a 'dyeing' query

These are the ones that I have

In message , spinninglilac writes

I only just *now* saw this message (or thread), and had to respond to Noreen's part of it because it reminded me of my Mom's hair. My Mom had just turned 85 a couple of weeks before she passed away, but she still had a lot of brown left in her hair... and very few wrinkles too, in fact (she had gorgeous skin). The front bit of her hair that was swept back from her forehead slightly to the right was almost pure white though (not to the extent of Della Reece on "Touched by an Angel, but it looked really pretty)... and when she would go to the hairdresser to have her hair permed or just set, there would often be at least one woman who would say to the hairdresser... "I want my hair streaked in the front like THAT lady's hair was done!" They would all grin and say "Then you'll have to wait and let nature take it's course, because she's never had her hair dyed at all." LOL

My own hair was a natural blonde when I was very young, and it gradually turned to a dark caramel... light brown/dark blonde/red mixture by the time I was in my mid-twenties. Unfortunately even professional pictures (family portraits) didn't show my natural colour and it always looked almost black. I hated how that would happen, so I finally got fed up with it, and got the nerve to have my hair dyed back to blonde like I used to be. At last... I was back to being ME again!! :o)

- not mentioning the fact that when I goof up with something now, I use my blondeness as an excuse... "Blonde moment!". LOL

LOL I read this and remembered the first time I went in a swimming pool after "returning" to being blonde. I was a little nervous because of all the horror stories I had heard about people who'd hair is dyed blonde having their hair turn GREEN from the chlorine. As soon as I came out of the pool I towel dried quickly to look... never noticed anything... but I *still* shampooed my hair when I was totally finished in the pool the first few times until I got over being nervous. Then I just figured... if it happens, I guess I have fix it. ;o)

I've had the MagEyes for several years and they are my preferred vision aid when working on something that needs magnification. The lens part can be placed exactly where you need it and will stay there unlike the kind that sits on your chest with the cord around your neck. I thought I had trouble keeping it in place because I'm the opposite of well-endowed. LOL However, they have been sold for many years so there must be many people who do like this kind. I would be happy to give mine away to anyone who wants to try it.

They look neat, and handy

Els

I have held a magnifying glass up to the computer screen. It worked pretty well.

=Tamar

Els Lazer seems to be the solution these days, but what a price that is, never had it and will continue with my verifocals for reading and weaving infact I wear them all the time and they are on a string too, or else I would forget them.

higz cher

Oh my...lol

higz cher

well it all reminds me of this poem...hiz cher Warning by Jenny Joseph

WHEN I AM AN OLD WOMAN I SHALL WEAR PURPLE With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the sobriety of my youth. I shall go out in my slippers in the rain And pick the flowers in other people's gardens And learn to spit

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat And eat three pounds of sausages at a go Or only bread and pickle for a week And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry And pay our rent and not swear in the street And set a good example for the children. We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practice a little now? So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Taken from the book When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple Editd by Sandra Martz Papier Mache Press--Watsonville, California 1987

FOrtunately, chlorine has not so far reacted with my colour.

Higs, Kather> Oh ha! I like that.....I "enhance" my hair color :) Then I go

I love this poem, and have a copy in my dining room.

Higs, Katherine

Hi Katherine I remember you liking that poem :)

I goofed on some koolaid dye a couple of months ago and now have some dark purple and *very* cheery (cherry?) red roving in my stash. The purple is a smaller amount since it turned out the way I wanted but I left the red unattended and it went red, not pink.

If you can use it, lemme know! I was going to use it for a thrummed 'something' but probably won't...or I can get some more!

Michelle

Well, that sounds interesting. I have some thrummed patterns that could use some brightness.

Higs, Katherine

Tamar I am so glad I am not the only one with that problem, Hey misery likes company. I am weaving a Guild sample of shadow weave, and boy it is also so fine and because of the two colours it tend to move and fibrate in front of your eyes. On top of that the table loom we are using for these samples will not give a nice clean shed, so you tend to pick up wrong threads. I finally took the woden dowel out that holds the reed, I now can move the warp closer to the breast beam, and get a better shed that way, and still be able to beat the fell.

Els

Ah Cher with an eye specialist in the family, we have been told to not go that route, because it helps for a little while but after that there may be all kinds of complications and problems, that cannot be repaired. Laser treatments for the eyes are so new that there is not all the much feedback on longtime consequence. I also have slow growing cataracts in my eyes, and for now they can't do anything about these as yet. Hey who said that getting old was fun....LOL For now I just stick with glasses and use what ever aids will help...LOL

Els

We were talking about it in our yoga class, and one of the ladies had not heard of this poem so thanks for posting it again (I am not sure posted it here Cher or someone else.

it is a lovely one and I have passed it on, so there is one more of us to enjoy it

Els

Hi Els I must say I wouldn't want to go down that route myself, but know several people that have and seem to have benefitted by it. It is done all the time today.

The first time I ever heard of it in this country was for a girl who had it done for medical reasons, something to do with her sugar levels or something anyway that was back about 1984 and it didn't work, she lost alot of her sight.

higz Cher

I think many must have this poem Katherine, I can and will relate to it as I grow...mind you, at this time of year it is nothing to see me in the fields with a purple bucket, collecting dye stuff, and as the year progresses I am there again collecting berries and this time with a stick..lol

higz cher

Els, I had the laser surgery about 12 years ago, and I have had no problems. I am a very satisfied customer.

Higs, Katherine