Please note - I tried to post this back on the 14th and LJ was being extremely uncooperative, so this is backdated to the day it was meant for...

Today is a personal victory for me that really, really needs to be in my journal, even one which I rarely use ( Read more... )

The oddest thing occurred to me this morning. I was putting on one of my new pairs of jeans I just bought from the thrift store recently, and the tag stuck up and caught my eye. Size 10. And it popped into my head that in high school, my friend Krys and I used to go shop at 5-7-9 (she was a 5, I was a 9...she was a *petite* little thing!) Which ( Read more... )

Shopping, especially with children in tow, is *exhausting*. Even worse when trying to get them to pick out their own stuff. Much haul, though ( Read more... )

Third week in a row I've had my manicure damaged on Wednesday. So yeah, I redid them. Apparently my new schedule is nail art *twice* a week instead of just every weekend. :)

Click on the picture to head to my nail art entry on this mani. It's still just a hobby...


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Here's a sneak preview, and then the link over to my blogspot, because I'm not going to duplicate all my manicure posts any more. ^_^


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I started off the evening attempting a red and gold version of a tutorial by IHaveACupcake titled Funky Red Carpet. However, I discovered to my regret that what I thought was gold is not nearly opaque enough for this technique. It's too bad, too, because my red went on sooo smoothly in just one coat ( Read more... )

No pretty pictures for this post. The fail is that I know that the Walgreen's I get my monthly prescriptions at had a display with magnetic nail polish last month. You know, the month after Christmas, when I'm broke? Yeah, that month. I completely intended to pick one up yesterday when I went to pick up my meds...hence the fail. Because they ( Read more... )

I don't normally cross-post my entries from FB to Google+ to LJ or vice-versa, but I felt strongly about this post and felt I needed to post it everywhere I'm listed ( Read more... )

There's very little "art" in this week's "nail art", but I bought this glitter from NYC brand last week, and it just HAD to be used! It came out as gorgeous on my nail as it is in the bottle, in my opinion.


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Well, I know I normally do my nail art on the weekends (if for no other reason than having less time in the evenings than on a Sunday makes me more tempted to rush instead of waiting for each layer to completely dry) but 1. I saw a technique last night while browsing various nail art blogs that I reeeeally wanted to try, and 2. One of my nails ( Read more... )