Pony-Os

Are you a sucker for cute hair ties? Pony-Os are easy to make at home.  All you need is some ribbon and a few other tools you probably already have around the house.  Below I will show you how I make mine.

Gather your supplies. 

 You will need:

An assortment of ribbon  (I used about 7 different kinds for mine)

tape measure

hot glue gun

wire cutters

lighter and/or clear nail polish

scissors

elastic hair ties

zip strips

First begin by cutting your ribbon. I cut mine to 12".
(Remember they will be folded in half so they will only hang half the length that you cut in your hair)

Next trim the ends.

(You don't have do to this, but I think it looks nicer)

Heat treat the ends. 
(You can use clear nail polish for ribbon that can't be heat treated)

 Lay your widest ribbon straight across and apply a small dot of hot glue to the center. Start gluing your ribbon in a cross pattern

 

Gather your ribbons in center and wrap a zip strip around the ribbon and elastic hair tie

 

 

Pull the zip strip as tight as you can

 Using wire cutters, trim off the tail of the zip strip

 

Choose one of your wider ribbons and cut to 5½ inches

Tie a knot in the center

 Hot glue the "knot" onto the square part of the zip strip.

Hot glue the ends of the ribbon around the rest of the zip strip to hide it. 

Trim off any excess ribbon. 

(Sorry I don't have better pictures of this step, it was hard to get a good shot of it)

 Your finished Pony-O!