I received my mary not martha order last week and was able to make this pretty dang cute flowery headband for Phoebe. I kept the flowers in a bunch and twisted their wire stems around a plastic headband. I clipped off the stems, bent the sharp edges up away from the head and then doused the thing in tacky glue and waited 2 days for it to completely dry. It’s probably not all that secure but for the 2 seconds she’ll actually keep it on her head it works fine. Of course you have to have a lollipop on hand or she won’t cooperate at all. I think I’m inadvertently training her like one would a puppy. I should probably watch that. She’ll go all Veruca Salt on me someday.

And I’m not done yet. Here’s the rest of my order, some stretchy ruffled netting trim and another bunch of velvety flowers.

just plunked my new (old) orla kiely bag down on the table by my o.k. target mug. makes me so happy! I bought the bag on ebay about a month ago and oh how I love it. I justified it by saying I’ll never need another bag again and I might be right. I don’t think my love for it will ever waver.

also on the table, dmc floss colors for the cross stitch patterns. I’ll tell you what’s a good time. spending half an hour in the floss aisle at joanns while your 2 year old tears things apart and your 5 year old hollers at her for tearing things apart while you hunt and peck for matching floss colors. why don’t they have them all in a row? all the blues together, then all the greens, etc. there must be a reason they arrange/number them so haphazardly.