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!
Hi Everyone! 51 years ago today the best thing in the world happened to me--I was born into a loving family! Yep 51 years ago I was born to Alan and Sandra Lutze. I was the first child and first granddaughter on my dad's side. I was spoiled rotten by my parents and my grandparents. I grew up in a wonderfully loving family with parents who loved each other as much as they loved me. They gave me two wonderful sisters to grow up with and who later in life would be my best friends.
It's hard sometimes to have a birthday when they whole family isn't here to share it with you, but in my heart my dad and beautiful sister, Lisa will always be with me.
Tomorrow I'm spending time with my mom and sister and best brother-in-law in the world, Chris. Hopefully mom doesn't share too many embarrassing teenage years stories when we go out to dinner because of few of my work friends are joining us!
This weekend my son is doing ALL the cooking (but definitely not all the cleaning up) and we're going to do our favorite thing together--Trailer Park Boys weekend marathon!
My Vintage mani for today is 60's style to celebrate me!!!
Watermarbling I'm not the best at lol but it's sort of groovy!
Make sure you stop by and visit all my much younger partners in crime's mani's today!
Hi Everyone! I'm sharing a funny story today before posting my mani pic. True story too! When I was younger we had a picture of 2 silhouettes hanging in our living room for quite a few years. One was a boy with short hair and one was a cute girl with long hair and curls. They were hanging in the living room we were not allowed to go into except when we were naughty and had to sit in the chairs facing each other and not speak to one another. I'm referring to my partner in crime--my sister Lisa, when I say we were naughty LOL.
A few years ago when I was helping my mom go through some of her boxes I found the silhouettes pressed in book but not in the frame. And i was like what the heck why did she keep these but get rid of the frames. So I asked her why she had these silhouettes of the little boy and girl. And she say's "Laurie that's not a little boy! This is you and your sister Lisa. We had these done when you girls were young"
OMG all these years when I looked at those ding dang pictures I thought it was a boy and girl and the "boy" was me! UG! I never ever did have nice long hair like Lisa did!
To honor the memory of that poor little "boy's" silhouette here's my Digital-Dozen Vintage mani for today!!! Cameo!
Clearly these are two very lovely ladies facing each other LOL!
Have you ever had something like this happen to you? You were just living living on your merry way until you found out something about it that wasn't what you thought?!
Be sure to check out the rest of my gang's awesome Vintage mani's!
Hi Everyone! Happy Monday! To we are kicking off our vintage week. I think this will be a really interesting week, because in the end vintage really is all about what is vintage to you!
I'm kicking my week off with some vintage 50's and that can only mean one thing!!!
The King!!! I went with some hot pink and black and then had to poll the audience aka my FB friends on whether or not my middle finger looked look boobs or records. Thankfully records won!
I hope you'll sit back and enjoy the ride this week as we take you on a vintage journey!
Hi Everyone! Happy Friday! I hope everyone has had a great week. We got more of the same, snow and then bitter cold blah, blah, blah. I got a lot of awesome nail mail this week--great polishes, great plates so I'm hoping to put them altogether to show off over the weekend. I have to say I'm even enjoying the heart mani's I've been doing and normally I'm not a heart gal!
I'm showing off another one of the Red Dog Designs I got last week. This one is My Stardust Melody and it is SO lovely! I paired with Zoya Mira and they were made for each other!
I love the soft pastel purple and green glitters as well as the iridescent teal glitters
And I did some more layering with stamping too. I think it turned out pretty cute!
Here's some shots with flash to show of the sparkle!
I might be getting the hang of this layering thing!
I hope you all have a great weekend! Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Wednesday!! Not to sure what to expect today as we're supposed to get more snow. This Winter is sort of starting to hack me off. We're getting it all, snow AND bitter cold. It seems so unfair! I definitely need some motivation to keep me in motion too! Nothing keeps me going like a super cool mani to stare at all day!
I paired the lovely Elevation Kita with Opi Skyfall for this one!
I love this color combo SO much!
I've also been loving the 2 accent finger look and it gives me a way to wear MOAR of my nail polish!
I hope wherever you are you aren't getting buried by all this snow! Stay warm!!!
And most especially Happy Hump Day!!
Hi Everyone!! Happy Saturday! First off let's start the day talking about something that some people just hate this time of year, Valentine's Day. For some reason so many people are against it. Of course, what it appears to me, is that many single women hate it, but I'm happily single and I don't hate it at all. Valentine's Day is a day to celebrate love--how can anyone not want to celebrate love????
Even if you don't have that special someone in your life, you probably have parents who mean something to you, or siblings that mean something to you, or children--aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, grandparents, friends--come on now someone in this grouping has to mean something to you if you don't have a spouse or significant other. Valentine's is a day meant to tell someone they mean something to you.
That being said I have some AWESOME new polishes from Red Dog Designs to show you today from the new Love Stinks Collection.
First up the super lovely Down With Love. This one is an awesome teal and purple glitter mix with teal and purple hearts AND diamond shapes! Ooooh Ahhhhh I love me some diamond shaped glitter!
Here's a close up of the glittahs!
How yummy is this???!!!
This mani is pretty adorable too isn't it? And I say I don't "do" cute--what am I talking about??? This is super cute!
I started with a base of China Glaze For Audreyy for this one and then did some simple stamping by layering. My friend Stephanie layers all the time and her stuff is so cool so I had to try it!
Moving on to the next polish I have the super cool Tainted Love--omg it's an awesome green glitter mix with black hearts and skullz glitter!
How cool is this???! Here's a close up of the glittah!
And as you can see I paired this cute polish with some skullz with bows!
Yep I layered again! And i also got to use my new Dior Lime
I didn't layer Tainted Love over it though, I layered it over Zoya Dove to try to bring out the green goodness of the glitter and they are a great combo!
I just loved this cute polishes I got from Red Dog Designs! If you're looking to snag them you can find them HERE
I might not be down with love but I am down with snow! Maybe Gina can make up some polishes with that in mind! We got moar snow today, and we are getting moar again on Tuesday AND it's supposed to be super cold again UG! I am ready for Spring--just not pastels LOL!
I hope you all have a great day--is anyone gearing up for the Super Bowl tomorrow????
