Spring Flower Headband Tutorial

Hey friends!  Want to make this super adorable, spring-y headband?  It's so easy and I'm sharing my tutorial today over at Take the Cannoli!

Make sure to say hi to Nat when you check out her blog!  Have a great day, loves!  xo, Ashley

DIY Wedding: Paper and Fabric Flowers

Do you love paper?  I could honestly spend a whole day in a paper store.  Well, minus some time to eat and wash my hands-- I take paper store etiquette seriously!  Love fabric?  Don't get me going!!!  These are a few of my favorite things!!!

Here are some lovely paper and fabric flower tutorials.  I'm a total 27-year-old grandma, I know.  My kind of bachelorette party would be all my ladies getting together to eat some sweets, sip some pretty drinks, and make paper and fabric flowers 'til we're dizzy!  

Silk Flower Ring Pillow Tutorial via Martha Stewart

DIY Crepe Paper Flowers via The Bride's Cafe

One Shoulder Wonder via Martha Stewart

DIY Paper Flowers by Brittany via 100 Layer Cake

Shaped Crepe Flowers Tutorial: Bubble Flowers (shown) and Lilies via Martha Stewart

Lauren + Jeff's Paper Flower and Pinwheel Altar via Green Wedding Shoes

Photography: Ashley Rose Photography

Crepe-Paper Poppies via Martha Stewart

Mix real flowers with paper flowers!

via Style Me Pretty by Hatch Creative Studio

If you're not feeling DIY at the moment, you can hop over here to check out The Green Vase.  

The Green Vase sells some of the most beautiful paper flowers I've ever seen.  Check out their shop!  

How gorgeous is this bouquet from Sunny & Stumpy on Etsy?!  

Do you have a favorite?  Definitely a hard choice, but I think mine is the mixed real and paper flowers.  It's the best of both worlds! 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!  xoxo, Ashley

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Stretchy Baby Headbands

Ivy. Ivy. Ivy.  I'm always crafting things for Baby Ivy!  I made this headband this morning for seriously pennies!

My sister Megan found this amazing tutorial for making baby headbands from girls tights on the blog Little Birdie Secrets.  Click here for the tutorial!

Above are two headbands Megan made a few months before Ivy was born.  

 And one for Christmas!  Seriously so precious!  

The possibilities are endless for baby headbands!  You can use silk flowers from the craft store, embellishments from adult accessories, felt, buttons, etc!  

Hope you have as much fun making baby headbands as I did!!!  

xoxo,

Ashley

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Holiday Wreath

I have seen so many beautiful holiday wreaths floating around online.  All the inspiration was making me (and Mister G) pretty excited to make one!! 

I gave my wreath a lot of thought before getting started.  I wanted my wreath to be festive-- but also not too classic Christmas.  I was envisioning something "ocean-y" since it's our first Christmas living in a warm climate.  I also came up with the genius idea to incorporate Marquette colors into the wreath to get John excited about it!  (Pretty easy because Marquette baby blue is very ocean-y and also gold is very Christmas-y!)

I picked up a lot of holiday jazz at Micael's--by the way, now is a great time to get a deal on wreath fixins!  I chose golds, silvers, blues, and greens.  When I came home Mister G was nipping at the bag and trying to play with the picks.  

Remember when I made the homemade holiday ornanments?  While I was spray-painting my baby pine cones for the ornaments, I also painted a few big shells gold.    

The big shells needed special help to stay on the wreath.  I cut a piece of yarn and hot glued it to the back of the shell.  One big glob in the center and a line to each side to help the shells lay flat.

After the glue dried, I arranged the shells and tied the yarn tightly around the wreath.  Then I added the rest of my items.  It gets pretty windy at times here-- so I used a dab of hot glue on the bottoms of each pick before I stuck them into the wreath.

I love the sea urchin looking flowers next to the poinsettia!  If you take a close look you will see some baby pine cones too.  

I don't have a wreath hanger yet, so until I pick one up the wreath will be hanging under our house numbers.  See her to the left?

Have you made a wreath this year?  Plans to make one?  Share your pictures on Mister G's Facebook page or Twitter @MisterGandMe .