Easter Nails

Happy Friday everyone!  I can't believe it, but I think that Spring has finally sprung!  If you have been here for a while, you know I'm a winter person but this winter has been super long even for me.  Today, Owen, Lexi and I spent some time getting our bronze on on the side deck where the sun was beating down and making it nice and toasty warm!  Lexi was finding it a little hot and opted to go lie on the snow in the backyard instead, lol!

Last week, Celine from Nail Polish Canada emailed me and asked if I wanted to participate in their Easter Nail Art Challenge.  It's been a while since I've done nail art, so I thought I would give 'er a go!  Here's what I came up with:

I used a bunch of polishes, I'll just list them for you guys:

Julep Bess (blue)

Julep Blake (yellow)

OPI Rumple's Wiggin' (purple)

Julep Hayden (orange)

Julep Martha (pink)

Jordana Black

LA Colors Art Deco striping polish in White

China Glaze Fairy Dust (glitter)

Julep Matte Top Coat

The picture doesn't show the polishes in 100% colour accuracy, but it was late at night when I took the picture and by the time I got up in the morning, my sugar spun thumb was all smushed.

I love pastel polishes, and they look even better when they are topped with a matte top coat.  I love the chalky look of them :)

Make sure to check out all the other entries of the Nail Polish Canada Easter Nail Art Challenge and vote for your favourite!

Have you done any Easter nails yet?  Post them to my Facebook page, I would love to see them!

I'm Alive!!

Wow, it's been over 2 months since my last blog post.. whoops!

I'm still alive and well, but let me tell you, my blogging has taken a nose dive.

I completely lost my interest in it, and it was starting to become too much work to do it daily, or even a couple times a week.

But, let's catch up, shall we?  Here's what's been going on in my life for the last while:

a)  Tyler got me a puppy for Christmas.  Remember this cutie?

AWW!!

Lexi will be 5 months on April 4th (oh how time flies!), and she is full of spit and vinegar, and keeps me busy most of the time!  Owen loves her, and she loves Owen, but they definitely have their moments, as all fur-siblings do.  She is now a little taller than Owen, and longer too.

Owen and Lexi staring down little Bosco
(my sister's boyfriend's mom's dog.. cause that's not confusing as heck!)
Sidenote: Lexi was the same size as Bosco (pug) when we got her :)

b)  I'm getting married in October (YAY!), so wedding planning has started full swing around my house.  I have my dress, we have decided on the bridesmaid dresses, this weekend we are hoping to finalize the guys' attire, and we are going to try out some cake/cupcakes from one of the bakeries we have narrowed our search to.  All of the other bigger stuff, other than flowers, is done and decided on, so now it's just going to be deciding on all of the smaller stuff like décor.

c)  I have destashed my polish collection down to about 200 polishes.  YIKES!!  I know!  (Check out my Storenvy if you want to take some off my hands!)  Over half that remain are still untried/not swatched on their own, so I'm trying to work on that slowly but surely.  If you follow me in Instagram (you totally should!), you will have seen some polishes that haven't made it on here.

And, here's what I'm wearing today - Whimsical Ideas by Pam Hatched!  My first Whimsy ^_^

I'm going to really try to get back into blogging more, but it might be a once-a-week kind of thing, hope you guys don't mind :)

That's about it.  What's new with you??

Studs and Glitter

Good morning everyone!  I have a mani for you today that I am pretty much in love with!  I have been trying to wrack my brain to come up with some nail art ideas, and when I painted my nails with Julep Blake on Saturday, this came to me!  Come check it out!

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday Jan 18

Good morning!!  I have a pile of swatches for you guys this morning that I have been stashing since the end of November...  Yeah...  *sheepish grin*  Anyways, let's get to it, shall we?

Catching Fire Nails

Good morning everyone!  I hope your first week of December is treating you well!  Only 20 more sleeps till the big guy is here!  I have started my Christmas shopping, but hope that Tyler and I can get a good chunk of it done this coming weekend :)

Today I have a quick post with a mani that I did a couple weeks ago for the opening weekend of Catching Fire, the second installment of the Hunger Games trilogy.  This is one of my favourite trilogies, and of course I had to go and watch it with my bestest friend, and movie-buddy, and have a girls' weekend :D

For this I started with 2 coats of Julep Nadia, a light yellow shimmer.  This is a really interesting colour, and I kind of like it.  Then, I followed cutepolish's tutorial for Catching Fire nails using a random orange shimmer polish, and Julep Karmen to create the flame tips, and my Jordana Pop Art Black Mark striper polish.

Overall, I love the look of this mani, and loved the movie!!  It was just as exciting as Hunger Games, and can't wait for the final movie to come out, but I don't know when that is yet.

Did you go watch Catching Fire?  Did you do your nails to match the occasion?

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.

Happy Thanksgiving

Good afternoon lovely readers!  I am doing up this post quickly before I have to get ready for going to Tyler's mom's for dinner... mmmmmturkey!!

I thought I would do my nails to celebrate Thanksgiving!  And was high-time for a water marble because I haven't done a water marble for a while, and I came up with something perfect!!  Come check it out!!!

Hallowe'en Mani #3

Good morning and Happy Thursday!!  Last day of the work week for me, and it's that much closer to Turkey weekend here in the Great White North!  Yahoo!!  I love turkey dinners - aside from all things pasta, turkey is my favourite meal.  But you have to have all the trimmings - stuffing, potatoes, turnip, coleslaw, peas, gravy... and grandma's homemade apple pie *drool*  My cousins and I are in charge of dessert this year, so not sure if we will get some of grandma's apple pie.  I think it's high-time I got the recipe from her, no?

Alrighty, onto the nails!  This is the third Hallowe'en mani I have done, and I love the look of them every time I see them, so of course I had to do them again this year - Candy Corn Nails!

Hallowe'en Mani #2

Hey everyone!  Hopefully you are enjoying the last day of your weekend - I don't want to go back to work tomorrow :(  I thought I would take today to do up some blog posts so that I have something to post for the rest of the week, since I have been slacking on that, hardcore!

Today I have my Hallowe'en Mani #2 for you :D  I love the way this one came out, so let's take a look!

For this, I applied one coat of Different Dimension Bazinga! (from the Big Bang Theory collection) over 2 coats of China Glaze Ingrid.  The combination felt very fall/Hallowe'en-ish to me, and I loved the way it looked!  With it being Stamping week for COTW on my Facebook group (I think we are changing it to Mani Of The Week - MOTW), I decided to stamp the little devil guys from BM-305 and Julep Mystery Yellow.  This polish stamped surprisingly well :)  They are just so cute!

Then I decided to see what it looked like mattified, and I love it even more!

I really love stamping, it makes nail art so easy!  This is also my first time stamping over a glitter, and while I see it on a couple of the blogs that I follow, I have never tried it because I was afraid that when I did it, the stamping would take away from the glitter.  In this case, I think it definitely added to it :D

That's it for today!  What do you think of my little guys??  I think they are just so cute!!  Alright, I'm off to work on some more post drafts right now!

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday Sep 28

Good morning my loves!  I hope everyone has fun plans for this weekend!  As I write this, I am working on some polish swatching because, quite frankly, I have too many untried or unswatched polishes and it drives me crazy every time I look at my polish list!  But, it's also Swatch-It-Up-Saturday, so while I am working diligently, here is what I have worn over the past week!

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 21

What a dreary morning - looks like a perfect day for doing lots of swatches while Tyler is working :)

Another week over, and lots of swatches to show you from the past week, so let's get to it, shall we?

Y is for Yin Yang

Howdie!  Has anyone else had a long week??  I'm glad it's over!  Today I have the 2nd last ABC Nail Art Challenge post for you - my "Y" mani!

Y is for Yin Yang

Indoor

W is for Winnie the Pooh Water Marble

Evening everyone!  I'm so glad it's a long weekend so I don't have to go to work tomorrow :D  That and today wasn't a very productive day, so I'm glad I have another "do-over" day :)

Tonight I have my "W" mani for the ABC Nail Art Challenge!  There are only 4 weeks left of the Challenge, I can't believe we are this close to the end already!  So much has happened in the last 20+ weeks!  Let's get to it, shall we?

W is for Winnie the Pooh Water Marble

Q is for Quilt Patch

Evening lovely readers!!  I hope you have all had a wonderful week!  I have so many pictures of manis built up, but not enough time to work on posting them :(  So sorry!!!  I hope to get some stuff done blog-wise this weekend, but I don't know if that will happen :\  I just ask that you bare with me another couple of weeks, and I will try to be back on some sort of posting schedule :)

Tonight I have for you my (better late than never) Q mani for the ABC Nail Art Challenge!

Q is for Quilt Patch

Swatch-It-Up-Saturday June 8

Good morning!  TWO more weeks till moving day!!!  I can't believe it's almost here! :D

I thought I would start something a little different on here.  I'm going to try to do more nail art on here, but when I do, I will also take pictures of the base colours I use and do a collective swatch post at the end of the week.  Let me know how you guys like this idea :)  I'm hoping this will help me with my ever-growing pile of untrieds :)

Julep Abbie & Annie

Morning!  I hope everyone has been having a great week!  Sorry I haven't been around much these last couple weeks.  I hope to get back into the groove in another few weeks, so bare with me :)

Today I have for you my yellow mani for COTW in my group!  Come check it out!

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

B is for Batman

Vinyl nail decals in this post were sent to me for review.

Good afternoon ladies and gents!  Guess what!?  We're under a winter weather watch for tonight and tomorrow!!  This may be my last blast of winter before the oppressive heat of summer descends upon us, so I'm going to enjoy it!

I have my "B" mani for you today for the ABC Challenge.  This is not at all what I had planned.  I had my base colour on for my "B" mani, then my sister asked me to remove her gel polish mani, which ruined my base colour before I could get my design done.  Oh well, onto bigger and better things, right?!

B is for Batman

Ninja Polish Floam

Good morning!  I hope everyone has recovered from the long weekend.  Show of hands, who had a 4-day weekend... anyone?  Not I :(  I feel like I'm dragging butt today though, I'm still not recovered from the lack of sleep this past weekend.

Anywho, today I have a polish I have been meaning to try for a while, I have had it probably since the fall and this is my first time wearing it.  This is Ninja Polish Floam (originally from Nail-Venturous).