Old Fashioned Phone

 There is something so lovely about this old fashioned phone die from Sissix - perfect for a note to a friend. I used papers by Authentique. The center ring around the dial was cut in white and I coloured it with Promarkers for a bit of contrast. The sentiment is one of those dollar ones from Michaels (I miss rummaging around in those dollar bins!)

Now I am sure lots of you know this trick, but here is the way I cut a banner type edge so that the angles are perfectly even... Fold your strip of card/paper in half, lengthwise

Take your scissors and cut down from the top edge at an angle....

Voila - a perfect banner shape every time. Just be careful not to crease the fold, just do it loosely so that you don't have a crease mark down the center of your paper

So like most women of my age, I visit my (very expensive) hairdresser every five weeks for a trim, and more importantly what they call a 'root regrowth' and I call 'covering up the grey'.
'I could do this myself and save some money' I thought as I watched them separate tiny sections of hair and brush the dye on. So I bought all the stuff, and set out to do it. I learned a few things...........
1. Do not wear a white tee shirt when you are applying hair dye, two reasons, one, the dye drips onto your clothes (it never does that when the hairdresser does it. Hmmm) and two, how do you get the tee shirt off over your head to step into the shower to wash off the dye...
2. Do not keep the tubes of hair dye in a rather stiff-to-open drawer in a bedroom with a cream carpet
3. Make sure that the lid is on the tube of hair dye, so that when you pull our the stiff drawer and everything shoots out of the drawer, you don't get a big brown splodge on cream carpet

So, was it worth it? Well I am de-greyed, but at a price
Cost of tubes of hairdye, little brush etc etc £20
Cost of new cream carpet for the bedroom - probably about £250
Cost of new favourite white tee shirt - £15

Okay, maybe it wasn't a great idea after all!