Merry Christmas my dear blog readers! I hope your day is filled with happiness, fun, and lots of food and gift giving.
Tag: Videos
Good and Bad News
Well I hate to follow up my last post with bad news…but my digital camera officially kicked the bucket today. It had been on it’s way out for the past few months, making it incredibly difficult to take any photos. While trying to get some snapshots today I realized it was finished.
Fortunately a very nice person in my life told me they would replace it for Christmas. So shortly after Christmas there will be photos again. Until then you will have to deal with the Christmas music I love.
Kisses!
Schools Out for Winter
I absolutely despise beginning each post with an apology for the lack of frequent blog updates, but when I go this long I do feel bad about not updating my wonderful followers, as well as not keeping up to date on all the fantastic blogs out there!
Saying I have been busy is a bit of an understatement. Not only did I have a final research project due in my English class (plus a presentation!) resting on my shoulders, but it seems as though all the holiday parties fell over the past two weekends. Since my birthday passed about a week ago, I also decided to try and throw a small cocktail party into my already hectic schedule.
Anyway, enough excuses. As of today I am done with classes for the semester. I can’t wait to get back to all the things I have been putting off–sewing, painting, thrifting, reading, going to the gym, oh yeah and blogging!
I hope everyone is staying nice and warm and enjoying the Holiday season thus far. If you are anything like me, you never get sick of holiday songs, just certain singers who sing them poorly! Here is my favorite lady singer.
Welcome!
A very warm hello to all the new visitors and followers that made there way over here from Sew Retro this past weekend!
I joined and made my first post on Friday, and have gotten the most wonderful feedback from readers. It is such a fun community full of so many incredibly talented ladies (and maybe men too?). Just browsing the pages and looking at other people’s sewing projects is really inspiring.
This week is going to be crazy for me, as I am sure it will be for everyone else that lives in the US, as we all need to prepare for Thanksgiving. I am going to try my very best to update regularly this week, so expect to see a lot of baking around here!
Here is a funny little vintage Thanksgiving commercial that I just love.
Joan Holloway Hair
Thought I would share the hairdo I just finished on myself. It is loosely based on the Joan Holloway (Mad Men) hair tutorial video from Super Kawaii Mama. which you can view below. Though I did change it up to my likings, it is very similar procedure as in her video. The best thing about this style though–it only took me 12 minutes to complete!
Also, before it chips, I wanted to snap a picture of the Light My Tiki nail polish, so you can see a more accurate representation of the color than my earlier post.
This is the video tutorial from Super Kawaii Mama on how to achieve Joan Holloway hair.
Light My Tiki
The sweltering heat in San Diego has been kicking my behind lately. I went for a quick walk down to the Beauty Supply Warehouse and passed by a public thermometer that read 96 degrees. I shouldn’t be complaining though, my poor husband works out in East County where yesterday it was 109 degrees, and today is supposed to be hotter! The poor guy, he is a locksmith, and has to go in and out all day working on car locks.
I was crazy enough to head outdoors (rather than melt into my couch in front of a fan), because I wanted to pick up a bonnet dryer attachment and some rollers. I have been using hot rollers on my hair for years, but only because they were what I had on hand. I learned to set hair the old fashioned way, while going to beauty school, and already know the results are not even comparable. Wet sets just last so much longer. So now I am all set to do wet sets on my hair, well when the temperature cools a bit!
While we are on the subject of beauty supplies, I found the most incredible nail polish color yesterday by China Glaze. The color is called “Light My Tiki”. The name is quite appropriate, it is the perfect tropical color. It is the kind of color you wear on an a small island in the South Pacific with a lei around your neck while sipping on mai tais surrounded by birds of paradise. It is much more pink than the picture shows. I bought the color at Sally Beauty Supply. The site says $4.99, but I bought it in the store for $2.99, though I do have a Sally card.
If you have a few minutes to spare I suggest watching this video. The clothes, makeup, everything is fantabulous!
