Pretty bows

When I was a little girl I would wear bows in my hair all the time. Now I've channeled my inner child and love to wear bows again. I saw some people wearing bows with their hair half up and I also saw a few other varieties of bow placement.  I have been sewing for a while and I knew this was an easy task to accomplish. First I browsed around to get ideas of colors and size for my bows. With the abundant supply of fabric in my basement, there was no need to buy any fabric.

 

With these ideas I just started experimenting with sewing a tube of fabric to make the main part of the bow. I then folded it in half and sewed the two raw edges together. From there I just re-folded it so that the seam was in the center but on the soon to be under side of the bow. I scrunched the bow in the center to see how wide I wanted the center fabric strip to be. Then I just cut the fabric to the width I wanted with room to fold the raw edges under. I found it easier to hot glue the middle strip on the underside to keep it in place. Here are some of the finished products. 

 

 

Flower power

The inspiration 

Lately I've been seeing lots of flower headbands, which I love....but wasn't sure if I could pull it off. Then I came across this peace sign wreath. I fell in love and knew I had to replicate it. I started my search at my local craft store where I found some great fake flowers on sale.  Although I do love the colors in the inspiration wreath, I decided maybe white would be more practical since I really didn't know where this was going in my room yet. Like many of my crafts, I tend to just wing it when I see something I like. This turned out to be pretty simple. 

I started out with a metal hoop that I found at the craft store. It doesn't really matter what it looks like because it will be covered with pretty flowers soon. I decided to wrap the hoop with some rope I had gotten at the fabric store for another project. I realized later that this helped to cover the metal if there were to be a gap between the flowers, but more importantly it helped with the hot glueing process. For the lines in the center to make the peace sign I used some easily bendable wire. Then came time for the flowers, which I just hot glued all the way around the rope covered hoop. That's all! This was one of my simpler projects but I couldn't love it more. Now the only dilemma is where I'm going to hang it on my wall.

Supplies

The finished product

Chevron love

Picture taken from my cousin's dorm room.

So I have been seeing a bunch of different ideas on how to hang necklaces and other pieces of jewelry (mainly via Pinterest).  I was trying to think of ideas for my cousin's birthday and thought this would be perfect.  She just started her freshman year of college and I knew I had to make her something.  (All of my friends and family can attest to the fact that my go-to gifts are always something handmade).  At first I wanted to find old dresser knobs, but then I wasn't sure what I would attach them to.  Then I decided to browse the endless supply of miscellaneous odds and ends that have been accumulating in my basement.  I saw this 4x6 wooden picture frame that sparked the creation of this jewelry hanger.  Next, I went to my dad's work bench area where I found a drawer labeled "hooks" and the rest was a piece of cake.  These hooks I found were from who knows when, but they all had threads like the end of a screw.  They went into the wooden frame so easily.

For the assembly, I painted all the hooks one color.  I then decided on the chevron pattern and found some old cardboard to cut and fit in the picture frame.  After this was painted and put in the frame, I extended the chevron pattern to the frame itself.  I screwed the hooks in and that was that!

Repurposed: wooden frame, hooks
Bought: NOTHING!

MIZ...

So as you can see, I go to Mizzou...(University of Missouri-Columbia).  This wreath started out as the holder of some cake pops my roommates made for a football weekend.  After seeing a Mizzou wreath on a neighbor's door, the idea of reusing the ring was perfect!

All this took was some attempts to make the ribbon look its best and a little paint job on the wooden letters and popsicle sticks.  Hot glue is a staple in most of my crafts.  

Repurposed supplies: styrofoam ring, popsicle sticks, ribbon to hang, black paint.

Bought: black and yellow ribbon, letters to paint

Hoping this will help Mizzou football as they get ready to play Alabama this weekend!

Let the crafting begin...

Hi, my name is Bridget and welcome to my first blog ever!  This is basically just a collection of any craft I create, majority of them consisting of reused items from around my house.  It all stems from the way I grew up since my mom has raised me to be very resourceful and to think outside the box.  My childhood consisted of crafts, enjoying the outdoors, and learning how to make use of what I have.  I have always loved art and having the ability to make things my own.  Throughout my life I have been altering, embellishing and re-purposing anything from clothes to old picture frames to miscellaneous items that have been out of use.  To start, I will be posting new or old pictures and telling a little bit about how I re-purposed it.  I hope to inspire people to think outside the box in their own lives.  My motto in the words of Albert Einstein, "creativity is contagious, pass it on"...and that's what I intend to do.