More ducklings!
15 more to be precise. Tjäderhönan hid her eggs, so that we had to bring them and her home from a neighbour.
And I wasn't able to steal any of her eggs. So 15 ducklings and they take after their mother and bully their older half siblings.
So cute!
Moms feathers are cozy.
16 years of growing my hair
Not much to update on this year, but what the heck. Let's do this!
I cut all of my hair to the same length (around 0,5 cm, so a little shorter than in the picture), but kept bangs to have less of a buzz cut. But since I hate having bangs, so I soon cut that off too.
Back then I used a really dull scissor to cut my hair and would continue to do so for years. My poor hair!
Don't ask me why, but I bleached my hair... Above is the "carrot phase".
Blond and abused hair.
And of course, I soon missed having black hair.
I decided to for the last time in my life, bleach my hair, before dying it red and then go back to black once and for all. And thus the "carrot phase" again.
I also used to let a friend heat style my hair.
I really enjoyed red hair, but what a hassle to keep it red!
Before my elbow surgery, I had to wash my hair with disinfection. Other than drying out my hair, it also washed away most of the colour.
Before jumping in to the shower to do my first conditioner only wash.
This is what my natural hair color looked like, after a year of CO-washing and when most of the bleach had been cut away.
I decided to never again use chemical dyes again and wanted to be a henna head for a while, before starting the process of getting it black with indigo.
The process of getting it black. It took some time and effort, but it was worth it. Also, my hair finally started to get longer for real, now that I now longer mistreated it.
Black again.
Having kept up with some heavy S&D and minimal trims for years. My hemline was starting to fairytale.
My thin ends reached knee by the end of 2020. The ends were actually thinner than you can see in the picture.
Trying to get my hair to not blow freely in the wind... The ends are still thin, but the thickness is traveling down, since I'm maintaining at knee.
Since nothing has happended lenght wise, let's just go with a more "fun" picture for this year. As you can see, my ends are still quite thin, but thicknes is traveling down and is visible despite the eight braids in my hair.
I think that I'm finally ready to "start growing" again and to go from maintaining to microtrimming. Meaning that my hair should get a few centimeters longer each year, while still thickening up the ends a bit.
I believe that getting long hair is only part of it. Enjoying the journey and having fun along the way is even more important!
Although my hair would have been a lot longer and probably thicker at the ends, if I would have taken as good care of it all the way, as I'm doing today. I have no regrets! I had a lot of fun trying different colors and doing stuff with my hair!
And now I am having fun with different updos and hair toys.
And I'm also enjoying talking to the fellow enthusiasts, that I've found online during this time. My favorite place still being the Long Hair Community.
Stallarholmens Viking Festival
Yesterday I had a lovely day with two friends and one friends dog!
A demonstration in viking games.
I made a new dress for the occasion. The green one.
For next year the plan is to update some more of my clothes and accessories.
The bracelets are made from horse hair by a friend.
I'm planning to make another post about the dress.
I made a hairstyle with a variety of accent braids, bought beads and a hairslide. The feather accessories I made from my ducks shed feathers and beads.
I skipped elastics and used coarse sewing thread to tie my braids.
One of the vendors stopped me to tell me that I got the hardest look he had seen that day.
I practiced my regular silliness.
I had tu choose from all of these lovelies.
I got this for my SO.
And this for myself. I needed more storage for my jewelry.
My SO also wanted two smaller knives.
I'm planning to shorten the stick.
These are for my viking dress.
