Empress says...

We shaved her and now she's hot stuff. Check her out =) BEFORE: AFTER: We are looking forward to grooming her more often to keep her coat clean and smooth. She went from being a black & white cat to being a black, gray and white cat =) Off to bed now. We're worn out from chasing MK around to get her looking pretty. It was all worth it in the end. Good night.

I have made one scarf so far for my mom's Christmas gift. I'm working on a few other projects that I pray will be done by Dec 20th at the latest. I present to you my mother's gift "With Love": The pattern is based on the Bernat pattern, Striped Scarf found here . I used chunky yarn and an 8mm crochet hook therefore I only needed roughly 4-6 rows of double crochet depending on how wide I wanted it to be. Since I decided to make it abnormally long for more wrap arounds than one can conceive, I kept it more on the skinny side with 4 rows. Now I have to add my tag which I ordered from here and it will officially be done. YAY! Good thing she doesn't read this...I think. I hope she will enjoy =) Now on to scarf #2 for my cousin. I'll be sure to post pics when it's done.

For the summer, I wore my hair curly/in it's natural state and loved it. Yes it was a little more work on a daily basis than I'm use to but it was a nice change from wearing it straight all the time. I received a lot of compliments on my curly mane. Once the weather became a little frigid, I straightened it and it felt different, a little healthier. Since then, I've been on a mission to wear it au naturale. I only had one perm in my life which was done by my aunt. My hair felt silky smooth but curled up not too long after. I never bothered to perm it again. I think it was due to the horror stories I heard in the girls bathroom at school. Or maybe it was because my mother never permed her hair either. Today, I have a decent head of hair but due to constant application of heat in various forms (curling irons, flat irons, hair dryers and hot rollers), I now have heat damaged ends which gave me a hard time when it was time to wear it curly (you can see this in the above picture...