Bald Love: RECENT PICS, TAKE 3!

And the fun designs continue…

One of the volunteers at my work funded a musical design (yay)! This was very timely, as there was a Music Therapy Conference at the time I shaved this pattern:

4/1/11: prepping the treble clef

4/1/11: It's very faint, but it's there!

4/5/11: That's better!

Since I had space on the other side, I asked my student “Maiden” what I should put there. He suggested, of course, the “Beast Master” (this is what he calls Iron Maiden's mascot). Here’s a sample of the picture he showed me:

Eddie, Iron Maiden's mascot

He wanted the eyes, nose, and mouth, but I told him it would probably look better (read: be easier) to just do the eyes. I didn’t have time at first to shave the whole design, so I laid out a “template”:

4/1/11

A few days later, I made them look less like sunglasses, and more like Eddies eyes:

4/5/11: scary enough?

While at the MT conference, I received another donation. The idea for the next pattern went something like this:

However, this design would have to wait, as I was about to leave for Boston to run the marathon, and I definitely wanted something to represent that. My original idea was a shamrock, but I thought hey, if I can fit the actual word “Boston” somehow, why not! Then I found this t-shirt:

Perfect! Let’s lay it out:

4/10/11

Here’s a little bit of what it looked like:

A few days later, while in Boston, I shaved it again:

And, just for fun, I colored it green to see what it would look like:

4/14/11

At the race expo, so many people wanted to take pictures of my head!

First time that’s happened! Someone with a nice camera got a good shot too:

4/15/11

It’s hard to get the whole picture of my Boston design, since it’s on both sides of my head...I’m glad I’m not the only one who had trouble fitting it into the shot! I also asked multiple photographers on race day to get pictures. You can check out my race pictures here. For the record, my official time was 3:51:31, not 3:58:whatever. Not that I was running it for time (as evidenced by the fact that I took my phone with me for pictures and video of the course), it was all about the experience!

4/18/11: Marathon Monday! Yes, I stopped to take this picture... :)

Also at the race expo, I got a chance to meet Dick and Rick Hoyt, aka Team Hoyt.

4/15/11: Go Team Hoyt!

Their story is such an amazing testimony of what someone with a disability can do, with the right support. In this case it’s a devoted dad (Dick) who sees his part in pushing his son in races such as marathons and Ironman triathlons simply as an assistant to the real athlete (Rick). Their website is http://www.teamhoyt.com/. Check out the video, it’s powerful!

By the time I was home from Boston, my head was quite fuzzy…

4/22/11

Time for another digression from the pattern funded at MT conference (that I will eventually do!) – my latest design, which I did the day after returning from Boston. I figured I should do something related to Easter.