joined on 03/27/06
last updated 09/25/09
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I'm really excited about this! I cut all my hair off and the only thing I regretted about it was not being able to attach my hair falls. So I came up with a way to make some. :) This is the first part of the project. I'm working on a way to cover whatever hair may show in the back.
For pictures of the process, look in my photo album.
There are a couple of things I'll change when I do the next set, which I'll go over in the instructions (the pending changes will be in parenthesis).
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I'm so excited! I just finished my 25 yard skirt!!! (Actually, it was more like 28 yards, because the fabric was 58" wide, but who's really counting?)
A lot of people kept saying to save myself the trouble and buy one for $100, but for less than $20 I made my own. It only took about a week. If you have a fair amount of patience, access to $1/yard lightweight cotton or some other suitable fabric and have no aversion to LOTS of gathering, then I say go for it. I'd be happy to answer any...
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I've decided to try making a set of synth dreads. I'm using 27" Yaki Pony, 100% Toyokalon from Sally Beauty Supply and a 1600 watt hairdryer. I can't believe how amazingly easy it is! But let me say that regardless of the simplicity of the process, there is a good reason why people want an arm and a leg for a good set of them. It is TIME CONSUMING. And not so easy on the back, shoulders, and neck. If you buy a set, be happy in the knowledge that they are expensive for a reason and you a...
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Being finished with school has allowed me to expand my social life astronomically. I've met all sorts of interesting people in the last few months, and have formed many new chapters of the mutual admiration society. :)
One of those new friends has kindly offered to give me drumming lessons. One of my longest standing friends is about to teach me fire staff. And I've upped the belly dance classes to several times a week.
So many wonderful people in the world! Many blessings to you al...
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Okay. I was tagged twice in one day, with slightly different rules. One was 8 random personal facts, the other was 7 random personal facts and 1 lie to keep them guessing. So, I'll do 8 facts and 1 lie.
I'm supposed to tag 6 others, and here are the lucky ones:
Marley
Portia
Paul
Sky
Ma'Aleta
David
1) I spent 11 years as a more or less full time undergraduate. I finally decided to stay with one thing long enough to get a degree. It was in studio art, which of course, did not...
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about me
Just moved south again from Portland, Oregon. Looking for people who want to belly dance, trade massage, drum, perform with fire, craft.
My boy and I were involved in a regular drum circle/fire performance in Portland and would like to get one started down here. So, if you drum, dance, or do any sort of fire performance or fire safety, and you want to be involved, (or if you know of a place where we could do something like this) please send us a message. It's the one thing we miss the most about Portland, so we are really hoping we can get it going.
**Official Melodia Design Tribe**,
Ariellah Dark Goddess,
Art of Poi,
BayouShimmy Dance Studio,
Belly Dance Video Clips,
Bellydance CD/DVD Reviews and Trade,
bellydance swap,
Costume Tutorial Database,
DIY/ Bellydance on a Budget,
Hooping Costumes,
Hooping Videos,
Makeup and Hair for Dancers,
Moria Mindblowing Mistress of Mayhem,
The Everyday Bellydancer,
The Indigo Belly Dance,
Tribal Bellydance,
Tribal Costuming,
Zoe Jakes,
for trade: fishnet top
( for sale » other ) I just made it from the stockings and don't like the way it looks on me....
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listing posted Thu, July 17, 2008 - 1:10 PM
buns for those with none
(blog entry)
I'm really excited about this! I cut all my hair off and the only thing I regretted about it was not being able to attach my hair falls. So I came up with a way to make some. :) This is the first part of the project. I'm working on a way to co...
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I could go for miles and miles....
(blog entry)
I'm so excited! I just finished my 25 yard skirt!!! (Actually, it was more like 28 yards, because the fabric was 58" wide, but who's really counting?)
A lot of people kept saying to save myself the trouble and buy one for $100, but for less t...
read more
my most recent experiment
(blog entry)
I've decided to try making a set of synth dreads. I'm using 27" Yaki Pony, 100% Toyokalon from Sally Beauty Supply and a 1600 watt hairdryer. I can't believe how amazingly easy it is! But let me say that regardless of the simplicity of the proc...
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Life is good...
(blog entry)
Being finished with school has allowed me to expand my social life astronomically. I've met all sorts of interesting people in the last few months, and have formed many new chapters of the mutual admiration society. :)
One of those new friends...
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tagged
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Okay. I was tagged twice in one day, with slightly different rules. One was 8 random personal facts, the other was 7 random personal facts and 1 lie to keep them guessing. So, I'll do 8 facts and 1 lie.
I'm supposed to tag 6 others, and here...
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transitions
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I graduated from massage school on Friday! I should be licensed sometime near the end of the summer. Whheeeeeeeeeee! :D
flash floods
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These are exerpts from past journals in which I am lamenting what I call my monsoon/drought cycle, where I am flooded by so many ideas, I am paralyzed by indecision, then completely uninspired with only a small window in between during which I cre...
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hindsight
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Writing forces me to slow down, to breathe. It allows me to look back, with greater clarity ,at what I have experienced, after the dust of time has settled on my memory.
Transformation
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If you love your creation, it ceases to be work and becomes the creative embodiment of that love. Sweat, tears, and blood flow like a raging river to an ocean of glass that reflects the image of the creator while revealing the churning depths bel...
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Steam
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(Photo borrowed from massengale.typepad.com )
New Orleans calls me, back to the narrow cobblestone streets, wrought-iron balconies, old, moss covered oaks and cemetaries that hold secrets centuries old. Back in time to a state of langui...
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his madness
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These are exerpts from my journal during a beautiful but painful relationship that ended 5 years ago.
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His madness creates a wrenching beauty. The pain is transformed into melodies that softly scream with it....
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wet clay
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We have been molded into what we are not. It is up to us to create the downpour that will return us to wet clay so that we may reshape ourselves into our own image.
April 1999
the weight
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I am heavy from listening to his grumbling when I notice that , in the still dark sky, there is a Cheshire Cat moon. As I look at the moon, I begin to smile back at it. I grow lighter. I think, "how kind of the Universe to remind me that I can ...
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! 3rd Coast Tribal n' URBAN GYPSY !,
**Melodia Designs**,
**Official Melodia Design Tribe**,
*Hoop Swap , Trade , Sale*,
*TRIBAL BELLYDANCE FESTIVALS & EVENTS*,
..~tribal-bay marketplace~..,
akaisilks,
Alchemy - The Georgia Burn,
AngelDmort's Goodies,
Ariellah Dark Goddess,
Art of Poi,
Atlanta Belly Dance,
Atlanta Georgia HOOPERS,
Austin Belly Dance,
Austin Circus Arts,
Baraka Mundi,Mezmer Society & Tribo,
Bastet Fusion Fan Dancing,
BayouShimmy Dance Studio,
Belly Dance Instructors,
Belly Dance Video Clips,
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