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Kid's Crafting - Cereal Box Cash Register

Using this post from Pane, Amore e Creativita as a guide, my daughter turned two cereal boxes into...

This fun cash register. My son printed the money for her. Not sure where he found those files. Should I be worried? :)

Silk Flower Hair Clip Tutorial

My daughter and I got a little crafty this week and made some hair flowers for friends and cousins. Here's a quick tutorial on how to make them.

Supplies:

Silk Flowers (ours aren't silk, but what else do you call them?)

Alligator hair clips

Buttons or beads

Glue gun

Needle and thread

1/4" -1/2" wide ribbon

Small pieces of felt 

Step 1 - Take the flowers apart removing all the plastic centers and stems and backs. You can discard these. You don't need them for the hair flowers.

Step 2 - Layer the flowers together the way you want them. For this one, we did 3 different sizes of flowers on one hair clip.

Step 3 - Sew the button on. We topped this one off with a small pink button. You can also used beads. Sew a felt circle on the back as you're sewing on the button--creating a button, flower, felt sandwich.

Step 4 - Since the felt is only held on by a couple of stitches, tack it with some more glue around the edges.

Step 5 - Attach the alligator clip. I like to cover the top of my alligator clips with 1/4" ribbon. This helps it to stick to the felt better.

Step 6 - Wear it proudly!

Novelty Yarn Hair Elastic

Fuzzy Ponys


Pattern: I used this tutorial on about.com as a guide to do single crochet around an elastic hair band. 


Yarn: Patons Allure in Black 


This is super quick and fun! With the novelty yarn I found that one time around with the stitches scrunched really close together was enough. I have also made these with Moda Dea Zing and it was really cute! It's a great use for all the novelty yarn you have lying around and it uses just a small amount of yarn.

Rolled Fabric Rose Hair Bow and More

There are wonderful tutorials all over the place for these rolled fabric roses. I personally do a combination of a few different methods. I tear a strip of fabric about 2" wide and about 14" long. I fold it over to make a thinner strip. I then just roll the fabric, holding the center between my thumb and fingers and going around and around until I have a rose I'm happy with. I do twist the fabric as I go to make it more interesting--this gives you a raw edge every once in a while which I like. Twist and roll, twist and roll. :)

Then, with a glue gun, I glue the end of the fabric strip down and put a lot of hot glue on the bottom of the rose, making sure to get some glue on each layer and some extra goopiness in the center. I then place the rose on a piece of felt. I do that two more times. (The smaller rose it just fabric that was shorter than 14"). Then I cut away the excess felt.

Then what? The green one above is a hair bow. I just added a little felt loop on the back to hold an alligator clip. This way the alligator clip can be removed and the roses can also be slipped right onto a headband.

I love giving these little hair bows as part of a gift--I always use them as the bow on the package. Just clip it to a card and attach it to a package and you're good to go. (This one was for my daughter's friend--a sweet 7 year old who LOVES hair accessories.)

I have also used the rolled roses around the house. The possibilities are endless. It's such a great way to add some country charm to an item and it's a great use for those small strips of fabric you have lying around the house!

Newest Name Signs

These are all recently filled orders. Teacher Name Signs are always available in my bumblebina ETSY shop and as you can see they are not always just for teachers. They make great house signs too--nice housewarming gift idea.

IF - Trail

Pink Cow, 3" x 4", Mixed Media on 1" MDF (SOLD)

It's tough out on the trail being the only pink cow!

Ahhhhhhhh

First batch of homemade salsa. It is officially summer!!