But this is a tangent. The question is thus:

Should I leave the collar as-is, i.e. have it be simply the crochet as the body, or should I choose a suitably-colored fabric lining to sew to the inside to help it retain shape?

The current near-completed state of the collar:

Thoughts? (You may also comment via Twitter if that is more comfortable for you. But please, do comment.)

Whenever my hair is long, I periodically toy with the idea of cutting my hair short. Short-short. It’s usually long, so this happens a lot. Lately it’s just been a thought, as I really like being able to have a braid.

Then recently (yesterday? This morning?) I realized that my hair is long enough that if I were to cut it, I could donate it to Locks of Love. This added a pretty big chunk of weight to the “cut my hair!” side of the scale.

But I still want to be able to braid it, you know? Well, being me, and having so much experience with anime, I thought to myself… hey! How about that hairstyle where they have short hair but then they have this long tail of hair in the back/bottom?

It’s such a weird hairstyle, though, and cutting my own hair to look nice while really short is such a pain…

Anyway. I want your opinions! See the rough references below.

All the wigs pictured are done by Katie Bair, who is amazing.

Kuja from FF…9?

Krad from DNAngel:

Aishia Clan-Clan from Outlaw Star:

The main differences between these and what I’m thinking is that my long hair is shorter (more like Kuja’s) and that I would want the hair on the head to be shorter. Like… well, shorter. I can’t find any reference pictures and I don’t know the names of these things. Not quite pixie cut, but not jaw-length, you know? Also, I would leave the bangs/hair around my face longer – about Kuja’s length, as well, except I also have actual side-parted fringey bang things whatever you want to call it. My forehead is mostly covered.

Oh, and my hair is actually a medium dark brown, of course.

So, do you think that, as a hair-style, this would look absolutely stupid? Obviously I don’t expect you to know how it would look on me specifically – although there are (crappy) photos of me in this blog and on my Brizzly image gallery if you want to dig for them.

The second point makes me want to read it again, now that I’m older and can better follow these things. But I don’t know what book it is!

Here is what I remember of the plot:

There is a young girl in a yard near a forest, and she wanders into the forest. Lots of weird stuff happens as she basically journeys inward, growing up, aging, and eventually reaches the center of the forest where she, if I recall correctly, becomes the heart of the forest. She gets old, and then journeys back to the edge of the forest, apparently going back in time in the process as she passes her younger self going inward (which made some of the encounters on the journey in make more sense) and then she leaves the forest and she’s a little girl again and she runs up to her dad and the book ends.

Like I said, it’s bizarre.

If you have the faintest inkling of an idea of what this might be, please please leave a comment here or @ me on twitter.