Sew Grateful Giveaway! Now Closed

I know I am a day late, but better late than never I always say (probably because I am always late).

Anyway, I wanted to post one picture first, to prove that I do actually do my hair and makeup sometimes hehe. I can't believe I posted those pictures the other day without makeup and hair done.

See, it is even curled (actually this is second day hair).
Anyway, why you all came. The giveaway. It is only open to the US. I know, I am sorry, but it is really expensive to ship oversees and it can't be tracked and makes me all nervious, I found that out in my last giveaway.

The prizes.... well vintage patterns, since I still have some in my stash (yea, never ebay-ed them, oops). But at least all the pictures are right side up this time (which was a huge effort for the first picture, why does blogger mess witht he picture orientation?)

 I think I will do the same thing with letting you choose up to 5. I tried to have a little variety for everyone.

Ways to enter... (all links to social media are on the right side bar)
1. Just comment on which patterns you would choose (don't worry about pattern numbers if not in picture - sorry about that. If you will win, I will contact you for the exact patterns desired)
2. Check out some old posts to see if you might be interested in following (following not required). Comment on what you would like to see more of (sewing I know lol)
3. Follow me on twitter (I generally post about giveaways and good things). Comment back her that you did. OR tweet about this giveaway on twitter (with a link back to here). Comment with a link to the tweet
4. Like a series of vintage sewing attempts on facebook. Comment saying you did.
5. Check out my pinterest boards (I am putting this last because you might get lost after this one). Comment with your screen name if you are on pinterest and what types of things you like to pin (sewing, vintage inspired, home making, etc)

I'll randomly choose ONE winner. The giveaway is now closed.

One more restriction... If you choose a vogue or mccalls pattern (besides the transfers) please send a picture to vintage vogue  (see my last post ) to see if they might want to make a reproduction pattern from it. And scan it if they decide they want to.

Hair Update (Yes I actually set my hair!)

Two posts in two days, that might be some record for me, maybe I am turning this boat around.

Annabelle inspired me to actually get around to setting my hair. I had been meaning to since I got my hair cut (two weeks ago, ouch) because I don't really like the way it looks down and because I got it cut in a middy to do the great hairstyles that I see people doing on their blogs and on YouTube such as Casey from Elegantly Amused, Ashley of LisaFreemontStreet, Sam of PrimpedPreenNPeachy, and many others ( I hate to exclude people but there are sooo many great hair tutorials!). I think you can see my subscriptions and some favorites on my youtube page. I know that you can see some of my favorite hairdos and tutorials from my my hair and makeup board on pinterest.

So I was going for a Marylin Monroe look, I set my hair using foam rollers. I bought a couple of packs of cheap ones at the dollar tree when I was looking for cheap Easter basket filler. I didn't think that they could screw up foam rollers, I was wrong. The plastic piece that latches the roller, kept falling off. It was a pain, but once I got the rollers in they were okay. I did a rolling set like Ashley does in this video (hers are hot rollers, but you get the idea). Middle part rolled back away from face, sides and back rolled under.

It didn't exactly turn out like hers and at first I was a bit discouraged because when I brushed it, the curls seamed to multiply instead of going together into large curls. Of course I deleted all the pictures of the hair in this beginning state before I even thought of putting it on the blog.

I tried to keep telling myself "Just keep brushing". It was a weird mixture of Sam of PrimpedPreenNPeachy's advice and Dory from Finding Nemo. Hehe.

I then saw a different brush sitting in the cabinet. Now I don't know why I even have this brush because it is horrible with mine and my daughter's hair. But I thought I would give it a try, what could it hurt really. Well it worked! It still isn't perfect, but I felt good going out like that. Not Marilyn, but still good. This is what it looked like after brushing with second brush...

Oh and in case any of you were curious I did take a picture of both brushes. The one on the bottom is my regular brush and the one on the top is the one that worked. Please ignore the mass amounts of hair in the brushes, I don't know why I don't think of these things before taking the photos.

After a while at work the part that falls of my face, was really bugging me so I ended up putting in a bobby pin to hold it back out of my eyes. I still like the look though. Here is the final look. That white thing is my headphone cord. Again not thinking before taking the photo. Also my roots are showing really bad in that last pic, ignore them as well. Maybe I will update my color this weekend.

I am feeling really good about the results even though it isn't exactly what I had originally anticipated. I am much happier with my haircut too (which I do believe helps out with the overall look). 

So happy, I might even attempt pin curls again. They were a disaster last time. It looked like I pinned squares instead of circles, it had big crinks in it like a horrible crimper instead of curls (Any advice on what I did wrong?).

So hopefully this means I will stop being lazy and roll my hair every evening.

I wouldn't count on it, but one can always hope.