A Glimpse into my Life.

Some of the ladies on the S&S boards were talking about curly, long haired styles and different ways to do them and I thought, hey, I have long, curly hair...why not? So over the next little while I'll post a few pictures of hairstyles I do to manage the curls but not do the messy bun look.

**Disclaimer to start, this is working with my hair at the very end of the day in dry winter weather. I have a few weird curl issues going on due to my hair loses some of the curl while I'm pregnant, but as soon as I'm not it starts growing in super curly again. You get to see a few different degrees of curly on my hair! **

Step one:
I start with my hair hanging free and let it part wherever it wants to. I sprayed a bit of lavender water on it to tame some of the frizzies that have accumulated during the day.






Step two:
Take a small section of hair from the front side section and do a gentle twist to it. Secure with a bobby pin.



Repeat on the other side! ;)

Step three:
Move down to the section just in front of the ears. Do the same type of small twist and pin it as in Step two. Don't take too much because if you do, it'll pull too tightly to the head. All you are wanting is for it to gently hold the hair in place.



Step four:
Take a small section of hair on each side right below the base of the ear. Make sure that the hair falling down between the two sections is loose. You want it to puff gently.



Then tie the two pieces in a little knot. Keep the ends out. Secure by cross hatching bobby pins through part of the knot.





Step five:
Drop down a little further and repeat Step four with a slight modification. Instead of just going up and tying the knot, cross the strands under the remaining hair then go on the topside and tie it. It helps to keep the hair contained and fly aways are minimized.







That's it for now! Hopefully more sewing updates and a new hairstyle tomorrow!

I have started making a dress for the Pink Princess. This came about after dithering back and forth for a while then deciding to jump in and cut something out before I could change my mind. The pattern is New Look 6575. I read through the directions and decided to cut out the medium size since Pink Princess is almost out of the small size already. Then it said to cut out pattern pieces 1, 4, 5 and 9. Easy enough right? I cut them out and did the stay stitching on the neckline. Then I started putting it together according to the directions. If you just go off of reading the directions, you are in massive amounts of trouble! It said to do something for making a bow that wasn't listed on the pattern piece list!! I went back and re-read it and no that wasn't there. No big deal seeing as I didn't want a bow on the dress anyway. Then I started on the sleeves. There was nothing about an armband (piece 6) in the above list of pieces. So after that, I went through all the pieces and cut out anything that was for dress view A. Turns out they forgot to mention the slip skirt pieces as well. After that I decided that I know how to put together a dress so I'm just going to go for it. I have the dress bodice put together and the sleeves finished and attached. I have the slip bodice put together and the slip skirt just needs to be gathered and hooked to the bodice. Then I need to put everything together. A good task for when Hubby is at school or working on homework.



Now I am trying to decide on the trim for her dress. I *think* I have it narrowed down to two. At least I do until I have the dress and slip put together. Who knows if one of them screams 'pick me, pick me!' Any comments or thoughts are welcome to which one looks better with her dress! :)

The Pink Princess is getting chubbier and cuter every day! Along with that, she has become more demanding. She loves to eat so much that tonight she found the spatula from Rynie's toy kitchen and she was trying to feed herself. It finally made her mad enough that even though it was not dinnertime we fed her anyway. She loves to be involved in everything. The other day I was folding laundry on my bed and she schooched over to the hangers and this was the result!



Needless to say, I had a good chuckle over this and took a picture then I disentangled her and put her into her bed.

Rynie is a huge helper. He has been helping me clean my sewing room so I can start on a massive sewing marathon between now and the time I go on the Historical Costume Tour being done by Sense and Sensibility in September. You can tell he hangs out with his Mom a lot because he 'made' the Pink Princess a 'skirt' while I was cleaning. It consisted of unraveling spools of thread (his own personal spools) and using kitchen scissors to cut up scraps of fabric and rearranging them according to his whims. I wish I had a picture, but I forgot to charge the camera.

Rynie's imagination is amazing. Everyday he is a different 'guy.' Cooker guy, Banker guy, Worker guy, Army guy, Cowboy, Train guy, the list goes on and on. Some days he is Wall•E or the Kung Fu Panda. Usually the Pink Princess and I end up corrallating to what he is. When he is Wall•E, I am Eve and the Pink Princess is Baby Eve. If he is a Cowboy, she is his Deputy and I am his Sidekick.




Since I am going to Bath for the Jane Austen Festival after the Costume Tour, I have been figuring out my wardrobe for the Regency Promenade. I want to try and do it only with fabrics in my stash, and I think I have it all worked out! I will be using the Sense and Sensibility patterns for the chemise, ELC gathered bodiced dress, and a Spencer/Pelisse. I haven't decided which corset pattern I'll use since I have the S&S one, La Mode Bagatelle bodiced petticoat, and the Mantua Maker corset. I'm trying to narrow that down right now though. I'm also thinking about making the gown from page 44 of Patterns of Fashion: 1 and Hubby is trying to help me scale it up. Pictures to follow as soon as I can take them.

Other than that, life is somewhat settling down. We think we have a buyer for my Mom's car, he's coming Monday to make the offer. We hope he takes it, so we can concentrate on 'normal' life. I also have to straighten out some of her banking things and take the kidlets passport application and pictures in so we can get the ball rolling.