A little creation for organization

So my daughter is 7 years old, and I love to buy hair accessories for her.  I have recently decided headbands look really cute on her.  She has bookoos of bows and pony O's already, and now we are adding headbands.  Every morning when I walk into the kids shared bathroom to do her hair I look at this messy basket and can never find something to match her clothes.

So I hit pinterest on a mission to figure out a way to organize and display her headbands and hairbows that were more efficient and looked nice.  While on Pinterest I found a couple of things I liked.  First off was this simple ribbon double over that you just put stitches down and hung your headband in the between the stitches.

Second was a hairbow organizer that popped up that was like the boards you would use to hang pictures on....










But then the third picture gave me the idea to combine the two into one very cool project that would hold bows and headbands:

From looking at this awesome kite picture (you wouldn't believe how easy it was) I decided I could run more diagional strips of ribbon across the kite to hold bows, and on kites tail I could hang my head bands.  It is so simple.  You bend a wire coat hanger into a diamond (DUH!  Who would have thought!)  cover with fabric, the person said to use hot glue, but I wanted to make sure it was very sturdy and decided to sew it on.  Attach your ribbon on the kite for your bows, make a long tail that is doubled over and sew spots for the head band to hang.  And attach a ribbon loop at the top to hang it.  Here's my kite....

I started this project after my daughter went to bed about 8 PM, and finished at 10 PM.  So it took 2 hours. But that was because of the hand sewing, if you choose to use a hot glue gun, it will be much quicker, maybe not quite as sturdy though.  Lucy will be so suprised in the morning when we go to fix her hair and she can see all her bows and headbands displayed.

My upcoming plans:
*Clean, declutter, dejunk, go through and organize my laundry/craft room.  This has to be done when the weather breaks to a reasonable tempeture and isn't raining for a few days in a row, because I have to drag everything out on the porch, I have been hitting thrift shops for organizational items to accomplish this mission!
*Spring Break is coming up:  Nate will be with his mom, Lucy and I will have the week alone, we usually try to do something special: go out type stuff, this time I want us to do special stay at home stuff, make a fun recipe together, pedicures, a neat craft, fun kid friendly science experiments, if the weather decides to be nice maybe it will be time to plant my vegetable garden(?) and we can do that together, but have a funfilled week for mom and daughter.  And one day we get to go with her girl scout troup to see the Barnum and Bailey Circus :)  I don't know whos more excited, me or her..... I lied, its me..... I SIMPLY CAN'T WAIT!!
*Hopefully a couple more crafts will be in my future in the next couple of weeks.

Intro to me

I am the mother to two great kids, my daughter Lucy who just turned 7 and my stepson Nate who will be 13 in April.

 Lucy is a handful and a ball of energy, she tends to get in trouble at school and miss recess quite frequently this year.  She is in girlscouts and dance.  We are trying to find what she likes, because tee ball, cheerleading, and gymnastics was not her thing.
Nate is a very well behaved young man.  He is in band, speech team, and 4h.

Then theres my wonderful husband Josh, who is a coal miner and a great husband and dad.  We will be married 9 years March the 20th of this year (WOW!)

I am lucky and blessed to be able to stay at home and not have to work.  I  got a sewing machine for Christmas so I have been playing with sewing.  Although my laundry/craft room is a disaster right now, I'm ready for some warmer weather so I can get in there and go through all my precious junk and get it organized.  I've been hitting thrift shops trying to find organizational items to get my laundry/craft room organized.  When this big project hits I will post pictures.  I am also a major animal lover.  I volunteer with my local animal shelter quite frequently and greatly enjoy it!  I also have 4 furballs of my own
Lelo, my 8 year old reindeer chihuahua.  I got him from an individual who was wanting to rehome him.  At six years of age at that time and not being potty trained, this process took me over a year to accomplish.  But he is worth every minute, every poop pile in the floor I stepped on , and the countless pee I scrubbed up.  He is a lazy boy and just lays around most of the time, but sometimes like to play with his squeaky toys.  But he does not like to play dress up :)

Then I have 3 cats, first is Star age 2, I got her from the local Animal Shelter, she is a very funny girl and loves to curl up in the weirdest spots in the house to sleep.  She is also the boss in the house over the other two kitties, keeping them in line.

Then my two Ragdoll cats Jax (dark colored one) and Ivy (light colored one) who I also got from someone who was rehoming them.  They were fixing to go to the shelter when I agreed to take them.  Jax is a little more shy, he will hide from new people in the house, he has just recently started getting on the couch to cuddle.  Ivy is very friendly.  He likes to headbutt you when you quit petting him, his meow is very loud and demanding.  These two kitties were estimated by our family vet to both be 6 years of age just recently.  I wouldn't trade my animals for anything in the world.

So heres a sneak peek at my family.  And I'm hoping for many more blogs to come!