It's beginning to feel a lot like...Christmas movies.

Well, I'm definitely not going to be able to start my wedding recaps until after Christmas. We received some, but not all, of our photos, and though I could start with the getting ready ones, I want to edit some of them in photoshop first. Tanja doesn't really do much post-editing on her photos, and the perfectionist and photo blog junkie that is me feels like messing around with some of the pictures and making them go MY way! At any rate, it's too busy now, so I'll start after Christmas, I promise.

Quick question: I am such a photoshop novice that it's quite pathetic(I'm learning as I go). I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a photo sepia. Is it somewhere normal, or do you need a special extra thingy? I even went to the help tutorial, which wasn't. ;-}

As it's the night before the night before Christmas, I'm about to continue with my longstanding tradition of watching Christmas-themed movies. These are some of my personal favourites that I make sure to watch every year:
Such a sweet movie. Mara Wilson is adorable, and it never fails to make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Despite the fact that I love classic films, I've never seen the original. I just love this one too much.

So funny. I'll admit Juliette Lewis is more annoying than a movie starring Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy (and that would be unimaginably annoying), but Madeline Kahn (RIP, Love her) is hysterical, and it's generally a totally fun movie.

Ok, who doesn't love Love Actually? My favourites are Liam Neeson and his stepson, Bill Nighy, and Hugh Grant with Martine McCutcheon. Not that I don't love the rest. Except Laura Linney, who has always bugged me a bit. Ah well.

I think I've been watching this movie every Christmas since I was about twelve. I just love it. Does anyone else tear up at the end when Macauley Culkin sees the old man next door reunited with his family?

Ah, Judy. Need I say more? It's not exactly a Christmas movie, but it's the Christmas scene that's so memorable. Have yourself a merry little Christmas...sniff.

Kate and Cary. Love these two together! It's a really sweet, fun movie.


And some other happy, lovely, warm & fuzzy movies I love to watch around Christmas-time, even if they're only Christmas-themed in parts. Or not at all!








Yes, I know, you're seeing a trend here. But seriously, it's ALWAYS a good time to watch Judy Garland...but Christmas is even better. :-)

Happy holidays, festive season, Christmas, etc, everyone!

I joined the PWCC

The Post-Wedding Chop Club, that is. After having long, straight, boring hair my whole life, I just couldn't take it anymore. All the other post-wedding chop stories I kept reading about didn't help, either! I just had to get rid of it.

The last time I cut my hair was in 1990. I was eleven, and I had a fringe (that's bangs to my American readers) cut in and my hair cut just above shoulder-length. I grew it out, and the fringe followed suit in 1996 for my matric dance. I've had trims and shorter layers around my face since then, but it's been pretty basic long and (yawn) straight. The wedding was the perfect catalyst to try something new and fab.

I figured I might as well include our tree in the before shots :-) We just put it up on the weekend.
This is probably the best shot of how long my hair was!

Look at our Corpse Bride cake toppers on the tv. Awwww.

And just for the heck of it, here I am showing Gollum the tree:

He liked the little baubles:


Ahem. Sorry, he's so adorable, I get carried away. So back to my hair.

These are the pics I took with to show my hairdresser:
This is the pic (Sarah Chalke from Scrubs) I had in mind many months ago, when I first wailed that I needed a hairchop.


I don't know who this is, I just like the way it doesn't have a fringe. Even though the fringes LOOK good, I know they annoy the heck out of me.
Mrs Cherrypie from Weddingbee! She said she didn't like the cut, but I think it looked great. And it was especially nice to see a real person with real hair, not hair that's been styled and sleekened to the hilt.

Halle Berry. I love this one, but I wanted mine a little longer.

So without further ado, I present to you the chopped Mrs Ruby Slippers (with no makeup or anything; I know, I look like crap, but I was too lazy to put on my face just for a photo):

So I made a stupid face instead.

And from the side:

Aside from my stupid ear sticking through there like a stuck-on elf ear, I think it looks great! I'm so happy with it! And it's so light!

It's weird brushing it, though.

Mr RS thinks the next step is going red. We'll see...