Fancy & Fun Headband

I made this fun headband the other day for my girls.  It was easy to make and didn't take too much time at all.

...What you will need...

Plastic Headband

Ruffled Tulle

Ball Fringe

Flowers

First start by hot gluing on the ruffled tulle.  Don't go down all the way to the end.  That is just going behind the ear and may be uncomfortable to wear.

It should now look like this picture below.

Next, glue on the ball fringe. I tucked under each end to help keep it from fraying.

It's looking cute already. I think it would look cute just like this too. But today we added flowers.

I would usually like to make my own flowers, but these pre-made flowers make this headband quick.  And they are pretty cute too!  Just glue them on and you are done. Probably only took you about 5 minutes to make.

Here is my little model showing it off.  I have to say that we got pretty lucky in finding the dress she is wearing too. I made this headband thinking the colors would go with many of her clothes and then found this dress the next day while shopping. I couldn't pass it up.  She just had to put it on as soon as we got in the car. ;D  Our next stop was the grocery store and the cashier said she loved her outfit and especially the headband. She told her that she should sell them. We just might do that. LOL

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Mix n Match Hair Clips

I made some hair clips for the girls and had to share them.

They turned out just how I wanted them to. 

What you will need...

Felt in various colors

Colorful fabrics

Buttons

Embroidery Thread and needle

Mix of felt and foam designs with button holes 

(found them at the craft store)

Hair clips of your choice

Hot Glue Gun and Glue Sticks

It's very simple. Just cut odd ball shapes of fabric, sew a button to it. Then embroider it to a piece of felt. Trim. Add it to a clip and cover the clip if you like with more felt. You can glue it or embroider the edges together to hold it on the clip. That's it. Now just take your designs with the button holes and mix and match them according to your baby's outfit. ;)

We mixed with one design, two designs and you can even wear them without a design.

Here are some variations of our clips.

Aren't they cute?!? You can have endless clip designs with all that fabric out there. Have fun with it and please come back here and share what you made with us. We'd love to see your creations.

Braided T-Shirt Headbands

With some left over t-shirt material I made a braided headband for my girls. I used the left over tie dye material. It turned out very cute.

I used my 6 strand braid for this headband. You can find the detailed directions for it HERE.


I started by cutting strips of t-shirt material. 

Then I stretched them out just like I do on the scarves.

To make this 6 strand braid, I used 12 strands. 2 per section I was braiding. I wanted their headbands to be thicker. So start by pinning one end to something. I used my footstool.
Separate the strands into 6 sections. 2 per section as I mentioned above.

Begin on your left. Take the first strand and go over the 2nd, then under the third. Stop. Go to the right side. Take the sixth strand and start by going under the 5th, then over the 4th. Make sense? Basically from the left its over, under. From the right its under, over. Always start on the left. Keep doing this till the end of your strands.

This is what your braid should look like before you sew the ends.

Measure your lil ones head and complete by sewing each of the ends together. I sewed each end first, then both together giving it a stronger hold.

Next take a small strip of fabric to tie and cover the ends. And your done.

Tuck the ends in and flip over hiding the knot and its ready to wear. You can wear it plain with the covered area at the base of the neck or bring it to the top. It's a cute alone like that or slip on a flower clip.

It's super cute on!

6 Strand Braid Tutorial

I've been braiding my girls hair for years. All sorts. I love doing their hair. Family, friends and even strangers have asked, "Why don't you write a book?" I have thought about it. I have pictures of all their hairdo's, just not steps of how to do them. Maybe one day. 

But to get to todays post. BRAIDS! This particular braid has 6 strands. There are two types of braids you can do with 6 strands. This is one of them.

Start by picking out your string, yarn, raffia, hair. I would say the easiest would be to start learning on the bead string. I got mine (below) from our local craft store in the kids craft section.

Step 1...Put all six strands together. Use a small rubber band to hold them together.

I braided this down a bit so you could get a better image of what I was doing. I also used 6 colors so you could easily pick out what I was trying to show you

Step 2...Your strands should look like this.

Step 3...Start on the far left red strand. Go under the orange.

Step 4...Now take the red strand and go over the top of the yellow.

Step 5...Starting on the right now, take the blue strand, go over the top of the purple.

Step 6...Again with the blue, go under the green strand.

Step 7...With the blue, go over the top of the red.

Step 8...Tighten all strands and repeat until desired length is achieved.

Tip...an easy way to remember this.

From the left...Under, Over

From the right...Over, Under, Over

Repeat!

This will be your finished look

You can used this for a number of things...bracelets, hair accessory, belts, bookmarks and more. 

I love braiding and even have my girls learning already. My oldest is up to the 5 strand. She loves it too. We are both teaching the younger two on the 3 and 4 strands now.

What do you think?