Wedding Hair

Wow, time is running out quickly! We only have about 2 weeks till we are leaving for Arizona for my beautiful sister-in-law's wedding! I am in charge of the bride's hair, the maid of honor's hair, my own hair (of course) and both of my daughter's hair. I have quite a lot of hair to do! I've purchased some fun new styling products, made some new hair clips, and tried out some new styles that I would love to share with you today.

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^The bride's hair flower! It turned out very pretty and she loves it!

^ For the Maid of Honor :)

^The new curling iron I bought to use on the bride's hair! I love it!

^ The new triple barrel iron I bought for myself to do my style. I'm so excited to do my hair like this!

^Practicing my curling for the bride's hair. Still working on it, but I've learned a new method that is very very pretty.

^Using the triple barrel deep wave iron. This is how I'm doing MY hair for the wedding. Haven't figured out how to pin the front back or even if I want to yet tho, just the style. I love it!

^A pretty up-do incase anyone needs it. Simple too :)

^Practicing the braiding technique called a "waterfall braid" for the maid of honor. The bottom of her hair will be lightly curled and she will have a small orange lily somewhere in there as an accent.

^This is the back of the bride's hairstyle. A Simple yet elegant pullover, the bottom will be curled very nicely. I've been practicing!! The small gold and white flower form the top will be placed over the bobby pinned area.

Flower girl shoes!

Man oh man were these fun to do! My original idea was to get a pair of these for each girl and make them into mock ballet slippers by sewing brightly colored ribbon to the bottom in the back and tying it up the girl's legs. Turned out to be expensive and hard because I couldn't find all the sizes I needed.

While trying to figure out what our cute little flower girls were going to be wearing on their feet, I came across these cute plain white shoes at Walmart for only $5 a pair.

I had a thought... How easy would it be to make shiney shoe laces? SUPER EASY! Clear scotch tape and shiney ribbon! Vwa-la!

Of course they couldn't just be done, they needed a little something extra. Glitter! Who doesn't love a little glitter on their shoes? My girls sure do. So here's the finished product, and I think they turned out pretty dang cute :)

P.S. Using a cheap plastic shower cap or, as I used, the slip on food covers (I got a box of 20 at Dollar Tree for $1) is a great way to store shoes for travel. It protects your shoes AND the clothes and other things they are near!

Flower girls Hair Pieces

So I've completed (almost) my first project for the wedding and I'm really pleased with the way they've turned out. Hair pieces for the flower girls and junior bridesmaids!

I used brown tulle and thread, pink roses, orange mini lilies, flat single prong clips from Sally's, pink felt and good old fashioned hot glue.

First I want to showcase my beautiful nieces who are going to be the flower girls and junior bridesmaids. They are in the two photos below. Aren't they gorgeous?

These two in the pictures below are my girls who are also flower girls. My youngest is the main flower girl to be the last to walk out right before the bride.

And these are the hair pieces I made. Turned pretty awesome right? I forgot to make one for my soon-to-be new niece. I'm not used to having another one yet! SO I still have one to go which is why I said 'almost' completed.

And this is how it looks on. (*this is me :)

Feedback is greatly appreciated!! Somehow one of my last pics got deleted and I don't know how to get it back on here without re-uploading it and moving it which I'm too lazy to do at the moment... haha

She's getting married!!

I have SSOOO many ideas in my head that I feel I'm either going to A. POP, or B. forget everything and cry when I try to remember that super awesome idea I had, but can no longer remember.

I am a bridesmaid, along with my other sister-in-law, Catrina, and Shalane's fiance's oldest daughter, Brielle. We finally found our Bridesmaid dresses!

Aren't they awesome? I just love the silky rosette accent :)

I had a really cute idea for tutu's for all the flower girls (there are 6 of them!) and was so excited to make them, but the bride took over the project, and I'm so excited to see how they turn out and how adorable my daughters and nieces will be on the big day.

My next idea is cute little ballet slippers for all of them. So I want to take those cheap, solid color slippers from Walmart and turn them into ballet style slippers by sewing shiney ribbons into the back of the shoe where the slipper material meets the bottom of the slipper with enough excess that it can be tied up around their calf to mimic how a ballet shoe looks. I also thought that adding some kind of cute big flower to the top of the toe area would be way cute. I'm going to make a pair and if I get the bride's approval, I'll post a tutorial.

I'm also taking on what I'm calling Project Veil. I cannot tell you how many idea I have for the veil and the bride's hair!! I can't wait to get Cat over to my house so I can have someone to practice on. Think feathers, gems, cascades of white netting, and a touch of pink and orange ribbon with white roses. It's pretty in my head, but probably sounds a bit goddy on paper. No need to fear tho! It will be perfect :)

And for the centerpiece's of the tables at the reception I found this:

and the bride found this:

and together they are going to make one super cute centerpiece! Seriously guys, Google has become my BEST FRIEND lately just trying to find wedding ideas and looking for pictures of ideas that I have. (I'm not very good at explaining things, as you can probably already tell...)

So keep checking back for all the fun wedding idea updates. I'll be keeping everyone posted :)

Rag Rolls!!

Need a new way to curl your little ones hair that doesn't have her screaming at the thought of getting burned or having to stand still for a half hour? I sure did!

Rag rolls. Perfect solution.

Took about

My mom asked me the other day if I remembered a girl who used to baby sit me all the time when I was little, and did rag rolls in my hair before my parents came home so it would be curly the next day.

I didn't, otherwise this would NOT be something I am just now blogging about. So I decided to try it out on my daughter's hair since she has her Cmas program tomorrow for school and there will be no time in the morning to do it with the iron.

Success! My two year old even asked me to do it to her! This is how they look. Reminds me of the good ol' days :)

I thought you guys might like a how to video because in my excitement after my mom's comment, I didn't wait to make one so I surfed Youtube and found this one that I liked. This lady doesn't call them rag rolls, but they're basically the same thing.

I did mine the exact same way she did in this video which is why I chose this one. Some people do them differently like with bobby pins or sponge rollers, but this was what I thought would be most comfortable for my girls to sleep in so that's how I did it. Apparently I'm not alone in those thoughts :)

This is how mine turned out.

Ah, my little curly haired beauties :)

I LOVE Fall colors!

I made this hair clip yesterday and I was so excited to be wearing brown today so I could try it out. It's 3 flowers on one clip and I just love the light brown and orange. Sorry about my hair, I had all of a single minute to throw it up this morning. Anyway, I just wanted to share because I love the clip and especially the colors.

I may not get a chance to post again before Thanksgiving because my baby is sick, so just in case, Happy Thanksgiving to all my readers! I hope you all have an amazing and delicious day!

Pomander Tutorial

While I was surfing google and crafting blogs this morning (like any other Sunday afternoon) I found this. How cute are these? I just love them! I can't wait to make a couple and hang them up in my daughter's room. They will both just love them. And they're not hard to make either! I absolutely love finding tutorials for all the creative stuff people out there are designing. It's so much fun!

Credit goes to the writer of the Betz White Blog. Click here for the address and the tutorial and have fun crafting and creating!