OK... I change my mind. I want these boots. I will never own them... but if I could wish upon a star....
Jeffrey Campbell 10810 - shown in "blue" but in person it's basically gray.
I lusted over these at this Hawthorn location.

Kindergarten

Miss Lu just finished her first full week of Kindergarten. She loves it and I am just so tickled that she does. She has a slew of new friends and adores her teacher Ms.Cindy. I am able to meet up in her class on Tuesday to volunteer during journal writing and on Fridays to volunteer during art. It's been a great week so far and I can't wait to see her grow and learn. What a fun new phase we have entered into. It's going to be full of special memories... for both of us!

The last time I f****ed up my hair...

...trying to fix my blond color.

At home.

By myself.

My dear boyfriend went to the store and bought me a box of brown hair dye and all was better.

I should have learned my lesson then! But on I went feeling happy with my new brown hair. After I got bored with that I had my hair cut OFF. I mean really short. But I LOVED it. Then every time she (my last stylist) dyed the color it kept getting darker and darker and eventually it was black. I let that grow out a bit and then got bored with the color. SO I added highlights on my own. They actually turned out really cute! But when it was time to freshen them up... I *&^%$# up the color, again.

I don't know what it is about me thinking I can do it on my own. I know that I like to change my hair and that's great. I know I like to not spend hundreds of dollars I don't have doing it and that's great. The thing I can't seam to get through my thick skull is that if I want to go from dark to light or even medium to light.... ok scratch that!

If I want to go lighter than the color I'm rockin'

I NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE DO IT!!!

So last week I tried to fix my roots at home. I didn't want to do highlights I just wanted to slap on some color to the roots and have a solid blond head. But by now in this post you are smarter than me 1 week ago. It turned a yellow orange and the rest of my hair was, well, let's just say "not good."

I was able to land an appointment with my new favorite hair stylist and sported hats the rest of the week. (I didn't just go buy brown hair dye! See, i am learning a little, just really slow.) I give her the story on why my head looks like a polar bear's whizzed on fir and she says, "oh rach, don't worry, we can totally fix this." She's AMAZING! She put a great toner on my head and next thing i know my hair is one pretty color. I love it. It's really light and now really short thanks to her magic scissors and I LOVE IT!

The best part is that I don't have to get the roots done for about 8 weeks (cause she said the grow out will be really cute, i'll let ya know when that comes around) and it will be a lot less expensive than a weave touch up ever was.

*above - the pics black and white... but I want to play with my hair a bit before I shock you all with a color picture. "Wahooooo" for an affordable fix and cute new short cut!!!

I "need" these boots

...except in the gray color I think. I saw them in eddie bauer's catalog and usually i'm not a huge fan of eb... but I would wear these everyday. Comfortable, cute and would be perfect with all the jersey and cotton and wool skirts I'm planning to make for fall. But I'll just have to hope and dream that someone will buy them in gray in a 7 and then decide to sell them on craigslist or ebay for way less.... cause I'm broke. *sniff*

Celebration Decoration

I am having way too much recycling/reusing items around my house. I took an old Portland Mercury... cut out triangles and machine stitched them to some bias tape. Now I have a cute little flag garland that made use of an old paper that would have just gone to the trash... or in my house the the recycle bin.

Time to Dye

I'm having fun with this t-shirt yarn thing!

Posies for your hair!

I used old newspapers and magazines yesterday to create little hair accessories. The paper I sealed so that it wouldn't fall apart if you had to head outside in the rain. Then i hand felted a little ball for the center and attached the whole thing to a bobby pin. They are so fun to make and even more fun wear!

whaddaya know!

So... the jersey strip cowl below in my last post... turns out i'm not the only one with the idea of using t-shirts for yarn! 

Check out the cool tutorial that Stefanie posted to her blog Glampyre.