Purple Bows

Flower, Butterfly Valances

I recently wanted to hang a new valance in my girls' room but couldn't find anything in particular that looked right. I new I wanted something cute and fun and would show my girls' personalities. I I first came across some butterfly petals on clearance at Michaels and since my youngest daughter loves butterflies, we got them. Then I found a sheer swag at BigLots and decided to cut it down to size for a valance. Since my oldest loves flowers, I purchased some Silk Daisy's. Not knowing quite how it would go together I kind of let it sit for a bit. Then I was working on some Hair bows one day, using my double ruffle ribbon and had a great idea to use the double ruffle ribbon as the hangers for the valance and then make ribbon flowers and place the Daisy's on top and this is how it turned out.

My girls love their new valances.

Summer Button

Red & White Button

Green & Pink

Pink & Gray

Blue, Purple & Green

Yellow & Gray

Purple & Green

Small

Large

White & Silver

Red, Brown & Cream

White Snowflakes

Small Snowflake

Large Snowflake

Black and Silver Bows

Halloween Bows 2010

Salmon and White Bows

(This was one of my favorite bows I made over the summer, unfortunately I no longer have it as it disappeared while my girls and I were having lunch at CPK, we looked everywhere for it and the waiter even checked to see if it feel into the storage pocket under the bench, no luck, so I guess someone else is now enjoying this bow and hopefully soon I will make a new one. Just happy I got a picture of it before it disappeared)

Black & White Polka Dot Bows

Brilliant White Bow

Dish Soap Dispenser

I got this idea from my Mom's house, a neighbor had given this to her. I liked it and so I had a glass bottle with a nice shape and set out to gather the rest of the supplies for it. This was super easy to make and looks great next to the sink.

Supplies:

-Glass Bottle (mine was a Zango bottle that I stripped the stickers off of)

- Spout (I found mine at a store called Spoons & Spice for about $3.00)

- Artificial Leaf Vine (I purchased mine from the Dollar Store and only used half the vine)

- Liquid Dish Soap

Step 1: Strip any stickers off your bottle if you are reusing a bottle

Step 2: Put your vine into the bottle and cut it once you have as much inside as you like

Step 3: Pour in some Dish Soap
Step 4: Put on the spout

Pink & White Flowers

These flowers were fun and inexpensive to make. I had bought a bunch of Gerbera like flowers from the Dollar store and planned on just adding a jewel to the center. But as I was sitting at the table with my flowers I also had some small Daisy flowers that were in a bunch of wild flowers I had purchased on sale at Joanns, so I just experimented to see what they would look like together and I liked the look.

How to:

Supplies:

-large gerbera like flowers (the ones from the dollar store only had 2 layers)

- smaller Daisy like flower (these also were only 2 layers)

- circle gem or button

- hot glue gun

- 3/8 in. Grosgrain ribbon

- alligator clip

1. Take the flowers completely apart.

2. Stack and Glue all the flower petals together.

3. Glue the gem in place

4. Line an Alligator clip with about 4" of Ribbon

5. Glue the flower to the lined alligator clip

I estimated my total cost to make one of these flower bows was around $1.00.

Pink & White DragonFly Bow

Pink is a very popular color at our house and so we wear out pink bows on a regular basis. This bow is mostly pink with a small amount of white for accents.