Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday! Sorry I've been MIA for a few days. As usual I got busy with work and yadda yadda yadda same old story. The good news is we finally have the seasonal help on board--woot!!! I like all of the ones I've trained who will be working with me too, what a plus! Now if we could just get caught up before the season really starts we'll be doing okay.
Since I've had such a busy time of it lately and since it's done nothing but snow lately I decided to cheer myself up with a bright and cheerful mani!
How's this for fun?! Isn't it cute?!!!
The yellow polish is an unnamed polish I got from my Red Dog Designs
It's a lovely yellow gold with teeny gold holo glitters. Super sparkly and lovely. It sure helped put a smile on my face!
I stamped with BM01 and Pueen 46. I guess you don't need warm sunny weather to bring out the warm and sunny on your nails!
I hope everyone had a great weekend. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Hump Day! I finally did my taxes last night. I really don't know why I just don't file right away but I never do. And of course I'm getting a nice little return so you'd think I'd be doing this immediately but again I never do. I guess once a procrastinator always a procrastinator!
So I bought OPI's Push And Shove basically just because. I thought okay another silver polish but it might work good for stamping so I'll give it a shot. Ummmmm this polish is so much more than "just another silver polish" IT IS AMAZEBALLS! It's the most glorious silver polish I've ever laid eyes on! I can not believe how it dried to the ultimate chrome finish!
I took some shots of it out in the sun the other day and nearly died!
No top coat as instructed!
People think driving while wearing holos is bad--this was worse! OMG I could not stop staring at it!
When I got home I decided to stamp over it and naturally it looks fab!
No sun by the time I got home and stamped but look at it!!!
Look At It !!!!!!!!!!
AHmazeballs!!!!
I sure hope OPI plans on doing many more of these chrome polishes in every color imaginable because I will be buying them!!!!!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday!
I hope everyone had a great weekend! I had another meet and greet with someone I'd met through a facebook group on Saturday and we had a blast! Actually we first met here on my blog! I mentioned living in Racine and she is a blog follower as well. She contacted me via email and we started chatted. I told her about the Adventures In Stamping group on Facebook and she fell in love with stamping and the next thing you know we were hanging out ALL DAY AND NIGHT on Saturday stamping our hearts out!
She asked me what my favorite thing to do with nails was and I told her gradienting then topping with glitter and then of course stamping. I do believe gradients are by far my favorite thing to do. And even though so many people say to me "I can't believe you're going to stamp over that" I think stamping over a gradient gives it so much more depth. I also think topping a gradient with glitter adds depth. When you do all three things together, gradient, glitter stamp it's like the trifecta of fabulous!
Here is a gradient I topped with one of my favorite glitters. The gradient is Sinful colors Candy Coated with Nails Inc Clifford Street, the glitter is the gorgey town Doctor Donna from Red Dog Designs
I just think adding glitter over a gradient adds so much more
And here is the lovely Doctor Donna!
I just love everything about this mani!
But then I stamped over it and loved it even more!
I stamped with a design from the 2nd CiCi and SiSi set
I really love this look. And the great thing about stamping over a glitter topped gradient is this is a great way to extend your mani. Day one you can gradient, day two add the glitter topped and day 3 stamp over it! Now you all know me so you know I rarely wear something for more than a day but this is a great way to get more wear out of your polish!
Word on the street is Red Dog has some great St Patrick's Day and Mardi Gras polishes releasing soon. As soon as I'm the know, you'll be in the know!
Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! I bought another Dior the other day and decided it to pair it with one of my Elevation's. Despite the fact there is still tons of snow around here and it's still cold I guess I am just SO over this Winter weather and really waiting for Spring.
Normally I don't feel that way because I am no a pastel person at all. I don't really care for pastel nail polish or make up and of course Spring is fraught with those colors, but I think I found a nice little fix for that.
Here's is the super lovely Dior Graphic Berry with Elevation Polish Plumeria
Plumeria is a lovely glitter topper with various colors of matte ball glitter but has the most lovely blue micro shimmer in it
I definitely see me using Plumeria on top of all sorts of pretty Spring and Summer colors--even pastels!
I'm really a fan of ball glitter but I just love this little blue micro shimmer!
The weather is definitely warming up around here and today we're supposed to be getting rain but this time of year you never know if that's a good thing or a bad thing LOL!
How do you all feel? Are you totally over Winter and ready for Spring? Are you a pastel lover or hater like me?
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! I know you'll be shocked to hear this but we are getting MOAR snow today. Yep more freaking snow. We'll have to see how bad it ends up being. They are calling for 2-4 inches in our area. So are we have not gotten more snow than they've predicted, we've always gotten less. Let's hope today is not the day to change that. I need to make trips to the feed store, grocery store and post office today--OIY!
I'm in a small facebook group with some girls who love nail polish and animals and who just have a pretty fun time chatting. We pick a different color to wear each week and last week the the color was gold. This is the mani I did for our gold color last week!
I started with a base of OPI LoveAngelMusicBaby and then topped it with my franken Ragnelle. I stamped using FUN 6 plate
I love this image from FUN 6. It sort of reminds me of a dried up dirt road. Siince I'm older than dirt now I decided my road should have some bling!!
Hope you all had a great weekend. If you're in the storms path YET AGAIN please stay safe!
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone!! Whew! I am trying to get caught up with my posts here. I'd like to say better late than never but honestly I feel really awful I didn't get my post up on time!
So today I have an easy mani that led to something bigger. I should a picture of this to my friend Emily to see which way it looked more like vintage wallpaper. Not only did she tell me the matte version was the best but she also told me it looked like the wallpaper from the tv show Sherlock. I don't watch the show and found it was her fave. There seems to be a ton of fan fare all over Benedict Cumberbatch, albeit I think people just like saying his name, so I decided today I was going to sit back, relax (after working 8 hours of course) and watch the first 2 seasons!
So for those of you who watch the show, what do you think? Does my wallpaper mani look like the pad at 221b???
I'll have to get back to you all and let you know if I like the show or not. It took me awhile to get on the Doctor Who bandwagon so we'll see.
Let's go see what everyone else did for their last day of the week!
Hi Everyone! I'm trying to get caught up here! I guess my busy life is finally catching up to me!!
Tonight I'm sharing a print that reminds me of my grandma and my great-grandma. My great-grandma was an excellent seamstress and she sewed alot of dresses for me growing up. She and my grandma would take me with them to the fabric store and sometimes they let me pick what I liked best. When we were younger the 3 of us girls and mom included often had matching outfits to wear! The reality of that is both awesome and horrifying--trust me!
When I think of calico print I think of Laura Ingalls Wilder and times from Little House On The Prairie. I think of white bonnets and open fields. But I also think of the sweet Great-Grandma Grove hunched over her ancient Singer sewing machine making something for us girls so that my parents didn't have to spend a fortune on dresses.
Tiny little white flowers with pink centers over a base of Revlon Royal and Darling Diva Denim Mittens and I'm transported back in time!
I haven't even had time to check out what everyone else has done the past couple of days so make sure you stop over with me to see what's up!
