{Bath Towel Head Wrap} & Bowdabra Giveaway

March is National Craft Month, so to celebrate, Bowdabra is honoring this special event by showcasing the many uses of ribbon! If you love ribbon crafts, be sure to visit the Bowdabra Blog daily for great craft tutorials from their design team and enter to win prizes in a contest sponsored by Bowdabra.  

Going along with Bowdabra's celebration, they are showcasing the many ways to use ribbon. I mean it is not only for packages and your hair. Ribbon can spruce up any old thing and actually serve a purpose other than making things cute. Today I want to show you how I added ribbon to our plain old towels to make something quite useful.



So Miss Priss is always amazed at the turban like thing I make out of a towel to hold my hair, once I have showered. She always wants me to do the same, but her poor little hair is not thick enough, nor is her head big enough. She looks like a weeble wobble when we try to wrap up her hair like Mom's. Well after much pleading for me to find away for her to be like Mommy after her shower, I came up with a solution.

I found some towels at Wal-Mart for $1.99. Normally I wouldn't buy these, since they are so thin, but they're perfect for those little noggins. I bought a few and decided to make her a head wrap for after her showers. The towel was thin enough and small enough that she would no longer be teetering over when her hair is wrapped. I added a piece of fun ribbon to the middle of the towel. All you do is fold your towel in half. This is so you know where the center of your towel is. I then sewed my ribbon in place. 



I added a few hearts to the towel for fun and I was done. This was a five minute project. Boy I love those! Miss Priss loves it. She now feels Super Grown Up (her words not mine) in her towel wrap. I am now planning on making a few more. The ribbon also serves as a great hook to hang the towel when not in use. I love how fun and simple this was. Hope you can make some for your littles too!





Oh and if you don't have a girl, no worries. I made one for my son. He doesn't use it for his hair, but it is still perfect for after the shower. I added a fun monster to his. Too fun! 

Now onto the giveaway:

National Craft Month Giveaway Sponsored by Bowdabra

During the month of March, Bowdabra is offering their readers many chances to win the following prizes:

Grand Prize – Ribbon totaling in value of $150.00

2nd Prize – Bowdabra, Mini Bowdabra, and Hair Bow Tool & Ruler Suggested Retail: $41.54

3rd Prize – Mini Bowdabra and Hair Bow Tool & Ruler Suggested Retail: $24.11

There are several ways to enter:

1. Visit Bowdabra's National Craft Month Giveaway Page for a list of all the posts (each day in March a new post is added to the list), contest rules, and contest help.

2. If you have any ribbon crafts, share them on the Bowdabra Linky Party. Again, read their post for more details.

3. For the next two weeks, Bowdabra's Friends (like me!) will be showcasing ribbon tutorials on our blogs. You can visit each of us (check the Bowdabra post daily to find out who to visit) for additional entries on each of our blogs.

Contest begins March 1, 2012 and ends March 31, 2012 at midnight eastern time. Winners to be announce April 2, 2012 at http://bowdabrablog.com

There Are More Ways To Enter The Bowdabra Sponsored Giveaway Here On My Blog:

(5 entries per person for this post)

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Easy Peasy! 

Have a Fabulous day and 
don't forget to enter for some fun prizes!
 
 

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Another Maxi Dress......

 I love Maxi dresses. All year long! They are just to gosh darn cute!! Remember the Pink Lemonade Dress I made for Miss Priss? Well I had another one of those yoga waist band skirts. I decided to make Miss Priss another Maxi out of it. Here is how it came out. Such a simple and cute project.
For the full tutorial Click HERE.

Perfect for the little Miss.
Pair with Sneakers and we were ready for a fun filled park day:)






 and I can't forget the boy


Those blue eyes just get me every time. Too cute!

If you have any new homemade projects you've been working on,
link them up to My Homemade Year Linky Party

I love seeing all your projects!

Also I will be back later today with those promised pictures of our flooring and hopefully some new yummy recipes. Can't forget my 31 days of yumminess. March is almost over! I need to start getting those recipes published and LIVE for you:>

 

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New Goodies!

 

Hello lovelies. I can't believe it is already Sunday evening! I have been MIA all weekend. Sorry about the lack of linky parties this weekend. Some big projects kind of came up around my abode this weekend. Hubby had originally planned to start working on our floor during spring break, but Thursday night he decided to get a head start. It still won't be finished for a few weeks, but man the transformation! I am hopefully going to post some pictures tomorrow. I am absolutely in love with the way our new flooring is turning out. So because of this new project we have going on, I was left without the Internet all weekend.

 Insert me being very sad and feeling disconnected from the 
blogging world. Sad I know:<

 Hubby finally just set it up and I knew I had to hop on here and share a bit before my show comes on tonight. Hubby and I watch The GCB on Sundays now. We needed another show, since Downton Abbey Season two is over. We are loving our new Sunday show. Full of laughs. 

Anywho the real reason for this post is I wanted to share something I just got in the mail from Fat Quarter shop, one of my new sponsors. I was checking out there sale fabrics, the other day, and I hit the mother load of goodies! I clicked for the fabrics that were at least 50% off and I found THE CUTEST fabrics. I tried to go back and find links to all the ones I ordered, but some were sold out. I can tell you though I did order these.


Diving Animal Skin Yardage


Divine Animal Skin in teal


Divine lime Green and Teal Medallion Yardage
I also got it in pink and orange


I got this one in Green

I snagged a few others too. I love getting fabric half off!
I paid less than $40 (including shipping) and got about  6 yards of fun printed fabric. Almost all their fabrics were around $5 per yard, but I just saw some for under $4 per yard. So great! I saved about $30 buying stuff on sale. I just thought I would share another way I am able to buy adorable fun fabric, but still save money as well. Fat Quarter Shop has a great selection of on sale fabrics and they are always adding more. When I just looked I found about 20 more selections. Too cute. I totally trying to have some self control over here and not buy more fabric. Really hard right now!

Anyway I can't wait to start creating and sharing what I do with all the fun fabric I bought. Any-who hopefully I will have new picture tomorrow, a new recipe, and on Tuesday I am sharing a ribbon craft to help celebrate Bowdabra's National Craft Month. If you haven't entered their give-away yet, hop on over and do so. There is $150 worth of ribbon up for grabs! Oh and they are having a linky party where you can link up all your ribbon crafts. So many great ideas there. Check it out:>