Rose Headband

I love this, so easy- you just need a headband, scrap material, felt and a hot glue gun. Oh and a needle and thread. Either way- super easy and a great project to do while watching TV.

Start by making lots of little rosettes. I'll link a video below on how to make them.



Once you've made your little roses cut out a piece of felt in whatever shape you like.



Sew your flowers on in random order to your felt. I recommend sewing Vs. hot gluing because you get a much neater look.



Decide where you want to have your flowers at on your headband and mark it.



Carefully place the glue on your headband and set your piece on top. Press down hard to make sure it sticks really well and you are done!






I recommend using the Flat Rose. That's what I used.

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Flower Bangle How-To

I saw this bangle on someone else's blog and I knew I could make it without spending a cent. Yay me!



Ok so this took me less than 5 minutes to do. Here is what you will need.

1-2 bangles depending on prefrence (side note, mine were sent to me from missionaries in Sudan- they were made by women there who were widowed)

1 big fabric rose

1 hot glue gun

1 1'' by 1'' square of ribbon with burnt edges to prevent fraying.



Start by cutting any excess stem from your flower.



Glue all around the base of the stem on your flower.



Place your bangles on either side of the flower.



Place your ribbon wrong side down over the bangles, carefully covering all the hot glue.



Let dry and wear!

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Ribbon and Lace

I thought I'd show off a few of the projects I've worked on this week of the accessory kind.

First of all. I recently found a treasure trove of tulle so I've been making little projects with that.

First prject is this pretty little hanger I made by knotting tule around the hanger. This took quite a bit of tulle and took the length of an entire movie to finish just the knotting part. I ten used hot glue to wrap the ribbon around the hook and glue the rose on.





With some of the remaining tulle I followed this tutorial to make a flower.

Here is mine.



Using the scraps from this project I made a second flower hair piece thingy.




And although not being a fan of Taylor Swift, I was inspired by some of her head band gear she wears and made this one.




The last project I'm going to show off today is inspired by the vintage 1950s collars women used to wear on their sweaters. The white one in the pictures is an original and the red one is my version.

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Rose Pillow

So in building my dowry I decided that when Josh (my boyfriend) and I move back in together we are going to have a bedroom that is worth looking at. And of course this has led me to buying pretty floor length curtains, bedside lamps and other little things.

For Christmas this year my parents bought each of us girls a comforter. Josh and I had the largest bed out of all of my sisters (a king size) and apparently the only king size comforter was a lilac color- not really a good color for a gothic bedroom. But I decided to work with it.

So in staying with the concept that we will probably be using a purple comforter I made this pain in my ass pillow out of a wonderfully soft old turtle neck that my mum gave me.

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