Thursday, March 31, 2011

Hair Bows and Hair Clip Holder

So, for my daughter's 2nd birthday, I made her a ton of hairbows.
And when I say, a ton, I seriously mean it:
She's got two of each color. I bought 40 or so yard long strands of different colors from a seller on eBay for like $10. I bought the hair clips on Etsy for about $8. I already had hot glue, and so all I needed to do was find a tutorial on the bows I wanted to make. It took me probably 5 hours to do them all. That's just a guess. But it made a really nice gift that will last her whole life!!

So then I've decided to try my hand at selling my hair clips. In order to do that, I needed a display board of some kind to show them off. I bought a 11x14 art board from Deseret Industries (a good will type place) for $.75. I saw they were about $1.25 at Walmart. I took a bit of pretty cloth that I had and glued it to the board. I measured where to put the ribbon (I have to have everything symmetrical, there's not much I can do, it's the mathematician in me.) and glued the ribbon on. I bought an 11x17 paper and glued it to the back so that the back looked pretty too.

And there you have it! This small little board probably wouldn't even be able to hold all my Daughter's hairbows... It will just hold my for sale ones.

Happy Crafting!

Monday, March 28, 2011

Crochet hat


So, I had a baby shower that snuck up on me this last weekend. I didn't have a gift (nor did we have $ for one). So I searched online for some boy beanie patterns. I found a picture of one that I REALLY liked, but it didn't have a pattern, just the final product for sale. So I made this one up after the design of the beanie in the picture. I think it turned out awesome and everyone loved it!

I'm starting to figure out beanie sizes so that I can start designing my own beanies and post patterns here for everyone.

Monday, March 21, 2011

Origami Mini Folders- FREE Instructions

I could not believe that someone was selling these on ETSY for $7.00!
That's almost 60 cents each, or more if you include shipping.
They seriously take me like 1 minute to fold. Therefore, I could fold 60 in one hour, meaning if I sold them for $.60 I would be making $36 an hour. Now that's quite the living.
They're SO EASY to make. Click to read my instructions:

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Crochet Coasters

Here are some crochet coasters I made. If you are interested in purchasing I sell them for $2 each. I have lots of colors yarn on hand, and many that I can purchase quickly.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Crochet Flower Hair Clips

So I used that irish rose I previously posted about and made a clip out of it! I also wanted to make another flower clip for my sister (she does hair) where I made a simple flower, and this cute leaf from this site

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Crochet Experiment in Curves

I wanted to test out some patterns I had stored in my head, I'm sure they're pretty common patterns, and I did it in two colors so you could CLEARLY see what was going on:

Haha, now I'm looking at this and it looks like a black widow. I'll need to adjust my camera because the color is really maroon.