Costume Wigs

This is a random post out of nowhere, but all of the sudden I have a church assignment to dress 30+ Oompa Loompas for a road show.  My budget - about $1.00 per Oompa Loompa.  My fellow costume people and I came up with lots of cheap ideas for their costumes, but struggled with ideas for the green hair.  We didn't want to put any color on the kids' hair.

By the way, if you do not know what an Oompa Loompa is, you must read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl - best children's author ever!  Here's what the Oompa Loompas looked like in the movie version of the book.  Notice their chocolatey costumes.

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So, costume wigs.  There are lots of fun ideas out there.  Check out the mop wig tutorial on Martha Stewart. (I wish I knew how to imbed non youtube videos!)  There's also a fun beehive hair tutorial here.

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Here's a good idea for a Disney princess-type wig.  If you don't make the wig, at least watch the end of this for a good laugh.

This is a fun all-over yarn wig that is sewn to a stocking cap.

Here's a great paper wig tutorial if you want to spend more time on a fancier look.  You can learn French and how to make a wig at the same time!

Here's a fast, easy, and cheap paper wig tutorial.  I really want to try this one!  By the way, when you start searching for costume and makeup ideas, you run across a lot of interesting folks!

The Guild

Here's another post that I wrote for last month's guild meeting.  It seems like these days I'm always writing about what other people make.

Music City Modern Quilt Guild

Once a month, I get to meet with some new found friends who love all things quilty.  We call ourselves the Music City Modern Quilt Guild.  For the last several months I have acted as the guild's Show & Tell blogger.  So, when nothing is happening on this blog, it doesn't necessarily mean that nothing is happening.  Click on the links below to see some of my posts and mostly to see all the cool things that are happening with some of the members of our little guild.  It's pretty exciting!

March 16, 2013
June 15, 2013
July 20, 2013
August 17, 2013

I've also been the guild's secretary for two years.  But, I'm a very lame secretary!

Feedjit

This Feedjit gadget is so cool.  It gives me an idea of who's stumbling across my blog.  It looks like most of the traffic is legit and it seems to be coming from Pinterest.  The only thing I don't like is that it lists my visits.

How to Plant a Crape Myrtle...or Not!

For three years I've wanted to plant crape myrtles in the backyard.  Well, two are in and the third is still in its container sitting on the grass making a brown spot.  Here's the hole for the third one.  I dug it a few days ago.  Then it rained...a lot.

Hubby informed me there was water in the hole, but I never imagined I'd find a swimmin' hole big enough for scuba diving toddlers.  And, what kind of plants spontaneously grow over night?

On closer investigation, I discovered that they were the tops of hubby's basil plants - that are planted on the other side of the house.  What!?  I'm trying to imagine what critter(s) bothered to chop basil tops, carry them over to the muddy watering hole, and drop them in.  They didn't even look chewed on.

Anyway, here are my do's and don'ts of hole digging and stuff:

• Do NOT dig a hole, in clay, right before a big rainstorm.
• If you DO dig a hole right before a rainstorm, make sure you plant the tree right after digging the hole.
• Definitely do NOT eat two wheat berry blender pancakes right before bailing the water out of the hole with the smallest bucket in the world.
• Do NOT toss the unwanted water uphill.
• Do NOT scoop out and place all of the muddy yuckiness right in the very place that later on you were going to use as a measuring path to get your trees lined up.

So, this morning I was getting ready to tackle the project as hubby was leaving for work.  He said, "I wish I could help you".  After having my own personal rainstorm in what felt like 100% humidity, and after seeing that my tree alignment calculations didn't quite work out - he's getting his wish.

It's supposed to rain again today.  This time I got smart (I think), and covered the hole.  I even thought to put an upside down container in the center of the hole first so that the water would run off the tarp.

Hubby sent me this message after reading this post:

I forgot to tell you that I pruned the basil plants so that they would grow out, not up. And after tasting them and deciding they were not very tasty, I thought I might as well use them as compost for the tree, and put them in the hole.