hair flowers galore!!

gooooood morning!  i hope everyone is having a fun, relaxing saturday morning.  i know i am!  i've enjoyed drinking some tea, snuggling in my bed, and listening to some podcasts (don't laugh).


this week my friends and i have been on a huge hair flower making high.  we've been making them non. stop. so i'd thought i'd share some of our flower power secrets...enjoy!


1.  this is one that i did very quickly.  all you need is 3 different fabrics and some tiny buttons.   cut the fabric into different size circles (they look better if they aren't perfect circles) and hot glue them on top of each other.  then just hot glue the buttons on top and glue them side-by-side on a stretchy headband.  and voilà! it's done!   

     

2.  this one is a little tougher to explain because i sort of just made it up.  but i started by ripping a white strip of fabric about 2 in. wide and really long.  i then folded that in half to make it 1 in. wide and began to just twist and roll (sounds like a dance).  make the center really tight and twist the fabric and keep rolling it, hot gluing periodically as you go. and soon enough, it'll turn out like this...   

3.  so i wish i could take the credit for making these, but i can't.  my crafty little friend, ali, made them and shared it with all of us.  i also give her the credit for all the adorable buttons. she was so sweet to share her massive collection with us!  for this flower, all you need is two (or one works too) pieces of fabric.  start by cutting a strip between 2 and 3 inches wide.  fold the strip over and take a needle and thread and sew straight down the open side.  the stitches don't need to be perfectly even or straight because all you're going to do is pull it to scrunch up the fabric.  as you keep sewing and pulling you'll slowly start to see the flower shape to form.  then,connect the 2 ends by sewing them together.  do the same thing with a thinner piece of fabric and glue it on top the bigger.  lastly, take a cute button that matches your fabric and hot glue it right in the middle!  you can then put these on a headband, bobby pin, or clip (very versatile).  and you've got an adorable hair flower to wear all the time (you really will wear them all the time)! 

i hope you'll try making some of these and love doing it!  they were a lot of fun to make while eating half-baked cookie dough, listening to michael buble, and laughing about all the times i poked myself with the needle or burned myself with the hot glue gun!

oh, and happy early valentine's day!  hopefully you're doing something fun with loved ones around you on monday. here's a verse that i believe is perfect for valentine's day that tells of the one who is madly in love with us.  1 John 4:16 says, "And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.  God is love.  Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him." not only does God love us, but He is love!  I love that!! ok, i'm going to stop using the word love now. 

happy saturday, valentine's day, and sunny day day!  

xoxo,

erin with a p and a double r