Thursday, September 16, 2010

Go Cougars!

It's that time of year again, FOOTBALL season! The only sport I actually like and kinda get into (as you can tell I am an Aggie fanatic). Of course, Micheal's, HL and every other craft place has homecoming stuff slapping you in the face when you walk in. At Micheal's the other day, I saw stuffed mascot heads . . . cats, bears, and ect. I WANTED one! Have you seen them?! Such a novel idea! Micheal's was selling these decorated heads on a stick for $24! Naturally, I walked out with an undecorated head and a dowel rod. (Haven't seen them at any other stores.)

This one is decorated for a coworker's daughter in honor of her school colors.  I am thrilled that it turned out so stinkin' cute!










Make you own:


Gather your supplies.  Spray paint the dowel rod, or you can cover with ribbon.  Be sure to check out other areas of the store, like the Christmas department, I got the blue glittered berries and the sparkly wire stuff from that department.  No need to spend a ton of money in the homecoming department.  It doesn't take as much ribbon as you might think, so don't go crazy buy ribbon . . .  I do this ALL the time!



Hot glue all of your ribbon, berries, and ect to the end of the dowel rod.  T(I don't have a picture.)  The stuffed head has some thread that for breaking open to create the hole, but it isn't near big enough; cut the fur for an opening.  Do a trial run with no glue to make sure the ribbon on the dowel rod will fit into the head.  I shot hot glue into the hole.  The hot glue seems to hold up pretty well.  I had some extra blue flowers laying around and glued those on to the ribbon too.  I still might add a name.  Don't forget the hair bow. :)















6 comments:

Cassie said...

I am also a football FANatic! This is pretty awesome!!! I am totally going to play with this!!
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Kara said...

Hmmm...it's be way cuter if it was an alligator head and orange and blue...

Just sayin'.......

:-D

Life in Rehab said...

I cannot believe how stinking cute that is! Haley, you're scary-clever girl!

Cecily said...

Fantastic, Haley! Really great job!

Shayna @ Texas Monkey said...

OH I love this, it is so cute! It would be perfect to link up at All About You Monday, the theme this week is ribbon so this fits perfectly! Would love to have you join in!
http://texasmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/09/all-about-you-monday-ribbon-and.html

Nikki said...

Awww, what a neat idea! Of course, our mascot is a pretzel here (no, I'm not kidding lol) so not sure how I'd make it that cute! Thanks for linking up to gettin' crafty on hump day :)

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