How to Cut Your Own Hair

(If your hair is sorta wavy and sorta straight and frizzy in spots and smooth in others and medium to long and you want it layered.)

1. Start with damp hair. Put it in a very high, tight, smooth ponytail.

2. Brush the ponytail forward and smooth it out nicely with a comb.

3. Bring it straight down in front of your face and cut off however much you like in a straight-ish line.

4. Do some random snipping straight up into you hair while it's still between your fingers to make your cut a little less blunt. Try to look slightly terrified.

5. Let about half of your hair down and make a new ponytail with what's left. Cut just a bit less off this layer than you did the first.

6. Let down even more to create the top, shortest, face-framing layer.  Take about the same off here as you did with the second layer.

Et voila!

Do just the first tier or all three, depending on how layered you want it.

I've been doing my own bangs too. As my dear, no-nonsense friend Emily taught me, just go from one side to the other. In a straight line.

Be sure to use decently sharp scissors or you'll find your self pushing the hair around instead of cutting it.

May the force be with you.

p.s. While you're cutting your hair, maybe you'd like to listen to some songs I made?
https://soundcloud.com/rebecca_daniels

Mixed Ontario Berries with Vanilla Sugar and Lemon Liberte Yogourt

Ontario strawberries, blackberries and wild blueberries. Don't ask me how they were all in season at the same time this weekend.

 

Lemon Liberte Yogourt. For me, it actually rivals ice cream. There are lots of other flavours too - all killer. Try the coconut.

Putting vanilla beans in my sugar is my new favourite thing. It both flavours and moistens it. The berries are so ripe they really don't need it, but just a touch is nice. (Oh, p.s. - did you know you can also remoisten brown sugar by putting a small peice of bread in the jar? Works like a charm. And quickly too.)

All together now.

I'd say this counts as en entirely presentable Summer dessert. Serve it with a biscotti or cookie if you want to be fancy.

Loose

Forget fussy buttons and zippers and trimmings and accessories. It's summer.

I'm digging loose-fitting pull-on pull-off stuff this year. And for some reason it suddenly feels perfectly modern and appropriate to let my midriff show.

Oh, fashion.

Thrifted DKNY tank, thrifted cotton coral skirt

Thrifted Linda Lundstrom combed cotton knit skirt