The Digit-al Dozen Does Spring--Skittles!!

Hi Everyone!!! Happy Friday! Whew we made it! Or rather I made it, Daylight Savings Time killed me! I am SO glad it's the weekend.  Tomorrow is my corned beef bonanza with the family and I'm really looking forward to it.

For my last day I just some cute but easy skittle stamping

I used a few Zoya's and a couple of the Maybelline Bleached Neons. Zoya Wednesday, Pippa and Shelby and Maybelline Coral Heat and Lime Accent

I just did some simple stamping with MJ XXXIV from My Online Shop

Pretty fun and perfect for Spring

I based it on some fun Spring plates!

Aren't these cute????

Here were are side by side

I've been doing low carb for a month now but today the lure was just too strong to ignore.  I caved and picked up a small Shamrock Shake on the way home

This has been a fun week!  Lots of cute designs and they weren't all flowers!!

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The Digit-al Dozen Does Spring--Flower Power?

Hi Everyone Happy Hump Day!  My post is up pretty dang late today because the mani I did last night was a MAJOR fail! OMG it was just hideous.  I had this great idea to do a dried flower mani and I spent more than an hour working on it and UG it was SO awful.  I didn't have time to fix it because Daylight Savings Time STILL SUCKS and I had to go to bed at 9:30 just to try to finally adjust.  Did it happen?  The adjusting that is?? Nope it did not!  I still lay in bed until at least midnight or 1 am before falling asleep. I didn't have the time to take it off this morning because see earlier sentence--I didn't fall asleep until 1 am and had to be up at 5 am which really meant I hit the snooze a zillion times and didn't get up until 6 am and have to be out the door no later than 6:27am. And I mean it if I leave at 6:28 I am 10 minutes late to work despite leaving only 1 minute later.

I had to sit and look at the ugly ass manicure all day at work while I was tired and crabby and most likely crabby because of my sucktastic mani.  I rushed home and thought "am I posting this swill or am I doing a quick one handed mani to post something and then do my St Patrick's Day mani"  The one handed mani won I'm happy to say and it is definitely an improvement

Here's my smoosh method with stamping over it yes it looks nice but it's coming off as soon as I post this because I've got other things to do!

To be honest I'm not sure I love the black dots but I didn't want to do yellow ones LOL

I dotted a few Nails Inc's I had sitting out onto my stamper head and then smooshed dabbed it on to my nails

I stamped with My Online Shop MJ XLV 

What do you think about these black dots though??? UG I'm not really liking them now but it's too late!

This will do in a pinch and just because I don't want to talk about a crappy mani without back it up this is monstrosity I did last night that looked horrid!

So I succumb to flowers for day 3 but so far only flowers once unless you count last night's horror

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Extend a mani---stamping over water marble

Hi Everyone!  Happy Sunday to all.  About a week ago I got the entire collection of China Glaze's Electric Nights.  I don't know what's wrong with me these are neon and I got ALL of them.  I mean seriously what is going on?  Where's the pod I clearly have been body snatched!

I've seen tons of super cool mani's done by Opal over on YouTube with this collection so I'm totally blaming her.  Here's her channel check out all the cool stuff she does especially with these polishes! 

So I decided I wanted to try the water marble decal method where you draw your design in the water but let it sit out over night to dry so you can cut and then apply as decals the next day because it's less messy.  

So here's what I found out about the water marble decal method.  You don't have to wait over night for it to dry, it's dry in about 30 minutes to an hour.  You have to use it right away after drying the water off of it otherwise it becomes very brittle and cracks. While it is less messy OMG it's very time consuming to cut out to the right size and then apply like decals.

Here's the water marble I did.  I didn't totally love it but I didn't hate it.

These are neon colors and I had to take indoor pics so really not as bright as they should be.

Also my yellow came out looking a golden orange because of the order I did my polish! What the what?!

So I did this all on Friday and then Saturday night I stamped over them and guess what?! I absolutely love the stamping over them!

I used one of my My Online Shop MJ plates for this isn't it cool?!

This image is from plate XXXIV I love how it looks over this water marble base

It's really hard to get pics of neons! It's like you HAVE to use the shade instead of a light and then your skin looks so wonky!

ahhh the things we do in the name of great manicures LOL!

So what do you think do you like it better with or without the stamping over it?  I guess as a stamper I just naturally believe everything looks better with stamping!

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

The Digit-al Dozen Does Nature--Birds!

Hi Everyone happy hump day!   So remember yesterday when I said I thought I was on the downward spiral of my cold?   Um not so much.  UG this thing is killing me Smalls!  How can the body possibly produce this much mucus?  How has someone not figured out yet how to turn mucus into good since we apparently have so much of it!  I might be able to produce enough energy for a small country with the amount I have alone for crying out loud!

And here's the real killer--it's SO NICE OUTSIDE!  We have 50 degree weather in our forecast for today and tomorrow!  Right now it's 42 and sunny!!!  You can see tons of grass out here now which is just really nice AND the grass is even getting green.  Soon instead of the sounds of the snow plows scraping by you'll hear everyone and their mother mowing the lawn.

There is a plus side to this cold of mine.  I haven't been out of the house since Saturday which means I haven't had the chance yet to see the asshats wearing shorts and flip flops just yet.   Because you know when it hits 40 in Wisconsin men come out in shorts and women put on flip flops.

So I guess today I have a shout out to the end of Winter.  I've got some birds in the trees on a grey morning to share with you today for this week's Digit-al Dozen Does Nature theme

I don't know why but I'm always drawn to grey

I used Zoya Dove and my base--my first ever Zoya polish and it's half gone!  That sort of made me giddy because you know it's well loved.  I also stamped with my new MJ XLV plate.  My Online Shop plates are SO nice.  They always stamp great.  I picked up 2 of her new ones and really like them

I decided to matte this mani because you know all the cool kids matte.  What do you think?

I sort of think it looks more Wintery matted

I think I would like to do this mani again with some nice Spring colors too!

Okay so here it is the middle of the week for this month's theme and so far the mani's have just been fantastic!  I'm heading over now to see what everyone else came up with today

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How to enjoy cupcakes while on low carb!

Hi Everyone!  Wow look at that gorgeous sunshine out there!  I think we passed Spring and went directly into Summer here.  I'm not complaining though because the sun is out!

I've been doing the lowcarb lifestyle for about a year now.  My son and I are both following it at home and together we've lost over 100 lbs.  I still have a ways to go though and while I  haven't been walking because of the craptastic cold and rainy weather I have been pretty good about eating low carb.

Sometimes you just have those cravings though! OMG Mine are definitely for cherry turnovers and chocolate covered peanuts.  If I'm having a really bad day I will definitely go for some chocolate covered peanuts.  My son will eat a gallon of ice cream if it's in the house, so we both have our different things we can live without.

I did this cute mani with my new Kiko cupcake polish to help curb my cravings!

My fab friend Michelle picked me up a few of the Kiko Cupcakes polishes.  This one is 647.  I'm surprised I like them as much as I do--I don't like any other textured that's flat!

I did an orange, pink and blue gradient for the accent nails and then stamped with DRK B and MJ VI

I thought something bright and cute would be a great way to keep this Summer weather going!

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