Pink Progress Report

Yo! If you remember, on the 4th of July, I dyed my hair pink! So exciting. I loved it! I used two different pinks (Special Effects Cupcake Pink and Atomic Pink; the Atomic Pink is very neon and hot, so it was conditioner-diluted to match how the Cupcake Pink looked in my bowl, but came out much different) and got a lot of variation that I thought was super cute. There was some peach, some baby...

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a minty hat

Made this little pixie hat with minty baby yarn by request! (I usually just make hats by request at this point!) I love applique and hardly ever do it anymore, but I'd like to change that. I really find it so fun to do. And this is probably the fifth or sixth time I've appliqued a toadstool -- best thing to appliqu...

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Sparklers.

The one thing we really do every fourth are sparklers! My mom, grandmother, and I all lit up and went freewheeling around the backyard, singing "America the Beautiful," till it was so smoky we couldn't breathe anymo...

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Everybody's free to wear PINK HAIR.

As I mentioned in my last post, I bleached my hair to go pink!! This morning, with some help from my mp3 player pumping out the Beach Boys and my little sister attentively applying color to the back of my head, I took the plunge. I used two different pinks, both Special Effects -- Cupcake Pink and Atomic Pink -- and achieved a really varied spectrum. I had a hunch that the Cupcake Pink would...

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The unlikely blonde.

Last year I had indigo and hot pink streaks in my hair and I loved it! The indigo was a little gothy, but the pink made me feel so happy. It made me feel like me. I put in the pink in May 2013, so by May 2014, they had grown out and faded to a coral color. Ever since 1996/97, when I saw Gwen Stefani with baby blue hair -- and odango -- at the MTV Video Music Awards, I've always wanted to bleach my...

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