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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

Dandelion Crowns

A couple weeks ago, the dandelions were in bloom. 

Yes, "bloom".  Because dandelions are flowers.

Obviously, dandelion crowns were in order.  I tried three different versions: the cut stem variety (hated it, required tools), the French braided way (heeeey, I'm all thumbs!), and the woven way (so visual! so easy!).

 

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cannot find the source for this *sad*

 

Just about every day now, I get to practice. 

We go out for a walk (princess garb is optional).

We gather dandelions (long stems are NOT optional).
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I follow the illustration above while we walk .23 miles per hour.
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I jerry-rig the ends together to form a circular, crown-y thing.
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A happy princess dons her tiara and is Queen of the Backyard/Kitchen/Everything.
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I haven't come up a great way of finishing off the ends (connecting the start to the end in a way that will hold), so any suggestions are welcome.

And if a dandelion really looks like this when it's set on fire?  I'M SETTING THEM ALL ON FIRE.

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Happy Thursday, yo.

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