Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July to everyone! I hope you all had a great holiday!

Here are my Independence Day nails!

Wedding Nails

I recently went to a wedding and some of my friends were the bridesmaids. They knew that I love nail polish so I was happy to do their nails for the event. The results were beautiful and I snapped a photo of their nails. We went for a pink and gold theme to go with their blush pink dresses.

Little Sparklies

As most of you know, I'm in love with this pool blue/mint color but I use it so often so I thought some sparkly polka-dots would spice things up! 

Check it out:

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy Birthday Blog!

My blog turns 1 today!! Happy birthday infant blog! I just wanted to send a big shout out to those of you who read my blog and keep up with all the posts! It means so much to me! Stay tuned for another year of new nails and crafts!

Valentine Nails

Happy Valentines Day to all my Love Bugs :)

I did my Valentine look this year using my Konad nail stamps. The picture below features me holding my nail stamper so that you can get a better look at the tools that I used to create this look!

May your day be filled with love!

Caviar Nails

I was recently gifted a caviar nail polish set and I've seen other ladies do them and I loved how they looked so I was eager to try out my new kit! Caviar nails is done by painting a base layer and pouring tiny beads on top to create a 3-d type nail. For the first time I tried it, I just did the accent nail on my ring finger but I'd definitely try it on all of my nails next time because it was super easy!

Here's how mine came out:

See you soon!

Santa Nails

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!

I found some Santa nail tutorials on YouTube and I thought they were perfect for Christmas this year.  You can find the Santa suit nail tutorial here and the Santa hat nail tutorial here. Enjoy!

See you all in the new year!!

Polka-Dots

Hi everyone!

I've been loving polka dots recently so I thought I'd share my most recent dotty look.  The dots are done with a dotting tool dipped into OPI Mermaid's Tears.  I put a matte top coat over the look to give it some flare :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Variety Nails

Sorry I've been gone so long! My schedule has kept me busy and away from blogging recently but I've still been able to keep up painting my nails!

Here are some of the nails looks that I've been wearing these days:

Happy Halloween!

This isn't the typical post...but in the spirit of this ooky spooky time of year, I thought I'd share my Halloween costume.  It was so much fun to wear and hardly anyone recognized me with the wig! Can you guess what I am??

See you next time!

Back to School Nails

It's that time of year again to go back to school!! In honor of my first day of school, I painted my ring fingers and thumbs so they looked like tiny lined pieces of notebook paper! I used a striper nail polish to do the striping.

I'll see you next time! And good luck with your own start to autumn!

Ocean Cloud Nails

Some of my most popular nails have been my cloud nails so I thought I'd try them again in a different color scheme! Enjoy!

Nail Stickers

Sorry long time, no blog!

So I've had a few packages of the Sally Hansen Salon Effects Nail Polish Strips laying around and I finally decided to give it a try! The design I used is called Mod About You. The application was fairly simple and the results were pretty good! Also, it doesn't say in the directions to do this but I added my own top coat on top of the strips because I want them to last extra long! Since I'm pretty rough on my nails, we'll see how long they really can last...

Here they are!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy (Belated) 4th of July!!

Hey all!

I was out of town this past week so I didn't have the chance to show off my 4th of July goodies...until now!

For my nails, I did a splatter look using red, white, and blue. I blew through a straw to get the cool splattered look. Beware because this technique was pretty messy!

I also worked on a 4th of July craft this week that I found here on YouTube. It was pretty simple but definitely time consuming!

I hope you all had a safe and fun holiday!! Thanks for stopping by!

Sparkly Gradient Nails

Hi all!

Here is a sparkly gradient that I did on my nails recently.  I painted a couple layers of OPI Mermaid's Tears and took a makeup sponge and dabbed on Sephora by OPI Spark-tacular! When I was dabbing on the sparkles, I concentrated most of it on the tips of my nails so that it would create a gradient effect.
Enjoy!

Pre Sparkles:

 Post Sparkles:

See you next time!

Coasters

Hi Everyone!

I was recently looking through pinterest and a few craft blogs for a good simple craft when I stumbled upon this.  It's a really fun and easy way to make coasters with only two supplies.

So let's get started...

I got these paint pens from Michael's in both blue and silver in case I wanted to try different colors.  Unfortunately, the silver paint pen ended up looking very translucent on the cork.

I found these cork coasters from my local craft store, Beverly's.  I didn't look to see if Michael's had these but I'm sure that you could find them in most craft stores.  They also had square coasters if you like that shape better.

I just got creative with my designs and had fun with it! So there you go! Simple and waterproof coasters!

Thanks for stopping by!

Dolphin Sunset

Hey All!

I follow a nail artist on YouTube and she posts great nail inspirations all the time.  One of her most recent ones was this cool video.  I tried to copy it and here are the results...Not quite as neat as hers but I was still pretty impressed with myself haha.  By the way, the big black blobs on my ring finger is supposed to be a dolphin!

Thanks and I'll see you next time!

Graduation!

Hey Everybody!

I hope you're all doing well during this month of June! I graduated this past weekend and I can't tell you how much all your love and support means to me.

At my school, there is a tradition to decorate your graduation cap. I'm not sure if this technically qualifies as a craft but there was puffy paint involved so I think I can count it as a craft for this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Watermelons

Hey everyone!

Can you believe that summer is almost here?! I'm getting so excited to enjoy all of my favorite summer activities soon! One of the things I like to do during the summer is slice up a big juicy watermelon and eat it by the pool! Unfortunately, I don't have a pool and I haven't been to the grocery store in a while to get a watermelon...but I do have nail polish!  For this watermelon nail design, I used OPI Come to Poppy, Sally Hansen Teal, and a black nail striper.

See you next time!

Crafts...what?!

Hey all!

So technically I started this blog with the intention that it would be about nails AND my crafting adventures.  Unfortunately, the past few months I haven't had much access to crafting supplies and whatnot.  But I promise that as soon as summer rolls around, I'll be getting real crafty up in here! At least I'll try...

So recently I've been taking a ceramics class which I thought was close enough to a craft so I thought I'd share a sampling of some of my creations.  At the beginning of the class, I struggled...a lot.  Therefore, I'm only showing you the creations that I think at least resemble something close to okay.  Enjoy!

Thanks for stopping by! And I promise there will be more craft updates soon!