Fun Flower Hair Bands...

What fun my daughter April has had creating these sweet hair bands...
she must have inherited some of her mothers crafting genes!


These silver satin ribbon roses are hand sewn...


With beautiful white pearls as focal points....


Attached to black elastic...


A single white satin ribbon rose...


On the black elastic band...


With dainty pearlescent seed pearls glued to the centre...


This is one made from white felt...you can't see the pearl in the the centre...
The green leaves are a nice contrast.

If you want to have a go at making these...great gifts for the girly girl...
You'll find the tutorials at:

http://makeanddogirl.com/2011/10/tutorial-diy-felt-flowers/
and
http://alisaburke.blogspot.co.nz/2010/12/holiday-hair-band-tutorial.html

Pretty in Pink...

Pretty in pink.


In New Zealand these pink lillies are commonly known as 'Naked Ladies'...

Otherwise known as the Belladonna Lilly...

Family: Amaryllidaceae   (am-uh-ril-id-AY-see-ee) 
Genus: Amaryllis   (am-uh-RIL-us) 

Species: belladonna   (bel-uh-DON-nuh) 




Gorgeous ribbon cushion in white...

with a pretty blossom themed duvet.


Delicate ribbon roses...

The Belladonna lilly is deliciously fragrant!

Clea the lilac Burmese joins the photo shoot!

"My fur is a fabulous contrast colour, don't you think?"

Emmm, time for a nap!




Winter Rose....

What a fabulously warm winter it has been so far!

Some of the roses are still flowering... 


 And there are still a few bees around gathering pollen!


This red rose is called a 'Flower Carpet Rose'.

'Laundry' Sign....

You can buy all sorts of quirky Laundry signs nowadays...
But I wanted to hand-craft one to match the blue of my laundry walls...
Plus hand-crafting is so much more fun than walking into a shop 
and just buying it!


This is how I made my laundry sign.... 


First of all I cut an MDF board to the desired size, and then painted it white.


 Using free lettering from the net, I block coloured the letters in blue, 
and printed using my home printer,  
then cut out the letter shapes...


I roughly hand tore the edges of three squares of 
pretty contrasting scrapbook paper.


Glued the squares onto the board first,
 then the lettering spaced over the squares.
I did this freehand, 
but if you want use a ruler to get perfect spacing.


Using permanent black stamping ink and desired stamps, 
stamp an edging design around the board.


 Once stamping ink is dry, 
use a black sharpie pen to outline the lettering.
When dry, lightly and quickly so as to not smudge the inks,
 coat entire board with a sealer.
(I used 'Mod Podge').


And here's the end result!
I'm really happy with how it looks with the blue walls!

New Hearts...


I have an addiction to hearts...
I seem to have quite a few now, 
but theses are the latest addition to the collection...
A woven heart made of wood.... 
A ceramic heart...
dipped in grey/white paint for a french country look
This heart has a beautifully embossed surface...
Fabulously french...
I'm in love!

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