fabric flowers and lilly pads

lesson:

making fabric flowers can be addictive!

This is just what I've come up with since Monday night (yes last night Monday night)... not bad

I cut out strips and strips of  old hand me down t-shirts that were given to me and this is what I came up with!

yes this headband is huge on her head, but she was the only one willing to hold still for a picture, I was thinking more along the lines of and adult  bridal head ;)

It took me longer to do this one that it did to do every other piece below.... combined!

I ran into this tutorial and took the fabric flowers and ran with it, then when I couldn't do it her way, I changed it to my own way.!   I plan to do a tutorial on that soon.

These are my fabric Lilly Pad hair clips, aren't they cute?!

I'm going to give away one lilly pad with each purchase (over $5) at my shops until March 15th!

Each Lilly Pad is unique, the green pad is puffy with cotton in the middle, and the fabric frog print flower curls in toward the center.

So go buy something over $5 at my Etsy Shop or my FunkyFinds Shop and get one free!

big beautiful baby blooms!

We are surrounded by pregnant ladies!  These are what I made for baby shower gifts to go with their super cute dresses!  The only baby head available to model  was my 18 month old son.... and when I tried, he cried - so I introduce my model "BABY TAD!"

headband 2fers - flowers and peacocks

if only it was Tuesday I could call it 2for tuesday.... but alas it's monday.
(I'm going to sell these in 2 packs!)

I worked on headbands all weekend, they are all using materials I had on hand and recycled clothing that was only going to get called UGLY at Goodwill, so I cut it up and gave it new life!

the flowers were just simple pink and white to match anything that comes their way!  and the peacock feathers were inspired by a show the kids and I watched this weekend, each feather is amazing!

I used the thinnest metal for the headbands I could find, because headbands always hurt my head after an hour.

here is a sample of what I will be listing at my shops!

special orders, Note cards and Flowers

Custom orders are so exciting to me, it means "someone looked at my work, and not only liked it, but had to have something of their own and trusted me to do it right!"

These are two of my most recent customer orders:

this was for a Primary President for her primary children, they are a wide variety of 50 cute textured note cards.  They are blank inside and include envelopes.

These are for Susannah who is getting married at the end of the month.  She wanted 5 of my silver hair flowers for her brides maids.  They are made of satin, with three glass pearls and a heart charm hand sewn in the middle, with black and white polka dotted feathers.  (I made some extras, let me know if you are interested in ordering some ;)

I hope that my creations make both of their endeavors more beautiful and successful!

xoxo
j

even Fancy Nancy would call these gaudy, but we are loving them anyway!

Between the glitter and the hot glue gun it's been a very dangerous night over here at the Poppins household.  Little Miss "helped" me make headbands tonight, and I think they turned out pretty darn cute!  Of course we never finish projects during the day light, so you will just have to rely on our flash photography!  Hold on and keep your arms in the vehicle!
(updated: Kate from red-feather photography took pity on our pitiful pictures and snapped some shots of peanut butter face jojo!  thanks kate!)

I wanted to name one of them "the Kate" but in the end I couldn't pick just one.  Which one do you think Kate?

xoxo
j

gifting satin hair pretties!

This was last week's... or was it the week before that.. hum, these late crafting nights are running together.  Anyway, I made these for Jojo to share with her preschool friends for Halloween instead of candy (what? don't make fun - I was sick of candy and scary Halloween things long before the day arrived!)

I forgot to take pics of the ones I made for the girls, but these are the ones I made for my Etsy shop.  I put a star charm in the middle of each one that says "Just for You", I thought these would make really special gifts (for teachers or friends) that they would remind the recipient every time they wore it, that is was made and bought lovingly "just for me!"  Also the feather accent looks more amazing than I could have hoped for (thanks Kate for letting me reconstruct your original!)

model wouldn't cooperate.... shocking... so we will just do with what we have!