I've been wanting to create a "Top Hat", ever since falling in love with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. What better time than Christmas. I have decorated mine in a Charles Dicken's Steam-Punk style, but plan to change that to a mad hatter this Spring. I have always loved sheet music, and today you are seeing so many wonderful crafts using it . . . that I am excited about finding more and more ways to create with it. This was a lot of fun to make :) I'm going to put it in my Christmas booth, but if I don't sell it, I'll be hanging it in my living-room. I made some of these lapel clips, to add to my booth. This is the back :) This is my Sugar Plum Fairy. I had tutorial photos, but deleted them by mistake. Her body is a Styrofoam store dress display that I bought at a yard sale a few years ago for $3. Her ballerina dress was a prom dress from the Goodwill. I shortened it and then used the tulle under-lining on top of the shirt, to give it a ballerina look. Next I purchased this big old ugly lamp for $6 at a second-hand store and used it as the base of my stand. Viola, A Sugar Plum Fairy :) Here are some photos on how I made my top hat. I wanted it bigger at the top than at the crown. So, I stapled my poster board on an angle. Next I evened out the top and bottom. Then I made my brim out of a cardboard box. Taped everything together and added foil for a rounded edge on my brim. Next I went over the whole hat with a mixture of glue and toilet paper. After painting it flat black. I just added my scrapbook trim. I wish that I would have had real gears and old watches, but this will have to do. I hope you enjoyed your visit. I've been very busy with my booth and haven't replied to a lot of your comments, but I am reading and enjoying them all. My next post will be the details of my Give-Away, so, be sure a come back and enter :) God Bless you all, Connie