Steampunk hats

I had a Mad Hatter's inspired party that required an outlet for all the creative impulses I wasn't able to indulge after breaking my arm, which is where the hats come in. Inspiration came from a number of tutorials, including here and here.

Butterfly hair pins

Here's a combination, at a friend's suggestion, of the beaded hair pins with the transparency butterflies.

Obviously, lighter colours show up better in darker hair.

Gathered fabric flowers

In the continuing forays into hair accessories, I tried my hand at fabric roses, based off of the tutorial here. Mine weren't nearly so well put-together, but I think they worked out well.

I added some lace to the purple flowers and sewed a bit of ribbon on the back of each flower so I could attach bobby pins.

The flowers in a Gibson Tuck.

They were exceptionally easy and very quick to make, only five to ten minutes each, so I'll definitely be making more.

Beaded hair pins

The first post detailing my forays into various crafty and baking endeavours. My most recent obsession is hair accessories, so I tried my hand at some hair pins found here.

I apologise for the awful picture quality, but it's all I have on hand.

I didn't have any pearl-like beads, so I used whatever was on hand, pins included. As you can see, some of my pins were rather interesting shades of purple and pink, so I painted them a uniform black with some nail polish.

My hair's a little messy because I tried pin curls last night. (I wouldn't call it a rousing success.)

And in a Gibson Tuck.

All in all, considering it only took a few minutes for each pin, I'm pretty pleased with my results.