How to make a rose headband

Inspired by all the wonderful hair accessories for kids available on Etsy I decided to make one myself. We just bought a really cute Easter outfit for our one year old, but it needed something extra.

I saw some cheap foam roses at the dutch dollar store, and decided to try it out.

here's the step by step instruction. What you need is: cotton yarn in desired color, small piece of felt, artificial flowers (you can use any kind you want, I used foam roses), scissors, glue gun. 

• Crochet a simple cotton headband. I made a chain that measures the circumference of my child's head. I like to measure on the snug side. So the amount of chains depends on your child's head size. Join at first chain. Single crochet three rounds, if you want to make the headband wider, do more.

• Cut out a piece of felt large enough to make a base for your flowers, but small enough so it won't show in the front. Glue the circle of felt on the inside of the headband

• Take the stems off the flowers. Glue the flowers on the felt patch. Push the felt onto the flowers well.

ET VOILÀ

Birthday cake

Oh you have to love pinterest! The best ideas for throwing a first birthday party! Granted, you spend most of  the time running around serving everybody, but having prepared everything ahead of time gave us more time to take some pictures and talk to grandma and grandpa on skype. We knew our daughter had a blast! At the beginning of the party she looked like a little flower fairy, and at the end of the party she looked like cookie monster gone bad. Covered in all sorts of gunk, with her hair in every which way. As a birthday princess rightfully should. I had a blast preparing the party, baking a cake, making jello. And it really isn't all that hard to do! 

Keeping up appearances

Yesterday I made a cake because my aunt and two cousins are coming over to check out our new baby. As I was preparing todays feast, I was thinking about how my "high tea gone bohemian" reminds me of "keeping up appearances".

I've always thought that show was hilarious, and it's one of the few tv shows my grandma watched religiously. 

For some reason right before we have people come over I start noticing how many stains the dogs made on our leather couch and how much hair gets in all the nooks and crannies of our house. Never mind the stains on the wall by the garbage can, the dust on the shelves and the cobwebs on the ceiling.

About an hour before guests are expected I start driving everyone in this house, including myself, insane with my last minute cleaning frenzy * sigh...*  This cake better be good after all this cleaning and dusting... Thank goodness I have a sign in my kitchen that says "my house was clean last week, sorry you missed it"