So Iv had what i think is a brilliant idea!

Baically im going to make baby hairbands with a popper on and then attatch a popper to various things like lovely butterflies and flowers, bows, bugs, all sorts.

Hopefully ill be good at this as its a tiny bit of simple sewing and gluing!

basically id sell the headband with the popper in a few different colours/styles, and then sell the 'attatchments' seperately.
Id probably sell the headband with a simple cheap attatchment to start with.

Kinda like a charm headband!

what do you all think?

i think its a great idea, but dont just stick to babies, my neices aged 3 and 6 would love that idea, a hairband they can dress down for school and dress up to go out.

i think its a great idea hun,
quick copywrite it xx

i had it when i was in bed last night lol.

yeah, im thinking they will be various sizes but im only just starting off atm lol.
ooh im quite excited!!!

by the way... im SO excited i might start making them tonight... so they may be on ebay tommorrow...ill let you know if they are lol

my niece would love these too.

What's your eBay ID so I can put you on my favourite sellers list.

its jessr1990 i think, iv just sewn the poppers onto a band and flower, didnt take v long at all. ill be doing some pretty funky ones aswell as the usual pink lol

Ooh..I have a friend that does this and she makes pretty decent coinage! She's in the states, but enjoys making stuff. Have bought a few things from her.

I've seen them before with crocodile clips or velcro but they've never had much choice - so if you had a good choice and did multipacks etc i reckon it would be good!

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Really have no idea what im doing atm with pictures... but these are the ones i have atm. you can see one of the bows is a back view with popper attatched.

and the headbands i have so far are the ones in the top picture. x

Looking good! Did you see the link I added on your FB - they have loads of bits that would make attachments.

yeah i did, those are really cute! i think i need a glue gun to stick the poppers on as sewing takes a while lol.

ohh no dont use glue! They may seem ok but glue will just snap off when used with poppers being pulled at!

ah ok, atm im sewing and gluing them. i suppose ill get used to the sewing. i think im over doing it on the sewing, they dont take much to stay on. those crohet ones would be really easy to sew.!

yeh, did you see they sell the crochet headbands in packs of 12 all different colors?! They would be ace with extra little crochet bits to stick on them!

I was thinking if it was me - what I'd like to see on ebay is plainish headbands (not lacy), maybe like a 2 textured velvet, or just plain colours with a large selection of the bits to clip on, and say they would be a certain price for a headband plus 5 clip ons and I could pick 5 out of all the ones you do. rather than having to buy them separately.
reason being is I have a fair amount of headbands and the ones that look nicest with the flowers etc are the narrower plain ones. I have a wide lacy one and it wouldnt look right with an attachment, and also the lacy ones would 'droop'if the attachment weighed much

Here is my friends site..might give you some ideas! xxx


http://www.etsy.com/shop/dcpoenisch

If you look in previous sales..will show the hair bands and clip on flowers.

Has she stopped doing them Jen? I can only see the flower ones?

Ahh I see, go to Sales, and you can see what stuff she sold before

and lol she had the crochet headbands I was just talking about http://www.etsy.com/transaction/29420836

She still makes them..just not listed..shows what her hair bands look like on previous sales. Sometimes she does auctions on fb for items. I also bought some newsboy hats from her..they are gorgeous! xxx

Do they have an etsy UK site...I love this site for handmade goods! Also promote on FB..she does really well doing that.

interchangeable headbands are a great idea, i buy them from etsy too but mainly from US sellers, i think theres a huge gap in the UK market for non fussy headbands, simple band with a nice motif, here's a seller i buy from for some inspiration.

http://www.etsy.com/people/littlepeabows?ref=ls_profile

no, just have to look for uk sellers on there

I like it too - always unusal stuff !

what i really wanted was more of the pink elastic the thin one in the pic, but in different colours. its really easy to sew and quite good at not drooping. i quite like the plain coloured crochet headbands and iv got some white thin elastic coming. im gonna get sophie to model some of what iv made so far tomorrow and see what you think lol xxx

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Sophie likes them, she wont let me have the purple one back lol.
my fave is the pink one

To be honest the one I like is the thin pink one - I think the thick lacy ones look funny and no quite right as headbands

Well done!

Iv ordered some of the white thin elastic and im gonna go get more of the pink someday soon, im having trouble getting hold of soft thin elastic. anyone know where i can get some?