Braid Your Hair into a Gimli Beard

Marcella Clinard is a middle school English teacher. She dressed as Gimli, the bearded dwarf warrior from the Lord of the Rings trilogy, with an awesome braided beard made from her own hair! She posted a tutorial with pictures explaining how she did it, starting with

Step 1. (optional) Be born with red curly hair.

and ending with

Step 16. (optional) Get out your copy of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and threaten students with your axe unless they read them immediately. Gimli would be proud.

The tutorial is on Google docs, which I find easier to read by downloading it first.  -via Boing Boing