20 Minute Tuesday | Jeweled Hair Ties

Summertime and livin’s easy…unless you have long, thick hair and live in the south, like me. Summertime if great but it basically means big hair that just gets pulled back in a pony tail within an hour of starting my day. Hair elastics have been my staple “bracelet” for years and now that I have 2 little girls with long hair, it’s a hair elastic party on my wrist. Since we need them close at hand, let’s at least make those hair elastics fun and pretty!Enter the Jeweled Fold Over Elastic hair tie!

On a boring, routine shopping trip to my local Walmart I came across these fun, new beads and they just had to come home with me. Recently I went a little fold over elastic (FOE as it’s called) crazy and bought about 10 yards of random colors, patterns, and sparkly FOE. They make great hair ties that don’t cut off the circulation on your wrists and leave less of a crease in your hair. However, they can be a bit boring. Adding 1 of this little beads to your FOE gives a fun, fresh, and glamorous look to an otherwise utilitarian object.

Supplies:

• Fold Over Elastic (you can find some plain colors at your local fabric store but the patterned and glittery ones can be found online through simple google or etsy.com search for “fold over elastic”)
• Beads with large openings
• Scissors for cutting FOE

For the non-shimmery elastics you’ll need about 9 inches of elastic (that’s 4 hair ties per yard!) and 1 bead.

Just slip the bead onto the FOE, slide it to the middle,  and fold your FOE in half. With both ends together, make a knot in the FOE. To seal the ends, run a lighter LIGHTLY over the raw edge of the elastic. BINGO, you’re done!!

After making a few with kid friendly beads I decided that these would be really fun to give out to some of your friend on the last day of school…you know, so they can keep cool! So I made this little printable tag that you can use to wrap 2 or 3 hair ties around. To be more cost effective you can give 2 plain and 1 jeweled hair tie as well and the 3 jeweled ones I show in the photos.

You can make more upscale, grown-up hair ties using more appropriate style beads and FOE colors.
If you buy the shimmery, glittered elastics you’ll need more like 10″ per hair tie, maybe slightly more, because they have much less stretch and give.

To help the white cardstock stay straight with the hair ties on it I slipped in a little piece of glittered cardstock on the back, just make sure it’s the really thick, stiff stuff!

If you’d like to download the gift tags you can find the files HERE (aqua) and HERE (rainbow) just remember that they are for personal use only and are not to be altered, edited, or sold in any way.Make sure you order a couple extra yards of FOE for yourself (and a couple fun beads, too) because they are slightly addicting to make and oh so necessary for summer!Linked up:seven thirty three | Bloom Designs | tatertots and jello