Project 366 ~ January 22 to February 7

Transformation Update :: End of January

Back in December of last year, I announced that I was dumping the fake colouring. The last time I coloured my hair was late November. I have stuck to my plan and I am happy to see the transformation. I still have a long way to go, but I can see more silver/white hair! It is interesting to me to see how different it is compared to a couple of years ago when I tried this. Last time, I had a lot more of my natural dark brown hair left and didn't really like the mix look I was seeing. 
I am excited to see more and looking forward to the progression! I am also letting my hair grow, haven't even gone for a trim yet. I will soon, just to  help the growth along. 
Here is a quick shot of the progress so far:

It's difficult to get a good photo at this point. The first one is with my regular camera, the bottom one with the iTouch. The colour looks different under different light too. It seems to be coming in pretty evenly though, no big patches. I am a work in progress!

So close!! My 52 books challenge of 2011

I was so close to completing the challenge for 2011, which was to read 52 boooks in 52 weeks. According to Goodreads, I read 46 books. I didn't include all the read-alouds that I did with the kids, or the books we read for school, so I probably did successful complete the challenge. I prefer to leave the number where it is though, because it represents the books I read for myself.

Here are my top favourites from last year:


- The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
- The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly
- Jane Eyre  by Charlotte Bronte
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner
- The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Free the Children by Craig Kielburger



I am taking on the challenge this year again.  I hope I have enough time with our big move to read!

Project 366 ~ Nine More

Keeping up with my project. January has been grey, only a few days of snow but we made sure to enjoy those!

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