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Tutu Pour Mon Deux

11 May By 5 Comments

As you already know, we are a big tutu family. Perhaps my posts on

have given it away from time to time.  I love finding, and sharing unique children’s clothing options and this one is no exception.

Meet Tutu Pour Mon Deux

We’ve combined a band of organza and colorful ribbon and attached it to the bottom of either a sleeveless or long sleeved shirt with a unique image ironed onto the bodice creating a one of a kind, little girl’s tutu shirt. Our tutu’s come in an array of eye-catching colors with prices ranging from $34-$38 and come in sizes ranging from 18 months to 6T.

Chances are online, at some point, if you are into the world of children’s fashion you have most likely run across these adorable “do it yourself” designer duds that certainly put Charlotte into a tizzy for 20 minutes deciding colors, ribbons, and patches.

Simply to go DESIGN YOUR TUTU and you get a clean slate like this:

Then its as easy as point, click, and create!

Shirt color, tutu color, ribbons and patches with so many ways to create something unique.

In just a short while, the design you or your daughter made shows up at the front door gently packed and runway ready! Now when Charlotte’s design arrived, she was extra thrilled because she remembered she made it.

So of course…the smile is cheesy-liscious.

It’s the smile of “Yeah, Look at Me, I made this, You know you love it!”

Here is a picture from the site so you can actually see the product without crazy purple leggings (hey, thats what I get for letting her dress herself) on my model up there.

Btw, so there is no confusion, you are just ordering the top part with Tutu Pour Mon Deux…the crazy leggings are your responsibility. When this arrived, it was actually one of those weird half winter, half spring parts of the year so I just gave up looking for white leggins or crop pants, which clearly would have been a better match.

C’est La Vie!

Now if you want to design your very own Tutu Pour Mon Deux you can get FREE SHIPPING with a special discount code for MomDot visitors:

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(this discount code expires on June 15th, 2011, so hurry!)

At any rate, head over and check them out!

~Trisha

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thank you to Tutu Pour Mon Deux whom made Charlottes creations to showcase here free of charge and offered a discount code for my Diva Fashionista Mama’s and Daughters that visit!

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How to make a Ribbon Rosette (tutorial)

18 Apr By 13 Comments

I should honestly name this How to NOT make a Ribbon Rosette, because I made about 4 million mistakes before I found something that would qualify in the category of “working”. After all these mistakes, which undoubtedly you have been there if you found this post, i thought it would be beneficial to share what didn’t work (atleast for me), but perhaps inspire you to try a new direction.

Here are my attempts to make a variety of Rosettes, although if you want a simpler craft, you can try my how to make a tutu instead! Working with tulle was so much easier than ribbon. HA! :

How to make a Zipper Rosette

Materials:

  • Floral Wire
  • Zipper
  • Hot Glue

Step #1: This step is going to be firm with all the Rosettes you make.  After the obvious of cutting the zipper in half, you will begin by securing an end piece to your wire and begin wrapping.

Step #2: Wrap the zipper around, dotting at the baseline, gather and stick. This is where I went wrong. My zipper was WAY too small and I ran out of length before I even had a rose.

Step #3: I took the remainder zipper size and began looping a figure eight around it to make petals. This gave me a half a flower. So there you have it….Half Flower Zipper Rosette.

*cough*

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How to Make a Fairy Flower Wand

18 Mar By 18 Comments

The other day I made a sweet little fairy wand, a tulle wand, and showed you how to make a tulle pom pom. I had some left over materials, so I decided to make a flower fairy one.

Again, this type of wand (at least the way I made it) is meant for older kids that don’t have the curiosity to pull things apart. Because I chose to make mine with pins that go through the center of the flowers, please take care not to create something that you know for sure your child will pull apart and become a household hazard. Pins are no fun to step on.

Disclosure over.

How to Make A Fairy Flower Wand

Items needed:

  • box of lace pins
  • Styrofoam ball
  • dowel ribbons for the dowel
  • favorite flowers
  • glue/glue gun

1) Start by just taking the back off of each flower and pushing the pin through the middle and into the styrofoam. It took about 2 bundles of flowers for me to complete the entire ball. I made sure I pushed the flowers together because I liked the look of having all the flower petals mushed up, but you can choose to lay them flat.

Another thought is adding a rhinestone to the center of the flower once its pushed into place. That way the pin top is completely covered and it would add some bling to it.

2) Let your kitten help. Its more fun.

3) I then covered my dowel with my chosen ribbons, in this case it was purple and brown. I originally did it all in brown, removed it, did it in stripes and then thought I would add some leaves to the stem. Ultimately I didnt like the look so I tore it all off.

I think its ok to experiment because you can always start over!

4) Lastly I added a loop on the bottom so it was easy for my daughter to carry around with her.

I hope this inspires you to create some fun and fabulous fairy wands in your own home.

Happy Crafting!

~Trisha

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