I'm not giving up my day job

Although, I guess I technically don't have one.

So a few weeks ago, I had this epiphany while perusing JoAnn's craft store looking for ribbon to make some headbands for a friend's daughter. I thought I could make headbands that aren't all lame and frilly like the ones you typically see for sale, and I could sell them on the internet and make a fortune.

I bought some ribbon and decided my friend's daughter would get the first few of my many marvelous headband creations.

Then I sat down and actually tried to figure out how to make these headbands so that they were elastic on the back and could get bigger as the baby's head grew. I gave up and started over twice. The third headband came out a little better, but still nothing I'd try to sell to anyone.

Here are a couple of pictures. My friend Leslie suggested the bow on top, and a few others suggested two layers of ribbon, which I agreed about (like a solid color under the patterned ribbon) but I never got that far.


After spending about 7 hours trying to make a headband that actually worked, I finished this one and decided I either needed to find a more efficient way of doing this or give up my idea altogether. I'm not sure what I've decided. I don't think I'm ready to give up yet. Moms everywhere need ME to help save them from frilly frou-frou baby headband hell.