Hi Everyone!!! Happy Friday! I am so excited for it to be Friday because I am FINALLY not working a weekend! Woot! No more Saturdays or Sundays for me. Today I am just like most of the res of the world and today is the last day of my work week.
I have to say I had a blast this week on the Brands theme. But I will let you in on a little secret. At first when our fearless leader, Debbie of The Crumpet, told me this week's theme was brands I went "Brands?! Why are we even thinking about cattle?" Yes people, I went directly to steer branding! It wasn't until chatting with the rest of the gang that my mind wandered to store brands, company brands, and even nail polish brands.
But I got to thinking about it and read up on brands and name brands and OF COURSE the whole idea and theory behind a name brand is because of cattle branding! Back in the day when fences could get broken, or deliberately torn down the only way for ranchers to identify which wandering--or stolen--cattle were theirs was by the brand they had given it. When the world started to grow and people bought items such as food, tools, clothing and vehicles. individuals or companies started "branding" their products with their name so they would get repeat customers.
So in the end I was right!!! Woot!
So today I give you my "brand"
My brand, the double L with love is just my initials. I like to think back in the day had we been on a ranch this would have been brand my dad came up with for our family LOL! Hey it could have happened, all of us girls had LL for our initials!
I got my look doing a saran wrap mani on middle and ring using Zoya Farah and Loreal Brownie Points. My index and pinkie are the lovely Elevation Aiguilles d'Arves.
Let's make sure to check and see what everyone else came up with on our last day!
Hi Everyone! The title of today's post should really read, "There Ain't No John Deere Here"!! I was born and raised in Racine, Wisconsin. Home of the Case Tractor. When we looked out at the fields growing up the tractors were red, nary a green and yellow tractor in sight. I graduated from Case High School named after Jerome I Case the man behind Case Company. today I work for Case IH right were the Case Magnum is manufactured every day.
Today my brand is our company logo Case IH
Jerome I Case founded the company in 1844 as the Jerome I Case Threshing Company. It operated under that name for nearly a century but by 1970 it was merely known as Case. In 1999 Case merged with New Holland Agriculture to form CNH Global. The company lives under 2 brands Case CE which is the world's third largest brand of construction equipment; and Case IH which is the world's second largest brand of agricultural equipment.
We manufacture the Magnum 340. Let me tell you IT IS HUGE! You need a ladder to get up into it! It's quite a sight seeing several of these loaded up on a flat bed heading out for some lucky farmers out there. During the company picnic in the summer you have the chance to climb up into one and a get a ride. I haven't done it because I don't want someone staring at my huge rump trying to get up into the cab LOL!
Here's a pic of the Case Magnum 340
The Case Company, CNH and now Case IH is a long standing part of Racine, WI. It's been here my whole life and I'm sure will be long after I'm gone. I'm proud to represent a great company as part of my brands week!
Let's check out what everyone else did for their brand today!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Wednesday! I'm typing this up Tuesday night so I'm not sure it will happen BUT it's supposed to snow again! OIY! We had almost 50 degree weather the other day and now snow again. They were talking between 1 and 5 inches. If I wake up to snow on the ground I am going to be so hacked off!
I might need a nice cool refreshing beverage to help me cool off and I can think of none I like better than Pepsi! Yep this girl is not a Coke girl. I love Diet Pesi and especially Diet Wild Cherry Pepsi! I knew I was going to have to attempt some Pepsi nails for brand week and here's what I came up with!
Pepsi was first created in 1893--can you believe it! It was first named Brad's Drink. In 1898 it was renamed Pepsi-Cola and in 1961 was renamed to just Pepsi. I find it rather interesting that both Coke and Pepsi were first created to be a product to aid in digestion.
The Coca-Cola offered to buy Pepsi way back when on 3 separate occasions but as you can see it was a no go. I'm glad, I definitely prefer Pepsi to Coke!
Our brand week is coming along amazingly well! I think all my fellow Dozeners have come up with great ideas! Check out what everyone did today!
Hi Everyone!! Day 2 of the Digit-al Dozen Does Brands and I've got some cute Disney nails today. It seems like no matter where you go these days Disney is everywhere. If you're some who likes to surf the net or check out Buzzfeed on a daily basis there's a Disney Princess this or a Disney Princess that. But I'm just sticking to the cute little guy that started it all!
Mickey Mouse is the official mascot of the Walt Disney Company. He was created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks at the Walt Disney Studio in 1928. He is one of the most recognizable cartoon characters in the world.
My look isn't really "new" there are tons of images all over the web of the cute little mouse ears mani. I decided to change it up a bit and make it my own by adding the accent nail of yellow and red dots with stamping from FUN6. I think it turned out pretty darn cute!
I thought yesterday was a great start to our Digit-al Dozen Does Brands week, let's check out what everyone came up with for today!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday! This week kicks off Brands week for the Digit-al Dozen. Man let me tell you when I first heard about it I thought "brands??? what the heck do they mean by that?" I struggled for a while because my first thought was really not what I'm sure everyone's else first thought was LOL!
I'm kicking it off in style with some yummy double stuff oreos!
The Oreo Biscuit was first introduced in 1912 by The National Biscuit Company which was later named Nabisco. The Oreo was first launched as an imitation to the Hydrox cookie. When they were first sold you could buy them for 25 cents a pound!
Oreo has come a long way since 1912, today you can get golden oreos, lemon oreos, double stuff oreos, heads or tails oreos and the list goes on and on. My personal favorite are the double stuff because come on who doesn't love double stuffing?!
Getting my Oreo cookie look was easy I used OPI Emotions a black textured along with OPI Solitaire a white textured for my "cookies"
Let's check out what everyone else came up for their first day of brands!
