Toadstool Antler Headband

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  Step 1

  These are your ingredients. As you can see I have two brown clays, but I only used one. I think if I had mixed them I might have gotten a bit more complexity, but I didn’t want to mess with it.

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  Step 2

  Oh my gosh, seriously fiddling with the clay is the hardest part of this craft. I’m a perfectionist, and it took me ages to feel like I had gotten them somewhat even, only to decide that I actually liked them being a little mismatched and going with it.

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  Step 3

  This part is totally optional, you can easily just buy a green headband but I couldn’t find one so I wrapped my white headband in green ribbon on all the parts I thought would show. This also adds a bit of comfort because it’s a thin metal headband and so it digs into my head less.

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  Step 4

  Then I just figured out what placement I wanted for the flowers. I had larger flowers around the antlers and smaller flowers radiating outwards from there. You don’t have to add the toadstools, but I just loved how pretty and vibrant they were.

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  Step 5

  Then you’re done! You can go frolic in the fields to your hearts content.

  This headband has been a hug hit with everyone that I’ve shown it to, and I love how it turned out. It’s so fun and vibrant and full of beautiful spring-timey goodness. Wearing it makes me feel like a forest nymph or one of the earth spirits from a Miyazaki film. I also enjoy putting it on the guys heads and making them wear it.

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Penny F. · North Bay, Ontario, CA · 19 projects 27th April 2015

I love this idea! It looks very pretty!

Though no idea where to find porcelain toadstools around here where I live.

MagicalGirlMaya · Dallas, Texas, US · 217 projects 27th April 2015

This is going to sound a bit crazy, but the craft store by my house has a "doll house" section where they sell a bunch of stuff in miniature and that's where I found the toadstools.

Penny F. · North Bay, Ontario, CA · 19 projects 28th April 2015

Oh wow! That is pretty cool though!

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LoraLCotton 26th April 2015

Love this idea, but think I'll give it a go with felt antlers.

MagicalGirlMaya · Dallas, Texas, US · 217 projects 27th April 2015

Yeah the more I messed around with the clay the more I realized that there was probably a much simpler medium I could be using. Lol

LoraLCotton 29th April 2015

LOL!! Isn't that always the way though. You think something is going to work just so, then you figure out it would have been so much simpler going another route!! Been there done that far far too many times. Didn't realize you were an "in state" gal. I'm in Richmond.

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