Swatch-It-Up-Saturday Jan 25

Howdy, and Happy Saturday!  We got a huge dumping of snow again last night.  They had all the highways around us closed, and just reopened some of them about an hour ago.  Tyler and I don't have any plans today, so we don't have to worry about not getting to where we are supposed to be.  It's a great day to snuggle up on the couch and watch a movie with a steaming mug of hot chocolate :D

It's Swatch-It-Up-Saturday again!  I don't have too many swatches for you this week though, but let's get to it, shall we?

Christmas Nails #4

Good morning dear readers!!  4 MORE SLEEPS!!  There is a present under the tree for me that I am DYING to open!  It's from Tyler and he keeps taunting me with it, so I can't wait to tear into it Christmas morning :)

I have another Christmas mani for you this morning, let's check it out!

Christmas Nails #3

Hey everyone and Happy Friday!!  How many of you are done work for the Christmas season?  Yesterday was my last day of work for the year, and I don't go back until January 6th!!  WOOHOO!!!

I figured with it being less than 5 days till Christmas Day, I should probably post another Christmas mani!  I did this a while ago, because as you know I have been losing my polishing mojo :(  But, let's take a look!

Christmas Nails #2

Hey everybody!!!  I have another Christmas mani for you today!  I didn't get to polishing last night because I was too busy making homemade sugar cookies so my sister and I can ice them tomorrow :D  I'll post pictures of them on the Facebook page when we have them done :)

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Got distracted at work, sorry.  I'm back now and going to finish this up!  Come check out the 2nd Christmas mani I did!

Christmas Nails #1

Hello and Happy Two Weeks till Christmas!!  I can't believe we are so close!  Next week is my last week of work, and Tyler and I are getting our tree this weekend!  Yahoo!!  Now, let's just hope that Owen doesn't pull it down while we are away at work next week, and that I manage to get all my shopping done before it's too late!

I know I promised a bunch of Christmas nails for the month of December, but I have lost my polish mojo.. again.  I have done a few, so I will start with posting the first one I did - 

Holiday Nail Art Challenge Week 2

Hola readers!!  I know I said that I would be on the ball this week with Nail Polish Canada's Holiday Nail Art Challenge, and I wasn't.. FAIL!  I did have my mani done a few days ago, I just was being lazy and didn't get the post up.

This week's theme was Decorations.  My idea came into my mind immediately when I saw the e-mail, and this is what I came up with!

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday Nov 30

Evening!  I almost forgot to post this today!  Well, here we are on the last day of November, the Christmas season will start in full swing tomorrow, and I will be able to plug my Christmas lights in :D  YAY!  Tyler and I put the outside lights up a few weekends ago, taking advantage of a warm day, but I haven't been "allowed" to turn them on until December 1st.

It's Swatch-It-Up-Saturday and I have a LOT of catching up to do.  This is going to be a picture-heavy post, so let's get right to it.

Late Hallowe'en Night Nails

Hey everybody!!  I'M BACK!!  I have most of the big details, like vendors, booked for the wedding, and I think I am safe to come back to blogging on a fairly regular basis :D

Let's get right to the nails, and then I will catch you up on everything I have been up to for the last month-ish.

Hallowe'en Mani #4

Day 2 of Thanksgiving weekend is here, dinner #2 is in a few hours, yahoo!!  I have another Hallowe'en mani for you today :)  I'm pretty proud of this one!  I had this idea in my head before October rolled around and I knew that I had the perfect polish for it!

Here is my slime drip mani!

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday Oct 5

Afternoon everyone!  What a dreary weekend!  It's definitely fall, and most of the trees around here have lost 90% of their leaves.. does that mean winter will be extra early this year?  One can only hope, right?? ;)

It's Swatch-It-Up-Saturday, and I will call this one the "Avon Edition" because it's mostly Avon polishes.  I did a swatch-a-thon last week, and I worked on swatching all of my Avon polishes.  I hope to work through entire brands at a time, when I have a chance to sit down and swatch for a whole day.  Let's get started!

Fall Waterfall Mani

Evening ladies and gents!  I hope everyone enjoyed their week.  I had to work today, so I didn't have any time to work on blog posts, so hopefully I will have time tomorrow to do up the Swatch-It-Saturday post tomorrow morning.

I put on Julep Alma on Wednesday night and at first I was kind of grossed out by the colour (I will go into that more in my swatch post tomorrow), but then I got thinking about what kind of nail art I could do over it and this is what I came up with!

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday Sep 14

Good morning lovely readers!  I hope everyone is staying snuggled up this morning!  It's a whopping 4°C here this morning and there was a heavy layer of frost out in the country - I'm working this morning and my mom was telling me on the way in to work :)  And you know what that means!!  Winter is coming!!! :D  YAY!!!

It's yet another Swatch-It-Up-Saturday!  Come check out all the swatches I have been hoarding!  There are LOTS, so let's get right to it, shall we?

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday July 27

Hello lovely readers!!  How many of you are still up?!  This girl is soon heading to bed, just waiting on mom and dad to stop in to pick something up on their way home and I will be hitting the hay.

I have a quick, and very late, Swatch-It-Up-Saturday post for you.

#mintmanisfortaliajoy #taliaslegacy

Good evening readers!  Today I have something a little different.  As most of you probably know by now, this week the beauty world lost a very beloved member.  Now, I'm not going to lie, I don't really know a lot about this as I have not been following it until now, but just reading what other people and bloggers have been posting this last week about Talia Joy Castellano have really shown me what strength and beauty really are.  At only 13 and being battling two forms of cancer (neuroblastoma and preleukemia), she was made an honorary Cover Girl while on the Ellen DeGeneres show, which you can watch here.

She's just the cutest thing, and SO gorgeous!!  It really breaks my heart that the world lost her, even though I haven't been following the story until now.

On Wednesday, the lovely Nicole from Nail Polish Wars (also the brain behind Elixir Lacquers) came up with a beautiful and easy way for the beauty and nail communities to remember Talia Joy.  The last mani photo that Talia Joy posted on her Instagram was of a mint mani, so Nicole asked everyone in the beauty and nail communities to band together to create mint manis in her memory, and I couldn't help but jump on the wagon.

This is what I came up with:

This is 2 coats of Revlon Top Speed Jaded with a glitter gradient using Nicole by OPI Inner Sparkle.  I was at a bit of a loss after I got Jaded on my nails, and finally decided on a glitter gradient with Inner Sparkle solely for the name and how it would represent the inner sparkle that Talia Joy had.

I am proud to be part of the nail community in times like these, and I know Talia Joy is beaming down on all of us!  I hope you will join in with us and do a mint mani for Talia Joy today!

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday July 13

Happy Saturday!  Today, and this past week, I have been spending a LOT of time trying to eliminate the snails in my flower beds.  At first, seeing snails was cool and cute, but now that I have discovered that what I thought was my lack of a green thumb is actually the snails and slugs mowing down on my flowers it's definitely not cute anymore :(  Over the past week I have probably collected about 150 snails, it's getting ridiculous!  Although, I think I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and have almost caught them all.  On a positive note, the snails' shells have definitely inspired me to so some s"nail" art ;)

It's Swatch-It-Saturday, and I have been collecting some swatches for you over the last few weeks, even though I haven't done a whole lot of polishing.

O is for Ombre

Happy Sunday!  I did have a Swatch-It-Up-Saturday post to do for yesterday, but ran out of time, so it's going to have to wait until next weekend :)  I do have my "O" mani for this week's letter for the ABC Challenge though!

O is for Ombre

N is for Newspaper Nails

Hey everyone!!  I hope everyone had a good week!  I'm trying to get back into blogging, I just need more time to polish :(  Sorry I keep disappearing!

Tonight I have my "N" nails for N week of the ABC Nail Art Challenge!

N is for Newspaper Nails

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday June 15

Happy Saturday!  Do you guys have any exciting plans for the weekend?  Tyler and I will be working on getting all the last minute things sorted out because in ONE WEEK we will be moving into our house!!!  PS - don't be surprised if I don't post that day ;)

It's Swatch-It-Up-Saturday again!

F is for Flowers

Evening folks!  It was such a beautiful day today and I felt so retarded being cooped up inside at work, and then being cooped up working out in the gym.  My sister wasn't home when I was done work so I didn't have a walking buddy, and I thought that Tyler might give me the "look" if I didn't go and do weight training tonight :)

Today I have for you my F mani for the ABC Challenge!  Again, this isn't what I had planned to do, but my plan sounded like too much work when I went to do my nails last night, lol!

F is for Flowers

C is for Colour Blocking

Happy Sunday!!!  Who is looking forward to getting back to work tomorrow?  Yeah, me neither, lol!

Today I've got for you my "C" mani for the ABC Challenge!  I'm pretty excited about this and the way that it turned out!

C is for Colour Blocking