Lock Love Pt. 1

A good friend of mine Sam, has some beautiful long locks that were in desperate need of some love. There was a lot of regrowth and the front section needed some work as there was about 5 inches of new hair that was not blending well with the other locks. Unfortunately, with the expense involved in getting this done at a salon and the time and effort involved in doing it herself, she had resorted to wrapping them up in a scarf - hiding them away from the world.

Now, you know me, I couldn't have her hiding her NS self away, so I offered to come to the rescue and save her lovely locks. Here is how she looked before the love...



Her sides had hair that needed to be locks. There was no point trying to pull this free hair back into a lock behind it. The other side also had more free hair that needed to be locks.

(CLICK HERE FOR PT.2)

My Green Obsession 4.

So today I was out in the local market and there was a lovely lady with a stall selling bits and bobs from Ghana. As I walked past, her rings caught my eye along with a green beaded necklace. A few minutes and £5 later they were mine. I LOVE THEM!...



1. Because they're green
2. The price... £2 for the ring and £3 for the necklace
3. They were skilled by my husbands countrymen/women. Go Ghana!!

WOW... I DID IT!!!

Talk about goal setting. I did it!!!

I haven't had much sleep but it's done and just within the 24 hour mark. 23 posts. I must say I'm quite proud. Excusing the grammatical errors it came out pretty well. I love blogging, seriously. I recommend it to everyone. It's therapeutic and a great way of scrap booking. It's nice to look back on the good times and look forward to more good times to come.

Right now I'm looking forward to some sleep... goodnight x

SIX WEEK'S IN 24 HOURS CHALLENGE...TO MYSELF!!!

Okay today is the 5th May and ENOUGH IS ENOUGH arghhhhhh! I just get a little too into this thing. I have spent a few day's writing and constantly drafting ONE BLOG, you'd think I was writing for a newspaper - all the edits and the rewrites! Terrible. Although it was Mother's Day, so I think it was warranted the care and attention. It even had me putting together a slide show!!

Anyway, I have decided to give myself a challenge, six weeks in 24 hours?????? It's 1.39am...by this time tomorrow can I put up the photo's and stories of the past six weeks??? It'll certainly help towards my longness! So here we go....

First 22rd March 2009...the long one... Mother's Day... I'll try and keep the rest short and sweet, well now that I've challenged myself I don't have time for much more!!!

Little Noah

(POSTED ON THE 6TH MAY 2009 AFTER SIX WEEKS IN 24 HOURS CHALLENGE)

Today we went to dinner round Henry's best friend Dwight's place. We enjoyed the great company and hospitality of Dwight and his partner Nicola, but most of all we enjoyed seeing their son Little Noah, who we hadn't seen since he was about 3 months old.

He is sooooo tiny and such a mini Dwight. It was funny to see someone so small walking around the room. Soooo cute! We brought him a Toy. It was hard for us to resist buying him this particular toy... A Fisher Price Noah's Ark
Well, Noah seemed to be very at home with his new Ark! Plus I can definitely see some similarities especially in the cheeks and eyes between Little Noah and the toy Noah...

Of course I wore my green dress...

And my hair was matching the dress in cool, chic and cute.

Dad's Day Out

(POSTED ON THE 6TH MAY 2009 AFTER SIX WEEKS IN 24 HOURS CHALLENGE)

Today the brothers hooked up, along with Henry's Sunday Football pals and took the kids to Milton Keynes for a family fun day. There were rides, bouncy castles and 5-a-side football tournaments, so needless to say everyone was happy! Here are some of the pictures they took while they were there. Looks and sounded like they all had a really good time.


Henry and Eddie



Henry roughing up little Ezra. A usual occurrence when their paths cross!



Kamaal and Ryan, son of Henry's footie mate Paul, sporting a pretty cool Malaysian Afro of his own.

The Dad's look happy... but what's wrong with the Z's???
A closer look at the sad faces of Zain and Zari...

Well they wanted to do more of this... so of course they were vexed!

Mum's Day In?

(POSTED ON THE 6TH MAY 2009 AFTER SIX WEEKS IN 24 HOURS CHALLENGE)

So what do Mum's do on Dad's Day out? Well I went out actually too. I had an appointment round my sister Kerri's, to help her and her best friend Irene design a website.

However, there were a few things I needed to do first. I had washed my hair last Saturday and during the week I put a spiral flat twist in it, mainly to separate my hair into strands which being clever it'll remember and automatically bounce back with a little help from my NS friends Spray, Shea and Styling Cream.

I took these pictures when I took it out today. With the camera at Dad's Day Out, I had to use my phone to snap these shots, so forgive the blur...

The fringe remained at the front


My unravelled hair was looking lovely, healthy and perfectly stranded for wet and go fro for the week or so.

My Green Obsession 3.

(POSTED ON THE 6TH MAY 2009 AFTER SIX WEEKS IN 24 HOURS CHALLENGE)

So while I was round my sisters today, we decided to take a break from site designing to visit a lovely little boutique literally across the road. There, once again I fell in love! Look at this dress... I LOVE IT!!!





1. Because it's green.
2. Because it is so cute, chic and cheap...£20 folks, they do some cracking discounts in this place, but you know it has some exclusivity. Not like something you'd get the high street.
3. It has some really beautiful details (see below) and hidden pockets.



Look at this little guy, so sweet.

All wrapped up

(POSTED ON THE 6TH MAY 2009 AFTER SIX WEEKS IN 24 HOURS CHALLENGE)


This is a reconstruction of how I wore my hair today, (taken on my mobile on Saturday...forgive the blur. Although sometimes, like in this next shot, it's quite effective!!)

Still Juggling

Is it me or is 2009 on fast forward? I cannot believe we are hitting May... May you know...already!

It is said that time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers. I think I need to loosen my grip! This is the busiest I have ever been in my 33 years. They should call me 'The Juggler', keeping all those balls up in the air isn't easy - wife, mum, entrepreneur (there's at least 20 balls with those 3 roles alone!!), family duties, airport worker, etc, etc. It's exciting and I know there are plenty more to come. Unfortunately along the way, I had to put the 'blogging' ball down. It's only because I've taken annual leave and have put the 'airport worker' ball down, that I have the time to get this thing up-to-date.

So let's go through all these pictures I have sitting in my camera, waiting to be brought alive on my blog!