Awesome Sock Buns

So, I tried this sock bun thing in my hair last night, and I'm so excited I had to share it with you.

Watch the video first. It's a little long, but you probably spend more than eight minutes curling your hair in the morning so this is worth it. You put it in at night and sleep (and the bun is on the top of your head so it's comfie) and then take it out in the morning.

Here is what my hair looked like this morning (and I have two sweatie workouts since I have washed my hair-TMI- I know!)

Pretty awesome!

Great Hair Colour

So I've been growing my hair out for eight months. I felt like I needed a change so last night I bought this hair color halfway expecting to have to run to the salon today to fix it. But I was actually really impressed.

This is me earlier in the day before I colored:


And this is me after:


The back lays so much nicer. Maybe I just needed a lot of moisture. Anyway, I will definitely be buying this again. I will probably be better at applying the highlights next time but I still like how it turned out.

Vinyl Hair Flower

Whenever I get a moment to craft (which has been few and far between lately) I always seem to go for the hair bow/flower. It's easy, fast, cheap and you can accomplish something in the five minutes you have in between needy children! So today I came up with this vinyl hair flower. I think it turned out so fun and it really stands out.

Supplies: Vinyl Fabric
Flower patterns (I used my cookie cutter set from Wilton)
White Paint
Foam Brush
Glue Gun
Hair Clip
Ribbon
Step One: Trace your flower patten onto the back of the vinyl.
Step Two: Cut out (see picture below to see how blah it looks at this step)
Step Three: Dip your foam brush into white paint and paint the edges on your flowers. It's ok to be a little messy. It gives it character.
Step Four: Let dry. Step Five: Hot glue the layers together.

Step Six: Glue a ribbon onto a clip.
Step Seven: Glue your clip onto the back of your flower.
Step Eight: Enjoy your fast, cute and unique project. (Also cute as a pin)

Fun with Knit

My latest project was this dress (found here):


With this matching hairbow found here:

I'm kind of addicted to making these bows out of all our old t's! This was so much fun to make.

Three things I learned this week

The first two come from the Taste of Home Cooking School--

1) If you need to cut up apples ahead of time but don't want them to brown, put them in a bowl of 7-up until you are ready. She did say 7-up worked specifically. Other lemon-lime sodes didn't work as well.

2) When cutting up fresh herbs (basil, cilantro etc.) it is easier to put them in a small bowl, then use kitchen shears to cut them up. Much easier than a knife and cutting board.

And this one I read a couple of times recently and had to try.

For softer hair, add a couple of scoops of Baking Soda to your shampoo when you are washing your hair. I tried it yesterday and my hair was softer.