My Handmade Doll Hair Accessories (part 12)

            Dolls in photo (from left to right):
-2010 Bath Beauty Aurora
-2008 Sparkling Princess Snow White
-2003 Disney Store "Ballerina" Princess Mulan
-2015 Hello My Name Is Cloe

I think it is quite obvious that I have an addiction to small fabric flowers!  I especially love the ones that I find at Wal-Mart, although they are a little bit pricey considering there aren't many in a baggie.  But that doesn't keep me away from buying them from time to time.  I really love the roses I got to use on my 2008 Sparkling Snow White.  I don't usually have dolls that I want to make headbands for, that match yellow or orange/peach roses.  But these fit perfectly for Miss Snow--the bottom of her dress has a beautiful yellow, orange, and peach faded, glittery design.  I happened to have ribbon that was almost the same exact peach/orange color (I believe it was from a spool that was given to me).  

Speaking of craft supplies that were given to me, the interesting looking flowers on Aurora's headband were a gift of sorts.  When my friend's grandmother passed away, my friend and her mother set aside some of her art/craft supplies for me when they were cleaning out her house.  These roses were in one of the huge trash bags they gave me stuffed with crafting supplies.  I really like them, as they are quite unique, although they aren't as soft and silky as the ones I usually use.  They also come with long, wire stems, so they can be used in a variety of different ways. I simply trimmed the stems off to use them on Aurora's headband.  Poor little Aurora was a very sad, trashed looking lady when I rescued her from the flea market in 2016. I'm so glad that she gets to wear roses that used to belong to my friend's grandmother (I loved my friend's grandmother very much--she considered my sister and I family, which we always thought was very sweet since my grandmother passed away when I was 16).  

Mulan got lucky because I happened to have one of these large, sequin flowers left over from Hello My Name Is Yasmin's headband.  I purchased a pack of really unique, sort of expensive flowers, just for Yasmin when I got her.  I ended up having one leftover.  When I was digging through my craft boxes and spotted this flower, I knew it would be perfect for Mulan, since her original outfit is a light purple and teal color.  I thought she'd look adorable with a hair wrap of sorts.  So I twisted some teal ribbon around her braid and glued a rose to the part that would tie around the elastic.  It really spiffs up Mulan's already lovely ensemble.  

Miss Cloe just had to get a headband when I bought her in the fall of 2015.  I fell in love with the photo of the Hello My Name Is dolls on the back of their box--they all had such cool looking hair accessories/hats.  I looked through my bin of scrap fabric, and found this old, white, daisy print that I've had for years.  When I was twelve, I got really interested in sewing.  I attempted to make several outfits for my American Girl dolls. This was fabric that I had purchased to make my Samantha and my sister's Molly doll dresses.  The dresses never ended up coming to fruition, as I gave up on the project (I was really bad at sewing).  But I always kept the unused fabric, and somehow I managed to hold onto it for over a decade.  I think it is fun and playful, which really suits Cloe!
   

Taken on: August 21, 2024

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