Hair Bow Holder

I decided that with all the hair bows I've been making, I need somewhere to put them all where they are easily accessible, but cute too. I ended up making a bow holder out of a large frame.  It's a great place to clip on all sorts of bows and barrettes and it is SUPER easy to do.

What You'll Need:

22"x 18" piece of thin fabric

3 yrds of 1in ribbon

16"x20" frame

hot glue

Directions:

1. Take out the piece of glass or plastic from the frame and lay it on top of the fabric of your choice.
2. Pull the fabric so that it's taut and glue the edges to the back of the glass/plastic.  Wrap the corners like you would wrap a present and secure with hot glue.
3. Decide if you are going to hang your frame vertically or horizontally and then cut your ribbon to be slightly longer than the frame.
4. Hot glue the ends of the ribbon either vertically or diagonally to the back of the glass piece, making sure that the ribbon has no slack in it.
5. Once the glue is dry, place the glass back into the frame and secure it in place.
6. Place bows and clips on the frame and hang up!

*I made mine to match my daughter's room so I used a piece of purple fabric with Disney Princess ribbon.  This would be very pretty with a nice looking frame, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money so I bought a poster frame for about $5 at Walmart.

Girls Hair Bows

I have decided to dabble in making hair bows.  My daughter is 5 years old and just started kindergarten.  I wanted to put all sorts of cute things in her hair, but I quickly realized that they were hard to find.  After looking online at some hair bow tutorials, I thought "I can do that!"  Feeling pretty optimistic I went ahead and ordered a bunch of ribbon and cute adornments for the bows.  I ordered everything from www.theribbonretreat.com  because they had what I thought were great prices. 

What You Will Need:

• Ribbon in a variety of colors and sizes (I used grosgrain)
• String or thread
• Clips or Headbands
• Hot Glue
• Scissors
• Lighter

Some Possible Materials You Will Need:

• Bottle Caps
• Colored Printer (if you decide to do bottle cap embellishments)
• 1 in hole punch
• Jewels
• Faux Pearls
• Large Beads
• Silk Flowers
• Ric Rac
• Wooden Dowels & Clothes Pins (for curling ribbon in the oven)

There are SOOOOO many different kinds of bows you could make.  The possibilities are endless.  Because there are several ways to form the different bows, it is easier to see it rather than describe how to do them.  I went to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUlvZ7xx6uE and watched some tutorials on how to make some basic bows and then started designing and putting together my own creations.  Once you have the basics down, you can put together TONS of different styles by layering the bows on top of one another.

 What is more girly than a cute bow?!  I can't wait for my princess to see her new bows :)