I'll start at the beginning. I am tiny. I often need to hem my pants, dresses, and skirts and have been known to tailor and sew my shirts smaller so they fit my frame better. Since I am cheap (and not afraid to admit it!) I prefer to make these alterations myself, although I don't have a sewing machine.. It's on the "to buy" list.. Which brings me to my current project. After I finished sewing a shirt today, I had a scrap of fabric left that I had cut off. I liked the pattern and fabric and last night I spent a few hours clicking through blogs looking for cool crafts to do. On the blog my heart is yours I saw a really cool ruffle headband that I loved. *spoiler alert* mine looks no where near as good as hers, though I may try again another day when I have more time to waste.
So anyway, I had that fresh in my mind and decided to just see what a ruffle would turn out like. Well it turned out looking kind of cute, like a little barrette thing. Luckily I happened to have super glue lying around my room and a bobby pin. I glued one edge of the bobby pin to the ruffle and let it dry, not after getting glue ALL over my fingers though. (None stuck together, thank goodness!)
Here is the end result..
Kinda cute right?
Here's a picture of it in my hair.. I wish I had placed it a little lower and closer to my messy bun but you get the idea. Also, it is EXTREMELY hard to take pictures of the back of your head yourself so I apologize.
It's a little bit different from the typical hair accessories I wear, but I'm going to give it a try. I do like it but I'm not sold on it. I think if I tried again though and had more time I could definitely make a better one!
The other project I did was to "refurbish" a headband. I am extremely picky with headbands--elastic ones fall off my head (I'm convinced my head is a weird shape) and plastic/metal ones usually hurt my head. I have this pink one that is great, but I'm not a real big pink fan.
Here's a pic of the before headband circa 2008, unfortunately I don't have a better photo.. you'll have to do with one of me being a camp counselor straight outta high school.
Pretty standard pink headband. It's plastic and had a pink cloth covering.
After all my sewing, I decided to go through my mom's sewing basket and see if she had any extra fabric. I found this AWESOME light gray fabric with little barely visible white flowers on it. Those of you who know me, know that I tend to wear a lot of black and white (weird since I love color so much right?) especially in the winter, so this is perfect.
I cut the fabric into long strips and began to wrap it around the headband, securing it with super glue and getting even more on my fingers. I layered the fabric to give it some texture and the ends frayed too, which I kinda like. It looks different! Here's the final product..
Hope everyone likes the projects that I did today!
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