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Monday, October 18, 2010

there IS cake!


Thursday we celebrated my little sister E's 12th birthday. She is such a joy to have, especially as my one and only sister. We share many similar traits, especially physical, but it always amazes me that we can be so similar and yet completely different! She is soooo much more of a girly-girl than I ever was (or ever will be, probably), she's a home body - loves to stay home, be alone in her room, totally content with not doing anything. I go a little crazy when I'm at home without something to do, or not surrounded by people.
I discovered that she makes a very amusing face when she has her picture taken....
So of course Oli and I mimicked her...
Then we decided to take one of our famous 'awkward family pictures' with all of us making the face...(this is us in preparations. We were laughing too hard.)
And of course, when we all pose with her 'face' she doesn't do it!!!! OH E!
(and yes, I am wearing 3D glasses with the lenses punched out, I do that sometimes.)



Sunday, October 17, 2010

who says blondes have more fun?

Today I had the pleasure of coloring my friend Sarah's lovely hair. Her mother is a very gifted professional photographer, and I was over their house one afternoon practicing a vintagey pin-up-esque hairstyle on her youngest daughter for themed shoot we were scheduling when the topic of coloring hair came up. (To see her work, and the results of the shoot we worked on together click here:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fhalliewestcott.com%2F&h=c488c , http://networkedblogs.com/91rMH)


We went back and forth discussing different color options, which got me pretty excited. If you know me, then you know that working with color is one of my favorite things to do. We finally decided on some colors...and here are the results of today's fun... :)




















Color. Me. Happy. :D




Friday, October 15, 2010

reflection on updos

I love hair. Obviously. I don't think there are many aspects of hair that I don't like. So much creativity goes into everything that is done. One of my favorite ways of expressing creativity - apart from color - is updos...(updo-ing?)
Thursday was my sister's birthday, as well as my service day. We decided to go out to see Jason Castro at Mohegan Sun that night to celebrate. He's really awesome, by the way, but that's another blog post for another day. Anyways...because it was my service day, and because we were going out to a concert, I decided it would be cool to get a funky updo. So after lunch I asked Morgan, a highly gifted individual, if she would do something cool with my quirky locks, and this is what she came up with. Freakin. Awesome.
Sorry if all the pics seem to be from one angle/side...I had a fascination with the braids. :)
Having lots of different tones in my hair, as well as really randomly placed, chunky blond bits made for a fun canvas to work with. I was totally psyched with the results.

On Wednesday we had a halloween updo competition. Now, I really don't know what a 'halloween-updo' looks like, and honestly, I didn't really care. I did, however, have an updo in mind. There had been an idea - a vision, if you will - rolling around in my brain for a couple of days so I decided to play around with that idea instead of doing...holloweeny stuff...



And here we have my dear Barbara Blonde, modelling this trial-run updo.


Monday, October 4, 2010

Trippy Hippies



If you know me, then you know that along with my love of pirates I also have a love and fascination with hippies and gypsies. I can try to explain, but I really don't know if I can, why this is so cool to me.

Let's start with road trips.
I love them. Since I was in the womb we would be making long trips to see family, starting out in CT and ending in PA, VA, OH, or NY.
Most of the time it was Pennsylvania we were heading for,[photo sent to me by Bella, was hanging on the wall of a little joint called "the cosmic omelet]

a little town located deep in the woods, in the middle of nowhere, called Wellsboro where we'd meet up with my mom's family who also came from miles around to hang out in this cool, round house in a clearing. We'd have huge family dinners while, like, 20 grand kids ran around in the clearing and in the woods, with 'swords and guns', swimming in the lake and camping out in Hillscreek state park, or taking a walk up the dirt road to...well, nowhere imparticular.


Next we can move to cars.
I like cars. They're fun to drive, they get you places, they get you away from places, they present you with a cozy place to hang out with your friends for an hour or so on your way to the beach and back, and most of them have a stereo to blast music with. Since I was little I've always admired the way classic cars look. Now, I can't tell you what on earth is under the hood and all the hoosie-what's-its that make it work, but I appreciate the way they look...
Someday, I want this to be my car.



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And sure, why not, I'll live at the beach on the weekends. Totally fine with that ;) Yup, a classy VW camper van. I'll drive across the country, and stop along the way to visit relatives and their showers...perhaps I'll be a traveling hairdresser? ;) But in all seriousness, I do dream of someday traveling europe and doing hair for something. Whether it be avant garde fashion shows, or theatre groups or whatever.

Then we get to music, cause you can't live your life and not have music.
Music makes me happy, pretty much no matter what genre it is. Variety is probably the best one word to sum it all up in. Classic to contemporary, acoustic to metal, trippy to worship....yeah. But as much as I love some of the more contemporary bands that I grew up with, I have a special place in my heart for some not-so-contemporary bands that I grew up listening to, courtesy of mi papa.
Bands like The Beatles, Eric Clapton, Don McLean, Simon and Garfunkel...and along came ACDC, Queen, Thin Lizzy, Guns and Roses...you get the picture. I definitely inherited my love of music(and the benefits of liking a large variety) from my dad. The only time I can crank the volume and rock out, is either when I'm home/driving alone, or with him. He's pretty awesome that way. One of the permanent fixtures in my van is going to be an acoustic guitar - maybe I can hook up an amp or something in the van and I can bring my electric too. But what fun would it be to have a big van, some rocking tunes, and an instrument or two and be all by yourself? So, somewhere along the way I'll have to convince my friends to come along with me sometimes :)

Yup. So that's a little bit about me and my fascination for *trippy hippie life. Emily Michael, gypsypiratehippiechick.

*DISCLAIMER - As far as the Trippy factor goes, I so do not endorse drug use. The only drugs I encourage are COFFEE, life, music, and creativity, four of God's greatest gifts to man. I've got a good enough imagination to go through life and enjoy it to the wackiest, and fullest extent without shoving crap up my nose and stabbing needles in my arms. Thanks very much.