More Clips!!!

Mia and I went to Ross yesterday just to look around. I have been having to watch the spending money thing really close over the past few months and I have had very little to spend on clothes for myself or Mia-- Hawaii broke us-- but was worth it! I have actually been really good and have bought Mia next to nothing-- with the exception of bow because they are cheap!! Anyway, yesterday I found this adorable double breasted Roxy (that's the brand-- real popular girls brand) plaid corduroy pea coat. It is just adorable but it is a size 12 months. It fits Mia fine but I can tell it is going to be a little small within a few months. So, I have it on hold and am trying to decide weather or not to spend the whopping $9.99 on it. What do you think and Kim, your vote doesn't count since her clothes will eventually go to you-- haha!!!

Here it is with Mia's funny half "cheese" smile!

A better picture!

My little shopper who was getting very tired. Notice the butterfly clip in her hair-- that leads me to the next part of my post....

MORE CLIPS!!!!!

I just love my clip provider Heather at http://www.love2sparkle.com/. She is amazing and sooooo many people who follow my blog have contacted me asking for her info and have subsequently bought clips from her. Her prices are soooo reasonable and the quality is really great!! Anyway, I was on a few other clip sites and found some I really liked but Heather didn't have them on her site so I emailed her pictures of the clips I loved from the other sites and asked her if she could make them. Well, sure enough she did and for about 1/4 of the price they were on the other sites.

The butterfly ones are just beautiful. They are totally covered in sequins and they vary in color to appear to shimmer. I love these and they are bigger (2 and 1/4 inches) than all the other clips I have so they look really cute on her growing head:)

The middle ones are made of felt and have a pearl in the middle. They are very cute. The other ones are just cute and whimsical so I had to get them.

So my next issue is that I have completely run out of room for her bows. Literally I could not find the clips I wanted because they were so jammed on the holders. So, I got creative yesterday-- a rare event-- and decided to make some clip holders.

I went to target and found the little wall thing that has room for 8 clip holders to hang from from them. I mounted it right inside her door in her room. Then I bought some cute ribbon, fringe and key rings (you know like your keys latch onto). I used my hot glue gun and strung the ribbon through the keyring and glued the ribbon to the key ring (lapped over). Then I measured out the length and glued the beaded fringe to the bottom to add weight so the ribbon will lay flat when there are not a lot of bows on it. That is it. I made 4 of the stripe ribbon ones and 4 of the other ribbon ones so that I had extras.

I totally organize the bows by the types and sizes.

Here are two of the unused ribbons. I have 4 total left over-- so that is a ton of bows I still can fill up :)

Here is where I use to put the bows and it was horribly crowded. I put a few old bow hangers on the pegs just for the heck of it but I want to do something different with those pegs-- hang something different but I have not figured out what yet.

And yes, that is Mia's Halloween costume. We are doing handed down costumes this year. Ava wore this last year so Mia gets to wear it this year-- yaaa--that's money saved!!!