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 Fabric Hair Bow
I am totally in love with this easy to make fabric hair bow! It's super simple and totally cute! Denim hair bows are super cute, easy to make and only require a few supplies. The best part is, you can wear them in your hair, make them for your little girl or give them away as gifts! Keep Reading >>>
How To Make a Rainbow Loom Headband
We are totally obsessed with the Rainbow Loom in my house, and we are constantly seeing how much stuff we can make with it. Who knew we could make headbands? Keep Reading >>>
How To Make a Duct Tape Headband
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 >>>
How To Make a Flower Headband
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 >>>
How To Make a Little Duct Tape Bow
Now that my daughter is totally over big bows (sigh, they grow up so fast) we have been making little bows instead. One of our favorites is this cutie made out of duct tape! All you need is some of that cute patterned duct tape you can find at pretty much any store, and a small hair clip. Watch the video below for instructions. Keep Reading >>>
How To Make Your Own Google Eye Headband
My daughter pretty much hasn't taken this google eye headband off since I made it for her. I don't blame her, I kind of want one for myself. You can Get Google Eyes and Headbands Here: And Headbands Here: Keep Reading >>>
Google Eye Hair Clip
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
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 Duct Tape Cheer Bow
Okay, so here's the thing. Sometimes people say Duct Tape, and sometimes people say Duck Tape, because that's a brand of Duct Tape. But, I am going with Duct Tape. :) Want to know hot to make a cheer bow from Duct Tape? Here's a video tutorial! Keep Reading >>>
How To Make a Cheer Bow Using Spandex
I have a new bow video! You know you want to watch it! Keep Reading >>>
How to Make a Zig Zag Cher Bow
What can I say, it's that time of year again where I have to make a ridiculous amount of cheerish things. And so... new year, new cheer bow! Keep Reading >>>
How To Make A Cheer Bucket
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 Pony O
Today's video is how to make a hair bow. Man, I had no idea how-to videos were so hard to make! I need more practice! Keep Reading >>>
How To Make a Rockin’ Cheer Bow
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 >>>
