Hello, it's your favorite twisted pup here*, offering up some more odd hair photos...  and a dragonfly, for good measure. ( woke up and he was sitting on the ceiling as if to say, "wow, so there IS an end to the sky. huh. I owe that blue five bucks. "




First off, to show that I haven't always had good hair cuts, (well kempt, though) a picture of me when I was about 5 or 6. Actually, it could be as late as 8... I've always been a tiny, dorky, under-my-actual-age looking kid... please forgive the oh-so-seventies kitchen... I had nothing to do with that, I swear!


And, now for yet another picture of the back of my head! and a pretty knotted, odd sort of bun, with my antique rose painted wood sticks.


Now, for my very first successful rope braid! There've been about 100 before this one that all went, "sprong!" and ended up more as dreadlocks.  


What I did with that rope braid, PT I - (the under the rose braid)....


And what I did with the rope braid, Part II (over the rose braid (along with a weird looking ear and part of a creepy arse painting, though you can't see it))


And, now for "Kelly the Gambling Dragonfly! (see above)"



Oh, yes, I finally organized all my hairtoys and most of my earrings yesterday. I'm pleased with the way it came out... Though I couldn't get the post style earrings to stay.    And a couple of those earrings, I made myself. The amethyst teardrops, for one. The black and red dragon danglies the row above that, and the hematite circles above that. Oh, and the ones all the way to the left on the second row.

Wow neat do's and hair toys!  I had some really dorky picutres of myself taken when I was little.  There was the aweful school shots with my ears resembling dumbo!  And then growing out a short cut, someone thought I was a boy!

great pics and braids!!  (pst-don't worry about the 70's kitchen!  We've all had our share of our mother's......let say unique taste in decor !)

I love that rope braid bun! I've seen something like that in someone's avatar on another community and wondered how she did that. Now I know!

olives are good... olives the size of small ponies, that look like they might eat YOU...not so much.

yeah, it was a nice little border thing, only about six inches high, but it was placed so that the horses were right where I could see them when I was falling asleep at night. One of them looked just like the mare I was taking lessons on at the time, too.
Juri: I got the instructions from the LHC articles section I had to learn rope braiding to do it, but with a name like "embellished rose bun" how could I resist, right?

exactly! once I found instructions that made sense, It was like, oh. well. hmm. why didn't I see that before???
DER....

Just for a little clarification - the LHC instructions are for a 2 strand rope, the instructions here at LL are for a 3 strand rope.  They both use the reverse twist, but adding the 3rd strand does make it a bit more complicated.  Once you've mastered the 2 strand rope, then you can work on the 3 strand. 

I enjoyed looking at your pictures so much.  I love the rope braid and bun.  Very pretty!

Lynn