RoCa and Company

This past Saturday, we went day tripping to Texas A&M. The Science Department hosted a Chemistry Open House and Science Exploration Day where kids of all ages could get down and dirt in the name of Science. We had such a fun day playing with gooey things, painting, building, investigating, touching, laughing and along the way, we learned a thing or two about how fun Chemistry really is.

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So you ready to Party?! Let's ROCK this place!
Also, remember that the party will be open until Monday night. On Wednesday, I will feature the #1 link that ROCKS (the most viewed). I will also showcase my 3 favorites. And to entice you just a little more, the #1 link that ROCKS will also get to be a guest blogger at a future date (of course only if the winner wants too)...Sounds like fun, right?

Remember this Wire T-Shirt Scarf from The Simple Craft Diaries?

Well, Today we have Andréa sharing another fun and simple tutorial. Her scarf was the top viewed link at last weeks It's A Rockin' Party and therefore she gets to be a guest blogger today...so without further ado, here's Andréa...take it away girl...

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Hi !!

I am Andréa from The Simple Craft Diaries and I love to craft! I am a stay at home mom who loves handmade and simple things. I love crafting them for my home, for my friends, for myself and most of all for my little girl, who is most certainly my main inspiration. When I started blogging back in March of this year, it was mostly about things I would do for her and for her gorgeous golden brown and long curly hair. Oh, how I love doing this!!

So, in keeping with my "origins", when Carmen invited me (yippee!!) to guest post here, I immediately thought of hair accessories for the fall. They are all very simple and easy, all you need is some felt ( it can be scraps!), scissors, fabric glue or a hot glue gun, hair clips and a headband.

Here they are: A pom pom headband, an over-sized multicolour mum flower hair clip and a single rosette hair clip. I love the fall colors!

POM POM headband:

Material:

1. A round shape ( I used a small sample paint container) around 2 " wide

2. Felt - I used red and brown for the leaves and ochre for the pom pom flower

3. Pen

4. Scissors

5. Fabric glue/hot glue gun ( you can use needle and thread instead)

Make 27 circles, as each pom pom uses 9 of them

Use one of the circles for the bottom , fold the other ones in triangle shapes and start glueing as follows:

Make 2 layers

Cut 2 leaves, fold the bottom part in half and glue to get a leaf shape

Attach to one of the pom poms

Attach the pom poms to the headband

Cut 3 more felt circles to attach to the bottom and secure the flowers

The first fall beauty is ready!

Fall girl!

Oversized Mum Flower

Material:

1. 20 strips of felt in assorted colours - I used orange, red, ochre , beige , red and brown. 9 inches x 3/4 " inch

2. Hot glue gun or fabric glue

3. Hair clip

4. Scissors

Glue the strips to each other. Use rows of the same colours together. Pick the colour you want for the middle first and start form there. It will be a very long strip of felt, girl!