Changes

Maybe it’s the cold weather (Oh man has it been cold here!), or all the other change that’s happening in our lives (moving soon, plus lots of other things I’ll share in the coming weeks), but I felt like yesterday was a good day for a hair cut! Not just any hair cut though, a bit of a more radical hair cut.

The hair dresser was hesitant to say the least when I told her that I wanted my hair in an angle- shoulder length one side, and the length it is now at the other (nearly at the bottom of my back). She tried to show me other hair styles, but to be frank, they were all ‘normal’ hair cuts. And I’ve had boring long hair for a while now. I wanted something interesting. Something different.

After convincing her that radical hair was not new to me, she agreed to cut. 60-odd dollars, and over an hour later I had been pampered with hair washing, major cuttage, and a straightening. Thankfully when Luke got home, he loved it. I hadn’t actually told him I was getting a hair cut (it was very impulse), let alone chopping off half the hair he adore so much…

It is hard to believe that on the short side my hair is 100% natural. O. M. G. It has literaly been about 11 years since I have seen my natural hair colour like this. You can see in the second picture that it gradually gets lighter. I’ve had the whole spectrum of colours before, dark brown (nearly black), to red, to blonde with white streaks at our wedding. So if you have a colour suggestion, I’m probably up for it (unless it’s orange- doesn’t suit my skin tone)!

From the front:

From the back:

Tags: asymmetrical, changes, hair, hair cut

Update on 24 by 24

While we were in Adelaide it was my birthday and I turned 24! So it’s time to update my 24 by 24.

1. Make a coffee date dress I didn’t actually make the coffee date dress, but I did make THIS dress instead.

2. Loose 12kg (total, since start of WW- am currently at 6KG lost) This was a major fail. Haha.

3. Go to Europe! Done!!

4. Taken out a huge bank loan for our investments. We got pre-approval for a home loan, but ended up deciding not to go ahead with it.

5. Read through 3 more books of the bible Again, didn’t do this one like I should have.

6. Drink at lest 1L of water every day. Check! LOVE drinking water, and MOST days I drink about a litre.

7. Keep Shabbat better We’ve started going to a Friday night church will is really focussed on Shabbat, and Israel, so that’s at least a step in the right direction.

8. Start an online shop of my bags/crafts Done. You can check it out here.

9. Fit into my skinny jeans again Nope.

10. Hold an art exhibition Not quite, but for my Masters I’m going to have to show my quilt somewhere. So this one’s just postponed a bit.

11. Continue with my Creative 365 and post every day I tired, I really did. But after a while I lost momentum, and it all became a bit too much. I am happy to report that studying has really helped me to be creative, and even though I’m not recording it, I am doing something creative most days!

12. Cook at least one new meal each week To be honest, I haven’t been keeping track, but we have tried LOTS of new meals, so I’m going to give myself a tick for it.

13. Create more screencasts and tutorials for this blog I’ve done a few!

14. Scrapbook our Europe holiday Not really. I’ve started, but that’s about it!

15. Play at least 2 songs (well) on the saxaphone Nope. Another fail.

16. Develop a (free) creative thinking online PD for teachers Yeah, didn’t do this one either. Too much other stuff on is my excuse!

17. Expand my fabric stash Defintely done!!

18. FINALLY buy Nigella seeds- I have to be able to get them from somewhere!! NO!! Argh. This still drives me insane! Where ARE they?!

19. Make an etsy shop Done, though I don’t use it anymore- I use madeit.

20. Sell something in my etsy shop Done this as well, both in my etsy store, and in my madeit one!

21. Publish and distribute a ‘zine Done! You can download it here.

22. Support Luke in his creative endeavours

23. Become an ‘expert’ bread maker (read: not have to buy any bread from the shops again, just live off bread I make)

24. ‘Finish’ my photo/”C” wall

Holiday Recap: Great Ocean Road

In August we’ll be off on our oversears holiday- South Korea, which will give us a total of 2 ‘big’ holidays, and 2 ‘long weekend’ holidays for 2011. This weekend I’m doing the recaps so you can see the adventures we’ve been off on!

So two weeks ago we got back from our Melbourne/Great Ocean Road/Adelaide trip. It was a trip of a lifetime. Here are some of the pics:

Tags: great ocean road, holiday, south australia, victoria