Little Girl's Ribbon Necklace (Modeled)

Catie, modeling the Little Gil's Necklace.

It's technically designed to fit a 2-7 yr old girl but I'm loving the look on Catie.  I may just have to make one for her.

Little Girl's Ribbon Necklace

My sister-in-law Lisa found this necklace at Stella & Dot.  It's designed to be worn by a little girl and we both loved it.  She wasn't willing to pay the $32 price tag and I took one look and knew I could re-create it.  Here's my finished product.  What do you think of the original and my recreation of it?

I was going to add a jeweled brad to the center of my flower like they'd done in the original but I didn't have one so I would have had to buy a pack and I also loved how 3 dimensional mine was.  I would have had to flatten the flower to add the jewel so I left it as is.  I like how the edges are starting to fray.

I do wish that the fabric I used for my flower matched the ribbon a little bit better but this was the best I could find.

The original tied on with a bow but I thought that seemed like it would be finicky to put on a two year old so I added a clasp with a bow for decoration.

In the original they made the flower removable on a clip so it could be added to your girl's hair but since Lisa doesn't like the flower in hair look I decided to skip that and sewed it on instead.

Using some rough calculations I figure I spent about $12 making this necklace but I have supplies left (minus ribbon) to make probably 3 more.  That puts each necklace at about $5.  Eventually there will be a bracelet to match but I'm in no hurry.  This is going to be a birthday gift for Gwen in September when she turns two.  Hopefully she, and Lisa love it.

Thumbprint Pendant

I found a really cute tutorial a while ago and really wanted to make one so using my Michael's coupons I bought what I needed for less than $4.  I then waited for a trip to Calgary where my sister-in-law and I made them together.

We used some white polymer clay and kneaded a small amount until it was soft.  We then took our clay and rolled them into small oval shapes and pushed our girls thumbprints into them.  I had first decided it would be cute to use Catie's right thumb since this is the one she sucks and it's her favorite.  I hadn't taken into consideration what damage constant thumb sucking at night does though and my first imprint looked a little like a tiny 80 year olds.  It was cracked and funny looking so I rerolled and used to the left thumb with much better results.

Once we had imprints we liked we poked holes so they could be threaded on a necklace and then we baked them in the oven following the package directions and these were the results.

I love that I can carry around a little imprint of Catie all the time and I like that it's so unique.

The only downside being Catie always wants to put it in her mouth, I guess she thought I used the right thumb :)