Homecoming mums, tshirts and more

This week has been full of making things for tonight's homecoming.  Libby thought since she was a senior this year that she needed a homecoming mum.  We spent one night shopping, one night creating and finally finished it on Thursday morning so she could wear it to the homecoming parade that night.  Unfortunately, Mother Nature decided Thursday was a good day for rain and the parade was cancelled.  She will only get to wear it to the game tonight but it will proudly hang on her door for the rest of her senior year.

We used some non-traditional ribbons making her mum.  The ring around the flower and the streamer with her name are double sided grosgrain ribbon.  The stapler really didn't like this ribbon because it was so thick.  This was my first attempt to embroider on ribbon and it turned out great.  The only problem was that the letter "y" is wider than the rest and it hangs off to one side. Oh well, you live and you learn.

One of our favorite features on mums is the military cord.  We couldn't find the ribbon in the right size to make our own and they wanted $7 for a ready made cord.  Libby found this black and white polka dotted ribbon and we made it out of grosgrain ribbon too.  Wasn't sure how it would turn out but we both love it!!!

Here is the finished mum it all it's glory - hanging on Libby's bedroom door where it will probably stay the rest of the school year.  Adding the hanger to the back resulted in the only mum making injury.  I won't show you the ugly picture but I have a great big glue gun blister on my thumb from adding the hanger.  Watch out for those glue guns!!!

Here's a close up view.  Of course, you can't have a beautiful mum and nothing to wear with it so we had to make tshirts for the family too.  Libby bought a Texas Tech tshirt this summer and wanted an AHS shirt to match.  For Libby, the more zebra - the better.

I made tshirts for Robby and I too (no zebra for Robby - ha) but will show those off on the next post.