DIY Tutorial: Lace Vintage Bow

I have been looking forever for the perfect vintage bow.  A lovely big bow, that won't cost me $15-$20.  So I thought.. Why not make one.. I'm crafty enough {with a glue gun anyway}.  I thought I would take you along on this adventure, in case you had been looking for that perfect little bow too.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED:

1.RECTANGLE OF MATERIAL :

 COULD BE FLORAL, ONE COLOR.. I CHOSE LACE{YAY LACE}  REMEMBER THE LARGER THE MATERIAL THE BIGGER THE BOW {MY BOW WAS ABOUT 18in LONG x 8 in HIGH

2.HOT GLUE GUN AND GLUE STICK

3. SCISSORS

4. NEEDLE AND THREAD

5. SOME SORT OF HAIR CLIP OR COMB

6. ONE MORE SMALL RECTANGLE FOR MIDDLE OF BOW

DIRECTIONS:

FIRST TAKE YOUR MATERIAL AND  FOLD THE TOP AND BOTTOM DOWN.  I PUT A FEW DOTS OF GLUE TO KEEP MATERIAL IN PLACE BECAUSE LACE IS A LITTLE HARD TO WORK WITH.  THEN YOU FOLD AGAIN.  TAKE BOTH ENDS AND MEET IN THE MIDDLE.

AT THIS POINT YOU CAN EITHER GLUE THE TWO ENDS TOGETHER OR SEW.  I WOULD GENERALLY SEW THIS PART, BUT LACE IS A LITTLE HARD TO SEW, SO I GLUED.  I THEN TOOK A BIT OF THREAD AND GATHERED THE BOW IN THE MIDDLE AND WRAPPED THE THREAD AROUND THE MIDDLE OF THE BOW TO CREATE THE TWO SIDES.  TIE IT OFF AND CUT OFF THE EXTRA STRING.  TAKE SOME HOT CLUE AND APPLY TO MIDDLE FRONT OF BOW.  PLACE THE SMALL RECTANGLE ON GLUE TO HOLD IN PLACE.  WRAP THE RECTANGLE AROUND THE BACK, FIRMLY, AND GLUE THE TWO ENDS TOGETHER.  FROM THEIR YOU CAN GLUE OR SEW YOUR COMB ON, OR YOU CAN SLIDE THE CLIP IN THE BACK OF THE BOW LIKE I DID.  YOU CAN GLUE THE CLIP IN PLACE, BUT I CHOSE NOT TO, SO I COULD USE THE SAME CLIP ON OTHER BOWS.

PLACE IN HAIR AND HAVE THE CUTEST LITTLE DITTY OF A BOW EVER!

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Wedded Pinned Perfection

Why are brides so afraid to show their true colors? There are so many ways to wear a lovely dress on your wedding day without having to go white... We know white is tradition, and we love tradition, and all the beautiful yumminess that comes along with it, but we also celebrate those brides in the more "colorful" category.. Brides these dresses are for you. Enjoy carousing our Pinterest Album {Stunner in Color}!
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The New Era of the Maids

So we are going to start doing segments for the brides who need or want a little help in the "make your wedding fun and unique and not outdated" department.!.! So here is our first segment.. THe New Era of the Maids! and this segment is all about the mismatched cream & green! All the dresses were found on Modcloth.com!  Think outside the box and help your maids feel like "themselves" by finding a dress that they will love and WANT to wear again!

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Bridesmaid Dresses: For the {Fashion} Forward Bride

Funniest phrase ever : Oh girls you can so wear this bridesmaid dress again. All you need to do is raise the hem.

Wait did you just say that about a poofy taffeta hot pink dress that is to the floor with a black sash/bow in the back? Let me be honest with you.. you will never wear that dress again. {Yep that's a reality check for ya:)} If I could go back and change something about my wedding, the first place I would start.. or one of the first places would be the Bridesmaid dresses. I really wish that I had gotten something that was more my style, and that my girls really could wear again.

I know.. I know we are in the south. I know.. TRADITION.. TRADITION.. TRADITION.. blah blah blah. Sorry I about broke out into some Fiddler on the Roof {If you haven't seen that movie.. sorry for the confusion.} So what is all this about. what am I getting at.. why am I babbling on and on about overly expensive dresses that your poor bridesmaids have to act excited about? I am hear to show you alternatives to the traditional boring super duper formal bridesmaid dresses. Yes there are alternatives to Bridal Stores!

If you know anything about Sassyfras and the Sassy Sisters we will find any excuse and any way to make someones pics a little more vintage or indie. Sometimes I wish I could blink my eyes and west coast style finally have made it to the east coast, but sense we seem to be a little behind the times, I am going to open your eyes to a world of possibilities..

I just want to give a shout out to Anthropologie... Urban Outfitters... J Crew {Weddings} & Bluefly.com {Marc Jacobs, Tadashi Shoji, Andrew Marc, Decode 1.8, Julie Brown, & Max & Cleo} for today's {Sassperation}! You make my world go round.. and round... and beautifully around.

So here are some tips for what is in right now:

1. Prints Prints Prints

2. Completely different dresses with similar shades of a color mixing patterns, prints, styles {not matchy matchy though.}

3. Letting your girls pick out completely different dresses.. WHAT?? have a general feel and theme, but let them be creative and fun

4. BOLD colors.. or soft pastels

5. Fall our winter add a girly adorable cardigan

6. last but not least.. and our favorite.. vintage flirty twiggy dresses {Flattering on EVERYONE}

P.S. 95% of these dresses are under $200.. YAY!

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{Blithe} Bridal Burlap

The Sassy Sisters find inspiration from the craziest things sometimes, and we have been noticing a trends with alot of brides lately.. that trend is they're STUCK.  Since we live in the south, there are southern traditions, and we have noticed that alot of our brides feel that they have to do a certain thing in a certain way and have no creativity because it is what everyone else does.  Well, we are here to get you our of your rut, and inspire you in the ways that we are inspired.  This week we are inspired by burlap.  Burlap is so beautiful {yet cheap} and can be used in so many ways and bring a variety of texture to your big day.  So here is a little inspiration from us to you. Use it well our sassy brides.

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