DIY Hairbow Holder: Get Organized!

My three little tornadoes create such a disaster that at times I wonder if our home has experienced a break-in!  Clearly someone is on a mission to find an item of great importance in our home as every drawer and closet has been frantically emptied with the contents strewn about the floor.  The most recent search mission was apparently geared towards locating hairbows, as this is the image in the bathroom I stumbled upon:

Not quite sure how this jumble came out of such an amazing organization system:

Oh, now I remember!  It was a combination of my very busy children and this highly ineffective organizing tool.  While I am far from being an expert in organization (my home can not tell a lie), I have learned as our family evolves that our organizing must also evolve.  

My beautiful daughter with the wild curly hair needs a hair accessory to help tame her tresses, but we are usually rushing out the door in the morning to get to school.  The product of our rushing is the mess you saw above.  Enter the DIY Hairbow Holder!

The idea came to me one night when the aforementioned tornadoes decided to hide a framed picture in their hideout (behind a recliner) and shattered the glass on the frame.  Fortunately no one was injured, unless you count the poor frame.  Rather than discarding the glass-less frame I saved it for a future life as a new creation.

The fabric came from a thrift store sometime last year when I bought 1 & 1/2 yards for $1, and the elastic was leftover from a skirt I made for my daughter last year.  I chose to use this fabric because I thought the colors would coordinate nicely with the quilts in my children's shared bedroom  Since I made this hairbow holder from items I had at home, it cost me nothing out of pocket.

If you have visited my blog before, you probably know about my passion for adhering lovely fabric to various repurposed items with spray adhesive.  Sadly I ran out of spray adhesive at the time of this undertaking, so a stapler took its place.  Follow these easy steps and you can make a hairbow holder of your own with whatever method for attaching fabric your little heart desires.  

1. Press the fabric to get it nice and smooth.
2. Remove the cardboard from the frame (or cut some scrap cardboard to fit if needed) and stretch your pressed fabric over it to see how much you need.
3. Cut fabric to fit the cardboard with a 1 inch allowance or more on all 4 sides.
4. Smooth fabric out over cardboard and wrap around to the back.  Adhere the fabric on each side.  I used a stapler.  
5. Use elastic to lay out whatever pattern you want for the bow holder.  I did a K with 1" elastic for my daughter's initial and used 1/2" elastic in vertical lines for the smaller bows.  Just play around with it as some letters won't work as well.
6. Stretch the elastic so that it is somewhat taut and then staple or otherwise adhere to the back of the cardboard.
7. Insert fabric and elastic covered cardboard and secure in frame.
8. Add hairbows!

Hope you have fun making your own hairbow holders.  If you decide to make one, please send me a picture or a link to your blog in the comments.  I always love seeing your creations!

How do you organize the multitude of hair accessories for yourself or the special little ones in your life?  (I may need a Plan B if the tornadoes strike again on this project!)

Happy Creating!

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