merry holidays to you

Hello from sunny Hawaii.

We're here visiting The Morning Man's family in his home town of Honolulu, and I thought I'd take a quick break from the island breeze to wish you a Merry Christmas.  I hope you are all having a wonderful day with the ones you love, far away from this distracting internet.

Before we left on Saturday I painted my nails.  I tried to go big for the holidays but half way through I got much too tired and so hand #2 is a bit of a cop-out.

 I went with Santa and his sleigh dropping presents down on Hawaii for the left hand. Then 1am hit and I tried falling presents and snow for the right.

I hope you all got everything you wanted this year, and I'll see you next week, back on the "Mainland."

mani monday

Happy Monday!

Has anyone finished their holiday shopping?
On Sunday morning The Man and I realized this past weekend was the last chance we had to go out shopping for Christmas presents, so we went to … The Mall … in the Suburbs! AHHHHHHHH!

It was one of those exhausting shopping days where you get back home to look at your loot and you find that somehow after all those hours and all those stores you've barely managed to cross a single loved one off your list.

So we came home and took a break from thinking of the wants and needs of our family and friends, and I spent the remainder of the evening painting some Christmas Plaid on my nails.

Next Monday The Man and I will be in Hawaii visiting his family for the Holidays, and although I can't complain, I will be seriously missing my Mom and Dad and all our wonderful traditions.

Have a great week everyone!

mani monday

Well, yesterday the snow finally came.  The big downfall that won't completely melt until March or April, and that means it's officially the Christmas Season.  It's hard to get into the holiday spirit when it's 9 degrees outside and there isn't a flake or flurry insight.

To welcome the new fluffy ground cover I decided to go with snow themed nails.

This is my little snow family:

 Snowman, Snowwoman, and Snowkid

Thanks for being patient with my terrible posting habits.  Once I get back into the swing of things I'll try to stop by here much more often.

Turkey Day

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

I hope you're all having a wonderful dinner with family and friends.

We're in California with The Man's family having a blast in the sunshine.

Cheers!

mani not-monday

Hello All!

It's so dark all the time! You go to work, it's dark. You leave work, it's dark.
The sun sets at 4pm!!!

I wasn't able to get pictures of my nails in the daylight yesterday and I missed mani monday! But here they are…

I'm still trying to stay simple for my new job, so I did a little glittery mermaid action this week.

Glitter's simple?…right?

My awesome amazing friend Michelle works for MAC and couldn't use her nail polish collection anymore (she has to use MAC products) so she gave it all to me!!  She had tons of glitter polish, so I used a bunch of them to create this look and added scales to one finger for a little fishy/mermaid tail detail.

What do you think? I'm trying to be low-key with my nails, but next week is Thanksgiving (CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT!?!) so I'm going to have to throw caution to wind and go all out, Turkey Style!

I'm so excited!

tulips

Its Friday again! Yippee!

Do you have any big plans for the weekend?

I think I'm going to spend some time researching tulips because they've recently amazed me.

For our anniversary The Man bought me some flowers. He always knows to get me a weird mix of stuff, so I was very excited to go home and arrange them.

I put them all together in this glass pitcher and I thought it looked great.

After a few days I started to notice something. The tulips were growing taller.

The stems grew twice their original size! I never new that flowers could continue to grow after they were cut. How cool is that? I mean, it kinda ruined my arrangement, but it's still pretty cool.

So, is this common tulip knowledge? Or did I just blow your mind?

Have a great Weekend!!!!

mani monday

One week done! 

Since I started a new job last week I decided to keep it mellow with my nails. Last week I went with pink...plain pink, no nothin' solid color pink. 

This week I added a little more. My plan is to do a slow build, so here's my first attempt at simple:

4!

"4 more years! 4 more years!" - The Man this morning wishing me a happy anniversary.

Today is our 4 Year Anniversary!
4!
4 YEARS!
Whoa.

I love him like crazy and I am so happy to have him in my life,
my little Love Bug.

Happy Anniversary Andrew!!

dia de los muertos nails

Hello there! I know it's been a while, but I have exciting news!

Yesterday was my first day at my New Job!!!! Whaaaaa?!?!?!?
Yes, that's right, new job.  I'm really excited and I'm liking it so far, but the past week was a lot to get through, so I had an un-expected hiatus.

I meant to show you these nails on Friday (when it actually was Dia De Los Muertos) but after training my replacement all day I just passed out when I got home.

Happy Belated Halloween!!!

mani monday

Happy Halloween Week!

I hope everyone had a fantastic and festive weekend, because we sure did!
It was awesome! We went to a pumpkin patch, drank apple cider, carved pumpkins, and ate tons of pulled pork!

I'm continuing my Halloween themed nails this week with a bit of a hodge-podge of designs.

Remember last week I told you The Man had a great idea I wanted to try? Well, I tested it out on two fingers but I'm not sure about it...

They're x-ray nails! Get it? They're my bones!
In reality it would only be the nub of the bone but I thought that it wouldn't come across at all without a little more of it.  What do you think? Should I try it with just the tip of the finger bone?

The other four in the photo above are drippy blood nails, but my favorite are the bloody teeth nails!

I love how they came out!

I'll admit that everything together is a little weird but I just had too many ideas to pick one (also the teeth took a while and I was getting tired:) ).