This is just a quick do that I thought I would show you it worked perfect in The Little princesses hair, Its so short it is hard to find things that I love to do in it!So I tied three rolled knots along the top of her head, for some reason, I have a hard time getting my knots tight so I put a bobby pin in them to keep them secure
and here she is ready for school!

fun new toy teaser!

I just got this fun new hair toy and I thought that I would give you a teaser with instructions and a link to follow in a couple of days!

big french braids into a funky type bun (2nd day hair)

Yesterday we did the braided headbands with straight hair in the back, This mess is what I started with


I braided three braids back to the back of her head

Then two up the back

Then each of the pigtails I braided into 2 braids

Then I looped each set of braids up and hooked them with an elastic

Then we ran up and straightened and curled the ends with a flatiron and fluffed everything up. added a bow on each of the three top pig tails I wanted a red white and navy bow but we had to settle for these ones! I can't believe that I didn't have the bows I wanted! Weird!

Here it is from the back with a messy kinda do!

braids, headband blah blah blah!

So, today I had something else in mind totally but baby Mermaid did not get enough sleep and Kinda twigged so here goes. so I did a french braid that went across the front.
then I did a second row that was a dutch braid. here is where we deviated from plan

I took both the braids and hooked them under her long hair

stuck a bow in there and See ya! go bug your teacher!

A pretzel with puffballs (2nd day hair)

When baby Mermaid woke up this morning this is what we had! well, I don't think any of us would send our kids to school with this so we did a quick second day do on her! I took out 1 side at a time hair sprayed and combed her hair back into pigtails, then I braided the fluff down, this is just a basic braid.

Then I hooked the bottom of each braid up to the other pigtail (to get your elastic around the end of the second pigtail, put an extra elastic on the base of the pigtail before you start!)

Then we ran upstairs and curled her hair and fluffed it out a bit, I was calling these fantails but Baby Mermaid said she wanted puffballs all week and I think that is there new name!

from the front with some little bows

and the back! Your all done and out the door for school!

I Heart Faces Before & After... and a new Flower Clip

So this iHeart Faces challenge for this week is before and after. It isn't about editing your photos, but about what you've learned on your journey. So, here goes.

These first two pics were at a time when I started really getting serious about photography. I was mostly doing point and click on auto focus. And there was absolutely zero post-editing.
Although I loved these pictures, I know I could do better now. I have been reading magazines and blogs. I've taken a few lessons/classes and enjoyed learning new things.
This picture I just took a few days ago and I just love how it came out;) I know I still have a long way to go! I have a better camera and have learned to go manual;)

I've also learned some basic editing and use Adobe Photoshop Elements. It has some wonderful features and is a great place to start. At least I think so;) I did very simple stuff here. I used the magic wand tool to select her skin, hair and the flower then created a new layer with them. I warmed up the tones a little, increasing the red and lightening the midtones. (I think I could have done this a little more). I set this layer at 65% opacity. I created a third layer with just her irises and used the burn tool on 21%(that was random, but worked great;) This layer I set at 85% opacity. I'm sure there is a simpler way to do these things, but this is what I ended up with;) And for this last pic, I cropped, simple as that;)
Beautiful!

And for you hair fanatics out there, this flower hat will be available during the upcoming holiday season;)

looped ropes!

I love this hairdo, we do it quite often, I found it on she does hair this was the first hair blog that I started following!So here she is all finished upWe started with a zig-zag part

here is the pigtails which is the base of this hairdo,

Next I put in three rope twists on each side, here is a video of how to do a rope twist for (Adrienne) those of you who asked!

We recorded this like 4 times this morning before school so I hope it is o.k. the little Princess was our photographer, I hope you get the jist of it!

Here she is with the ropes looped up and hooked with an elastic

I flat Ironed and curled the pieces and then ratted them out

Added bows and Voila!