MERRY CHRISTMAS

It is the most wonderful time of the year!

The holidays are here!  That time of year where everyone is a bit nicer, we celebrate our traditions, spend time with our family and friends and celebrate!  I take time each year to remember all the blessings I have in my life.  I try to every day but especially from Thanksgiving until the new year. 

I'm so thankful for my family, my Mom most of all, my friends, my loved ones, my cat Joe Joe, my health, the roof over my head, the simple joys in life, my electricity and running clean water, the clean air I breathe, and oh not to forget my coffee! 

I know some of those things seem silly but to some those things are a luxury and we can't ever stop being grateful for how easy it is to just turn our sinks on and have clean water! 

I hope you take the time to remember to be thankful!  Take time to remember the true reason for the season, and to simply be kind to one another this holiday and all through out the year. 

I wish you all a very Merry Christmas (or happy holiday season to be PC) and a Happy New year! 

Pictured below are my holiday themed nail arts.  Deck those halls, and those nails! :)

Plum Numb??

One of the many trends I've been seeing is Dark eyes paired with a Deep Plum lip. 

This look is pretty daring.  For some reason I've never had a problem with a dark smokey eye but when it comes to those deep reds or wine shades for the lips I've shied away.  It could be because I have a smaller mouth and darker colors seem to make them seem even smaller. Or perhaps it just seems too dang bold for my personality??

I think fashion and makeup are all about finding what fits you as an individual or taking inspiration on something from a runway and simply making it your own.  So go ahead and paint those lips and find a shade that works for you. Sometimes even just the finish of a color can change things drastically.  Matte, Shiny, Satin. So, experiment and have some fun!  After all it is JUST makeup! 

Me with a smokey eye and a ...BERRY lip :)  Close enough!

Happy Halloween!

Hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween.  Hurricane Sandy is pounding the east coast so I pray you're all safe!  Where I live in VA it is currently snowing / raining with some high wind gusts but nothing major!  Hope it stays that way too! 

Here is a fun cute nail art design I created today.  Check out the tutorial on YouTube!  :) I call this one..Spooky Tree.  I was inspired by a lot of the retro Halloween movies and cards you would see with the huge moon and spooky tree silhouette.  It's pretty easy to do as long as you're patient and allow things to fully dry...which of course I'm not ! ha! Good luck with your own designs and Happy Halloween!

Spidey

I attempted to create spidey nails ...lemme just say for the record! I wore more polish on everywhere... but my nails. 

Yep, arms, hands, even my right knee.  My black polish went EVERYWHERE.  No idea why but it went voodoo hoodoo on me! Fittingly enough for halloween nails right?  My spider is lack luster but, hey I tried! lol 

Happy Halloween!

50 shades of Grey....crazy clouds!

9/25/12 I took these photos of crazy Undulatus Asperatus clouds.

"Undulatus asperatus (or alternately, asperatus) is a cloud formation, proposed in 2009 as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. If successful it will be the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization.[2] The name translates approximately as roughened or agitated waves."--Wikipedia


Apparently it is just a crazy looking cloud that really doesn't do much beyond look really groovy! It rained but that was after the cloud show.

Pc Crashes

That moment when you realize your not going to be able to save any of your programs, music, photos, or even your favorites list on your browser.....Yeah, not fun! 

For the past week I've been doing nothing but troubleshooting, restoring, running programs to find out what the heck is wrong with this machine, then thinking I had it fixed!  For it to only crash again and I lose all that I just thought I had restored to start all over with breaks of  crying, screaming, and oh yes, kicking my feet!

Yes, I know I should have backed up everything it IS my fault and I do understand that but who really does stay on top of backing up? Maybe there are those smart insightful individuals who say oh yeah, I'm goin to save all this right now and back up my PC!  IF you are one of those people...I applaud you! I sadly just am not that girl.

Anyhoot, good news is I at least have the bare bones of what I need for my pc. However I spent a good day or so trying to reinstall windows movie maker for youtube to only find out that my pc drivers are not compatible with the new 2012 version.  Now I'm back to the 2011.  What a headache.  I'd not complain about it at all if it was listed somewhere on the download page.  Something that says YOOHOO yeah, you!  The one with the HP!  You can't use this program sorry!

Ok, I'm done ranting!  I'm going to smile, be merry and try to learn to backup my pc.  New year resolution this year, forget the diets...BACKUP instead!

Autumn Leaves

Really?  Another autumn design...why YES of course!  I can't help it, really I can't!  I just love autumn and all things that go with it so much!  The other day was my local flea market and I had fun smelling every candle I came across. One specific lady whom I bought candles from before sold soy candles which I had to have. I loved "Harvest" and  "Pumpkin Crumble" candles.  I mean...how good does that sound?  Not as good as they smell, I promise.  MMM!

I had a lot of fun creating this nail art.  I knew I wanted to create a marbled effect background for the canvas to some falling leaves. I wasn't sure how well it would turn out and I'm happy with it!    In fact it was one of the easiest nail art designs for the non-dominate hand because you just slap on the color to a sponge and tap, tap, tap! Don't ya just love easy? lol