A Tiny Witch Hat

I really like doing little projects.  Things that other people may not think to do.  This is the reason I miss having lots and lots of craft stores around.  My favorite craft store was always Rag Shop.  They were in New Jersey.  And they closed sometime in the last 5 years.  So they don't even exist.  But they had all the craftiness and all the fabric.  And they always had sales and coupons.  Michael's was usually a close second, but they were just missing all the fabric.  I guess Rag Shop was a mini Hobby Lobby.  Hobby Lobby is just massive.  Almost like you can get lost and forget what you actually went in there for.  But for my latest little craft.

Remember the witch hat that I bought during shopping adventure Part IV?  Well I decided to have some fun with it.  Well here it is in it's brown paper bag look.

I decided it should be black.  I know, a black witch hat is a little cliche.  I thought about a really dark purple, but I knew if I started mixing paint that this problem was going to become a lot more complex.  So I went with basic black craft paint.  I decided to paint the entire inside.  I mean why not, I had the paint out already.

I waited a couple minutes and then painted the outside of the hat as well.  I used a gloss paint.  It was just the one I grabbed.  I have a big plastic shoe box type container full of my paint.  I probably need to buy some more black.  Since I seem to only have odd ball ones, like ceramic or outdoor or gloss.

I thought that putting an orange ribbon around it would look really cute.  So after it was painted and dry I cut a piece of ribbon and put it around the hat.  Unfortunately, it didn't quite look right.  So on to plan B.

I'm going for that gothic Halloween glamour, so why not add some more bling?  I already had out my Jewel glue from the googley eye project so I put a bead of glue around and started to stick on some stones.  I really prefer to use tweezers for rhinestone application.  I also usually dip the rhinestone in glue instead of the bead.  But I also don't usually put them all in a row in one spot. 

Here is the finished rhinestones after the glue dried.  It really does dry clear.  I was thinking about leaving it like this, but I thought it needed just a little bit more. 

I grabbed a piece of black tulle that I had leftover from who knows what.  I snipped off a corner about 10 inches in and then folded it a couple times.  I just used some regular staples to hold it together.

I put a little Jewel glue on the tulle and just stuck it on.  It didn't want to stick that well, so I opened my stapler and just put an extra staple in it.

It still needed something else.  So I grabbed one of the sparkly spiders and put some glue on him and stuck him to the hat. 

There is a simple little craft that went from boring to glam.  Well as glam as sparkly spiders can be.