We’ve been watching reruns of Clean House on Netflix. It might be safe to say that Ashley and I are addicted to that show. LOL In any case, we love the big flamboyant flowers that Niecy Nash always wears in her hair – they’re always so colorful and fun.
We want to be colorful and fun too! But, have you priced these flower hairclips in the stores? We had found one on a headband this past spring (on clearance at Target) – and it looked so cute in Ashley’s hair for conventions. At Disney, we added a cute little Disney pin to it to spice it up a bit.
We have a family wedding coming up next week, and both Ashley and I are wearing shades of black and gray (traditional funeral colors, right?!) I thought it might be fun to brighten up with a flower for my hair, so we stopped in Claire’s at the mall last Sunday to look for some flowers. I wanted red, but Ashley talked me into a black one (which really defeated the purpose anyway!) It cost a whopping $6.50 for a fake flower on a hairclip! That’s highway robbery, people!
I did buy it; but afterwards I got to thinking that we need to figure out how to make these things. So, after a trip to the Dollar Tree and Wal-mart yesterday, we turned out 10 hairclips in about an hour. And guess what? It cost less to create all 10 of them than it did to buy one! Seriously!
I spent $3 for 3 bunches of flowers at the Dollar Tree – a poinsettia bunch, a daisy bunch, and I’m not sure what the other ones are (but there were 2 purple, 2 gold, and 2 green flowers on the bunch). Then, at Wal-mart, I found the hairclips – 6 in a pack for $1.47. The only other supplies we used were felt (a whole sheet of felt is only 20 cents and we didn’t even use 1/2 the sheet for all these clips), scissors, and a hot glue gun.
We made 2 “duds” before we really got the hang of it. And, by the end, I was pulling flowers apart and combining colors, adding leaves, etc. It was a fun project and yielded decent results. Here’s what they look like in (my) hair:
Not sure why my hair looks so dark in that first picture. But, anyway, you get the idea. Cute, huh? Both the daisy and the poinsettia are 2 flowers, combined/layered into one to make them fuller and to lay nicer. The gold flower is exactly as it appeared on the bunch, but I added the leaves to it. The purple/green flower is a combination of two flowers (we also made one of each color, as shown in the picture above). Now, Ashley wants to get some brighter-colored flowers and make some more!
Which one is your favorite?
4 comments:
Pointsetta - can you make ME one?!?!? SO pretty! Chaeli would love those... can you show us how to make them when we come visit this summer? Please? *batting eyelashes*
Love this idea! I bought hairclips to make bows for my daughter and her friends and never got around to it. I'm going to do this instead!!! I love the purple and green...so cute! BTW, what's the felt for?
The purple/green combo is my favorite. I bet my girls would like making these too!
I love that show too!! Have you seen the New York one with a different host? Not sure about that one yet, have only watched one episode. Love the flowers! My fav is the purple/green!
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