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About Me
Hi there! I found wikiHow in June 2007 while googling about curly hair. I love to correct spelling or grammar and add my $0.02 to how-to's. Whenever I learn something new I like to write an article about it. :)
I have gone by a lot of names while on wikiHow... I started out with the username "Waterlily16", but I later changed it to "Whimaway". I used to go by the pseudonym "Ally F", when I was very cautious about protecting my identity online, but I have changed my real name to my actual name: "Sarah Eliza." Sometimes my friends call me Sarah, SE, Sliza, or Saráh.
The 53 articles I have started have been read 6,495,081 times.
I have patrolled 45,580 edits during my time on wikiHow.
I have been a wikiHow admin since August 28th, 2008.
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External Links
The below links are my profiles on other websites or other favorite niches of the internet.
• My Tumblr - sharing funny gifs and images here
• My Twitter - Random thoughts
• waterlily716 on YouTube - Hair/beauty videos
• waterlilyvlogs on YouTube
• My Wikipedia User Page
• My Ravely Page - A knitting/crocheting community
• WordSplay - Play boggle against other people online
• Invisible Pink Unicorn - Explains the floating IPU on this page...
• Yahoo Hearts - Play hearts against other people online
• PostSecret - Artful postcards with secrets on them!
• Toothpaste for Dinner - Rather funny, off-beat comics
• PassiveAggressiveNotes.com - Angry notes from various people
wikiHow
How I spend my time on wikiHow:
• Adding pictures to articles
• Patrolling recent changes
• Reverting vandalism and warning vandals
• Writing/rewriting articles occasionally
• Copyediting and formatting articles
• Weaving the web of links
• Changing article titles
Articles I started:
- Slip Slip Knit
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- Paint Polka Dot Nails with a Brush
- Make a Moisturizing Deep Treatment for Hair
- Paint Owl Nails
- Determine if a Hair Product is Curly Girl Approved
- Knit Two Together
- Put Curly Hair in a Pineapple for Second Day Hair
- Knit a Backwards Loop Cast On
- Make an Origami Triangle Base
- Knit Stockinette Stitch
- Make Pour Over Coffee
- Record Audio from YouTube with Audio Hijack Pro (Mac)
- Do a Deep Treatment
- Style Curly Hair for Volume
- Use the NuvaRing®
- Knit a Skinny Headband
- Improvise a Sleeping Cap
- Microwave Pasta
- Make a French Ponytail
- Knit Decreases
- Use an Instead Softcup
- Get a Haircut for Curly Hair
- Choose a Birth Control Method
- Buy Reusable Menstrual Pads
- Buy a Menstrual Cup
- Clean a Menstrual Cup
- Play the Ukulele
- Play Bananagrams
- Put Your Hair Into a Half Up Style Without Pins
- Catch a Cricket Inside a Building
- Flutter Tongue on a Flute
- Switch the Straps on a Pair of Crocs™
- Use Cheats in Guitar Hero 3
- Thread Your Eyebrows
- Plop Your Hair
- Make a French Braid Headband
- Improve Your Tone on the Flute
- Understand Logarithms
- Play Crazy Eights
- Make a Quote Book
- Make a Worm with String
- Make a Star with String
- Name Organic Compounds Using the IUPAC Method
- Add Math Symbols in Online Assessments
- Play Articulations and Ornaments
- Add UIBs to a wikiHow Page
- Shoot an Arrow
- Use Senuti
- Make a Dutch Braid
- Play the Tin Whistle
Note: Some weird glitch has made me the original author of Add Math Symbols in Online Assessments, but I did not start that article. *shrug*
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Wear a Beret
Have Great Hair
Make a Ninja Star
Use a Menstrual Cup
Do Needlepoint (FA)
Calculate Your Grade
Make a Hair Roll (FA)
Play Muggle Quidditch
French Braid Hair (FA)
Graph Inequalities
Make Your Own Ringtone
Bloom Where You're Planted
Play Trills on Flute or Piccolo
Make Cat's Cradle With String
Remove and Prevent Split Ends
Track Down Vandals on wikiHow
Tune Two Piccolos (saved from nfd|inc)
Follow the Curly Girl Method for Curly Hair
Dress Up As Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes
Significantly changed:
Knit
Knit a Cable Cast On
Use iSquint
Win at Boggle
Knit the Purl Stitch
Play the Flute (FA)
Care for Straight Hair
Care for Contact Lenses
Play Egyptian Rat Screw
Switch from AOL to Gmail
Look Like Hermione Granger
Host a Sleepover (Teen Girls)
Give a Teddy Bear a Tea Party
Wash Your Hair Without Shampoo
Get Album Artwork for an iPod or iTunes (FA)
Pass Your Body Through a Sheet of Paper (FA)
Convince Your Parents to Let You Get Contact Lenses
Factor Second Degree Polynomials (Quadratic Equations)
Get People to Stop Asking to Use Your Stuff in School
Quotes
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
-Charles Schultz
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
-A.A. Milne
"Should we have stayed home and thought of here?"
-Elizabeth Bishop
"For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return."
-Leonardo Da Vinci
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
-Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Interests
Reading quite a lot (fantasy and sci fi mainly), wasting time on the computer or doonboggling, flute (ie marching band/symphonic), making suicides with fountain drink machines, finding cool new music, collecting quotes, editing/patrolling wikihow, shopping, hanging with friends, watching movies, tubing, listening to the rain, arts & crafts, knitting, BOGGLE, procrastinating, projectile sports
♫ Music ♫
I am a classically trained flutist, as well as an aspiring ukulele, tin whistle, and ocarina player. I like to listen to a little bit of everything. Scroll through my iPod if you like. :)
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Simon & Garfunkel
The Avett Brothers
Belle & Sebastian
Harry And The Potters
Sting
The Police
Kings of Convenience
Erlend Øye
Dixie Chicks
Ryan Adams
Sufjan Stevens
U2
John Mayer
Jack Johnson
Cocorosie
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Elton John
The Shins
Ben Folds
Iron & Wine
The Beatles
Feist
The Strokes
Guster
Rooney
Camera Obscura
Passion Pit
Wilco
Classical composers
Regina Spektor
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Movies and TV
Movies: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Almost Famous, Music and Lyrics, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Pretty Woman, Roman Holiday, Ferris Bueler's Day Off, Stardust, Atonement, Rainman, Juno, The Duchess, Harry Potter 1-3, LOTR
TV Shows: Gilmore Girls, What Not To Wear, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Scrubs, The Office, Weeds, Danny Phantom, Glee, Anything on TLC
Book Authors
Robert Jordan, Anne Mcaffrey, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkein, Phillip Pullman, Garth Nix, Elizabeth Haydon, Jane Austen, Cornelia Funke, Douglas Adams, Brandon Sanderson, Terry Pratchet, Tamora Pierce, Dianna Wynne Jones, Stephenie Meyer, EL Konigsburg, Bill Watterson, Louise Rennison, Dan Brown, Agatha Christie
My Dog the IWS
Jake passed away in the spring of 2012. He will always be remembered as a rambunctious, lovable dog. RIP up in doggy heaven, Jakey.
Jake and his new candy cane on Christmas morning.
Action shot of the Irish Water Spaniel!
Jake getting a hug from me. He doesn't like hugs.
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