Trial & Error (snowflake #3)

I think we bloggers often times only come to our blog readers with the best we have to offer. The writer drafts, edits, composes a final draft, and then humbly lays their offer before the public throne. Well, I thought I'd share a do that's NOT like that at all. You see, everything really is 20/20 in hindsight. We have ideas, we start on them, and sometimes they end up nowhere near what we thought they'd be. It's life, I suppose. :)

So I think I'm starting a whole new section of "Trial and Error" dos that really looked great in my mind (really) and just didn't turn out at all like I imagined (I have a whole file of 'em, truth be told). Along with "Trial and Error" I'd like to have a "Fix a Flop" section where any of you (including my fabulous hair blogging sisters) take it and well, uh, fix it in your own unique way. Today I offer my snowflake #3. If you turn it to the side, squint your eyes, and hold your mouth just right, you can at least imagine a snowflake. Right? :wink: This was from my "snowflake" experimenting days. And I realize I'm making a bigger deal out of this than necessary, but it's time to have some fun with my own mistakes.

So...here's how this disaster began. A pony tail. (sound: DUM DUM DUM) Looks innocent enough (prolly should have stopped here), but the plot thickens. Keep looking if you dare.
Then I separated the pony into 6 (should be equal) sections and started making corkscrews (but you could do braids or twists or whatever you fancy when making your own disaster).

YAY! They're done, should be a piece of cake from here (Mmm, cake sounds really good).

Okay, I knew this would be an issue because my darling's hair is pretty long, and thick and did I already say long? The peacock snowflake would have to be drastically altered. So I was kinda devising a plan as I went. First I thought I'd just double her hair back on itself, then I thought I'd make little tiny cinnamon buns at the ends (LOL) and then I thought I'd do little twisty snake hair on the ends, and then I thought I'd just double it back on itself and then I thought I'd make messy buns and then...(ahem, really I didn't at all know what to do with such long hair but I was determined to keep going). So first, I made the corkscrew even tighter which definitely shortened the hair. Then...

I doubled it back on itself. Kinda messy, but we're tying ribbon around it later anyway. No one will hardly even notice it.

Nah...I didn't like. So instead I twisted the hair into little snakes and bobbied them in place (the doubling back would have been best).

Shut UP! I KNOW the little twisties look terrible. But at this point I didn't care (it had taken so long just to detangle this hair today). And now I was wishing I had never even seen the cute little PEACOCK do which spiraled me into this last minute dreamed-up snowflake do. But being the hardheaded momma that I am, I kept going.


I'm just gonna use these cutsie little clippies like Babes did for her adorable PEACOCK. Almost there...

Uh oh, what do you MEAN those clippies are too small for my darling's hair? Oh well, I'll just use these big honkin' clippies. That should hold it until I can get ribbon on it.

Ribbon goes on last. Darling picked some sheer ribbon--blue and white is seriously great for snowflakes. I started at the ugly twisty snakes and worked toward the pony.

Yes, I KNOW the ribbon isn't neatly done and I KNOW that I didn't do anything cute with the ends of the ribbon (which all met in the middle of the original pony tail). I'm tired, my back hurts, and my pride is a little hurt, too.

So that's that.

If anyone is brave enough to do this 3rd "snowflake" do with long, long hair--you'll be my first "FIX A FLOP" readers. I'm looking for about waist-length hair or just a tad shorter. I'll post my own fix-its for my flops at some point, but I'd REALLY like to see YOUR ideas, too. Email your pix to teachertools at gmail dot com

Also, I want to mention that this really is tongue in cheek. Making mistakes is great for anyone wishing to get better at something. These mistakes spawned another couple ideas for dos that we'll do eventually, so nothing is a waste of time if we use it to stretch and grow.

We're beginning to prepare for a huge trek across the country for Christmas, so if I don't find time to post some of our other dos on here before next week, I hope everyone has a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!