Junie B. Jones

My daughter's school had "Dress up as Your Favorite Character From a Book" day and she chose Junie B. Jones. 

 I tried to talk her out of it because Junie has short hair and bangs - neither of which my princess has.

  She insisted that she wanted to be Junie B. Jones so we simply cut her hair.  :)  (Just Kidding!)

First I pulled a small section of hair from the front left part of her bang-line and let it sweep across her forehead and over to the right ear where I secured it with bobby pins.  This gave her the "bangs" look.

  Next I brushed out the rest of her hair so it was straight and placed an elastic around the bottom of it.  (Leaving about 2 inches of hair below the elastic.) 

 Then I grabbed a chiffon ribbon and fed it through the elastic so there was an even amount of ribbon on both sides of the band.  Now I simply pulled the ribbon up under her hair - to her neck - and wrapped it up on top of her head where I tied a bow. 

This was a very fast and easy way to make her look like she had short hair.  I made an "X" with bobby pins over the ribbon right behind each ear just to make sure it would hold all day long. 

 Junie B. Jones also has glasses in 2nd grade so my princess popped out some lenses from some old sunglasses and had glasses for her big day.  I had to take a couple good looks at her because she did look A LOT different.  :) 

This is her "Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus" impersonation!  :)

Monday, syndicate me.

Easter holidays :) I'm off college for two weeks, although all sounds lovely today I got up feeling not so good, another cold on the way. But it's okay, once the weather is getting much better. But as I don't really have strenght to get out, I might eat eattttt and watch films. By the way I've just watched tangled this morning. It's good, I don't like her hair cut at the end though. ha!
a song

There's no need to play with my heart

the second picture's pose is kinda weird. o.o
Bag thrifted
top topshop
shoes primark
skirt second hand

Natural history museum

shirt lemon soda blazer
from h&m
bag primark

Loosey Goosey

I saw this hairstyle over at Princess Hairstyles and instantly fell in love with it.  It's basically a loose Dutch Braid. 

 Start by creating a part from the left half of the bang line that goes diagonally all the way down to the neck.  Clip the left half of that part off to the side to keep it out of the way because you will be working with the right side. 

 

I started by creating a small Pull-Through at the top of the head first but this is totally optional. 

Begin your Dutch Braid (Inverted Braid) and make sure that your plates aren't super tight as your work your way down the head.  You may also want to add in larger sections of hair than you normally would as you plate it.  When you've added all the hair in, plate the braid a few more times and secure it with a loose elastic. 

Now, starting at the bottom you will want to pull at the plates of the braid to loosen them up.  There is supposed to be a disheveled look to the braid so don't worry if it's not looking perfect. 

 Once you've pulled at the plates and get it looking the way you like, you can unclip the left side of your part.  Comb that hair over to the right side where your braid is and secure all of it together with an elastic.  Brush any braid underneath the elastic out so that you are left with a simple side-ponytail.  

 Add a hair clip to conceal the elastic.  We've also added some flowered hair pins into the plate of the Dutch Braid for a fancy look for church.   

Oh I miss blogging, it is a bit weird now blogging from a new place. Anyway as an answer to the question if I am enjoying the new house, the answer is yes. It is nice. I always think about who lived here before or who is going to be living in my ex house, it's kinda funny. There will be other people stepping on the floor I once stepped on, sitting on the kitchen where I spent some nights gazing out of the window. I will be climbing up the stairs where other people sat or slipped down. Anyway these two pictures are fresh I took them this week. Today I got a roll of film for my camera,I plan to take some pictures during the holidays,I miss doing that.

Flashback Friday: Accessorize!

Nothing is more adorable than these little knitted beanies on little girls.  My princess had a little Thanksgiving party at her preschool and we put two low braids in her hair and placed a brown knitted beanie on top. 

 I then fed the two braids through openings in the bottom-back of the beanie to hold it in place.  We added fall flowers to the ends of her braids and a larger fall flower onto her beanie.  Look for opportunities to use all of these fun accessories and especially these darling beanies!