Adding to this is the fact that in the morning when I sometimes bring him for some quiet time in our bed (long after Daddy has left for work) I will pretend I am asleep and he will kiss me on the lips to wake me up. The first time he did it I was actually semi-sleeping haha, which made it even more gorgeous! He is only 16 months so I am unsure where he learnt that trick!
Whilst at Resource Rescue the other day I saw this pleather off-cut that looked like the ideal crown!
I have a growing collection of old buttons - never throw away the ones that come with clothes and I inherited many from my Nan.
The spiky pleather didn't quite make it around my child's head (we are convinced that's because we passed down their 'big brain' genes) so I glued (super glued) some ric-rac to the bac so I could tie it. And that also means it will fit many a head!
I grabbed some ric-rac and my hot glue gun from my craft cupboard and set about arranging the buttons.
I sewed the buttons tightly to the ric-rac (wavy ribbon for the uninitiated) and hot glued the ric-rac to the pleather so that in the event the hot glue fails, the buttons won't end up as a choking hazard.
Now, seeing as I was one or two hands short I used a nearby vase to sit the crown on while I used my own two hands to glue.
I added a gorgeously regal red bow to each end of the ric-rac and voila! A princely crown!
Lenny is so sick of me making him pose as you can tell from his haggard expression.
See what you can achieve with scrap and imagination!
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