Sports Teams

Football season is now here and Claire needed new hair accessories to wear while watching LSU football and the New Orleans Saints. The top bow is 3 ribbons together with purple on the bottom, yellow in the middle, and white with rhinestones on the top. I did not glue the rhinestones on this one - the ribbon came that way. I looked everywhere for a tiger and finally found one at Hobby Lobby for $3. This is the most expensive hair accessory/hair bow I have made so far because of the tiger and 3 rolls of ribbon at $2 each (half off sale - regularly $4). The total cost ended up around $9 which is still cheaper than purchasing a boutique bow. Plus, she can't outgrow this bow like she can a shirt, so she will get lots of use out of it.

The black and gold bow is a bit more simple. I got the ribbon from Walmart. I had a hard time finding a fleur-de-lis. I found a pewter charm at Hobby Lobby for $1.50. I wish it was gold and I wish it was bigger, but at least it is a fleur-de-lis.

Glitter

These are some of my hair accessories that are a bit more 3 dimensional. The upper left one consists of a small poinsettia covered in pink glitter on top of black feathers and a black bow. The bottom one consists of a Christmas floral piece that I disassembled and glued back together to be more compact. It is also all glittered. The top right one is one of my favorites. It consists of a silver glittered Styrofoam bird with white feathers on top of white feathers and a black bow. I was concerned at first that it might be too big to work as a hair accessory, however I now believe that an object's weight is more crucial than its size. The photo above was taken from the top of the bird. The photo below was taken from the front of the bow being modeled by Claire.

Small Rhinestones

For my next set of bows, I decided to use the small rhinestones that I had left over from another project. I made a basic bow and glued little rhinestones on the fabric. The pink bow on the left just has pink rhinestones while the rainbow colored bow on the right has many colors of rhinestones glued to their coordinating colored stripe.