How to Get Modern Bob Hairstyles! Bangs Or No Bangs

How to Get Modern Bob Hairstyles! Bangs Or No Bangs

Bob hairstyles to give your hair a new look, there are many hairstyles that can be used. You can go with short hair in fashion, it’s fun, and some layers with razor cut for those who have hair medium and long term.

However, if you do not want to cut your hair or do not have time to visit your stylist and braided chignon style, horse or you can sport a new look…

Bob hairstyles as a shortcut, the pixie cut, choppy bob haircut, blunt bob, updo hairstyles, etc. are very popular. Hairstyles with Side Swept Bangs falling on eyes or the ideas of asymmetric haircuts are very popular.

Here are a variety of short haircuts ideas for women who are very funny.

DIY Bob Hairstyles 2018

Bangs certainly played a very important role in the evolution of facing a significant haircut. Been visiting with them again in the margin, it would have been very difficult to test a hairstyle adapted to the shape of the face. Bob hairstyles & Bob haircuts that what you wear, you can use your bangs the style object. Perhaps the most popular is the bangs sweeping straight or side. Watch this image below:

Bangs down the front of the crown on the forehead, eyebrows and somewhere near. However, striking the side crying highlights cheeks with the other facial features. Generally, bob haircuts are divided based on the length of hair as well as other considerations of style. Now let’s learn more about the types of bob haircuts.

Bangs Or No Bangs

The fringe also has magical powers … it tends to rejuvenate! For older women, it helps hide wrinkles for teenagers it can hide the acne.

What style of bangs?

There is fringe straight, bias, offset, frayed, brushed, thick, long, short, everything depends on the shape of your face.

Is your forehead broad?

Go for long bangs and light

Is your forehead small?

To bring the softness and roundness to your face so your cheeks are chubby and your chin down adopts instead a short fringe and degraded

Is your face round?

A fringe around the side to lengthen the face so your face is long your broad forehead and chin lengthened.

To add spice to your bangs, you can play with light and color.

If you add a few blonde highlights your bangs will be brighter.

It is trendy now has black hair with a little blonde in the bangs.

In conclusion, the fringe is trendy no matter its shape texture or color.

It really influenced the style and restructures cut.

Some women also feel more confident with a fringe you can hide behind.

Anyway in the eyes or on the side fringe hairstyles scans all!

Personalize your cut according to your face and gestures essential to adopt a fringe always trendy!

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How to Force Paper-Whites

How to Force Paper-Whites

Forcing bulbs for indoor bloom is not difficult and is lots of fun. As the garden year ends outside for many of us, we can now turn our efforts indoors. Hyacinths, tulips and daffodiles are often forced but probably the easiest of all bulbs to force are paper-whites. You don’t even need soil for this to work, just water! Follow the steps below and you will be enjoying fragrant paper-whites before Christmas.

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HOW TO FORCE BULBS ( PAPER-WHITES )

Choose any container you wish as long as it is at least 2 inches deep. I enjoy using clear glass as this allows you to see and watch the root growth.

Fill your container part way with polished rocks or ornamental pebbles. I also added clear glass balls to get some heigth.

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Set your bulbs on top of the pebbles. Make sure your bulbs have the pointed end up.

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Add more pebbles to cover the bottom third of the bulbs.

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Add water, only enough to touch the bottom of the bulbs. If you add more than that you risk your bulbs rotting. You will have to monitor the level of the water on a daily basis and add as needed. You will loose some to evaporation.

Set your container in a sunny spot and enjoy the show.

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How to Felt Wool from Thrifted Sweaters

How to Felt Wool from Thrifted Sweaters

Felted wool is a marvelous fabric. It insulates well and it doesn’t fray or unravel when cut. If you were to purchase real wool felt (not the polyester sheets found in craft stores), you can expect to pay around $10-$20 a yard! Skip the fabric stores this round and head to your local thrift store for high-quality material at a fraction of the cost.

Look for mostly wool sweaters. It doesn’t have to be 100% wool, but it does need to be a majority of wool or another natural animal fiber like angora, cashmere, or merino. I like to buy men’s sweaters; you get more for your money, especially if you can find extra large sizes.

Technically the process of transforming something knit into felt is called fulling and not felting, but I am going to refer to it as “felting” which is more commonly used. I felt wool sweaters easily at home using my washing machine.

Make it!

Put the wool sweaters in an old pillowcase and secure the opening with a rubber band. Trust me, you are going to want to put them in a pillowcase unless you enjoy picking sweater lint out of your washing machine for a long time. Standard laundry rules apply: make sure to keep dark colors separate from the light ones. Set the machine to Large Load, HOT, and High Agitation – basically the settings that would ruin your clothes! Add 2 tablespoons of liquid dish soap to the water, and then throw in the pillowcase with a few pairs of jeans. Turn the machine on and let it fill with water.

Once the machine starts churning, start checking the progress every few minutes. Each sweater will felt at a different pace. Once the sweaters look soft and lose stitch definition, they are felted. Drain the water out of the machine (no need to rinse the sweaters). Remove the sweaters once they reach your desired level of felting and wring them out. You can lay the sweaters out to dry or throw them into the dryer (they will felt more in the dryer so this is my preference).

Now that you have some felted sweaters, you can snip off the sleeves and use them as a cozy to keep warm beverages warm and fingers cool when you are drinking out of a mason jar.

This mason jar is fitted with a Cuppow coffee lid that turns it from canning jar to reusable coffee cup.

If you want to take the project a step further, check out how to make these adorable mug cozies with felted appliques!

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How to Create Your First Fairy Garden

How to Create Your First Fairy Garden

Fairy Gardening 101: How to Design, Plant, Grow, and Create Over 25 Miniature Gardens by Fiona McDonald provides you with all the information necessary to design, plant, and care for your very own miniature garden oasis.

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Enchant Yourself

Every time I publish something about fairy gardens, many of you come out of the woodwork like sprites in the forest to declare your never-ending love for miniature worlds.

Fairy Gardening 101: How to Design, Plant, Grow, and Create Over 25 Miniature Gardens by Fiona McDonald provides you with all the information necessary to design, plant, and care for your very own miniature garden oasis.

This post is excerpted with permission from Fairy Gardening 101: How to Design, Plant, Grow, and Create Over 25 Miniature Gardens by Fiona McDonald. Copyright 2014, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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Basic Fairy Gardens

The best way to learn about fairy gardening is to roll up your shirt sleeves and make your own. Keep your first garden simple, as you can always add to it later as you gain more confidence and experience.

It is important to remember that there is a difference between a simple potted garden and a fairy garden. A potted garden consists of just plants while a fairy garden requires the gardener to imagine (and plan for) building an environment for tiny people who will want to do some of the things humans do in the garden: sit, swing, lie in a hammock, sip cool drinks, and enjoy the ever changing light playing through leaves and flowers.

Child’s Play

The first garden we are going to make is super easy. It only requires a pot, potting soil, a small selection of plants, tiny cork tiles, pebbles, shells, a wire chair, and a fairy of your choosing.

You can imagine how excited my granddaughter Isabelle (Izzy) was when she learned that her granny was writing a book all about making fairy gardens! Of course, we had to begin with a garden that was all her own and one that is easy for any child to make.

Just follow these simple steps and you’ll be well on your way to a fabulous and enchanted fairy garden!

1. Because we were in such a rush to start Izzy’s garden we did not wait to go and buy a special pot. Instead, we used one that was lurking behind a pile of boxes in the shed. Izzy had a choice of rectangular or round and she chose rectangular. After brushing away the dust and cobwebs (which was Granny’s job, of course) we filled the pot with potting soil. We used a low-priced brand from the garden center.
2. We did, however, have to go to the store soon after getting the pot ready in order to buy some plants. At the nursery, we chose some polyanthus because they had just come into season in the early spring. Polyanthus are very colorful and hardy and are also inexpensive, so perfect plants to use on a budget. There were some miniature box plants on sale, too, and we chose one of those as well as some tiny containers with a special grass in them. Of course we bought more than we needed for one small garden and Izzy had some tough decisions to make.
3. Before planting, the potting soil needs a drop of water so that the newly uprooted plants won’t get too big a shock when inserted in new dirt.
4. Now it is time to get down to business. Children will probably need help digging holes and inserting plants into them, depending on their age and experience. Be sure to give the plants plenty of room and back fill the holes carefully, patting the earth down to make it firm.
5. Isabelle planted three plants in a row at the back of her pot and a second tuft of grass in front of the first. This is so she can make a real feature of the path she wants to put along the front of the garden.
6. Now comes the really exciting part that turns a pot of plants into a magical fairy garden. Isabelle started to place her cork circles on the soil to create a path. She pushed the little tiles down into the soil as best she could to make them look as though they were paving stones. Then Isabelle decided to see how a border of little shells would look beside the cork path.
7. Finally, there were only two more things needed to complete the garden: a fairy chair (the instructions for making this and other pieces of garden furniture are given in chapter 15) and the fairy herself. (Isabelle later removed the fairy (a resin replica) so that real fairies wouldn’t be afraid to come and use the garden.)
8. And voila! A beautiful—and simple—fairy garden that is perfect for any beginner—child or adult!

I hope you found this excerpt valuable. If you enjoyed it, consider getting the book from Amazon or your local library.

~Melissa the Empress of Dirt ♛

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How to Braid Garlic

How to Braid Garlic

Local author, speaker, and organic gardening expert, Carolyn Herriot, joins us today with this wonderful fall project from her book, The Zero-Mile Diet: A Year-Round Guide to Growing Organic Food (Harbour Publishing). If you have followed along this year planting garlic then harvesting and cooking with the garlic scapes, then the next steps are harvesting and–even better–decorative braiding! Follow these steps and learn how to braid garlic for storage and decorative uses.

Carolyn recommends harvesting and drying garlic as follows:

At harvest in mid-July the bulbs are bundled together in bunches of no more than eight and are hung along the rafter in the garage where a warm breeze blows through. Here the bulbs are left to cure for at least six weeks to ensure they are thoroughly dry for storage and replanting.

How to Dry Garlic

How to Braid Garlic

1. Lay three clean dried stalks with good-sized garlic bulbs on a table, with the foliage facing towards you. Place one bulb down and then place two more bulbs side by side just above it. Place the stalks of bulbs two and three underneath the stalk of bulb one, and cross them over it. Tie the stalks together using string tied with a tight knot. If stalks are pliable enough you can tie the bulbs together without using string.

Braiding Garlic Step 1

2. Place the fourth bulb between bulb two and three, aligning the stalk with the centre stalk. You are now holding three groups of stalks—one on the left, one on the right, and two in the middle. Fold the left stalk toward the middle, over the middle two stalks. Now pull the middle two stalks over to form the new left side.

How to Braid Garlic When Dry

3. Lay bulb five beside bulb four, aligning the stalk with the centre stalk again. Now fold the right-hand stalk over the two centre stalks to become the new centre. Pull the middle two stalks over to form the new left.

Step By Step Garlic Braiding

4. Repeat this sequence, alternating the side that you lay the bulbs on each time, and always aligning the stalk with the centre stalk. Note that the number of stalks you fold in the middle increases each time.

Making Garlic Braids

5. When you have braided the last garlic bulb in, carry on braiding the foliage until you are almost out of it. Tie the braid off above the last fold, leaving string to hang the braid with.

6. Make beautiful and decorative gifts by simply tucking bay, rosemary and lavender sprigs in with the garlic as you braid.

Decorative Garlic Braids with herbs for decoration

Reprinted with permission from The Zero-Mile Diet by Carolyn Herriot © 2010. Published by Harbour Publishing. Photography © Kristin Ross.

The Zero Mile Diet

Grab this book if you want to put organic home-grown fruits and vegetables on your table throughout the year, using the time-saving, economical and sustainable methods of gardening outlined in The Zero-Mile Diet. This book is about REAL food and how eating it will change our lives for the better and a fabulous resource for the home gardener.

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Hopscotch Stepping Stones for the Garden

Hopscotch Stepping Stones for the Garden

These hopscotch stepping stones aren’t the traditional children’s hopping game, nor are they typical for a garden pathway. I created these as part of the play garden design I have been developing since my son was born.

The idea behind the play garden is to create a space that is engaging for children while being aesthetically pleasing for grown-ups. I will be writing about the play garden elements over the year (perhaps years!) as the garden develops. In the meantime, I plan to show off the pieces that I’m working on along the way, starting with the hopscotch stepping stones.

Making numbered stepping stones is fairly simple and can be done in one afternoon.

Materials

(Makes 10 stepping stones 1-9 and a dragonfly)

• 12” diameter concrete building tube
• Handheld circular saw or handsaw
• Painter’s tape
• Large sheet of paper as a guide
• Box cutter
• Tape measure
• Plastic drop cloth
• Wheelbarrow or large bucket
• 2 bags of standard concrete mix
• 1 bags of sand/topping concrete mix or repair concrete
• Shovel and trowel
• House numbers 1-9 (optional)
• Pebbles or small stones
• Safety gear – safety glasses, rubber gloves, ear protection

Make it!

First of all, let’s talk safety. Concrete is toxic to skin and can be corrosive. No matter how ‘tough’ you are, just protect your hands with gloves. I know they aren’t fun to work with, but stay healthy, folks. Also, please use safety gear to protect your eyes and ears when using power tools. You only get four of them!

The concrete tube is a great invention. I have seen this used as a stepping stone mold on Pinterest but no matter how many times I looked for it, I couldn’t find instructions on how to cut even, level rings for the mold. Huh. This is actually the hardest part because it requires some tools and precision. Luckily, my brilliant other half can make quick work of these complex problems and he figured out a super smart way to get some rings.

Cut the concrete form into 10 2-inch thick molds by using a handsaw or a handheld circular saw. Use a sheet of paper wrapped around the tube as a guide and carefully cut the first ring off the tube. Cut it open by using a box cutter to slice through the ring’s width. Place the cut ring on the tube to use as a guide for all the remaining cuts. Tape the ring together and place it a fraction more than two-inches from the end if you are using a handsaw, or place it where the guide runs if you are using a handheld circular saw.

Now plan for how to make the numbers. There are a few ways of doing this:

1. Lay out the stones first so you can simply transfer them to the concrete when ready, or
2. Get a bunch of house numbers to use as a guide. You will make an imprint of the house number and use that to set the stones in place.

Set the rings on a plastic drop cloth and mix the standard concrete according to the instructions on the package. Fill each of the molds ¾-full of concrete and use the trowel to smooth it out. Take care to remove any air bubbles. This base layer gives the stepping stones strength.

Mix the topping or repair concrete and add it to the top of each stepping stone. This layer gives the stepping stones a smooth, refined top.

Working quickly before the concrete hardens, it’s time to add the stones. If you have 2 people working together, one can be pouring concrete and smoothing while the other sets the stones in. We used house numbers as a guide, but you can freehand it, use a foam number, or even just draw an outline with a stick. Once you have your method, start adding stones one by one, fitting them like a puzzle until you get your 1-9 completed.

Gently push a bit of concrete around the stones with your fingertips just to set them in place. If any do fall out, you can always glue them back in. I’m happy to report that not one of our stones fell out! That surprised me in a very good way.

Cover the stepping stones with a plastic drop cloth and let dry for 24 hours. The next day, remove mold and set them in an airy place for a week to cure before moving them to the garden or lawn.

I set the hopscotch stepping stones through the garden surrounded by woolly thyme. As you can see, it still has to grow in. I used 56 plants so it should be a fuzzy, fragrant carpet surrounding the hopscotch in no time!

If you liked this project you will LOVE these:

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Hooty the Owl Pumpkin

Hooty the Owl Pumpkin

This owl pumpkin is an easy way to add a unique spin to your Halloween or fall decor. This year I was playing a bit more with different designs for Jack-O-Planterns and I’m happy with how this one turned out. The white pumpkin seemed to beg to become something elegant; an owl, no less!

The white owl pumpkin planter was inspired by my favorite visitors, snowy owls. I went to visit them a while back (you can see my photos here) and I now go each year hoping to catch a glimpse of these majestic creatures. They are simply stunning with large, graceful wingspans and downy, white feathers. Of course, snowy owls don’t have tufts of feathers like great horned owls do (which are not horns or ears, just feathers), but the pumpkin needed a little more detail to read “owl.” It may not be a correct representation of any one species of owl, but it’s a cute way to decorate my porch for the fall. I’m sure the real owls will forgive me!

Materials

• White pumpkin with beak-like stem
• Sharp knife
• Potting soil
• Two large Sempervivum rosettes
• Evergreen cuttings

Make it!

If you can find one, choose a white pumpkin with a stem that points to one side and a flat side to lay it down on. You will be displaying the pumpkin by setting it on the flat side, so bonus points if you can find one where the stem points downward. The best I could do had the stem off to the side, which I still think gives a beak-ish appearance.

Cut out a round circle in the top of the pumpkin (remember, the top is now the side opposite the flat side).

Clean out the pumpkin (roast the seeds using this highly addictive pumpkin seeds recipe) and fill with soil.

Cut two small openings in the front of the pumpkin for the “eyes.” Remove the Sempervivum rosettes from their soil, leaving a small root ball intact and plant into the openings.

Create “horns” by cutting two horn-shaped pieces from the sides of the pumpkin lid. Replace the lid back on the pumpkin and set the horns into the holes. Use evergreen clippings to add a feathery look to the horns.

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Display in a covered, cool location, away from direct sunlight, snow, or rain. More information on How to Make Pumpkin Planters Last can be found in this post:

For more Jack-O-Plantern ideas check out this post and this one too.

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