Free Doll Giveaway for your little dolls!

I found this today as I was perusing some of my favorite blogs. Hoity Toity Baby is featuring darling handmade dolls by their friend Angelica, at Tygrlilies.com, and you can enter to win one of the dolls! I am personally vying for one of them for my gals, since they saw the pictures and thought they were adorable. Check them out and see for yourself!

Little Girl's Hairstyles -Twist Braids and Stuffed Bun 7-10 min

Here's a cute and fast one that we did before school the other day. The darling bow is from KayteBug Boutique, and we just had to showcase it!

I angle parted her wet hair, back to the ears.  I secured two ponys on top, and put in twist braids. Then I combed all the rest of her hair back into a pony, grabbed the top twist braids and laid them on top, and then put in my elastic. I did a stuffed bun here, since I like the way the big bows sit on top of the bun. It was all done in less than 10, and she was ready to go!

                                  

 I seem to do many variations with this basic style: twist braids off small ponys, into a stuffed bun. Forgive me if they aren't imaginative enough, BUT this is what we do! Sometimes basics with a touch of variety is enough for me in the craziness of life--hope it's enough for you today!! Have a good one!

Little Girl's Hairstyles -Beanie with a flower! 5-7 min

B&B's Buttons and Bows sent me this DARLING beanie and flower. I just LOVE it, and so do my girls! This one got worn for about 3 days straight after we first got it. The best thing about these is my little gal could wear it school, where she can't normally wear hats.

There's lots you can do with these, but she wanted two low curly ponys. I parted her hair down the middle, put them in ponytails, and did corkscrew curls in both ponys.

Go check out their other darling beanies!!

Little Girl's Hairstyles -Crazy Halloween Hair!! 20-30 min

Here's some CRAZY hair for Halloween!! My daughter's school had crazy hair day yesterday, so we got a little kooky. Here's the final result:

This is what we used: Pipe cleaners! Brilliant! I wished they had brown ones to match her hair better, but the black worked nicely.

I just braided in the pipe cleaners into each separate braid, clipping off the excess at the bottom of the braid. I tucked the tip of the pipe cleaner into the elastic at the top, and bent the edge over, so it wouldn't poke her head. I used two pipe cleaners per braid in her two back bottom braids, since they were thicker.  Then of course, we added some pink spray to make it nice and sticky.

We had fun bending and twisting her braids in any direction.

This was our favorite result, twisted in curlicues.

Little Girl's Hairstyles -Two top twists with stuffed bun 7-10 min

I had to show off my cute Halloween bow from Madibu Bows again, since it's Halloween week!!

I started with wet hair (and--this one I did before school, so it's a fast one!), and did a little zig zag part to the crown of her head.

I parted off a small section, about an inch deep, and did a twist braid (you can put it in a pony first, which makes this a tad bit easier to keep tight, but I was eliminating a step today).

Clip that one off, or have her hold it for you, and then do another small section with a twist braid below it.

Two finished twist braids on first side (this looks weird because I had to take the picture with my left hand).

Do two twist braids on other side, and comb rest of the hair back away from the part.

Comb hair down to point where you want the bun/pony to be. After getting it smooth, lay your four twist braids evenly on top and secure it all with an elastic.

Here's an important tip when trying to put in a pony anywhere but the very top of her head (if you didn't do this already...), have her tip her head forward ( I say, Chin on the chest please!). This will help keep the pony smooth and tight (and so much easier to put in!).

My stuffed bun. If hair is too short, leave in a cute pony or halfway pulled through.

Side view

Top. I just love those big bows on top of the bun!

Happy happy girl! And she's off to school!