Nebraskon prep and cute hair accessories

Hello Lovelies~

 As some of you may know, November brings with it a convention close to my heart, a convention I've been attending for more years than I care to mention and at this convention, amongst the panels I run, the tea party I plan and hostess, and all of the people I socialize with, I also run an Artist table where I sell my art and for the past few years, have sold Lolita accessories.

On the menu for this year is two Mini Top Hats, a few Headdresses, a Gothic Madonna Veil, and puffy hair bows!!! (And some Deco items, but that's not what I'm making tonight ^_^)

 I have had a lot of misfires with these puffy hair bows. You wouldn't think they would be that difficult!!!

I finally made one I actually like and thought I'd show it off while I slave over more and hope they all come out this cute...u.u;

 Here is the bow on it's own....

And here it is worn....(Please excuse the lack of actual hair style. I hadn't expected to be taking pictures tonight, thus you don't actually get to see my face >.>....)

So. One down! Many more to go! I am having fun though, so that's all that matters.

Spring purse and a Small tutorial how to

Hello Lovelies~

 This Easter was tight, not 'tight' in the cool way, 'tight' as in financially. So to save on the baskets and candy and everything else, (Which I later got on sale for 70% off ^_~ ), I made myself an Easter/May Day Purse. Something I could carry all summer! And I made it for less than $10.

Firstly, I went to my local thrift shop and went straight to their purse section. One never knows what kind of treasures they cane find there and low and behold, I struck gold!

Look how awesome this tote is? There is nothing wrong with it, and I got it for $1.55! I was so excited to add this to my growing straw bag collection. It was the perfect canvas to be creative with.

 So I looked around my house and found an old bunch of on the stem fake roses and I snipped the off, then hot glued them in the shape I wanted. As shown below...

I thought I was finished, but when I stepped back from it, it looked.....odd....

It needed more, so off to my local craft store I went and I got 5 inches of a pretty material and matching thread for about $5 and preceded to cut it into three pieces, One for the bow, one for the middle of the bow, and one piece for the long ribbon tails, Then I over lock stitched everything and tacked it in place with a few well placed stitches.

 This was the outcome!

Not the greatest pictures, but I'll have a shot of it actually carried with an outfit soon. I hope all of you had  great holidays!

 So to recap!!!

 1) Good purse = $1.55
 2) Bunch of roses and hot glue = (Free as I already owned them, but for the purpose of calculations...) about $3 total
 3) 5 inches of fabric and thread = $5

~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~+~

 So my total comes to.....$9.55!

Less than $10!

And to top it all off, I had a lot of fun!

Homemade Cutie!

Hello Lovelies~

   With Christmas coming up, I decided to try my hand at something I've wanted to do for a long time, but just haven't felt skilled enough to do. But the other day was watching 'Dancing with the Stars' and got this over whelming urge to try my hand at Plushie Making.

So I pulled out so scrap fabric I'd picked up earlier in the month, threaded my needle and set to work Drawing out, then carefully cutting, then puzzling over the stitching until I finally got it right. It turned out super cute, so I'm going to make more!

  Here is the result of my experiment....

Cute huh? Here's one from another angle...

And because he needed a face and I didn't have any buttons right one hand, I used Pins!

What do ya'll think?

 Look for the DIY tutorial on how to make this little cutie for yourself coming soon!