Baby Headbands: My First Tutorial

I made some baby headbands last weekend and thought I'd do a tutorial. They're super easy and came out pretty cute! Take it easy on me though. Like I said, it is my first tutorial.

Here's what you'll need:

- Panty hose. You can use childrens or adult. I used children because I wanted different colors and some had patterns. I thought that was cuter than the adults, because you can only find white and black in adults.

- flowers. Go to Michaels or Joannes and pick out any silk flowers you like.

- Hot glue gun.

- Iron

- Thread and needle for hand sewing. You don't really need your sewing machine for this.

- Bling for the middle of your flower.

- Ribbon


1. First start with your flower. Any kind you like. Here's a BIG one.


2. Take it apart. Start by removing it from the stem then removing the bottom part. Then (not pictured)take apart all the petals from each other, but keep them in order, until you get the top middle part of the flower removed.



3. Next you're going to glue your flower back together. You're going to hot glue each petal together. Just put a small amount of hot glue around the petal's center and put the next petal on top.


4. Once you have it all glued back together, put some bling, or a button, or anything you'd like to decorate the middle in. Go ahead and prep all your flowers. Have fun, decorate them with different colored jewels or like I said, regular buttons, decorative buttons, etc. Be creative.


5. Now on to the panty hose. For a newborn you'll want the measurements about 12 inches. From what I googled, 13 inches will fit up to a year. The panty hose stretch, so seems about right. If you already have a baby, measure her head.

You'll want to start by cutting your measurements, then ironing out all the wrinkles. Make sure you iron the hose on a LOW heating. Trust me. THey will melt. Go ahead and iron them all at one time and put them in a pile to get started.



6. Ok. Now that you have everything prepped, start by folding your panty hose in half and then sew the two ends together. Pull the thread so it scrunches it. That's what you're going for.


It should look like this when you're done.

Inside out

Right side out.


7. Glue ribbon round the sewed area. The best is if you use a silk ribbon. It will be the most comfortable for your baby's head. YOu'll end up with this:


7. Glue your flower onto the ribbon piece, and you'll end up with this!


Next. And this is very important. Make sure you test them out on your dogs.



Oh, and make sure you put the panty hose scraps on their bottoms to complete the outfit.




Just kidding. Here's a few pictures of all of the ones I made.

He's Crafty... And he's just my type!

Husband is crafty too! Look at this super awesome roulette table he made. Built and painted all by hand. Thankyouverymuch!







Pretty cool, huh?

It's in the roomate's room for now. It'll go back into the garage once he moves out.

Crafts: Hair Flower/Bow Holder Thing-a-ma-jigger

I was at Hissyfits this weekend with my Latte girls and saw this cute Hair Flower/Bow Holder thingy. I said, "oooh! This is cute!" Then I looked at it again and said, "oooh! I can make this!" It's made with a picture frame, fabric, and ribbon, and I had these old dingy picture frames in my closet, so I figured I'd try to make one. Granted, it would be cuter with a cuter frame, but it does the trick. But I have this super cute sugar skull fabric left over from a tote bag FAIL. Plus I needed something better to hang my flowers on. Here's what I was using before:



Pretty sad, huh?


And here it is in action!

Valentine's Day, Part One: Scrapbook

I made Husband a scrapbook of us past, present and future for V-Day. This was my first scrapbook too. It was fun to make.

Here's the cute little albulm I bought from Michaels. I didn't have a photo small enough for this, so just put some scrapbook paper in there for now...














Of course I had to dedicate a couple pages to the doggies.












I bought this stuff originally to make for our anniversary. At that time I was pregnant with the first pregnancy. I thought it'd be cute to put our ultrasound picture in here for the "future". Well, we all know how that went. So anyway, I just put "the future" in there and will replace it with an ultrasound picture when that time comes again.

Crafts: Sewing - Throw Pillows

As you may have noticed, my #19 goal is to learn to sew. Yeah, I'm working on this. So far I'm decent at sewing pillows. They're easy, and square. haha I took it a step further this weekend and sewed pillow slip covers. I like to change it up, and I hate having to buy new pillow inserts each time, plus when one of the doggies dirties it, it's easier to throw in the wash.

Anyway, there was a Hobby Lobby grand opening by my house (OMG holy awesome-ness of a store!), and I just HAD to check it out. I had no idea Hobby Lobby had everything from crafts to home decor, I thought it was just mainly craft stuff. They had some sales going on too. Unfortunately I bought from the fabric/sewing section and none of that was on sale. :(

So here are my super awesome pillow slips I sewed. I got the instructions from my new favorite craft blog Make It and Love It. HERE is the tutorial for the bows HERE is the tutorial for slip covers.

Note: my pillows are a different size than the tutorials. I used 16x16in pillows. My measurements were the following:

Pillow: 16.5 front side, 21" back side (and then I cut it and hemmed the slip part.
Bows: I did 16.5x4.5" - I didn't do different sized strips because my pillow was more square than rectangle, they were all the same size, but I just sewed one side further than the other if that makes sense.




Oh, by the way, I ran out of the brown polka dotted fabric, so one pillow only has one bow. I think it's still cute. And of course Lily wanted to model it for you all.



So whattya think? Yay? Nay? Cute? Or should I give up on the sewing while I'm ahead. ;P