Make it in a Minute! Floral Hair Pin Tutorial

Wearing flowers in your hair, or on your shirt, or even on your shoes seems to be very popular these days.  I'm not one to keep up on the latest trends, but flowers will always be pretty and feminine, and I'm all for that!
I made these little simple flower hair pins in just a few minutes, with just a few supplies.
If you would like to make these, you will need Good Hair Days Magic Hair Pins, which by the way, are fabulous for holding up-dos on long hair. Also you will need a button for each pin; a hot glue gun; and whatever type of flowers you wish to use.  I just pulled mine off some artificial flower bouquets that I had in the house!

Supplies are ready...

Glue a button to the back of the hair pin...

Glue a flower on the front; the button provides a place for the flower to adhere to...

Voila! Beautiful, simple hair pins!

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Fall Rain Fun and & Dollar Store Wreath Creation

We had an unexpected off-and-on rain shower today, with thunder, lightning, the whole works! It doesn't happen very often here, so it is a real treat. Of course, the kids had to go splash in the puddles...they loved that!  My oldest discovered that two of the kernels she had planted from a ear of corn we had grown have sprouted, in spite of very random waterings...

And we followed up our puddle play time with a warm cup of delicious hot cocoa and marshmallows, and a few candy corn besides.  :-)

Yesterday, I got around to making a wreath from a dollar store wreath, leaves, and flowers.  First, I painted it a brilliant red....

and then, hot glued on the flowers, leaves, and acorns. 

In the process, I got very low on glue, and so I stuck a pen behind the glue in the glue gun to push the remainder forward...I forgot to take the pen out before it cooled. No amount of pulling will get that pen out of  that glue gun now! ;-)

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Frugal Friday - Vintage Wall Art

When my sister visited recently, we headed out to some little antique stores, and I found some cute vintage photos and postcards that I am going to make into wall art or door hangings. The one that I have finished is this neat photograph which was already on a long hard piece of cardboard, originally.
I added pretty scrapbook paper, some stickers, rub-ons, lace and pearls......ta-da!

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Frugal Friday - Wall Art

Here is something I made today for my children's room. It is simply scrapbook papers glued onto canvas, and punched flowers from scrapbook papers with jewels on them. Hang it up in a room with a ribbon.  Fun, easy, and pretty!

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