A few new DIY hair accessories are sure to make you happy!  I love this polka dot one!

These colorful fabric headbands are perfect for a sunny afternoon outside.  Want to make a few?

You’ll find all the information and tutorials in this post…

25 DIY Hair Accessories to Make Now!

Enjoy the weather and treat yourself to a little DIY goodness!

~Kim

I recently became a new iPhone owner.  Now, I’m thinking about what I can do to dress it up a bit and protect it when I toss it in my purse.  This DIY iPhone wallet pattern is perfect!

Protect your phone and keep the cards you use most handy.  This is one of the best patterns ever!

Check out the full tutorial at My Three Monsters.

Looking for more creative wallet ideas?

Check out this…7 DIY Wallet Patterns!

These really don’t take too much fabric, so you can use up some of those little pieces of designer fabric and create something stunning in minutes.  I really do love when something is a bit more custom, don’t you?

Have you every made a wallet?

~Kim

Handmade gifts rock! I love to create and give small crochet items all year long.  They’re quick, pretty and fit with my short attention span!

Aren’t these handmade crochet gift labels cute?  Print out a bunch and wrap your next crochet gift in style!

There are three different designs to help you spread a little crochet goodness.

Download these adorable crochet gift labels on EverythingEtsy.com!

Let me know if you try them!

~Kim

These simple and sweet DIY Christmas ornaments are the perfect afternoon project to make with kids this holiday season!  I think all handmade ornaments rock!  They’re quick gifts, package toppers and so much more.  Mr. Printables has a free download to make your decorating easy.

They would look great as a garland of fun stitched up ornaments, don’t you think??  Visit Mr. Printables for all the details and more inspiring photos.

Looking for more handmade Christmas ornaments to make?  You’lll love, love, love these 101 Handmade Christmas Ornament Tutorials!

Handmade ornaments are one of my favorite things!

~Kim

These sugar cookie recipes and inspiring ideas will be all you need.  Yum!

7 Christmas Sugar Cookies

Chocolate Sugar Cookie Recipe – Sweetopia

Christmas Cookie Recipe – Craftiness is Not Optional

Snowy Tree Sugar Cookies – Shop Girl Maria

Vanilla Bean Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe – Lauren’s Latest

Iced Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe – Cooking Classy

Melting Snowman Sugar Cookie Recipe – My Frugal Adventures

Vegan Christmas Sugar Cookie Recipe – Yummy Mummy

That should help you make any kind of Christmas sugar cookie you desire.  This is the perfect cookie for the holidays!

Here are a couple more holiday posts you might enjoy…

• 25 Handmade Photo Craft Ideas – DIY Gifts!
• 101 Handmade Christmas Ornament Tutorials
• 101 Free Christmas Printables
• 12 Holiday Ikea Hacks
• 25 DIY Christmas Wreaths

Have a fabulous holiday season full of friends, family and homemade goodness!

~Kim

Homemade soap is an awesome DIY project any day of the week!  Creating custom scents and designs are so easy, and they have to be one of the best handmade gift ideas ever!

Spend an afternoon making some of these amazing soaps and you’ll be hooked on soap making for good.  Many soap tutorials are easy to adjust with just the right scent for the season, so keep that in mind while you’re looking at these fabulous tutorials.  What about peppermint for the holidays or lavender to help you relax?  Change them up to suit your mood.

5 Easy Homemade Soap Tutorials

Coffee Soap Recipe – Offbeat and Inspired

Goat Milk Soap – Finding Home

Milk Soap Tutorial

DIY Homemade Citrus Coconut Soap – Petitelefant

Homemade Citrus Soap Tutorial

Looking for more ideas??  Check out this post with 20 DIY Soap Tutorials!

Do you have a favorite?  I’d love to hear about any soap tutorials you’ve used.

Have fun!

~Kim

Oh my goodness, it’s a fringe photo garland tutorial!  How amazingly cute is that???

This is a quick DIY project that will make you super happy!  Add it to any room or give it as a gift for the holidays.  You can’t go wrong with this idea!

You know you want to make this right now!  Check out all the details at Homey Oh My!

Looking for more great ideas for your photos?  Check out this post…25 Handmade Photo Crafts.

~Kim

Everyone needs a cute little crochet bowl on their desk, don’t you think??

This free crochet bowl pattern will have you making tons of them…they’re addictive.  It’s a super fast project that turns out amazing!

Create a bunch for you and share a few with friends.  They will rave about what a creative crafty girl you are and might even buy you lunch.  Just sayin’…it could happen just like that!

Find a beautiful step-by-step photo tutorial and this simple pattern on Everything Etsy right here!

Enjoy!

~Kim

Create this classy Embroidered Initial Necklace for all your friends…they will love it!  Easy handmade gifts are some of my favorite projects!

The possibilities are endless and once you make a few of these I’m sure you will start to dream up new ideas for these sweet embroidered pendants.

You only need a few supplies…

• Fabric scraps
• Embroidery thread
• Embroidery needle
• Embroidery hoop
• Oval Pendant {can be found here}
• Water Soluble Ink Pen

Order quite a few pendants because once you get started you’ll want to make a handful of these little trinkets…trust me!

Using a water soluble pen write your initial in the center of the fabric.  I practiced my letter on a regular sheet of paper first for size.  I also added little marks on my fabric to show the size of the pendant.  It worked on the first try!

Take your embroidery thread and needle and start stitching with a simple backstitch. {stitch video here}

Once you complete the stitching cut out around the oval leaving a bit of extra fabric.  If you can see any of the ink, just follow the instructions for your pen to remove it.

Place your fabric in the pendant and secure the pendant back.  Here’s where you can work with it a little if you want.  I added folded fabric scraps behind my initial before putting it in the pendant to make it a little puffy.  It’s up to you.

I just trimmed the excess fabric close to the edge with super pointy scissors.  {not shown above}  You could add a small oval cut out as an extra layer and glue your fabric to it before placing the back on.  I haven’t tried this, but it seems like it would work.

It will look beautiful no matter what you do, but I thought I’d share a few options.

Isn’t it cute??

I plan on making quite a few of these for Christmas this year!

It took less than an hour to make both of these…and I took photos!  I think they would look fabulous with a linen background or any other small pattern.

If you love handmade gifts like I do, you’ll love these ideas…

• 101 Simple Handmade Gifts
• 101 Handmade Gifts for Her
• 101 Handmade Gifts for Men
• 101 Handmade Christmas Ornaments

What do you think?  I’d love to hear about some handmade gifts you’ve made!  They are the best!

~Kim

Scrapbook flowers make easy hair accessories…and awesome little handmade gifts! 

I found these pretty flower embellishments in a sale section.  I browse sale sections first to see if there’s something there that inspires a project…and I’m kinda cheap like that! 

This is one of the fastest handmade gift ideas ever, so you really need to make a bunch to keep on hand for birthdays and holidays. They even fit in an envelope to send off to someone and brighten their day.

One package of flowers I bought were plain canvas and I sprayed them with color. It’s the rose type flower above. Well, let’s just say I won’t be doing that again. I don’t want to bash any type of craft supplies, but spraying dye onto a flower and making a major mess just doesn’t seem worth it.

The other flowers might not last forever, but they will last a long time. Grab a couple packages of any sturdy flower embellishments, get your glue gun and bobby pins together, and get ready to make pretty stuff!

These bobby pins were purchase from a lovely Etsy shop, Whimsy & Pop.  They have a nice finish and a flat area to glue your flower on easily.  Just add a dot of glue and press your flower on.  Let it cool and attach it to small cards to have them ready to share.

I put them in small plastic bags to finish the packaging.  You can find packages of small zip lock bags at any craft store.

Now you need to make some!

Can you ever have too many pretty hair accessories??? I think not!

Have you made any handmade hair accessories lately?  I’d love to hear about them!  They always make a great little gift!

We all know handmade gifts rule…lol!!!

~Kim