14 Days of Love - Day 14: Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day Everyone!! I hope you all have some great and wonderful plans for the evening! I am spending my evening with my fiance..we're staying home for our hot date this year. In years past, we have often gone away for the weekend, but this is the first time in a few years that Valentine's Day didn't actually fall on a weekend day. We've also got so much more going on this year than before and we are also hindered by the fact our usual babysitter, Gramma, is out of the country. No worries though - we still will have our "hot date" - we're just doing it at home this year. Romantic Dinner and a movie!

Here's today's Nail Art...for this one I was actually inspired by one of my previous nail arts from last month - Rainbow Nails!

Well today came just in time because I think I'm fresh out of ideas for this theme for a good few months at last.  Now it's time to post a few regular Nail Arts, a post about Gelish Manicures (because I love that product so much) and start brainstorming ideas for St. Patrick's Day! It'll be here before we know it!



14 Days of Love - Day 13

Holy cow!! Can you believe that tomorrow is Valentine's day? I just realized that I haven't gotten anything for my fiance! Well, now we all know what I'll be doing this afternoon while my youngest daughter is in school!  In the meantime, I bring you today's Valentine's Day themed Nail Art.

Not very fancy, I admit. I'm was feeling like I had done a whole slew of ones that were just sooo busy, so I wanted something more relaxing and simple. Of course, I couldn't resist adding glitter to hearts, just because I had plenty and I love glitter!

My last mani will be in a similar style - but I went in a drastically different direction with it!! See you tomorrow and I hope you all rest well for the big day!!



14 Days of Love - Day 11: The Lost Post

As I promised, I have my missing post for you!! woohooo!! It's been a little bit of a struggle lately to coordinate parenting time with my significant other so we can both get home projects done or further along. I got to sit down last night and do the nail art for the rest of this holiday nail art celebration and I found the idea flowed freely - not just for this - but for other nail arts as well.

You'll notice I started watermarking the pictures. Although I am not aware of anyone stealing my pictures, I figured why wait until it happens to start? I really should have been doing it from the beginning, but now I've got all my pictures watermarked and switched out on my website. Now I will be going through old posts here and switching those pictures for watermarked ones. It's alot more tedious on here than it was on the rest of my website - but I'll find odd moments to do them as I go.



14 Days of Love - Day 12

okay, we skipped a day - I'll have to do a double post to make up for it tomorrow.

Here's another mani I did. It's a mix of stamping and free hand!

I did the xo's and the "Love" free hand, as well as the hearts. Because I have the Gelish Soak-off UV Gel polish as my base color, I was able to make a straight edge without using tape and instead using my french brush.

Wow! It's almost Valentine's day already!?!  I think after this is done, I'm going to do a detailed post about doing a Gelish mani. I took pictures as I did the Gelish portion for these nail art in anticipation of doing a post at some point in the future.

That's all for today! Enjoy the last bit of the weekend!







14 Days of Love - Day 10!

Today's post is both late and is going to be short.

I did a Guest Post on glazedtalons's blog and I highly recommend that you cruise around and read.  Two of the three nail arts I did are valentine's day themed and I posted one of them yesterday as your sneak peek.

More Nail Art pix posted here tomorrow!!

14 Days of Love - Day 9

It's Thursday and as I mentioned yesterday, I did lock myself in my workspace all day and work on nail art. Most of that time was spent removing my old Gelish clear coats and applying a whole new manicure. This time I used a color, "Go Girl". I think of this shade as a "Breast Cancer Pink" and it's one of the reasons I like it. Yah, I know - I really do like pink and glitter. I am a not so secret girly girl.

I did the pictures for a guest post in Thalie's blog and today's love manicure is a sneak peak of that post.

I am definitely getting better at the freehand designs. It has helped tremendously to have a larger variety of art brushes to work with. I still have no figured out what in the world I would use those fan brushes for - but I'll either figure it out on my own - or I'll find the info in a tutorial. I have figured out how to do the kissey lips free-hand.  I have a stamp plate design, but I really don't like how it looks on the nail. One of the things I like about having a gel base color is that I can make corrections to any mistakes or just remove it all without having to completely start over from scratch.

That's all for today! I can't believe there's only five day left til Valentine's Day!! This is a short month to begin with, even during a leap year; it sure is going FAST.