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Saturday, July 14, 2012

DIY Bow Back Shirt

Making your own bow back shirt is indubitably simple and takes only a few minutes. 

You will need:
  • A shirt
  • scissors
  • small pieces of lace or whatever you want to create your bow with
  • needle & thread. (you can opt for super glue instead!)









And there you go!

Yay for the continuation of my bow infatuation. (:

Sunday, July 1, 2012

DIY Leather Hair Bow

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The leather bow featured in this blog post is now for sale on Etsy.com!https://www.etsy.com/listing/103474884/black-genuine-leather-hair-bow-barretteI am trying to raise money to go to Peru later this month. I will be volunteering and teaching English at a local school in Huancayo for children who do not have the financial assets to attend school. I would really like to be able to pay my host family well and buy gifts for the children and donate. All profits will go directly to helping them. Thanks! 
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*Note that there are several ways to making a leather hair bow, but this is the way I went about doing it and it worked well for me! ^__^ Enjoy!

Materials needed: 
  • Strip of leather, size depends on how big you want your bow. I used a piece about 13" long and 3" wide.
  • Super glue* (this is not necessary, but I find that it holds the best. you can opt for some string instead.)
  • a barrette (mine is 3")
  • Needle & thread* (may be arbitrary)

10" by 3" piece of black leather. LOL my PSAT book in the background... 

Super glue

3" barrette
Step 1:

Cut the leather into desired shape & glue into a loop.





Step 2: Pinch from the middle into desired bow shape:


Step 3: Add a dot of super glue to the middle point and pinch into place:


Step 4: Take a small 1/2" wide piece of leather to wrap around the center & glue it down:





Step 5: glue the back onto the barrette:

Press firmly

Step 6: for extra security, use needle and thread to sew the barrette onto the bow using the side holes.


Wha-la! 'tis done!







I had also dip-dyed/bleached/ ombre-d my hair today, so if you wanna see that video, here it is: