The Haircut

Somehow, while I was changing diapers, encouraging little people to eat their veggies, potty training and infinite other mothering chores I forgot I had a head.
I know, I feel bad for every single person who has been forced to look at my head for most of the last 5 years. I just didn't know I was rocking such a sad, sad, SAD head of shaggy, neglected dog hair. I am officially sorry. And it is with a sigh of relief that I introduce you to my new hair.


I have a lot to learn about doing my own fabulous hair. I really underestimated how much product I should be using and this morning after doing my hair myself I looked much fluffier. Note to self: pile on the gunk for sleek, shiny hair. I feel like I should have known to use more product. When I woke up this morning, the morning after the great hair revolution, I felt like my head had been buttered. Gross yes, but lovely, oh sooooo lovely.

This one is for Dark Cloud

Over the holidays we were visiting friends. Somehow diluting red wine with water was mentioned and out of the recesses of their cabinets came this bottle. They brought it back from Europe 25-30 years ago. It seems these split bottles were common as many women liked to mix their wine with water. I had never seen anything like it so I made Boss Hog pose with it so I could show it to DCBS who has a bit of a thing for bottles.
Never one to miss an opportunity, I made him take off his sweater too so you could all see the shirt I made him for our anniversary. It is another freezer paper stencil. I am no longer OBSESSED with stencilling everything, but I do still hold the freezer paper in high regard.

The uptown, hair friendly, non-toque, thingy

The hoodzie, the hat wrap, the scourge of hat-hair nationwide even. Canada is of course cold in the winter. Our ability to thrive in frosty temperatures is one of our defining features as Canadians. We are a hearty lot of rosy cheeked wood-cutters and snow-sport enthusiasts. We are unfortunately also all afflicted with hat head from October to March. We are forced out of doors into the nasty weather wearing our toques to stay alive (melodramatic music playing ominously in the background). Until now, that is. Now we have the fantastic, hard to name but highly functional hat wrap thingy. It's many features include being both a hat and a scarf simultaneously. INDEED!!

It is a hat that warms your neck and chest! It is a scarf that handily keeps the top of your head warm and dry! When the weather is bad keep the hood up, but when the sun comes out just let it hang down like the hood on your favourite hoodie. You'll never lose another toque. You'll never have to keep your hat on in warm weather again for the shame of revealing your dreaded hat-hair!
Boss Hog is modeling the one we sent to his dad for Christmas. It's wool lined with flannel and I have one just like it. In fact I inflicted these on numerous family members this year in order to discover their actual appeal. So far it is hard to tell if my family members like them or have just been over generous in their support of my craftiness.