Taylor Swift Wooden Doll

I still had another wooden person photo holder leftover from when I made this elf, so I decided to make a Taylor Swift! Cos y'all know I love me some Taylor.

I use it to hold my Taylor Swift concert ticket from a few years ago.

I was going for this look:

Not bad, right?

I cut out a little guitar shape which I covered in glitter and attached to the body which I'd painted to match this famous outfit.

For the hair I used little pieces of yellow wool which, when I pulled them apart, created thinner, curly strands. It's what inspired the whole thing really.

Has anyone else got Speak Now? I love it.

Hairbands...

...are so in right now.

Taylor Swift was wearing one in the May 2009 issue of Seventeen magazine.

Elsie of A Beautiful Mess is always wearing one. I highly recommend her blog, it's full of super cute inspiration. This picture is from her shop Red Velvet Art.

And now I've started making them!

You can see them more officially here.

And while we're on the subject; over or under the hair?

I used to be strictly hairband under the hair, but I'm coming round to the idea of over the hair after seeing how great the two gals over look.

Armful of bracelets

I find myself wearing more bracelets after seeing Taylor Swift's armful of them in May last year. And the easiest way to fill your arms up is to make them yourself.

I used cheap, plastic beads on thin elastic and the pink bracelet and the one with the hearts were made simply by threading the beads onto the elastic and tying a knot.

With this bracelet I used two pieces of thicker elastic and threaded both of them in and out of the beads so they were side by side instead of end to end.

I threaded this bracelet the same way using a random combination of different sized and shaped clear, silver and black beads.

Most of these blue beads were double threaded side to side, but then I threaded each piece of elastic through one of the holes in this flat bead.