Invasion of the Hairpins!

There is seriously an invasion going on over here because I didn't have a pace to store them. At school they lived in one of the pockets in  my dance bag and at home they lived in an empty container in the bathroom, but here it was a free for all. And something had to be done about it. Enter the empty fruit drop tin...

Not my tin, but this is what it looked like. Mine ad a few more nicks and dents in it

Ok, cute tin and all, but kinda blah for my tastes. I pulled out some scrapbook paper, a gold Sharpie, some glue and went to work. This is what I came up with, the flowers don't exactly match, but it was the best I could do. And yep, the flower is very similar to the decoration post original flowers.

Hair pin tin

If When I get around to cleaning off the top of my dresser I will let you see the tin in its new home. For now, it is living on my desk. What do you think?

Long Hair

I have hit the point where the longest parts of my my hair are waist length (and I'm going by my natural waist) and I love it. Four years ago I donated over a foot to Wigs for Kids and it was insanely short to me. My hair was barely brushing chin length. Now my goal is to see how long it will grow before it decides to stop cause yes, that does happen, it's called terminal length. Somehow I don't have a picture of  my hair down now, but I'll take one later and edit this post. Edited to add current length picture.

Where my shirt is pulling in and there is a black line, it is a ribbon that is tied at my natural waist so you can get a reference point for my hair's length

Anyways, the one little gripe I have about having long hair is that it tends to try to strangle me when I sleep. So I've had to start getting creative because how sad would it be to have an official cause of death be listed as strangulation by hair while sleeping? I do french braid it often to keep it up and out of the way, but there are nights that I am just too dang tired to even think about trying to braid it. I've recently taken to using hair pins and pinning up in a sort of spiral-ish pattern like the picture below. With the hair pins they luckily haven't been digging into my scalp, though it isn't the best for your hair to sleep with them in. If I decided to fancy it up a bit I will do the bandana curls (from a prior post) or rag curls to sleep in.

After a night of sleep and a day of babysitting

Merry Christmas and Happy New Years everyone!