Flower Headbands Tutorial

What You Will Need:

• Ribbon
• Scissors
•Fake Flowers (I bought mine at a thrift shop as they are much more expensive from craft shops)
• Glue Gun
• Glue Gun Glue Sticks
• Plastic Gems



Step #1

Cut a piece of ribbon about 35 - 40 inches. All of mine are roughly 38 inches, you want to make sure to cut the ribbon long enough to go all the way around your head and tie at the back.



Step #2
Lay out the flowers on the ribbon before gluing them in place. This way, you can see how you like them arranged best before they're glued on. Make sure to leave about 8 inches on each end so you can tie it around your head to wear without it coming loose or being too short to tie.



Step #3
Once you have them glued in place you can decide if you want to have 'natural' looking headband, or add anything extra. For mine, I decided to add a few tiny plastic gems.





Step #4
To add the gems, again I used my hot glue gun. For this, I found it eaiser to pick up the gems with a pair of needle nose pliers, apply a little glue to the back of the gem while holding it the pliers and place it exactly where I wanted it. Although, it's not necessary if you don't have pliers, using your fingers will work as well, but may prove a little frustrating to hold and place them exactly where you want.



Finished!
Once you let the glue dry completely (which shouldn't take long if you use a hot glue gun) you have your new, handmade flower headband!





I've made three so far, the first two are the ones I wore in pictures a couple of posts ago, and the bottom one is the newest one shown in this tutorial.



I took these about five minutes after making this one, and I think it's my favourite so far!

A BLACK HAIRED, BLUE EYED STRANGER.

Good morning, everyone!

I hope you're all having nicer weather than us today, it's pissing down with rain (awfully rude I know -- when it's raining hard I automatically say that, and I might as well write this blog how I speak) this morning and is supposed to continue on all day. At least I haven't anything planned to do outside today.

What I am doing today is I'm officially enroling in my courses for this school year, which include:

• English 12
• Law 12
• Family Studies 12
• Online PE 11 (I need the credits, otherwise I would never be taking that course)
• Work Experience 12
• Tourism 12

So am going to have those courses, plus Online PE 12 when I complete the 11th year course, and Black and White Photography 12. All of them are online courses except for Work Experience, and B&W Photography.

I'm not sure what else I'll get up to today. Possibly go up to the attic later on and find my Fall and Winter clothes I had put away for the Spring and Summer and bring some of them down to my room. But not all yet as there are some heavier sweaters and such which would still be too warm for this time of year.

Before I go, here are three pictures from Sunday morning.







xo

Flower Headbands

I made these two a week or so ago and have been meaning to take pictures of them, so here they are!

They're so simple to make, I think I'll make another and take pictures of the process for a tutorial, I'm planning on doing that this afternoon, actually!

MISTER BLUE SKY

When I went out to the barn to feed the animals a couple of nights ago I happened to notice how neat the clouds looked, so I ran back in the house after feeding them and got my camera.

I really actually like how these turned out.

My mum and Me

I've only ever posted one other photo of us together, and that was a while ago, and it was an old picture even then. Here's a new one from a couple of weeks ago. It's not fantastic of either of us, but it was the best of the bunch, haha.

I used to be told I looked like her quite a lot.

Sparkle Sunnies!

I was on a bit of a roll last week making things and revamping others, including these sunglasses. I forgot to take a before photo, but I can describe what I did to them.

They were originally white framed sunglasses I bought at Ardene last Summer, I hadn't really worn them and wanted to try this idea and they were the perfect pair to sacrifice for my experiment.



What You'll Need:

- A pair of sunglasses
- Paint brushes
- Paint (whatever colour(s) you'd like)
- Mod Podge
- Glitter glue

I bought a tube of acrylic paint in a very light blue shade, and made it even lighter by adding white paint and mixing the two.

I carefully painted the frames trying to make sure to get none on the lenses, but did anyhow. Luckily, I made sure the kind of paint I used was washable and I could wash off the bit on the lenses.

If you're going to do this or something similar, I'd recommend acrylic paint as it is usually washable off plastics. But beware of getting it on your clothes, it doesn't always wash off fabric, and blue is notoriously hard to get off, I've found from previous experiences I've had with paint on clothes.

After the paint was dry, I painted all over the frames with a coat of Mod Podge to seal the paint and add a nice shine to the matte paint.

Finally I used a paint brush and spread good layer of a type of clear glitter glue over the lenses and arms. I didn't put glitter on the inside of the frames that are facing my face, to avoid any glitter that could rub off on my nose or face.

And then let them dry, it would depend on how thick of a layer of glitter you painted on, I think mine took about a day to be perfectly bone dry.



xo

HEARTS HEARTS HEARTS

This little project has been ongoing for a few months, I made the the heart box and had everything done except for the added tulle, which I wasn't sure how to attach so I stuck it in my closet for another day.

Another day turned out to be a few months down the road, I took it out and finished it on Friday, it's quite nice, I think.

The tutorial I used to make it can be found here for anyone who wants to try making one. :)



It's a little difficult to put on properly, and takes some strategically placed bobby-pins, but other than that I really love how red and pretty it is, haha.


Front:

Back:


Now, I had some plastic hearts left over so I decided to make one smaller one, which I like to think of as the 'cute' one and the other is the kind of 'glamourous' one, haha.

For this one I used a metal clip off an old hair bow I never wear and hot glued it to the inside of the heart.


Front:

Back:

Polka Dot Love

I just ordered these lovelies from F21, never have bought anything from that shop before.

They're so cute, I can't wait to have them arrive in the mail on my porch. :)

Part Deux.

Now to post the non-clothing things I found on Monday.

Vintage Sunglasses/$1
These look a little odd on my face, but I still really like them. I'm pretty sure there's a proper name with sunglasses with these kind of arms, but I don't know it.



Royal Wedding Cup/$1
I couldn't decide if this cup was really awfully tacky or really amazingly ridiculous. I decided it was amazingly ridiculous.



Starbuck's Cup/$1
I've always been too cheap to buy one new, so there you go.



3 Dimensional Rose Cup/$2
I love this cup, I'm planning on re-painting the rose + leaves on it to brighter shades of pink and green to liven it up a little!



2 Bunches of Fake Flowers/$8
Coincidentally I had gone out to Michael's the same morning in search of fake flowers, and found nothing I really liked, and happened upon a whole box full of them at Vinnie's, and found two big bunches I like. They're for a project, I'll post a little more about it later on.


xo

I love junk shopping.

T-Shirt/$6
This shirt is huge, but I love it and it appears to never have been worn.





Sparkly Black Shirt/$4
I didn't notice this shirt until it was pointed out to me, so glad it was because it's lovely in person.





Sparkly Black Sweater/$3
I love this sweater because it's not really heavy, and has metallic thread knitted into it, it'll be lovely for this Winter.



Black AC/DC T-Shirt/$4
Before I'm asked, yes, I actually do listen to AC/DC and am not just wearing a shirt with their name on it.



Black & White Pattern Jacket w/Colourful Buttons/$4
This is a terrible picture, but this jacket is so much fun and actually much nicer in person, I promise.



Teal Blazer/$6
The colour of this blazer is a bit nicer in person, definitely brighter and more lively, it's very big on me but I love it still.





Hard Rock Cafe T-Shirt/$1
It's huge on me like the the t-shirt in the first two pictures, but I couldn't pass up a HRC t-shirt for only a dollar.





That's it for the clothing, now onto posting the pictures I took of the various non-clothing treasures I found.

EVERYBODY'S CHANGING

First off, I know. I've worn this before.
But that blue body goes with almost nothing in my wardrobe right now, and it was about 1000C° on Sunday night and I couldn't be arsed to screw around trying to convince myself it looks good with anything else I own.
The body is from Sirens, and the skirt is second hand.

I HATE THE HEAT

We're in the middle of heat wave #2 for Victoria this Summer, and I'm... maybe getting slightly used to it? Although for the record, I still hate the heat, hence the title of this blog post.

Yesterday it was too hot to do anything and we haven't got air conditioning so the house has been somewhat unbearable during the day, I'd rather sit in the garage where there are nice cold cement floors or in the car with the air conditioner on, haha.

I watched The Wizard of Oz all the way through for the first time yesterday. I'd only seen parts of it up until now and I loved watching the whole thing, and then I took a few pictures after it got dark and the house finally started cooling off.

I went to the mall on Friday since I hadn't been for a while and bought a white lined lace shirt, and two pairs of black lace leggings for $21, such a sale. The shirt and one pair of the leggings were all fine, but the other pair of leggings had two holes in them that I didn't notice since I hadn't tried them on at the shop, so I went and exchanged them this morning for a pair with no holes, luckily they still had my size in the same style.

I also went to my two favourite thrift shops this morning and found a bunch of great junk, I will take photos once I get it all washed and dried and cleaned up!


These pictures are from Saturday morning, by the way.