There's so much beauty in the world

Hi Everyone!  Hope everyone is doing well.  We are finally get rid of the super chill again in Wisconsin and possibly warming up for the weekend.  I don't know about any of you but I am pretty much done with Winter.

To help with my Winter blues I decided to put on the most gorgeous and glorious red on the planet--yes I hauled out my beloved OPI Vampire State Building.  It is hands down my favorite red ever and probably always will be.  Today I paired it with the very lovely Elevation Polish Kita and really a star is born!

I love this vamp red SO MUCH!

And pairing it with the steel grey of Kita was a damn great idea!

Kita is one of those polishes that looks okay in the bottle then you get it on and go WOW!

I tried some double stamping on the middle finger!

I'm so happy with how this turned out!

This definitely helps thaw the frozen all around me LOL!

Do you all have a favorite red of all time?  I'd sure love to hear what it is!

There's a hole in my heart

Hi Everyone!  Another super chilly Monday morning here!  Geeze we are getting womped with snow and cold this winter season.  I feel like Mother Nature needs to give us a break up here in Wisconsin!

Today would have been my dad's 78th birthday.  Birthday's are hard when you are "celebrating" them after your loved one has died.  It's not really their birthday anymore, they aren't a year older.  But how do you just forget about that day when you had been celebrating it for nearly 49 years?

Well you don't.  You just pick yourself up and trudge on and basically you want to tell everyone and everyone that absence does not make the heart grow fonder and time does not heal all wounds.   There's a hole in my heart that will never be filled.

We are celebrating dad's birthday tonight by being together as a family.  We are having dinner with mom and I'm sure we'll share some memories, and some laughter, and most definitely tears.

Today's mani is for my dad

For those of you who can, give your dad a big hug today!

Dior Day!

Hi Everyone!!!  I'm a bit late--okay a lot late getting post up today LOL!  A few of mine friends and I are posting some mani's with our Dior's.  A few of us are new to the glory of Dior nail polish and a few of us are old hat's when it comes to owning them.  No matter who you are to them--new or old, one thing is for sure, it really is about quality and not quantity sometimes.

I have a few Diors. My new found obsession with them started when I bought myself the Les Violet's Collection for Christmas.  I always thought the hoopla about them was a little over the edge but then I got them.  And put them on.  And then I died a little inside.  Glorious!  Glorious!  Glorious!  Just like Chanel, Dior goes on just like butter!  Of the 7 (soon to be 9) I own there is not a single one that isn't almost opaque with one coat!

Today I decided to match my Dior Blue Label with accent nails of Zoya Natty and Elevation Polish The Arches II.  All the colors go so well together!

First up some pics under the light, I really love dusky blue

I stamped using my new plates from CiCi & SiSi.  This design is from plate 02 of the 2nd set

Here's some pics with the flash which to me brings out the true color of the gorgeous The Arches II from Elevation Polish

Ooooooh!!!! Aaaaaaaaah!!!

yummy, yummy, yummy--won't you take me to gorgey town!

Be sure to check out what Dior everyone else put on to wear today!

Before the break

Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday!  I got to spend a bit of a leisurely day yesterday and while doing virtually nothing for a few hours I had some time to go through some of the pics I took of mani's I never posted!  OMG it was sort of heartbreaking as there were some darn good ones of my beautiful long nails.  I decided to haul them out and post some this week!

Today I am showing you the mega lovely Elevation Pic du Gar with Color Club Eternal Beauty stamped over it

Pretty swirls!

I don't know which I like better, these nice long nails or my short more practical for typing nails!

One thing is certain I love this Elevation polish!

What do you all think---long nails or shorter nails--which do you prefer?

Hey! Did you know that even though Monochrome week is over you can still enter the Digit-al Dozen Giveaway!!

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Digit-al Dozen Does Monochrome--Don't be cruel, to a heart that's true

Hi Everyone!  Happy Friday!  Wow sorry for such a late post but I got up and out of here at the buttcrack of dawn this morning and am just now getting home.  I'm definitely looking forward to the weekend and some great football on Sunday!

Today I just have a pretty simple monochrome mani and I even cheated a little adding color BUT the subject is quite near and dear to me.  I didn't have a chance to post this mani last week on the 8th because of the tutorial week but here's what I wore in remembrance of The King on what would have been his 79th birthday

Still love him after 43 years!!!  I think he would still be rocking out if he was still with us too.

Monochrome was a bit challenging for me, not really sure why.  I would look at all the way cool mani's the rest of my gang did and feel like they knocked it out of the ball park and I just fell flat.  I hope it's not all the hours I'm working sucking my creative juices dry!

Make sure you check out the last day for the group

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Digit-al Dozen Does Monochrome--Blue Ocean!

Hi Everyone!  The weekend is almost here--yay!  Anybody have any great plans?  I'm working again--I know you're all shocked BUT I am also doing my mom's nails for her on Saturday.  Yes people hell has frozen over!  I could not believe it when she called me and asked me if I could make her nails look pretty for her dinner out on Saturday.  Now mind you all that will occur is a nude polish going on with no stamping whatsoever but still it's something!  Neither my mom nor sister capitalize on all the super cool mani's they could get from me whenever they wanted!  If Lisa was still here she'd be my number one non paying customer LOL!  I think we might try to go to the new Jack Ryan movie on Sunday if we aren't watching football--who knows anything cold happen!

Today I've chosen blue for my Monochrome Week day.  I have the lovely Into Darkness and Narasuk by Elevation polish in addition to Fishwife by Butter London on today.  I love the little accent nail I did with Narasuk so much I think I'll do a full mani like this one day!

Jut because I was lazy and it was still out I used MoYou Sailor 07 for the stamping

You just can't go wrong with waves--ever!

I think Monochrome week has been really great so far?  Does anyone have a favorite yet?  It's really hard to pick isn't it???  Let's see what everyone comes up with for today!

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Digit-al Dozen Does Monochrome--Orange Crush!

Hi Everyone!! Happy Hump Day!!  I have been loving all the brightly colored monochrome colors my cohorts have come up with so I decided to do one of my own today!  I went with a color I don't often wear---ORANGE!  It's pretty lickalicious if I do say so myself.
I started with a gradient of Zoya Thandie and Elevation Polish The Arches II.  Then I topped it with Red Dog Designs Pumpkin Toss.  It was pretty blingy.  I did it up last night so I went to bed feeling good.  Then this morning since I was up so early I decided to stamp over it.  I whipped up a light orange/peach color to stamp over the top of it and hauled out MoYou Sailor 07 and here it is!

It's pretty orangey!  Definitely not a dreary winter color at all

This pic here without the flash shows the peachy stamping color a little better.

What do you think of this nail length for me?  I think my fingers look fat but at the same time I do sort of like this length

Stamping over glitter makes me SO happy

What did everyone else come up with on hump day???

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