Hair Challenge!

I asked on Facebook the other day much interest there would be for a Hair Challenge among my friends. There were quite a few who had the same problem as me: a hair rut.

I grab my ficcare almost every morning and do a JJJ Pretzel bun:

So easy, so sturdy. But I really have to do more with my hair. I started using fake flowers in my hair combined with a high bun and sometimes twisted side parts, and I got so much compliments on my 'do! Especially men seem to notice you've done your hair, really.

So I wanted a Challenge and I want to make you part of it. I am going to follow the same rules, but I am going to learn 2 new styles.

These are the "rules":
- You need to have hair and some basic hair accessories such as claw clips, scrunchies, ties, or big clips. And a comb.
- Choose one new hairstyle and try to make it with your hair once or twice in the upcoming week (till next Friday). Just try.
- Make a picture of your updo, post it on the "Zomaar Een Dag" facebook page (or on my personal page), on your own blog and post your findings/link in a comment in this blog post or the blog post with my own newly learned updo's. Please share!

Ban the everyday hairstyle you do every day. It does not matter how long your hair is, because I am going to help you with some inspiration. I will post You Tube videos for shoulder length hair, for about bra-strap length and longhair length (waist and longer).

Who's in?

Here are some video's to get you started!

Shoulder length hair (or longer)

Bra-strap length (or shorter or longer)

I think there are enough styles in this video to keep you entertained!

 Longhair Length 

I like this a lot! But I think I am going to do this updo!

And I am definately going to try this one!

Have fun, and I really hope to see your updo's and maybe you find a nice updo that isn't shown here I would love to learn to do with my own hair!

See you next week in the Hair Challenge post!

Decluttering

Yesterday I started itching. Really itching. Weeks and weeks I was getting annoyed at the state of our attic. Over the course of a few months outgrown cloths and baby stuff piled up in there and was really getting in the way. Every now and then we really need to declutter the whole house. We started last year getting into the swing of a weekly declutter evening, but we got lazy. So papers, boxes and other stuff started to pile up again.


I brought Little Man to school and headed to the attic with Little Lady yesterday morning. I got her some toys and I looked at, well, THE MESS.

It was terrible. Almost did not want to take a picture, but I did it anyway, to keep it as a reference....

Well. As you can see we are not really tidy persons. We try, but life catches up too quickly to put extra time into tidying the house.

But after some 20 minutes of furiously sorting, putting in boxes and rearranging stuff it looks like this:

Much better! I still have too vacuum the bags with baby clothing (those you can suck the air out) and put them in a better place. Books need to be brought to a thrift shop, boxes have to be looked at and closets still have to be checked. But, we have walking space again! Hopefully, in the near future, all the baby stuff can be reused by someone else...

Decluttering the attic also meant I had to declutter the room on the same level. This is our working room with computers, books/school papers and my craft stuff.

I started with my school papers this morning and got a lot of work done.

 
Mies walked in a couple of times to see what I and Little Lady were doing. Mighty interesting business!

I started by sorting old papers to their respective class. So first grade, third grade, fourth grade and fifth grade. First grade is also sorted by subject. I need to do fourth grade tomorrow and get the first subject ready!

Such a lovely feeling if something is really going my way. Clearing the house means also clearing my head. I still want to investigate Fly Lady, and I think this is the right time to do some major thinking about how to cope household chores. It is such a big issue in this house, so we really need to think how we can tackle it. Older and wiser right? I have big hopes for the future!