Coveted Item: Little Red Riding Hood

Halloween is my absolute favorite time of the year. I love the energy. The eerieness.  The creativity.  I'm having fun scanning the internet for Halloween costume inspiration for the kiddos.  I am in love with this super adorable Little Red Riding Hood costume.  What little girl wouldn't look darling in this?!?

Trinity's Tutus

Contests and Giveaways: Brown Flowered Headband

The Life, Chaos and Quotes blog is hosting a contest in which the winner will receive this pretty flower headband from Cut.Your.Heart.Out.  Cut.Your.Heart.Out is incoporating more hair accessories into the inventory soon and this giveaway is to promote that inclusion.  This headband is adorable, trendy and casual enough for everyday hair.  Want to win it?  Head on over the the Life, Chaos and Quotes blog now for more info!

Just Listed: Vintage Inspired Pink Fabric Flower Infant Headband

Your little girl will look gorgeous in this pretty vintage inspired headband. The pink fabric flower is adorned with a metal and faux gem embellishment and secured to a black elastic headband.
Mox.ie and Mis.chief

Just Listed: Vintage Inspired Burlap and Fabric Flower Infant Headband

Your little girl will look gorgeous in this pretty vintage inspired headband. The cream colored burlap and fabric flower is adorned with a metal embellishment and secured to a black elastic headband.
Mox.ie and Mis.chief

Just Listed: March of the Ant Necklace

Add a bit of a dark and eccentric touch your outfit with this necklace.

 

The 24" long silver cable chain is adored with a vintage-like ant pendant and onyx bead. The necklace features a lobster closure.

 

Cut.Your.Heart.Out

Contests and Giveaways: Tea Collection Rosa Tile Romper

How freaking adorable is this little romper from the Tea Collection?  I absolutely love it.  It's girly and feminine, yet playful enough to avoid being stuffy.  The print is super pretty and hip.

Want to win this romper for the little girl in your life?  Blog hop on over to Baby Talk Without The Babble for all the deets.

Tutorial: Felt Flower Hair Clip

In December of 2010 I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl.  I also gave birth to a new crafty obsession - making hair accessories for my darling daughter.  Now baby girl is almost 8 months old and the obsession is still going strong.  Unfortunately baby girl doesn't have much hair to work with, but once she does, she will be set with a solid selection of hair accessories.  In the meantime, here's a simple tutorial to make an adorable felt flower hairclip for your little girl.

Step 1 - You can skip down to step 2 if you are a master at drawing perfect circles, otherwise if your circles are a bit lopsided, you might want to stick around.  Gather up materials to create your templates.  You will need 3 different sized circular objects, in the size you would like your flower,  to trace. I used to baby food jar, "poker" type chip and a quarter. You'll also need something to draw the template on.  You can use sturdy cardboard or an index card.

Step 2 - Once again, skip ahead down to step three if you prefer to freehand.  No?  Freehand not your thing?  That's ok.  We all have our limitations.  Trace the three circular objects you picked out on your template paper.

Step 3 - By now you know that you should just skip ahead if you posses the artistic skills that render templates useless so I'll just refrain from stating that from here on out.  Anyway, use the circles as guides to form your flower pattern.  I use the simple 6 "petal" shape shown above, but other details such as scalloped edges work as well.  Of course, you could always opt for super simple and just leave the circular shapes as is.

Step 4 - Cut out your template pattern.  You can use the templates to trace the pattern on the felt and then cut, or you can hold the template against the felt and use the template as a guide as you cut the felt. You can use one color of felt for all three circles or mix and match colors.

Step 5 - You should now be left with three felt flower patterns in varying sizes.

Step 6 - Use hot glue to attach each layer, arranging the layers in size order so the largest shape is one the bottom and the smallest shape is on the top.

Step 7 - Hot glue a cute gem to the center of the flower to give it some detail.

Step 8 - Hot glue a plain silver hair clip* to the back of the felt flower as shown in the image.  The end result?  A super cute hair clip!  I would have let my daughter model the hairclip, but as I mentioned, she's lacking in the hair department so that would be pointless.  You'll have to just settle for this picture instead.

*You can apparently find these plain silver hairclips at craft stores.  I was not able to but struck gold on Ebay.  I would also think a hair supply store might have them as well. 

Flower Felt Hair Clip Tutorial by Mox.ie and Mis.chief.  Check out the site to buy cute hair accessories (and other goodies) if you suck at being crafty but still want to experience handmade goodness.