Cinderella

With the recent live action Cinderella movie we look back at the past Cinderella movies. Cinderella is a teenager who gets tormented by her step-sisters and step-mother after the death of her father. The grandmother of the classic; the oldest yet to date from what I could find is from Charles Perrault published in Paris in 1697. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella

Number 12 is Nickelodeon's Rag's starring Max Schneider, Keke Palmer, Drake Bell, and Avan Jogia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rags_(2012_film)

Number 11 is What A Girl Wants starring Amanda Bynes as Daphne Reynolds who lives with her single mother above a Chinese restaurant, never met her father. ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_a_Girl_Wants_(film)

Number 10 is The Princess Diaries starring Anne Hathaway as Mia Thermopolis lives with her artist mother in a San Francisco Firehouse. She get tormented by a Mandy Moore's character Lana Thomas and taken advantage of by Erik Von Detten's character Josh Bryant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Diaries_(film)

Number 9 is A Little Princess. This movie has been done by many little starlets, but the picture is from Camille Prats and Shirley Temple also did the movie. Sara is a wealthy young girl who is enrolled at Miss Minchins Boarding School. Several years later her father loses his money and that's where she gets tormented by Miss Minchin and several others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Little_Princess

Number 8 is Ella Enchanted starring Anne Hathaway. Ella is giving the gift of obedience. Her mother dies and several years later her father remarries. Her step-mother hates her and her step-sisters takes advantage of her obedience.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Enchanted_(film)

Number 7 is Ever After starring Drew Barrymore as Danielle. Her father marries a wealthy baroness who has two daughters of her own. Her father dies and her step-mother and step-sister Marguerite makes her life miserable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ever_After

Number 6 is A Cinderella Story starring Hillary Duff as Samantha Montgomery from Los Angeles marries Fiona who has two daughters. Her father is killed in an earthquake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cinderella_Story

Number 5 is the baby of the Cinderella franchise. Ella lives in a peaceful kingdom with her parents. Her mother dies and her father remarries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(2015_Disney_film)

Number 4 is the 1950's Cinderella.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1950_film)

Number 3 is A Cinderella Story-Once Upon A Song starring Lucy Hale as Katie Gibbs who dreams of being a singer, but is harassed by her step-family.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cinderella_Story:_Once_Upon_a_Song

Number 2 is Another Cinderella Story starring Selena Gomez as Mary Santiago who dreams of being a dancer, but her step-family makes her life miserable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Cinderella_Story

Number 1 is my personal favorite Cinderella starring Brandy as Cinderella. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinderella_(1997_film)

Mummified Inca Children

Three mummified children were discovered Volcan Llullaillaco in Argentina in 1999. The girl was a preteen while the two younger one are thought to be between four and five years old. They were from 500 years ago during the time of the Inca Empire. They were part of a sacrifice. They are so well preserved that it looks as if they had just fallen asleep, but that just maybe 'cause they were drugged. The mummies in a museum in Salta, Argentina.

I saw a documentary on TV about these kids and wondered what kind of parent would allow their child to be sacrificed?

Braided Headband

This is one of my favorite braids. Though with mine you only need one or two bobby pins, two rubber hair elastics, a brush, and a scrunchie.   

To start of you need to brush your hair. I sprayed Garnier Fructis for a 

smoother look. Brush the spray into your hair.

Gather hair from underneath above your ear and braid in an upwards. Put the rest of your up or to the side. Make sure your braid is tight.

Leave some hair in front of the braid. (You don't have to but I think it looks better.)

This is what it looks like, but I"m not done. You can stop here and add a few dozen bobby pins or continue for my twist. 

Gather hair underneath above your ear on the other side. Leave hair in front of the braid. Your just braiding regular downward, but you add the braid on the other side into that one. You can remove the elastic or keep it on. I keep it on. When done tie that off with another hair elastic, pulling the braid tight and add the bobby pin(s)

. This is what it should look like finished. It acts as one long braid. You can leave it as it or hide it by pinning the braid underneath the back of you hair. I just leave it as it. 

Womens Of History

March is Women of history, counterpart of the male who doesn't have a month dedicated to them. We're special. My list is in no order and I did get these from the internet.

• I start my list off with Hattie McDaniel. Truth be told I only know her as Mammy in Gone with the Wind. She was the first African American who won Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress.
• Rosa Parks. Who has her own special day; Rosa Parks Day falls on December 1st. She's known for disobeying the bus driver for giving her seat up 'cause the back of the bus where blacks where forced to sit (now and days the best spot). 
• Susan B. Anthony fought for women's right to vote.
• Ethel Waters became the first African American to star in her own TV show for which she was nominated.
• Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman awarded a medical degree by a college. 
• Cora Brown was the first African American elected to a US state Senate in the Michigan State Senate.
• Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
• Sally Ride was the first woman in space. 
• Eleanor Roosevelt who fought for women causes, black's, poor, and the unemployed. 
• Sacagawea. She helped led the first exploration of the Northwest. She also and helped negotiate sate and peaceful passages through tribal lands. 
• Harriet Tubman who led the underground railroad. She led more than 300 slaves to freedom.