Hello, Fluffsters!
In case you hadn’t picked up on this by now, I enjoy arts and crafts. Tonight I made a flower wreath for my hair. (Out of fake flowers, so I’ll be able to use it for an upcoming event.)
It’s not entirely finished yet, but it’s close! (I need to trim some ends, and decide whether or not to add glittery stuff. It’s going to be for a semi-earth-fairy-ish costume, so I’m potentially going to sparklify it. Regardless, I needed a flower circlet for the character, so I decided to try to DIY a flower wreath. 🙂 )
First, I went to Michaels and looked for some mini rosettes. The original plan had been to braid some of those lovely wire-stemmed miniature rosettes into a wreath. That didn’t happen, due to lack of rosettes I was looking for. So I improvised.
I instead went with these flowers:
![purple and white fake flowers to be turned into a DIY hair wreath](http://www.totalfluff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_6110-1024x768.jpg)
Purple & White fake flowers
Fortunately for me, they were on a good sale, so I got them for a decent price. I actually took that picture after removing a number of the flowers (with stems) for the wreath. But that’s getting ahead of myself…
So as I was saying. I got those flowers. And then I used some wire cutters to cut individual strands as long as I could. I removed leaves and extra bunches that were at extreme angles.
I then laid about three stalks together, and somewhat braided them. The stems were not that malleable, so I used some ribbon (and later some long synthetic leaves from the white bunch of flowers) to tie the stalks together. When I got towards the end of a bunch, I put the next set on. And kept tying.
As I was doing this, I measured the wreath around my head to make sure it would fit. (That had the added bonus of building the curve into the wreath.) As I tied and measured, I did bend the stems into the proper form. They can hold the more gradual curve; they’re just not good for braiding.
When it got long enough, I tied the beginning to the end.
Here’s what I have of the wreath so far:
![DIY flower hair-circlet top view](http://www.totalfluff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_6108-1024x768.jpg)
Top view of my hair flower wreath
Front view:
![front view of the DIY hair circlet of synthetic flower](http://www.totalfluff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IMG_6109-1024x768.jpg)
Front view of my flower circlet
I’m fairly happy with how it turned out. 🙂
How about you, Fluffsters? Have you created anything interesting lately?