Jeepers Creepers!

Hi Everyone! Happy Sunday!!  It's a very cloudy and rainy day here today so I'm staying in.  We've got some Packer football coming up this afternoon and I'm thinking of either making some tacos or chili.  I can make the tacos lowcarb by not eating the tortillas the chili is a different matter. I love beans in my chili dark red kidney beans and black beans so it wouldn't be carb friendly but it seems like such a great day for chili! Decisions! Decisions!

Something that was not so hard to decide on was this creepy mani I did.  I usually like the more cute Halloween mani's but every once in a while I like to get in a creepy or scary one.  I might try another one again before Halloween but for now this is my scary/creepy mani of this Halloween season

I sort of kept adding to this one and it turned out better than I thought it would!

I used a few differnt plates for this Winstonia, EDM, Bundle Monster Messy Mansion and I did free hand the fence

I could have had a teeny mouse the owl was hunting for but I don't "do" the circle of life so mushrooms it is!

As I like to do I did find a picture I used for inspiration and here it is

If I could have had smaller images or longer nails I might have tried to add the pumpkins

Group photo with nails and plate what do you think?  Did I nail it?

What kind of Halloween mani person are you?  Do you like sweet and cutesy or do you like scary and gory?

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you all have a fantastic day!

Catch A Wave!

Hi Everyone Happy Hump Day!!  I pulled out some of my fun Zoya Summer colors from a few collections ago because I like everyone to feel the love in my drawers and not just the new stuff. Zoya Josie, Robyn, Reagan, Pippa & Arizona along with OPI A Roll In The Hague for a fun but simple beach towel look.  I actually tape mani'd which is so so so dreaded for me!  It's hard to use striping tape when you have long nails LOL

I added a bit of Hibiscus flowers as an accent from Bundle Monster and here's the cute look of the day!

I tried to just freehand straight without the tape but that was SO laughable!

What do you think?  Does this mani remind you of beach towels?  My coworker Jacky sure thought so!

With summer officially here it still has to be like 150 degrees before I will get in the pool LOL  Beach towels are just for show for me!

Thanks for stopping by!  I hope you all have a fabulous day!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Whimsy--Cupcakes Part Deux

Hi Everyone!  I'm trying to get in some double duty today by recreating a super super super old mani I did during Bundle Monster's very first contest as well as Whimsy for Digit-al  Dozen week.  Whimsy is hard for me.  I not whimsical, I'm not cutesy but alas no one wants to do a spike week in the DD.  So I did some cute cupcakes today hoping they could also be whimsical.  Only you can be judge of that, trust me

I don't know if this screams Whimsy but it does say cute

My base is Sonoma Nail Art Tallulah and I stamped with Bundle Monster BM-014

I guess no matter how old you are cupcakes will always be cute

Way back when I entered the first Bundle Monster contest with a mani I called Cassie's Cupcakes.  I was one of the lucky winners and got their 2nd set of plates free.  That was a zillion years ago and here I am still stamping to this day!  This is the mani from that contest

Look at how short and stubby my nails were! Oh My Lanta!

Here's a side by side of then and now I prefer my nails long but I know they are not everyone's cup of tea

I could have added some teeny rhinestones to the current mani except after the move I'm not sure where they are LOL

Lots of cute stuff so far this week.  My fave to date has been Cathy aka More Nail Polish's cute little fluffy guys they were adorable!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Gradient--Monkey See Monkey Do Monday Shanna's Nail Art

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday!  This week is gradient week for the Digit-al Dozen and I got do to do triple action with this one!  My mom, sister, and I along with our friend LuAnn went to the Shedd Aquarium on Saturday and we had so much fun.  I wanted to be able to sport some underwater nails and lucky for me I found a super cute mani done by Shanna of Shanna's Nail Art all the way back from 2014 that I could use for a Monkey See Monkey Do Monday mani AND it fit this week's theme as well!

I had a HORRIBLE time trying to get pictures of this mani though!  Seriously!  It's a gradient that on my camera never looked like a gradient!  No matter where I went to get pictures of it, it did not show the gradient.  I took some barely passing pics at work, took a few ok ones with my cell phone and then the nightmare began trying to move them from one place to another UG.  I ended up having to use flash for this which I'm usually never a fan of

Here's my Shedd Aquarium mani complete with mermaid!  It really did turn out cute

I basically just used Bundle Monster BM501 for entire mani, I added a mermaid I had from a no name plate as for some reason I lost BM510!!! I've never lost a plate in my life but when I tried to find it it was no where to be found!

The turtle is from the same Bundle Monster set he's on BM503 he was a great little added touch

My base is just a simple gradient of China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Pacific Blue.  Mundo black for the stamping with the fabulous crystal stamper from  Girly Bits to help me place all the teeny fish exactly where I wanted them.

Here's a side by side picture of both mani's

This really was a perfect mani to wear to the Aquarium and I got several compliments on it

This week should be a good week!  I'm going to try to do a couple of things that are really outside the box for our gradient week.  Hopefully they both turn out!  

Please head over and check out what my crew came up with for today!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Spring--Happy St Patrick's Day!

Hi Everyone!!!! Happy St Patrick's Day!!!!!!  I don't even feel bad about posting a St Patrick's Day mani in the middle of a Digit-al Dozen week because St Patrick's Day is ALWAYS March 17th and March is definitely Spring woot!

I'm just going to be short and sweet.  My base is the mega gorgeous Pahlish Emerald Cedars. I stamped with BM411, GoGo Only St Happy and MM04

Stamping with Mundo Avocado but my Celtic shamrock is Avocado, Lime and White gradiented on the plate

No one can pinch me at all today as I'll be wearing this AND my green lipstick!

Look at those hidden flakies in Emerald Cedars!!

OH OH PHOTO BOMB!!!!

I'm going to try to snag him and get his gold!

Happy St Patrick's Day!!! I hope you all find some gold at the end of the rainbow

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Spring--Daylight Savings Time!

Hi Everyone!  Happy Monday! UG but is it??? Daylight savings time hit yesterday and since it's March we are "springing ahead" aka losing an entire freaking hour of sleep!  Back in the day when I used to work 3rd shift I was totally prepared for this to happen.  I used to work on getting up 15 minutes earlier every day for a week so that by the time it finally hit I was ready.  This week I totally failed.   TOTALLY FAILED.  I'm pretty sure there will be no makeup or eyebrows on today since I have to be up at what is really 4am instead of 5am for work.  

Dear coworkers I am so sorry for my lack of eyebrows

Sincerely,
Screwed Over by Daylight Savings Time

But this day also starts the Digital-Dozen week and we are doing Spring so something good is coming out of this for sure lol!

Here's my Daylight Savings Mani to celebrate (defefinitely said with sarcasm) the occasion

I used Darling Diva's We Are The Champions for my base and then sponged on some black tips.

We Are The Champions is a lovely holo duochrome.  It might not be very Spring looking but it looks cool with this mani!

Okay this pic of it is pretty cool!

I stamped with Bundle Monster and Pueen normally too short for my nails but perfect to use when you put on a color tip!

Here's the shift in the duochrome

Gold to silver really looks cool!

We were all trying to come up with something other than flowers for Spring.  Let's see how we did!

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Dem Bones

Hi Everyone!  More Spring cleaning in the Fall going on here today.  I took the day off of work so we could get the place ready for the soon to be closed windows for the next 6 months.  I had really wanted to get the rugs steam cleaned but that looks like it's not happening until next weekend

I do have another mani to share with you today though.  In trying to keep up with the Bingo gamed in the Advanced Nail Group I had to do a skeleton mani and guess what???? I actually have a skeleton on my card!

I decided to use the very drop dead gorgeous Fathomless by Girly Bits as my base and then I stamped with BM413 and Mundo de Unas Mint.  This was pretty labor intensive because I had to place the skeletons just so to make them appear as is the are dancing

Fathomless is a dark forest green jelly with tons of hidden micro glitters

It is to die for!  And definitely one of my favorite polishes in the world!

How bout dem bones??!! Check out my dancing skeletons!

I'm sorting of liking this hand pose these days what do you think?

Can you just see all this fine glitter buried in Fathomless???? It's just stunning!

I know some people have said they have issues with this image from Bundle Monster but I have never had any issues with any of my BM plates

So this is sort of scary so I'm going to have to come up with some cute for tomorrow!  Hopefully I'll get  a mani in tonight!

Hope you all have a fantastic day!

Nevermore

Hi Everyone!!!  Yay for the weekend!  Today it's a nice sunny brisk day here in Wisconsin.  No huge plans for me this weekend but we are doing some Spring cleaning in Fall lol.  Windows, walls, floors and ceilings are getting washed and we are steam cleaning the carpets.  I'm hoping to get over to Michael's and pick up some cinnamon pine cones too!  I love those things SO much and love having my house smell like cinnamon and vanilla

I'm also trying to find some time to catch up to the Bingo game we have going on in the Advanced Nail Stamping Group.  We have a winner already but the rest of us wanted to keep playing.  Now I have to do a skeleton and a black cat mani!  I have a great idea for my skeleton mani too!!! Hopefully I can pull it off.  I was thinking of combining and doing a cat skeleton but let's face it my free hand is not good and so far no one has come up with a skeleton cat image for stamping.  I hope someone in the know is reading this for next year!!

I do have this pre Halloween mani to share with you today.  I find myself enjoying the sort of scary but not gory Halloween looking things.  I guess the more gothic looking images.  I did this one hoping for an overgrown cemetery feel

I did free hand the cross here and was actually pretty impressed with my efforts!

I wish this picture wasn't so fuzzy but this is one of those mani's I didn't take many pictures of for some reason

I used my CZ grass plate again, can't believe how much I love this plate!  And Bundle Monster assisted with the raven.  Hauled out one of my OPI Sands for the non accent nails--really like this just dark black sand with no glitter to it.

I'm pretty sure there will be tons of Halloween mani's this week, hopefully this one that hasn't been done before.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

The Digit-al Dozen Does Autumn--Leaves and Acorns

Soooo in the middle of my Digit-al Dozen Does Autumn week life got in the way and not in a good way.  'sThursday night I got home way too late to post and on Friday my sweet Bobo, our first chinchilla crossed the Rainbow Bridge.  While it's true we had Bobo for 11 years chinchillas live into their 20's so we were not expecting her to leave us so soon.  

I know for most people a pet is a dog or a cat and definitely not a chinchilla but we love our chinchillas and they are just as much a part of the family as our cats are.  She was our first, she was my favorite and the pain of losing her hit me pretty hard.

So today I'm posting my acorns and leaves mani--way late but sometimes you just have to stop and cry and eat desserts until you feel better

Today I just loaded up all things fall and did a Fall French Tip look with leaves and acorns

I think it's rather funny that I love wearing nudes every now and then.  I am a hard core vampy and dark colors lover but man oh man I love to wear nudes!

I used my long forgotten because honestly they aren't that great because they bleed like hell Kleancolor metallics for my maple leaves.  

It's funny how when you first start stamping you think the Kleancolor metallics are the second coming of Christ.  But when you've had 687 mani's ruined by their bleeding you just get so over them

Bundle Monster and MoYou plates for my stamping

I really love the vibrancy of my Mundo's against this nude base

I don't do french tips often but I always like how it looks when I do!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Autumn--The Night Is A Lonely Hunter

Hi Everyone!  I really had to step up my A game because Serene of Copycat Claws is really nailing it this week.  Man I love to hate her sometimes!  She's like that girl in high school who was SO pretty and SO smart and SO friendly so no matter how much you wanted to not be friends with her you were because she was SO pretty and SO smart and SO friendly.

So today I put on my thinking cap and hauled out one of my favorite images OF ALL TIME and did a really pretty Fall forest mani

My forest base is a gradient of Zoya Cynthia and Nails Inc Hampstead Gardens.  I went back and sponged a bit of China Glaze Blk Bila Bong at the very top of the sky.

I stamped with BM407 an image I will never get tired of!  And I added the owl from Messy Mansion's MM38

I love the eerie feel to it.  I accidentally pulled up a piece of stamping on thumbie so now the tree trunk looks like a mutant LOL!

I matted it after I had a shiny topcoat on it.  Here's what it looks like shiny

I sure hope this mani has Serene shaking in her boots!!!!!

I'm hopping over to check out what everyone else did today!

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