Mums the word

Texas (southern) tradition dictates that with high school football season, comes homecoming. And homecoming mums. I'm certain I wrote about this somewhere last year, so I'm just going to talk about THIS year.

I got about 20 orders of mums of varying sizes. Last year it was about 7. Every night after Ivy went to sleep, I spent my time cranking out the mums. With some help from Ryan and my BFF, I was able to get them all done before I expected. I honestly got burnt out on making the darned things. And burning the crap outta two of my fingers multiple times with the glue gun.

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This mum... I met a lady at the craft store who didn't know what she was doing. She bought all her supplies and then paid me extra to make it. I made it that night.



















 This is the first ring mum I've ever made. Turned out nice.

Wrist mum!

And a larger hair mum.

 Maroon, white and black.

I tried a new braid

 Feathers in the mum.
I like the layered ribbon across the mum.

 A traditional senior mum with feather details.

Tried another new ribbon weave

 This was a recycled mum. I was given an old mum and I re-used it.

 I used ribbon to fill in the mum a bit.

A boy's garter

The first mum that wasn't strictly school colors or traditional.
I was asked to put pink in it. Done.

Custom (short) mum.

 Check out the layered ribbon across the mum... Zebra!

































Giraffe!

 Another traditional senior mum with a touch of black.

More mum detail with ribbon filler.










Yet another traditional senior mum.
However, she wanted animal prints and Australian stuff.















Ribbons in the mum again.
And Australian theme.

A very basic mum

Another basic mum

Another boy's mum

Detail of the kissing trinket connecting the name ribbons.

 Another basic mum

 Layered name ribbon across the mum

Another double mum


































I love the detail of this weave. Ryan did this one. I love it!

A very traditional senior mum

And there you have it!
I plan on making a couple mini-mums for me and Ivy.

I have two orders for back at my previous school. Repeat customers, gotta love em!