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How Sweet It Is!

28 Mar By 13 Comments

I can make custom hairbows just fine, but I rather enjoy buying them as well. I love the unique ribbons and ideas other moms have and I love supporting  moms in their online businesses, so its win win for me.

The other day on Facebook, a store I follow was advertising this adorable Easter Hairbow. I just fell in love! I raced over to their Etsy shop and bought it immediately. Since then she has created a variety of Easter styles and colors, (OMG, CARROTS!!!)  but I still love this one the best.

The bow just came in today and I wanted to show off how adorable it is!

Charlotte’s at school or I would show it on her head. Look for an update tomorrow for sure…

Store: Bubbipop

About Bubbipop:

Bubbipop started after the birth of my daughter Nyssa. I found it almost impossible to find quality made bows at a reasonable price so with the help my husband Bubbipop was born. Since then I have expanded and now offer clothing, cloth diapering items and tutus and handmade felt clippies!

With Bubbipop you can expect the same if not better quality bows than the high end boutiques! I am VERY picky as far as who is allowed to carry my products & I rarely do craft shows so no worries about my items being handled by numerous people or cheap import items being sold in my shop! :)

Each and every bow I make is carefully made using only the best quality ribbon & hardwear. All ends are heat sealed to prevent fraying and I carefully line all of my clips with matching grosgrain or velvet ribbon.

What I spent: $11.99 for the bow and shipping was $2.50, so a total of $14.49.  It came in a nice box wrapped in tissue paper. They do ship to Canada for a few extra pennies in case you are wondering.

You can find them on:

Do you buy little custom holiday items for your children?

~Trisha

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How to make a Christmas Hair Bow Holder

19 Nov By 11 Comments

The other night I went out and bought some Christmas crafts with full intentions on making a stand up ribbon Christmas tree with a Styrofoam cone. Then I had trouble figuring out how to wrap it with fancy paper how I wanted and thought…ok, what else can i do with this ribbon.

Here is what I created…A Christmas Tree HairBow holder …you know, if you are in the mood to totally redecorate your house for the holidays. Why not, right? Plus, its a fun and easy project to do while watching TV and really does hold a ton of bows.

How to make a Christmas Tree Hairbow Holder

do it yourself instructions

Materials

  • Canvas
  • ribbon spools..i used 8 spools that I got on sale at Hobby Lobby for $1 a piece
  • hot glue
  • little dots for “Christmas balls”, $1.99 a package, 2 packages

Instructions:

1) The first thing I did was trace out my Christmas Tree. I just used a piece of card board and did two slanted lines. I then added horizontal lines in the middle to create different layers. The lines add as a trace for your craft.

2) Now pick up a ribbon and this is what you will use to measure your bottom row. I left some slack and made a loop, starting at the top line and adjusting so it looped back up. Once I had the right length, i added ribbon from the spool and cut out a ton of green ribbons the exact size I would need to make loops. I trimmed the edges to make sure they were even and hot glued each loop together.

3) Start attaching loops in a row on the bottom line till it goes all the way across your “tree”.

4) After I had the row completed, I took a secondary piece and measured out all the way across the loops to “finish” the top. Although you cant see this part once its finished, it made me feel like it was more secure.

5) Continue the same process with all the rest of the layers to the top. I alternated colors and patterns for my tree.

6) Once I got to the top, I made 10 extra loops and glued together in the middle to create a “star” on the top.

7) Then I took these little tiny dots that looked like Christmas balls and hot glued them all over the tree. My cat later found it and ate off about 10 of them.

You can also buy little buttons that look like snowflakes or gingerbread men and glue those on..or they have ones that look like little light strings.

8 ) Then I hung in the bathroom and you can see how easy it is to attach your hairbows!

And look, your hairbows are providing decoration on your tree…so cute. You could also do this and put your little loops in other patterns like a star, circle, etc and it would all hold bows. Just get out your creative hat for some fun!

If you liked this post, consider sharing the link with your crafting friends, teweeting, or stumbling…

Happy Crafting!

~Trisha

PS Check out my other How to make a Hair Bow Holder post.

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Incredible Bows for your Beauty

12 Nov By 10 Comments

This morning I wanted to share a website called A Little Pink Ladybug. Not only can you purchase some amazing hair bows which I would deem more art than anything else, you can purchase tutorials on how to create many beautiful items for yourself. Learning to make hair bows can be a way to get your creative juices flowing, provide gifts for your friends and family, or even a part time income from home.

A few of my absolute favorites from A Little Pink Ladybug:

Ballet Slipper Hairbow ($10)

Butterfly ($8):

Gingerbread Man ($10)

If you prefer to make them on your own, there are a variety of tutorials and e-books you can purchase. Hands down my favorite bow in the tutorial section is the Violin.

How incredible is this as a hairbow?

Violin PDF File: $5.00

[learn_more caption="Learn More" state="open"]Learn to make this exquisite Violin! Originally handcrafted by master ribbon sculptor, Karyn Ranzau. You will have each design carefully broken down step by step to recreate these mini masterpieces for yourself. Dozens of photos and simple instructions will guide you through this engaging art. [/learn_more]

Know of an amazing hair bow shop that I should share with everyone?

Or for that matter, an amazing store that features products fit for a princess?

Go to my contact form and let me know!

~Trisha

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How to make a hairbow holder

25 Oct By 43 Comments

As you may or may not know about me, I can make a mean tutu hair bow holder.

But I am not here to showcase those but instead teach you how to make a hairbow holder that will help you encase your beautiful hairbows, headbands, and pony-o’s in one beautiful display. I have thought a lot about how I could hang Charlottes ponytail holders (also know as Pony-O’s) so here is what I came up with yesterday.

How To make a Hair Bow Holder ( tutorial and do it yourself project):

You will need:

  • a Canvas the size of the holder you are making ( i used a 8.5/11.5)
  • Hot glue or staple gun
  • 1 inch grosgrain ribbon
  • enough material to cover canvas, a half a yard should be more than enough
  • any decorative pieces you want to girly up the holder
  • velcro
  • 3/8ths satin ribbon

The first thing you do for your hair bow holder is to cut your material and put your canvas on top of it. I chose to use hot glue because its what I had on hand, but you can secure with staples as well if you have a staple gun. I folded the edges so they were even and hot glued down.

Continuing all the way around, I did the top and the bottom and then secured the sides much like you would a Christmas package.

The next step is to prepare your ribbons.

If you want just a hair bow holder, you can do a very easy design where you stripe all your ribbons down in a row and secure. Make sure they are long enough to go to the back side and hot glue or staple down.

I wanted to do a headband holder and a pony-o holder so I had more of an “all around” hair bow holder. I am not sure about you, but our house isn’t just caked in bows, its caked in ALL of it.

I first put on my hair bow holder ribbon and then centered the rest around that. I decided to make a headband ribbon, which is a design I use for my hair-bow holders. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of this process so Ill have to demo this way. By taking a long piece of grosgrain and putting a dab of hot glue every 1.5 inches and laying the other half down to secure it. This essentially leaves you with a ribbon with “holes” in it more or less that you can drop a headband into it.

Now to prep the pony-o holder, I took a satin ribbon and doubled the length I wanted it to be and cut. So if I wanted a 2 inch down, I cut a 4 inch ribbon. I sliced up 2 pieces of velcro and glued onto the ribbon so when the ends connected, the Velcro stuck together.

I tied a bow and placed on the top to give it a finished look.

After that, its just about doing a layout on your canvas and putting together. I went through several design layouts before I found one that worked for me. Originally I put my headband holder on the bottom and the pony-o holder on the top, but decided I need more space to hang the pony’s, so I took off and redid.

Just get creative with the hairbow ribbons that you have and think about the space you need so you don’t crowd them. There really isn’t a point to taking them out of the drawer so they don’t get smashed if you just smash them up again.

TIP: While I didn’t finish the back (I left the canvas open), you can always cut felt the same size and hot glue or staple down so its a nice smooth back.

I know I have been doing a lot of crafting blogs lately, but crafting your own fashion doesn’t get any better! I find that it all relates because what I cant find to fit Charlotte exactly, I just make. I hope they are helping someone fru-fru up the little girl in their life!

Don’t forget to check out these other crafting posts on momdot:

And my friend Koris page where you can find AMAZING princess hairstyles like this one she did!

(picture used with permission)

As always, leave your pictures or links if you create something or the tutorial helps you out!

~Trisha

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Candy’s Hairbows

8 Oct By 3 Comments

As Charlotte has gotten older, hair bows have been less of a necessity, but I do love them. I especially love korker bows as I am too lazy to make them. So when the holidays roll around, I generally breakdown and purchase a few related to the season and this season was no exception.

Currently I happen to have some Halloween and Christmas bows lying around, but they still have alligator clips attached rather than french clips and charlotte needs french with as much hair as she has accumulated.

I bought these entitled “Monster Mash” for only $7 a pair (including shipping!) from Candy.

Cute. Cute. Cute.

Btw, Charlotte adored opening a package addressed to her and promptly let me know that it was HER mail. She let out a squeal when she saw it was bows. She put them in her hair straight away (which is why her pictures are so frazzled…no time to fix it up).

We also ordered a pair of candy corn ones and Ill show those when she gets around to wearing them.

[box type="info"]You can contact Candy at candyclc@gmail.com for your own holiday bows and custom orders.[/box]

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Lil SugarPlum Discount

14 Jan By Leave a Comment

Lil SugarPlum sent me over a discount today to share with everyone.

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“Buy one $8 hair clip and get a free $8 hair clip of your choice. New Customers only. Leave note at check out, do not add to shopping cart. Expires: March 1, 2010.”

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Feature Boutique: Myra Caitlin Bowtique CLOSED

3 Oct By 48 Comments

Do you need an adorable Halloween bow or clippies for your little pumpkin?  I have the “Boo-tique” for you! Our next Feature Boutique is the Myra Caitlin Bowtique!  Welcome, Kami!

Kami was nice enough to send over a few samples of her work, and let me be the first to tell you….they are fantastic!  The craftsmanship and materials used come together to make a quality product.  And to top it off, her prices are VERY reasonable!  Lily wore this precious butterfly barrette in the picture below to a birthday party today and it didn’t slip out of her hair once!

I also fell in love with the curly ponytail holders!  Lily loves them, too!

Want to know more about this Etsy Mom?  Read on!

1.  Congratulations on being a MomDot Feature Boutique!  Please introduce yourself to the MomDot readers!

First, I want to say thank you for featuring the Myra Caitlin bowtique! My name is Kami, and I am a SAHM to two wonderful children.  I am blessed to have both my little miracle babies. I have an almost 4 year old preschooler named Joey and a 2 year old princess, named Emma. They take up most of my time, but when I have my quiet time, I enjoy making bows and accessories!  I started at the beginning of this year and have been enjoying it ever since! I also enjoy cooking, scrapbooking, and shopping online! It is a sad addiction but I am okay with it! :)

2.  What is the inspiration behind your product?

My inspiration for starting my business was my little angel Myra. I gave birth to her last March, but sadly she left us too soon!  I was never very girly with Emma, my first daughter. I wish I had been more girly with her, but never really had the time or the knowledge to. Then when I found out we were pregnant with a 2nd daughter, I vowed to be more girly with her. I bought lots of headbands, and I learned how to make all sorts of bows and created some of my own. Unfortunately, she never got to wear them…but Emma loves them!  I got many compliments on my bows and everyone was telling me that I should make them, so last June I jumped in and started my company. Trying to think of a name, I only felt it appropriate to name it after my sweet angel!

Now, all the ideas and inspiration I get are from my daughter, Emma. She loves ladybugs and butterflies, and if I need a bow for a certain outfit of hers then I create one! :) It is a lot of fun!

3.  How did you take your product from concept to reality?

Many hours of Television :)    Seriously, though, I just sat down and started sewing and hot gluing, etc, and I had a lot of help from my friends.

4. What sets your company apart from your competitors?

I have one-hundred elves whistling away, sewing, gluing and tying bows. :) j/k  Really, all that I can say is that I love what I do and I love what I sell! All my bows are handmade from a loving and caring home! I put a lot of time and effort into making each bow and hope that everyone will enjoy them as much as I love making them and as much as my daughter loves wearing them!

5.  The pumpkin clips would be perfect for Fall!   Which product is your favorite?

I love the pumpkins as well..I think they are very cute! My personal favorite though would have to be my butterflies. I just think they are too cute for words! The Princess Butterfly is probably my favorite out of all of them!

6.  What’s next for your boutique?  Any giveaways, sales, promotions in the near future?

Well, I just did a festival here where I live and I am hoping to do some more this Holiday season. I am planning on doing some sales around the end of November for Christmas so everyone please check back for some great deals!

Thanks, Kami!

Want to try out your very own Myra Caitlin Bowtique product?  Kami is generously offering one lucky MomDot reader their choice of a Pumpkin Clip or Halloween curls PLUS a $20 gift certificate to her Etsy store!  The lucky winner will also receive her husband’s latest CD entitled, “Believe” which can be found here.

That’s not all!!  Kami will also be giving ALL MomDot readers FREE SHIPPING for the entire week! SO we suggest you head out and get those halloween and thanksgiving bows ready now, before all the other little girls at school start looking festive and your daughter is left out!

CONTEST RULES HERE:

Just head over to her hair bow site and let us know what you would use your GC on!
To gain another entry, share her page and this contest with your website or blog! If you do both, you can enter an unlimited amount of times!

The contest ends on Oct 8th.

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