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In Texas, Mums The Word!

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As clowns are to parades and bling is to the football mom’s jeans, nothing says Fall in Texas like big-ass High School Homecoming mums. And in the land where everything’s gargantuan, these monstrosities take the strength of a pack-mule to carry and can cost more than your last vacation. Truly, in Texas, Mums the WORD! “A lady came in and spent $700 on a mum.” That was the text I received last night from a friend who works part time in a local boutique. While I don’t want to go off on a social or political rant, it had my WTF antennae on high alert, thinking…WHAT THE ACTUAL EFF? That’s a Keep Reading >>>

How To Make a Duct Tape Headband

How To Make a Duct Tape Headband

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I love duct tape. It's pretty much my go-to craft material. You start off with fancy duct tape. I got mine here. Just stick it down to a solid headband. (I usually get mine at the dollar store. They come in packs of five or so.) Trim the edges of the tape, but leave a little so you can fold it over to the bottom side of the headband, and you're done! You have a custom duct tape headband, and you are totally rocking' it! Keep Reading >>>

Flower Headband

How To Make a Flower Headband

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I found these awesome fabric flowers, and I knew I had to do something super cool with them, so my daughter and I decided to make headbands! So, we got to work and made this! It took about two minutes and it's the cutest flower headband. I am going to make about a million more of them. I cut the mesh off the back of the flower, added some hot glue to a yellow headband I got at the dollar store, and stuck it down. It really was that easy to make a custom headband. I am going to give them to out as birthday presents! Keep Reading >>>

Google Eye Hair Clip

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Okay, so I love google eyes. Seriously, you can buy a big bag of them at the for a dollar at the Dollar Tree, and I probably go through a bag a month, because I feel like everything in the world needs google eyes on it. The other day I asked my daughter if she thought it would be cute to put a google eye on a hair clip and she FREAKED out. She told me it was pretty much the best idea I'd ever had, so I figured I'd better share it here on the blog. Here are my instructions for a DIY Google Eye Hair Clip!   It's pretty simple, basically you just glue the google eyes to the edge Keep Reading >>>

DIY Halloween Bat Hairbow

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Halloween is almost here, and I have an awesome DIY Bat Hairbow tutorial for you.     It's SO easy to make, that I almost don't need to give you step by step instructions, but since I love you-- I'll do it anyway. You need 20 inches of 3 inch wide black Ribbon (well, that was just the size I had on hand, you could seriously make this little guy out of any size ribbon), two google eyes, some hot glue, and a hair clip. Tie a big knot in the middle of your ribbon. Play around with it so it sort of looks like a bat's body. Cut the edges in a curve. (If you had Keep Reading >>>

How To Make A Cheer Bucket

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So I googled, "How to Make a Cheer Bucket" and came up with about two hits. Craap. That meant I was on my own. Turns out, though-- they're not all that difficult. You just hit the after homecoming sales, pick up some cute dangly football stuff and some cute cheerleader stickers-- grab some fuzzy boa material and some of that cute colored/patterned duct tape, and you're good to go. First things first-- you need a bucket. You can find these at wal-mart and I went with green because-- hey that's the team color-- why not? Then take some of that duct tape and tale around the bottom. It's Keep Reading >>>

how to make a cheer bow

How To Make a Rockin’ Cheer Bow

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I love a good craft,*and lately I’ve been all about making bows. So, I decided my daughter’s team needed giant cheer bows. And, because I’ve learned the importance of research when it comes to hand-making stuff, (seriously, you can save loads of cash with a simple google search) I tried to find out how to make the perfect cheer bow. Well, I ended up at the yellaribbon site. Get it? Cheerleaders yell—so they wear yellaribbons? I’m not going to lie… I love a good play on words. They have the ultimate cheer bows there. They’re sparkly, shiny, and sure to give your girls 1000% more pep.** You Keep Reading >>>

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