Little Busy B: circus

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Colorful Felt Headband

Hair bows are my obsession right now! My husband hates that I am always on the lookout for hair bows and frilly little ribbons...but why else have little girls? With girls comes the wonderful laces, ribbons, tutu's, and all things glitter!

I usually always put headbands on my girls when we go out in public. My husband however hates them and before I can get out the door decides to take them off of their heads. GRRRR! Over the past few months, I have gotten him to loosen up and somewhat be ok with me putting big flowers in their hair!

Buying hair bows are not cheap! Most all of the ones I want are 3.99 and up. Some I have found are even close to 10! I have two girls so I am not spending $20 on 2 hairbows! I quickly learned that I need to start making my own for all of the hair bows I want to own.

For my daughters first circus, I made her a clown tulle tutu and just had to have a headband that matched! With the tutu being so bright and colorful the headband had to be bright and colorful as well.

This felt headband I made took all of maybe 10 minutes. And was super cheap! The felt was on 25 cents! The elastic band was $1 and the pom poms I already had for the tutu.

You can make the headband by sewing elastic and then sewing felt over the elastic band, but I cheated this time and bought the already made band part.

All you need is:
elastic felt headband
one sheet felt
1 pom pom
scissors
pen
hot glue gun

Since the tutu I was making was white with bright colored pom pom's, this piece of felt was perfect for a matching headband!

Turn the piece of felt over to the side you do not want shown. Practice drawing out the shape you want your hair bow to be. When you have the perfect shape, cut it out.

For mine, I want a flower. As you can see this flower was not so pretty so I just kept practicing until it looked ok. I cut three different size flowers out because I wanted my hair bow layered.

I glued my 3 layers on top of each other from biggest to smallest and then added a pom pom in the center.

Then glue the entire shape onto your head band.

TADA! We have a very cute bow for very cheap!

Use your imagination and go crazy! Felt is very cheap and you can make all sorts of things! You can make animal shapes, 3D shapes, anything you wish!

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Layla's First Circus

Ringling Bros. came to town over the past weekend and I HAD to go! I had only been to the circus once and that was many many years ago when I was probably in the 5th grade. I had been wanting to go back ever since then! Hearing the music, laughing at the clowns, seeing tigers and elephants, and watching the acrobats soar across the sky is not something you get to do everyday. It is so much fun! So of course being a mommy...I had an excuse to buy tickets this year!

My oldest daughter is only 15 months old, so I do not expect her to ever remember this experience, but I sure will! Ever since I was a little girl I wanted to grow up to be a mommy. I had lots of practice with my dolls and took them everywhere I went! As I got older I always thought to myself "I can't wait to have babies and take them to the places like the circus!"

I was so excited I decided to dress Layla up for the event! I went with the option of a cute little clown since some of the girl clown's get really girly. I made a clown tulle tutu with bright colored pom poms and a matching felt headband. I layered the tutu over purple leggings and a pink shirt. All of the different colors looked like something a clown would wear. Then I just painted the tip of her nose red and tada! We had a baby clown!

Sitting in the seat with her in my lap it was all I could do to choke down my tears. I know I am such a sap lol. The only reason I didn't choke up right there is because I didn't want Angie to think I was crazy lol.

I was afraid that with her being so little, she would loose interest very fast. However, Layla was curled up in my lap watching the entire thing! She was smiling so big, and pointing to all the different things. Shouting "KIKI!" when she saw the tigers and "PUPPY!" when the dancing poodles came out. She would stand up in my lap to get a better view and would just dance away and clap! It just lit up my heart to know that she enjoyed it!

At the finale of the show, it was really all I could do not to shed millions of little sappy tears lol. She stood in my lap, wrapped her arm around my neck as tight as she could, and layed her cheek on mine. I would look up at her and smile and she would rub my hair and give me kisses on my cheek! It was like she was trying to say "Thank you mommy!"

This will definitely be a yearly thing! And next year, my other baby girl will be big enough to go too! YAY!

Here are some of the pictures my wonderful Angie caught for us!