New Bows for School

This year my little girl will be off to kindergarten. Where did the time go? In preparation for school I made some bows and headbands to match her uniform.  She's not wearing it in the picture, but that is why all the bows are navy and white with a bit of red.  I found a fantastic tutorial on how to make woven headbands.  You can go to hair-hardware to see the tutorial. You can't tell mine is woven since I didn't use two high contrasting ribbons.  One was navy and the other was navy with white polka dots. I plan on making the next one just white and blue.

What I found really great about the woven headband is that you can clip bows to it if you want to dress it up further.

And you know I can't resist designing my own ribbons with paint.  So, I added flowers to a navy ribbon and a plaid pattern to another ribbon.

Ribbon Flower

I went ahead and embellished the purses for the birthday parties with a little ribbon flower. After I made them I thought why haven't I made these before?  So easy and cute.  I think I'm going to make some more up for hair clips for my daughter.
The first flower I used two different widths of grosgrain ribbon.  I ran it through the sewing machine using a basting stitch.

Then I gathered the ribbon. 

Then I just started to wrap it around in a circle and hand-stitched to hold it together.

The second flower I used a wired ribbon, so I was able to gather it by pulling on the wire on one side of the ribbon.

Fancy Nancy Pen

My crafts have turned into what my daughter's obsession is at the time.  She is on a Fancy Nancy kick right now. Fancy Nancy is the ultimate girly girl.  My daughter likes to compare what Fancy Nancy has to her own stuff.  This is how we got to this project.  Fancy Nancy writes with a pen that has a plume. Now my daughter has her own pen with a plume after this easy project.

I bought some feathers, ribbon and pens. 

First I curled the ribbon using a knife.  

Then I cut off the end of the pen so I could stick the feather inside.  Then I took the ribbon and wrapped the pen. 

Ta da! A Fancy Nancy pen any girly girl would love.