Henry went to the Barbers!

Henry was very 'grown up' today he informed the others...he went to a real life barbers!  

It was really busy being a Saturday, but they were happy to cut his hair for him.  It was quite long at the back which wasn't really seen in the other pictures posted yesterday.

Here is the result.

The owner of the Barbers took some photos that he was going to send to us, but we haven't received them yet...will have to pop down there on Monday to remind him!  I forgot to take my camera as had taken it out of my bag the day before!

Puzzling Henry

Henry and I have been feeling rather down and despondent about his hair situation.  He is pretty much bald at the back now and this 'will not do'...  He has been trying to sell some sweaters to raise funds to buy a selection of wigs to try - unfortunately can't try and send back those that aren't right!  The ultimate is to save enough to have a re-root done - but we have had lots of problems trying to find the right shade for this as well.  You may remember he visited some wig shops in the USA where there were thousands and yet we still couldn't get a match.  We also sent a sample of his hair to a person in the UK who was going to do a match - well that never worked out either - despite emails - once the hair was sent off, we never got a response from her either, which was most disappointing.

A wig arrived yesterday... we had hoped to order two, but the other we want isn't stocked over here.  Sigh...  Sadly it wasn't suitable so Henry is not a happy boy.  In order to try and cheer him up I hunted out our Wentworth Puzzle we have.  

Seems this was just the thing to distract him.

40 pieces...Henry hunts out the edge pieces first.

It is coming together.

Almost finished.

Just the animals to put in now.

Ta Da!  I've finished it.  He cries.

Well done Henry!

My waif gets hair.

Before I went to the Sasha Festival I made a request on the Sasha Mart for where to get wigs from.  I had a little Gregor Waif with no hair whom I wanted to re-wig with red hair until I learn to re-root, or can afford to have re-rooted.  Ted kindly spent some time with me discussing wigs and with emails flying back and forth between us we finally settled on one which arrived while I was away.

Well with much fiddling around yesterday afternoon I managed to get the wig to fit - I seemed to be all fingers and thumbs.  I gave the fringe a trim and then dressed my poor little fellow to see what he looked like with hair.

Here he is outside looking at the lilies that have come out to flower while I have been away.

I love the way they highlight his red hair.

He is dressed in Henry's DD outfit that I bought last year at a Sasha Fun Day at Dawn Law's and the wonderful Union Jack Festival trainers that we were given at the Festival.

Not quite the scruffy red head I had envisioned in my mind, but I like the look nevertheless.

More Festival posts tomorrow as we are off to see my son's university shortly.