My Elegram

Two months ago United For Wildlife told me about The Nature Conversancy’s #Elegram project. The project encourages people to make an elephant out of clay, paint, noodles and almost anything then submit it either directly to them (by clicking this link: http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/africa/elegram-project.xml ) or uploading it on social media. The aim is to eventually sell the #Elegrams to help save elephants.

So, I designed, planned and after a few failed attempts I finally succeeded in creating Eleanor the Elegram.

She has such cute eyes I couldn’t resist giving her a photo shoot in my garden. Here are some of the photos  :) 

By now you’ve probably noticed she doesn’t have tusks. I deliberately didn’t give her any so she would resemble the elephants who survived poaching attacks.

I'm In the Newspaper!!

This week has been hectic but it also has been rather exciting. On Wednesday I opened up the Sandton Chronicle newspaper and saw an article about me!!!

Here's a teaser:

If you want to read the actual article please click on the following link:
http://sandtonchronicle.co.za/122760/andrei28brescia/

Day 5 Stripes Fall

1.      Take about 60 strands of hair (a small clump) from the right hand side of your face.

2.      Divide the selected hairs into three sections.

3.      Plait the three sections together once.

4.      Pick up a few strands of loose hair and add them to your plait; drop the middle piece section (the hairs you collected replaced this section).

5.      Repeat steps 3 and 4 as many times as desired and then plait normally.

6.      Add a bow for extra Pizazz!

THE working week is over and so this is the last hairstyle Sarah and I experimented with. I hope you are all inspired (even you guys who happen to be reading this and are wondering why - knowledge about hairstyles can earn you some brownie points with the ladies).

Sarah and I have found a quote that summarizes our aim for this week and should make you smile.

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Day 4 French Ponytail

   1.      Divide your hair into quarters.

   2.      Take one quarter of your hair (from the right hand side close to your face) and begin French plaiting it. Ignore the rest of your hair for now.

   3.      When you have used the majority of the hair you had set aside (you should have managed to French plait about half of the right hand side of your head) plait the end normally.

   4.      Hang the plait over your right shoulder and then tie the rest of your hair into a ponytail.

   5.      Wind the plait around the top of the ponytail to hide the hairpony.

(Hairstyle photographed and styled by the Awesome Christina Seuffert)

Day 3 The Tango Bun

1. Tie your hair into a ponytail at the centre of the back of your head but leave a quarter of your hair hanging loose on the right of your forehead.

2. Plait the ponytail normally.

3. Twirl the plaited ponytail around its origin to form a bun.

4. Plait the loose hair and twirl it around the bun.

5. Add a flower if you want to.

Day 2 The Half-Moon Plait

    1. Tie some of your hair into a ponytail at the centre of the back of your head
2. Give yourself a side parting with the loose hair.
3. French Plait your loose hairs together with the hair from your ponytail.
4. When all the hair is picked up, plait normally as far as you can go.
5. Twist the remaining hair around the plait.
6. Put hairpins in where necessary.

Day 1 The Little Princess Look

  1.  Tie some of your hair into a ponytail at the centre of the back of your head

  2.  Give yourself a centre parting.

  3. Starting from one side; French Plait down the side picking hair up from the ponytail as well as loose hairs.

  4. Continue French Plaiting that side until you have used half the hair from the ponytail.

  5. When you have completed step 4 carry on plaiting normally as far as you can go.

  6. Repeat step 3, 4 and 5 on the other side.

  7.  Place a bow to cover the hairtie.

A Working Week's Worth of Hairstyles

I'll be honest with you, I love wearing beautiful hairstyles but I'm too lazy to come up with new ones. Even searching on We Heart It for inspiration doesn't seem to help, because half the time the hairstyles look too complicated and so I admire them but never try them.

To solve this problem for me and many of you girls as well, my sister and I have found some awesome hairstyles, tried them and we've come up with simple instructions so you can attempt them too.

For the next five days I'll be posting these marvelous styles. We hope you'll think they're as inspiring as we do.