Before I Hack My Own Hair Off

Listen… it’s happened before. At the time I was so deluded that I was quite pleased with myself, but looking back at pictures, I cringe. So I’m trying to resist.

My hair is driving my mad. It hasn’t been cut since October, which wasn’t really bothering me much because I wanted to grow it nice and long for summer. I’m pretty decently on my way. However, I neglected to think about one critical thing… POSTPARTUM HAIR LOSS!

^ which is how I feel about that.

It’s not the hair loss part, in per se. I have approximately one BEEEELLION ultra fine hairs, which always blows new hairdressers away as I take about twice as long for a haircut as they expect me to, with my sad limpy locks. So, so many hairs. So you don’t notice my hair thinning out, in per se. What you DO notice, however, is that I shed like a bleepity bleep bleep Persian Cat. You can easily pull out gobs of hair. I shouldn’t be allowed on the furniture, and if I wear my hair down my tops are just COVERED in hair like EW GROSS YUCK within an hour or two. But worst of all… oohhh, the worsty worst of all… when a hair falls down the front of your shirt and hides somewhere in your bra. SOMEWHERE. And it feels like it could be either a hair or a bug, but if you let your guard down and assume hair you just know it will definitely be a bug. 

Anyways. Now that you possibly understand why I’m wearing my hair in braids and buns and trying to refrain from giving myself a buzz cut (I wonder if Britney Spears was having postpartum shedding when she did that. How old were her kids? I totally take back thinking she was crazy. Hand me an umbrella, Britney, I’m with ya.) I would like some feedbacks for what I should do. You would think a hairdresser would be like ‘fun yay’ if I came in and was like “just cut it off. I don’t care. Make me look good.” But no, not so much. They want me to know what I want. So… What do you think? (following pictures are all from here.)

a- supershort. I’m not sure I could pull this off. But I’m tickled pink at the idea of my falling out hairs being that small instead of being super long.

b- kinda funky. I don’t necessarily have time to do this every day so mine would hang a lot limper most of the time. Not sure that would be as cool.

 

c – I like styles like this because the illusion of longer hair is there, but it’s actually a pretty short cut. I’ve had similar to this before. I am paranoid about she-mullets though so I always like to make sure it’s a bit shorter in back than front.

d – something like this, but with the hair a little more out of the face. Like a reverse mullet… party in the front, business in the back. Because that’s how I roll.

 

e – Just kidding. I’m pretty sure my middle two brothers would both be full of glee but I would be a hobo because my hubby would lock me out until I removed the manliness from my hair. Actually, I don’t think he even likes this look on men. If I ever do get wild enough to do this I’d shove some pink in there, while I was being awesome/a lunatic. Would have to take out a life insurance policy on my dad first because he’d keel over.

I guess this is basically what I was talking about two above, basically an extremely angled bob. I’ve had bobs before and they’re pretty good on me.

So, what do you think? Any other suggestions?

Choose That Layout!

So, firstly, I will once again prove my amazing inability to make a long story short. Or a short story short. I was doing some digital scrapbooking, and was pretty happy with my layout, but not with the colors I’d chosen for the lettering and the biggest part of embellishment. I uploaded the picture to facebook and said as much, as well as what I was thinking of doing. I got a few suggestions and ‘do that’s so I did two other versions. Then it turned into a bit of a voting thing. So I figured lets make it official and actually make a poll out of it! Now lets give me a pat on the back because that wasn’t actually all that long, for me. *patpat*

So first, the layouts, in order! You can click to make them bigger.

(credit where credit is due: I think all the elements here except the fonts are freebies from Two Peas In A Pod. I did change the size and color of that floral thing though.)
Now, votey vote vote my chillens!

 

And if the clouds ever go away I’ll take some pictures of a certain prize I will be giving away to celebrate the fact that csn stores is giving me a change table to review. I’ll give you a hint. It’s made of tulle. That’s a terrible hint, actually. I bet you know what it is now. Everyone with boys just left. Yup. Did I say tulle? I meant… uh… mud. And sticks. Okay, now everyone’s gone. My work here is done.

Exciting Things This Way Come

Okay so I have been totally off my game for a few months now. In fact, for about… a trimester, would you say? Sounds about right. I was showing my husband my sad little photo files from the last few months. April has a grand total of six photos, none of which are anything resembling exciting. SAD. I think I’ve done as many blog posts in the last few months. SAD. You know what’s not sad? Giveaways. OPPOSITE OF SAD. Remember a few months ago how I did a giveaway for CSN Stores? That chain of online stores that sell everything from toys to cookware to shoes to sofas? (Shipping on items from $69 and up is free, by the way, and I was doing some peeking  at a few of their many stores and I’m seeing items priced comparably or cheaper than at walmart and target but CSN SHIPS TO CANADA PEOPLE, NOT JUST THE STATES. I know. I’m getting all excited too.)

So, remember that? Yes? No? Irrelevant. I am doing a review with them!  AWESOME. And you’re wondering what that has to do with you, aren’t you. Because I did say giveaway, didn’t I. Well, the generosity of CSN Stores has gotten me all hot and bothered and I’m just so totally psyched that I’m going to have a giveaway for you guys. THAT’S RIGHT KIDS. Give. A. Way.

I get something awesome from them. You get something awesome from me. Everyone’s a winner. Okay, just me and one other person. But you’re all winners in my book. Participation ribbon, anyone? High-fives all around.*

But I didn’t say exciting thing. I said exciting things. What else is in the planner? (I don’t have a planner. I have a giant desktop calendar with magnets glued all over the back to hold it to my fridge. Go big or go home.)

Here’s a few things:

-homemade pizza pops. (recipe + step by step tutorial.)
-shirring. Lots of shirring. I’ve done some already, but there’s more to come.
-my basement will be finished in the next month or so, and there will be big reveal pictures of my finished upstairs and downstairs and in my lady’s chamber. And before November, both my babies chambers as well.

-I am going to attempt to hack this Anthro bedding set, from the comforter down to the ruffled pillowcases and sheets. And if… no, WHEN I am successful, I will do a tutorial. The queen comforter is $238 CAD, and the sheets $89.95. I think I might be able to pull off the whole thing for around the cost of just the sheet set. And I’m going to make the bed itself out of pipe cleaners.

Just kidding about that last part.

So… STAY TUNED!

And I just know you’re curious what I’m reviewing, soooo……TADAAA!

 

*No actual participation ribbons or high fives will be given out, but you’re all welcome to print out this sad little awesome participation ribbon picture.

want blog layouts?

First of all, thanks for the congrats on impending Baby V! He/she is due November 5, so we’ve got a long haul ahead of us. I’m really looking forwards to being in my second trimester during the summer months, with Nicole I did third trimester in the summer, maybe not the most fun ever. ;)

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My blog layout is a paid one, but these super cute ones are totally free. And apparently now featuring a new way to upload your layout so you don’t lose any of your widgets…?! Say WHAAAAT?! Hawsome!

c*e*l*e*b*r*a*t*e

Hey guys! I am now the proud owner of http://onthelaundryline.com … hopefully that will also work for www.onthelaundryline.com soon (edit… naturally as soon as I post this, it’s working! YES!) Yay!

Just to let you know, I’m going to do a drawing through tw*nkletw*nkle soon. When my tw*nkletw*nkle facebook fan page reaches 100 fans, I’ll do a draw for a free tutu! On top of that, once I’ve got a few more things up in the etsy shop, I’ll do a draw here on the blog for a gift certificate, to celebrate the changes here at www.onthelaundryline.com (to join the tw*nkletw*nkle fan page, look over to the sidebar.)

a new tutorial

eeps, as it turns out I’m still getting a lot of hits through my toddler leggings tutorial. While it’s pretty good for small toddlers and longsleeve shirts, I think it’s time that I do another, better tutorial! I’ll be giving the milk away for free, so to speak, because I’ll be showing the same basic method I use to make the leggings I’ll be selling in tw*nkletw*nkle soon, but c’est la vie. I’d rather sixty people make five pairs of leggings for their kids than make sixty sales of one pair of leggings. ITS FOR THE CHILDREN. So, look for that hopefully this evening. Now that I’ve said that my house will catch on fire and it will never happen.

PS, I wonder what’s going on at my local middle school, all the teenybopper girls are walking by wearing skirts and nylons instead of the usual denim…

technically, yes…

Okay, so instead of catching up on housework now that I’m feeling better, I am playing around with code and technical things. I changed the comments system, and for some reason I’m having a hard time making it pull up all previous comments which, boo, but regardless this should make it even easier for everyone to comment. I know blogger can be a boor when it comes to posting a comment. This baby should be more click-click-boom. Plus you can facebookconnect if that is your heart’s desire. Not like that’s all I did today, I did my first tw*nkletw*nkle mail drop. Watch for your package, Shelley! :D

And more goodies for the evening, I’m also trying to see what I can do to set up blogging on my cell phone. I won’t likely have that many posts from my cell but it might be kind of fun once in a while, my new LG Keybo can take pretty decent sized pictures so if I’m out and about and spot something fun, I can share with the class.

Speaking of sharing with the class, book yourselves a party with your nearest Norwex consultant, kids. Now, I realize I am judging Norwex consultants as a whole based on mine (Karen) but I just got something like $180+ in products for $20 after having my party, with help from Karen. We’re talking the mini mop kit, rubber brush, laundry detergent, kitchen cloth 3pack, antibac enviro cloth, antibac body pack, blue Window cloth, plus the odour neutralizer and Sanira. And I mean, my bill comes to less than $20, most of that stuff was hostess bonuses. Wait, what am i doing ending that sentence with a period. I meant “!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” If you don’t know what Norwex is, it’s environmentally friendly, kid friendly, pet friendly products. At first glance it doesn’t look budget friendly, but then when you realize how much you dilute everything, or that those cloths and mops work with just water and you don’t need many of them, well. W.E.L.L. Budget friendly indeed. Budget friendly like cloth diapers – maybe an up front investment, but a large savings in the long run. Plus just better for your family and for the world at large. So get ye to http://www.norwex.com and find yourself a consultant. And, um, I’m not a consultant. Just to put that out there. And I won’t ever be one, I wouldn’t try to compete with Karen in a million years, and she’s got most everyone I know quite happy. haha. So, this is 100% a customer/mom endorsement. I LOVE NORWEX. YOU WILL TOO. Karen leant me some cloths to try when she realized I never had really tried them before. LOVE. I FELL IN LOOOOOVE. So much better than my ‘it’s just fine’ microfibre cloths I already had/have. I kept making my hubby sniff the cloths to see how they didn’t stink even though I’d been using them for two days already.

Anyways, I shouldn’t rave on much longer. Just get yourself a consultant. Try the products. I swore I’d never be a norwex crazy like everyone else. But Karen knew, oh she knew, once I came to a party and tried the stuff… I’m forever hers now. ;D haha.

My Darling Readers

So, I was just peeking at Google Analytics and I noticed that whereas previously my readers were mainly citizens of the US of A, lately Canada is only a mere few readers behind the readers from the south. I get so curious about you guys sometimes! So, I’d love it if you’d tell me a little bit about yourselves. Who are you guys? Are you married? Do you have kids? What interests you? What are your favourite hobbies? Whats your pet peeve?

Tell me a little bit about yourselves!

Nicole would like to know too! She’s pretty sure y’all are just here to coo over her. I took the most ridiculous video of her tonight. She was crazy drunk on hot chocolate, I dunno. She was in bed not sleeping and when I stood in the doorway to tell her to go to sleep she started laughing this crazy little laugh that was half the time fake and half the time real. Her uncle Stephen brought her some hot chocolate from Tim Hortons (either that or Chris did and Stephen was just holding it? I never checked) and for some reason I did not think hot chocolate at 8pm would be a bad choice.

Here is a little pearl of wisdom for you:

Hot chocolate at 8pm is a bad choice.

Anyways, enough about us. Speak! or… type. Whatever. I’m going to bed. Also, you like how I snuck a picture of my shiny new laptop in there without being overly obnoxious about it? How obnoxious. Also, in the background we have a nice cameo from my portable dishwasher, which despite being a PAIN to haul out to do the dishes, is still preferable to handwashing. Pishposh, kids, handwashing dishes is right up there with folding laundry. BOOOOOO. Also note my wierd lower cabinets. WHY DO WE NEED DRAWERS? LETS SKIP THAT, AND PUT A LARGE OPEN SPACE IN THE BOTTOM INSTEAD. BUT WE WILL MAKE SURE TO BLOCK IT OFF JUST OUT OF VIEW SO IT CANT ACTUALLY BE USEFUL. Man, if I ever meet the man who designed my kitchen, I will punch him in the mouth.

(unless he’s one of my readers. I would never punch any of you in the mouth. Unless you broke my dishwasher.)