Crown Making 101

Today was a fabulous Saturday ... Curly Top and I decided she needed a crown ... it needed to be shiny and it needed to have flowers ... luckily being a crafty mama I had all the supplies we needed ...

So we cut out a crown from some card stock ... and then Curly Top used glitter glue to decorate the whole crown ... she loved painting it all over ... and kept asking for more colors and swirling the glitter all over the place ...

The time it took for it to dry was a bit hard ... for both of us ... but we spent our time taking some self portraits which was more fun for me than her ... but fun none the less ...

She couldn't stop jumping around while I put the flowers ... and fitting it around her head so I knew what size to make it had her squealing with absolute delight ... everything about making the crown today melted my heart ... I didn't want a single moment to end ...

Once it was finished she was beyond excited to put it on ... she kept oohhhing and aaahhhhhing about it ... spinning around ... and even smiled for the camera a couple of times ... rare for her ...

And when her granddaddy stopped by she raced to the door to show off her new crown ...

She kept it on the rest of the evening ... we had to leave it sitting on the counter during bath time ... after a quick little "no in tub" argument ... as soon as the hair was combed it was right back on ... and it had to be left up on the bookcase in her room so she could fall asleep looking at it ...

what a fabulous way to spend a Saturday afternoon ... FABULOUS!!!!

Painting glitter to decorate the crown

Showing off the glitter she painted on the brads.

Pure excitement!!

Pure joy!!!

Our self portraits

Look at this beautiful crown!!!

I'm not too big for my doll's carriage

It works great for me.

Isn't this beautiful!!

Fun with granddaddy.