This project is exactly a sewing project …but I’m hoping you won’t mind – it does include some buttons, so that counts for something, right???
My middle daughter Ellie, who’s 5 years old, is quite a crafting officianado. She is always looking for something to make, draw, bake, sew, you name it. So the other day, while Rosamund was sleeping and the boys were totally disinterested otherwise occupied, Ellie and I sat down to make some BOBBIES! These are all over the hand-made scene, and some can be super expensive. Ours, however, were NOT expensive … but you shouldn’t be too surprised by that. =)
Here is what we made in about 15 minutes – and for $8. (Sadly for us, nothing was on sale when we purchased these supplies … so realistically, you could make all this for $4 if you get the pieces at half off.)
I keep these supplies on hand because I like to send them to my Parsimony customers who’s dresses get delayed. Of course, that almost never happens (cough cough)! They’re really fun to receive so it’s super nice that they’re so easy. You can ask the Austin Craft Crowd folks, and they’ll concur – easy breasy fleezy!
You’ll need flat topped bobby pins and items to glue on. At our Hobby Lobby, the bobby pins are $3 for about 12 or 16 pins. These flower dealies were $4 for 6 – you can find them in the scrapbooking section.
See the round disk that’s attached to the top of the bobby? These are SO much easier than trying to finagle something around/on top of a regular bobby pin. There’s only one store in Austin that sells these, so if you can’t find them in a store you can find tons on Etsy. Just search under supplies for bobby pins.
Since the disk makes the bobby pin fall on its side, I like to anchor my pins onto a piece of paper before gluing. This way everything stays upright and the embellishment goes on straight and clean. Plus, it gives them a nice spot to dry.
Yeah, so, this was a mommy-daughter project, but one of us was distracted. I won’t tell you who.
Now, just take your heated glue gun and dab a dollop of glue onto the center of your embellishment – or you can put the glue directly onto the bobby pin. Same results. Turn the embellishment over and push onto the disk. Let dry. Done. Bam. Bang. Finished. You’re awesome.
You’ll get something like this! Ellie refused to have her photo taken, but she did pretty well as photographer.
When we completed the six flowers, we broke out a button jar and glued buttons together then onto the bobby pins. I love these too!
So seriously y’all, don’t delay. Go get these supplies and make these – then give them away! Grown ups like them just as much as kiddos. Just sayin’. These are really fun to take to a woman who’s just had a baby – what an easy way to look cute without being clean!
Here’s the lowdown:
TIME: We made all 16 in about 15 minutes..and that includes figuring out our button combinations.
COST: in a word CHEAP! We made 16 for $8 so that’s FIFTY CENTS a piece…. applause please.
Okay – please, if you make these, let me see your work – that makes me sooooo happy!
Love these.. we just got new tulle in our Holiday catalog for Stampin’ UP! and the tulle would work perfect with the bobbies!!