hairbows ... take 3?

i can't remember how many posts i've done with hairbows. but, here's another one. so i had a business trip to oklahoma a few weeks ago and i knew i'd have a little extra time for some bow-making. plus, i actually had someone interested in making them with me! thanks kim (how are those bows working out for you, anyway?) we had a good time ... even when the bows didn't turn out exactly how we hoped!

{kim wouldn't even keep this bow ... but i kind of like it. it'd be better if it were smaller}

{ugliest bow of the night ... but the girls loved it. i like to tell myself that it's just because i made it}

{a korker bow in brown/turquoise, plus a mini bow made out of the scraps. we don't waste.}

{another korker bow ... red, white, and blue}

{this is the korker ribbon before it's cut up. i think we should all sport this look from now on}

{and then we cut up the ribbon and put it all together: turquoise/white polka dots, white, and pink}

the unbirthday invite

ok, so it's not really an invite, but it's close. mia's enrichment this month is "a very merry un-birthday" so we made fliers and posters for the church foyer. they're supposed to be tacky, but my brain does not think that way ... so this was as close as it gets. i do kind of like the way they turned out though.

toilet paper florals

when i first heard "looks like wrought iron but it's made out of toilet paper rolls", i was intrigued, but i kind of doubted it was really true. but, the truth is, whether it looks like wrought iron or not, i like it. what do you think? misse originally told me about it, after one of her friends saw it at someone's house. so i started collecting tp rolls, paper towel rolls, wrapping paper rolls ... and once i had enough, i googled the idea and found the design-sponge blog. i started putting it together and quickly realized that if i made it twice as long as the one i saw online, i could hang it above my bed. so that's what i did.


here's a close up of one section of it, so you can see how to do it. the short and simple instructions are fold the rolls in half (hot dog length), cut one inch sections, then use hot glue to stick them all together in whatever design you want. after that was complete, i used black spray paint to finish it, and now it's hanging on my wall. la-love it. and if, in 2 weeks, i decide i don't love it, i can throw it away, because it is only toilet paper rolls, after all.

spiral bows

another addition to the "hairbow" collection. spiral bows. and they were easier to make than i thought they'd be. just imagine how many color combinations we could make! any takers? i need to find out if they actually will hold in anyone's hair ... because i already know that they'll hold on the ribbon holder in my closet. pretty cute, i think.

little bug bows

i've been (slowly) working on building up a stock of bows to sell at a craft show (eventually). well, hopefully we'll get into one in the fall, and if that goes well then another one before christmas. i think these turned out pretty cute. would you buy one?

fun things to do

1 day to plan and create another enrichment poster ... i'd say it was a success. the theme was "fun things to do and save money too" and the classes? were about fun things to do around the chicago area (family/kid friendly) and another one was about some financial planning tips. so, mia decided the way to do this was a monopoly board, with all the "fun things" placed around the board instead of the regular properties.


and, just for fun, we put the enrichment leader and the relief society president's pictures on the "go to jail" and the "in jail" squares.