Zoe has a new favorite hobby: making flower hair clips. My neighbor, Shahara, showed me how to do them a couple of months ago and I finally went to the craft store and picked up the materials. Once I showed Zoe how to do it, she was hooked. We made dozens of them. When we ran out of materials, she sent me to the store to get more materials to make additional clips.

“What are we going to do with all of these?” I asked.

“I’m going to sell them,” she said. “I want to have my own bouquet.” (She meant “boutique”.)  She then explained to me how she plans to sell them on the sidewalk when the weather gets warmer. I told her that we should do one better and sell them on Etsy. She was so excited about that, I thought she would explode into a million happy pieces. (She and Jachin both have real entrepreneurial spirits… and they’re both totally little capitalists. I think they’d do okay if they had to live on the streets.)

The other night Zoe’s BFF came to play. Zoe broke out all of the stuff and she and her BFF made even more clips. I mean, they were totally cranking them out. My kitchen looked like a sweat shop… only the working children looked surprisingly cheerful, and there was a lot of giggling.

When they ran out of materials — again — they decided to put them ALL on and model them.

See, flower clips can be put anywhere. Not just in your hair.

But they certainly can be worn in the hair.

Yep, a little too cheerful to be a sweat shop.

These are all for sale (the clips, not the girls), if you know someone who could use some flowery cheerfulness in their lives.

5 Comments »

1. I am glad to know that flower clips can be put anywhere and not just in the hair. If this baby girl is anything like Sam, she will be bald for the first 18 months of her life. Maybe I should get Zoe to start making headbands, just in case.

   Comment by Krista Hansen — March 3, 2009 @ 12:16 pm

2. Very nicely done, poor little overworked girls. They really do look bummed out. Let us know if she sets up shop.

   Comment by Lisa Milton — March 3, 2009 @ 12:54 pm

3. um, so, I’m a total dork. I was reading “sweet” every place you typed “sweat” thinking, what a cute name for the business, Zoe’s Sweet Shoppe, part-way through, I got it, but still like the idea for the business. She could also sell them on Etsy. It’s a marketplace for artistic entrepeneurs. Similar in style to ebay, but more focused on the artisan, and no bidding. Lots of creativeness all over the place though.

   How much are these sweet flower clips going for anyway? I might be interested in purchasing!

   Comment by Nerak — March 4, 2009 @ 3:19 pm

4. yes! etsy would be perfect. these are so cute. we need to get our girls together, E would go crazy over this. ;-D

   xoxo

   Comment by jenica — March 7, 2009 @ 7:38 pm

5. I love the flower clips! The girls look like they’re having so much fun. I’d definitely do the Etsy thing if I were you all!

   Comment by Leslie — April 6, 2009 @ 1:02 pm

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