DIY : Floral Headband / Flower Crown

As you know, come Spring, I've taken a liking to floral headbands that seem to be everywhere. Now that I've finally come up with one that may be worn without looking too much out of place here. I absolutely fell in love with the River Island one and decided to do one much like it, except with grey pearls. Check it out!

Here's what you'll need:

• A strip of leather or PU (called Rexine in India)
• Elastic cord
• A few pearl beads - I used grey
• Old eyeliner that's not black!
• A needle and black thread
• Fabric Glue

Step 1: Trace out rough outlines of your flowers onto the back of the leather fabric with the eyeliner. I used two flower shapes.

Step 2: Cut out the shapes with a sharp scissors. You'll need around 10 flowers in all.

Step 3: Cut out a length of cord about the circumference of your head by stretching it around your head. Leave about an inch extra on each side.

Step 4: Super impose the flowers one upon the other and stitching together the flowers, pearls and the cord.

Step 5: Seal the stitched flowers with a dab of fabric glue.

Step 6: Continue stitching the flowers to the pearls and the cord.

Step 7: Now place the last inch of each cord end into an inch-long rectangular piece of PU. Add glue, fold over the PU and stitch away.

And there it is - the floral headband! Don't worry about the silvery stuff, it'll fall off. Sorry for the bad photos guys! As you can see, I'm desperately in need of a new camera :-/

Try  to overlook the freaky factor in the above picture! :)

Inspiration : Floral Headbands

I have been busting my butt lately doing a ton of those things in life that one just can't avoid. You know the kind - spring cleaning, formal visitations, moving and so on. If only I could put myself in cycles of crafting, eating and sleeping - Oh! The glory!

In the midst of all the work that I appear to be doing, I do have a couple of sneak-peaks and Pinterest and Google and I'm beginning to notice a whole bunch of pictures and posts about floral headbands. Granted they have been around a while, but I never pictured myself as a flower-y girl, let alone put a bunch of them on my head.

They took their time to grow on me, but when they did - OMG! Now all I can think about is crowns and headbands and mostly, how to wear them here in India without getting the Zoo Animal stare that one gets in *certain* places when one deviates from certain dress norms *just a little bit*.

Anyhow, while I figure that out, check out these floral beauties:

- Cheers!