A Holder For All This Hair Stuff!

When I made the suet cakes for my Suet Cake Tutorial, I used up the last of my quick oats and knew right away that I was going to upcycle that bad boy into a headband holder.


Here's a picture of what it looked like before.  That's it all the way on the right.

I spray painted it with white Krylon primer first because I knew that my blue wouldn't cover it well.  When that was dry I painted it Mediterranean Blue.  At least I think that's what the color is called.

Ignore the crackles on the top, I got carried away with the painting.  Then I cut some burlap to cover it.

Glued it on.  I glued it on the seam of the container and then rolled it.  That way the seam of the burlap matched up with the seam of the container.  I carefully hot glued the ends down so that it wasn't bunched up.

When that was cool I flipped it over and tucked the extra burlap down inside the container.

Then I took some wired ribbon and ruffled it on both sides.  

I glued it to the container at one end of the seam.  Then as I went I made this bumps, gluing between them, to make little pockets for the ends of the headbands to fit into.  When I got to the top I realized I'd cut the ribbon a touch too short, so I made a quick rosette to put at the top.

I wanted it to have a base, so I spray painted an old candlestick holder I had laying around using silver Krylon paint.  

Then I used E6000 to attach the base to the container.  I had to stick some heavy stuff inside the container while the glue dried to make sure that it stuck.


Here's the finished product:

And here she is, put to use with all my etsy shop hair stuff:

I love that you can see the paint through the burlap.  

Do you see what I meant by the "pockets" in the ribbon?  

I think she's going to be perfect for when I finally do some craft shows!  I want to make more.  Guess I'd better get eating those oats!!


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