Oh my! I’m on moulage number III in numbered ones, but I crumpled up the real number one, so this is actually my forth. The instructor assures us it is worthwhile to be picky. And I’m being picky.

I got a better picture this week. I changed the paper I’m using and the lines show up better.

I’ve just re-drawn it and cut that out to use as my pattern. This one should be perfect. Oh, fingers crossed!

Other than that I haven’t been doing much creatively, and I’m getting restless. I like quick projects. Bras only take at most a couple of days, and I have some wonderful new materials I want to get going on; but I am determined to finish this and use that basic pattern/sloper to make the cardigan pattern I bought.

Yesterday I was looking on my blog stats. It’s always fun to see what part of the world is reading about what I’m doing. I always share with my hubby some of the different countries and he’s always amazed. I think bra-making and other creative projects are alive and well on planet earth!

One thing I noticed yesterday when I was looking, was that someone had clicked on a link for the henna website I’d posted a while ago. I thought, oh, I need to update that. I’m still using henna for my hair, but not from the same company as before.

I love that henna is natural, and so is indigo, but there were a couple of things I didn’t love. It took about an hour and a half to do my hair, and even though I used the indigo with the henna, my hair was getting redder and redder – not a good color combination with my skin. So it was time to look for something else.

I was in the health food store and found just what I was looking for. Surya Brasil Henna Cream. I tried the dark brown first, but it took too well, and my hair looked black. Now I mix the light brown and dark brown together and I love the color – it’s so close to my own natural color.

Here’s my hair first thing this morning – in need of some loving touching up.

You can see, that after a month, the grey isn’t really grey still – it’s a light brown. It does fade a bit over a month’s time, but no so much that it bothers me. It’s the little slivers of silver that I’m not so fond of! And I tried to not get leaves growing out of my head, but as you’ll see in each of the photos, I failed. So, let’s call them creative placement, or a decorative backdrop.

And here’s the in between stage. One I brush the henna cream on, I cover it with plastic wrap to keep the moisture in, and then put a pretty shower cap on. This is time for me to just sit down and relax for 45 minutes. It’s not the five or ten minutes the commercials promise for hair dye, but it’s natural and doesn’t bother my skin at all. It’s worth it to me.

And here I am after.  I’m all happy because I can’t see that silver stripe anymore. Have I mentioned that in my blog before? I have a Cruella DeVille stripe. Oh, and see the artistic placement of the leaves coming out of my hair? A nice touch I think.

And another close up showing all that grey and even the light brown gone. It’s all nice and dark again.

Hopefully, next week I will be done my moulage, AND my sloper and onto a fun project!

Happy creating!