Knitting Dragonflies

Fire Hooping, Barrington. Photo by Amanda Giles My girlfriend Rachel, who is my Henna sister, got a fire hula hoop for Christmas! While I’m still practicing on a standard hula-hoop, she has progressed to a LED hoop and now a fire hoop . I love the directions, it actually says, “at some point you will catch yourself on fire”, so someone stands by with a fire extinguisher while she hoops. Now that person should be sober! And you can’t really knit if you are the extinguisher person either. Red Hat pattern by Bernat , this is the second hat I have made with this pattern. Every month we get together to henna our hair, if you are interested in moving away from chemical coloring to henna, like many people are, (especially if you are being treated with chemotherapy or pregnant) the best website is Henna for Hair. Rachel before hair…light brown   and after….beautiful auburn We were both interested in switching to henna and started the journey together. She is a light brow...

Some sequels are just plain better than the original, Die Hard 2 , the 1989 Christmas Vacation , Return of the Jedi , Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan , After the Thin Man , The Bourn Supremacy , Toy Story 2 , and my last one Dawn of the Dead . Sometimes it takes some tweaking to get it just right. Knitters live by this lesson.. So fearlessly my henna saga continues. I decided to re-henna my hair with the hopes that I would be able to get that rich color I was seeking. With henna you can add several other plants, that are dried and ground, to adjust the color. Indigo , which we all are familiar with, can be added to darken it from a little all the way to black. (the indigo when combined with henna produces a deep rich black). If you desire a strawberry blonde look you may add some cassia obovata, this adds a golden color. To tone down the brilliance of the red, people add buxus dioica (also known as Katam, has been used for obtaining light brown, ash browns and brunette colors...