fade.

I took some felt, traced flowers with a cookie cutter, cut them, glued a pipe cleaner between the 2 sides and glued on a button. Then I added a ribbon to the vase and voila!

The top of my shelf is no longer sad!

new flowers for clips

Here are some new flowers I have been working on. I don't have them attatched to clips yet.

These first three were super quick and easy to make. Less than 5 minutes each. I cut out a circle, hand sewed around the edge using an up and down stitch, pulled the thread tight to creat a pouch, and sewed a button on top of the hole to finish it off. I love them!

This last one took a little more work, but isn't it fabulous? I had to cut out a bunch of circles in 2 different sizes, fold them, and hot glue them to a piece of felt. Each petel of the flower is an individual circle that has been folde 3 times and glued down. The first one I made was a little too large. I'm talking bigger than a CD. Lesson learned. Cut smaller circles!