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When I first got into this I thought: Camera, tripod, few lenses, editing software.
Ummmmmmm Ya.
Ring Ring*
This is your wake up call Rachel.
How about: Camera, Lense, lense caps, caned air, camera case, more portable camera case for hiking and such, telephoto lense, wide angle lense, fish eye lense, macro lense, more and more lenses!, Extra batteries, sd memory chips, Photoshop Elements all the way to CS5 (wich happens to be near 1,000 big ones in cost) Then you have to have all the computer software to run that WITHOUT running at snails speed. Not to mention Props! Chairs for little people (kids), stools. There are even special bean bags made to photograph infants on! Whoda thunk? I never knew! Do they teach that in college? That a really big, really sturdy bean bag is the best field tip out there to photograph infants with? I would've never thought of it. But the darn thing is almost 90 bucks! And these ADORABLE infant headbands with flowers on them, 13 bucks for two older edition, twenty bucks for a new edition! Seriously? This is way more investing than I would have thought! ( I am not dissing the products here, just the fact that I am poor and can't afford big prices like that)
Now let's make this clear. I'm not made out of money. I can't afford to spend this much money on accessories to a shoot when I'm not technically a business and am doing my work for free. So I'll do what I'll do best, whip out my Martha Stewart skills and try to make something that'll work just as well. I'm all about the d.i.y. projects.
My first goal was to tackle the infants/small child flower headband. I've actually made flower hairpieces before, just never thought to make them child size! So I thought this would be the easiest to tackle first! And it was suprisingly simple. Mind you I am not saying this is how real businesses makes them, this is just how I decided to go about it. This blog post will be about the first and easiest type of flower hairpieces to make, and the next blog post I'll go into how to cut your own fabric and make them from scratch wich is a bit harder.
1.)Find a bushel of fake flowers at a craft store, look for ones that can be easily popped off at the ends, or easily cut. Any color or size will do because it's all up to you!
2.) Pop off or cut the flowers off the ends of the stem.
3.) At your craft store buy an elastic strand. Measure it out and cut it down to 10-12 inches or so for an infant, 14-16 inches or so for a small child. The measurements really depend on the person, so I made varied sizes from 10-16 inches.
4.) Hot glue gun or super glue the two ends of the elastic together and to the back of the flower at the same time.
5.) After that glue has dried add a little bit more glue and place ontop of that a circular cut piece of felt. I would use a color felt that matches the back of the flower. That will cover up, and protect the elastic from coming undone.
6.) Voila' headband, now you can decorate it as you wish. Adding feathers to the back, lace, fabric, beads, glitter. It's all up to your creative juices! Here are a few pictures of the ones I made.
Thanks to E & P for letting me photograph their gorgeous girls to help showcase my handcrafted works!
As you can see the first four are made from the same purple flower, but I added different color accents to each one. And the last is a plain pink flower headband, I liked the way it looked plain :)
Shall we try the giveaway again?!
This time:
Vote on your favorite headband by posting a comment stating wich one is your favorite. If you go to your FB page and make a post sharing your love for this blog and the giveaway, or just spreading the word about the blog, that counts as two more votes! (But be sure to come back here and let me know you spread the word via fb so I can credit you more votes!)
The Deadline for this giveaway is October 1st. at 12:01 a.m.
I will post the winner's name via this blog the next morning so they can email me their shipping address.
Thanks for stopping by!
Ray
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