Weddingbee Blog

I was bored. So, I made some hair accessories for my bridesmaids!

I started making bits and bobs with du-kit (polymer clay) a few years ago, probably because I never grew out of my mud pie stage. One of my favourite things to do with it is make roses, so when I was playing around a bit with the clay the other day the thought crossed my mind: ‘Hey… we’re having roses in our wedding… Hey I wonder if these roses would look good stuck in the BMs’ hair…’ *drags compliant sister BM over and sticks some in her hair* ‘Hey… they do look good!’

I mixed a very teensy bit of red clay with the “pearl” white colour to create a baby rose pink for some of the roses, and some I left just with the pearl. And for the purple roses (gotta have that purple!) I added a wee bit of blue to the pink mix.

For those who want to know how I made the roses… it is kinda hard to explain but easy to do… like riding a bike (sort of). I just take little pinches of clay, flatten them into “petals”, then roll or curve them a bit and pinch them together at the base (add extra petals in a circular way so they build up in “natural” layers like a real rose would). Hmm. I think I’m actually really bad at explaining this part, but hopefully you can get an idea from the pics.

I made holes in the base of each rose with a needle. Then I baked them (I just followed the directions on the clay packet for this step). Note: I inserted the hair pins in the roses AFTER I baked them. Big. Mistake. After they were baked it was very hard to get the pins through the holes and some of my roses broke *sad face* (a slight downside of these accessories is that they are quite fragile). A much more intelligent idea would be to bake the pins in the roses… this would also have made them more secure afterwards. Hindsight is 20/20.

The last thing I did was seal the roses with some clear nail polish. Some sort of lacquer or varnish may have been better, but the nail polish worked anyway.

So what do you think? I hope my girls like them as much as I do!

What’s a completely random DIY project that you just did on a whim?

*All photos in this post taken by yours truly