When I was in Natalie’s room the other day I noticed Samantha and Nellie up on the shelf looking a little lonely. I decided to bring them down to my office to hang out with Felicity and Kit for a while and thought Samantha might want to get something new, too. In Samantha’s Happy Birthday book she wears a rosebud circlet (headband) in her hair. Since we do not have Samantha’s Birthday outfit, I thought a rosebud circlet would be easy to make and look great with her Bridesmaid dress instead.
Like most of the 100 Days of Doll Play, there is more than one way to do this craft! I used 36″ of light purple ribbon and some little fabric flowers I found at the craft store for just a few dollars. You could use flowers you cut out of felt, or tissue paper flowers or really or you could make your own paper roses.
Step 1 – Find the center of your ribbon and place your first flower there. Some of my flowers had self adhesive dots on the back of them and some of them didn’t. You could attach the flowers to the ribbon with a hot glue gun (get an adult to help please), hand sew them on (I did this) or use craft glue to hold them on.
Step 2 – Attach as many flowers as you would like to the ribbon. You can add extra ribbons to the sides, curl the ribbon, add some sparkle – get creative
Step 3 – Tie the circlet around your doll’s head
Floral headbands or circlets have been popular with girls in just about all periods of history. They are simple, feminine and can be made to go with anything.
And the finished product! Samantha is feeling very pretty in the bridesmaid dress and thinks the circlet goes perfectly for the occaision.
Have fun creating pretty circlets for all your dolls!
firstie
These look really cool. I think i need to go make some flowers
AWSOME THE HOURS I WAITED TO GET FIRSTIE WERE NOT WASTED
Cute!! I have that dress too.
My Samantha will LOVE this
Did no one else have to skip school because of the floood
Yes, all the schools in my county! I’m homeschooled, though!
I WANT SAMANTHA
Nope. No flooding here. Isaac passed through yesterday, still had school. Got sick because of it.
I always hated Sam’s bridesmaid dress. Doesn’t look like something that would have been worn in the early 1900s either. That picture doesn’t make it look so bad though.
Lena – I would have never bought that dress, however, when we were at the AG Place in NY in 2006, that was the dress Natalie absolutely had her 5 year old little heart on and I couldn’t say no. We didn’t even have Samantha then. She almost picked her that trip but changed her mind last minute and went with the Bitty Twins and the Bridesmaid outfit.
Courtney, a teeny tiny bit of flooding around here on the neighbor-hood roads. There was a tornado that passed through the street that was right outside of our subdivision. Thank goodness that it didn’t hit us! We just got the ouscurts, though.
I really, really hope it doesn’t hit New Orleans. Poor people, are still recovering from Katrina!
You’re so lucky you have Samantha char!
Nah i live all the way NE…. And adorable!
Ninthie!!!
No flooding. i live in NC!
very elegant!
Isaac is barley a category 1. Katrina was a 5. Its not gouing to be as bad. Also, why does no one care when FL gets hit by storms much worse than Isaac?
Char, just cause I hate it doesn’t mean kids do too. I babysit a few girls who love going through my old catalogs, and the 6 year old thinks that’s the prettiest thing she’s ever seen.
I don’t like it much, It’s too girly for me.
Delaney, yes, it’s to girly for me, too.
Lena, still, lots of New Orleans is in poverty, and a Cat 1 is just gonna make it worse- it’s not gonna help. But yes, Katrina was way worse. I know! One time we had what my Uncle called “The Unnamed Hurricane”. It was this BIG system that caused our power to go out! And funny thing is… TWC didn’t even say one thing about it! They were like, “yes, it is raining. Now in Arizona we have severe heat…”. Lol! It’s like they didn’t even care!
Lots of Florida is in poverty. Like I said, i had school yesterday even though the arms were passing through us. It was just funny to hear everyone freaking in Louisiana freaking out while we were out walking in the rain.
So cute! I have Samantha’s birthday outfit with the circlet, but I may want to make one at some point for Nellie.
cute and good idea her dress is so pretty!!! and Lena what flooding? I have been having a drought.
Where I live, I have some sprinkles, but no flooding. The closest we have got to flooding is when I left the water hose on outside for over 2 hours, LOL.
Delaney, lol!
Lena, yes… lots of FL is definetly in poverty. But I think everywhere there is. All states have it in some parts. My brother’s friend was taking his classes at a college, when he had to get his mom to come drive him to his other class- that’s how hard it was raining. But finally they cancelled the classes. But LA got slammed by Isaac last night. I can’t help but feel bad for people when that happens- it’s just me. Even though we might get destruction from hurricanes to, I still feel bad for the other people who get it.
Delaney i did something like that once but i left the hose on a flower all night ops.
I feel bad for all of it. I really wish that it would stop hitting LA and New Orleans! I wish it could hit somewhere else! Those poor people.
LOL man I would have been in trouble if i had left it on a flower!
Delaney! I LOVE YOUR GRAVATAR!!!!!! How did you do that? I might have to do that if you don’t mind me copying… but you don’t have to let me, I’m ok with a Gravatar of Kit, to!
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And also…….. on my blog I’m doing a thing where you can tell me (comments or you can comment on dolldiaries) what you want her to look like and then I will post it on my blog and you just copy it and you can turn it into your Gravatar. For more info check out my blog by clicking my name.