Here is the first of the hair clip DIYs. We’ll start off with something quick & easy.
DIY after the jump…
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Hot Mess Mommy: DIY Braided Headband
I have been hanging on to the October Anthropologie catalog, loving all of the “Hot Mess Mommy” hair-do’s. I was thinking that I would get my hands on some beautiful fancy embroidered ribbon n such and try out a few headbands. Imagine my delight when Ruby from Cakies did a Braided Headband Tutorial as a guest post for Smile & Wave. Here is mine. I love it. Clare loves it too. It will even work on a baldy-bean baby!
I used Kleo By Alexander Henry and an unknown orange fabric gifted from Jaime.
Quick Tip: Wall Baskets
10 Tools/Supplies for Making Hair Clips
my niece Juliette. eee, the cuteness.
One of my favorite crafts is making hair clips for the girlies. They are so easy and at $8-$20 for a pretty clip at a boutique, very prudent to make on your own.
I’m going to be showing you how to make a bunch of different styles over the next weeks/month/year (we’ll see how it goes) so I thought I would give a little list of supplies for you to gather in preparation.
It’s probably stuff that you have around the house, if not, it’s all readily available.
Check out the list after the jump…
Before & After Ikat Footstool DIY
Book Review: Weekend Sewing
I’m a huge fan of Heather Ross’ fabric collections (see the baby food jar fabric tea lights) so I thought I’d pick up her book
Weekend Sewing: More Than 40 Projects and Ideas for Inspired Stitching. It’s beautifully designed and just feels nice to hold and browse, with perky illustrations and gorgeous photography by John Gruen. It includes projects for a relaxing weekend of stitching including a few laid-back clothing pieces for mom, adorable baby basics, and some fun home and accessory projects, replete with patterns for all. While the patterns are all contained on just two sheets, meaning you need a tracing wheel and tracing paper to actually use them more then once, I really didn’t mind because the projects are so universal they should be reused to make gift after gift.
A few pictures of the projects I made and link to this free Quick Garden Gloves pattern from the book after the jump…
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Kevin’s Famous Scones
My sister and her family are visiting for the long weekend. One of my many great joys in seeing them is requesting one of my brother-in-laws baked goods, usually his famous scones! He has been generous enough to share his recipe with Prudent Baby saying, “I make these on days that I have to work on weekends. Although it is not fun missing weekend time with Sunshine and crew, I think they may look forward to it. Bad for the arteries but good for the heart.”
Doesn’t he sound dreamy?
Kevin’s not-top-secret scone recipe after the jump.
Prudent Project Round-Up
It’s so fun to see pictures of people making some of the little projects we’ve dreamed up! Here’s a few…
Desiree of So Fawned made these AMAZING baby food jar fabric tea lights…love the floral cut out!