Mad Hair Day

These mermaids sure do have a LOT of hair!  I spent hours yesterday stitching different shades of brown and it's still not finished.  Here's a photo of my progress so far.

I like the look of the tweeded sections.  It really gives her hair a lift.  Still quite a bit to do on that section before I can move down to her body though.

In other news, Riley has come down with Chickenpox this weekend.  I have a snotty nosed, spotty, itchy child.  The spots haven't reached his whole body yet.  His face is clear at the moment but I doubt it'll stay like that.  They started on his bottom, groin and tops of his legs and spread down his legs and to his feet through last night.  Between getting up this morning and getting hold of some calamine lotion a couple of hours later, we found some new ones on his hands and fingers and there are some reddish marks on his chest and back which no doubt will flourish over the next few hours into spots.  Gross.  At least he's young (I hear it's a lot worse if you get it when you're older) and it really doesn't seem to be affecting him too much at the moment.  At breakfast this morning I offered him a banana sandwhich after his cereal and he said "no mummy, banana's are not good for my spots." LOL where did he get that idea from?