My geek seems to be showing this week in my titles. That's ok, I have geek pride.
I'm really excited to show these nails this week. I finished them off this afternoon, got the pictures taken, edited and watermarked and now it's time to get down to business!
Friday, February 15, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Return Of The Nail Art!
I've been pretty busy over the month of January! I've been keeping on track with my New Year's resolutions, filling some custom orders for nails, and helping my husband with his palm trees. In fact, Today I worked on the very plants used in the background photo for this blog and my website!
Saturday, January 5, 2013
A New Year and A Not So New Outlook!!
Yay! The world didn't end, and 2013 is here! I never doubted that it would be but I thought it would be fun to celebrate that fact just because I could.
It's that time of year when we look back and then look forward. Last year was the first time in ages I'd actually made a resolution. My resolution was pretty simple - remember to eat a bunch of times a day. I've always been bad for getting caught up in what I'm doing and forgetting to eat meals. I'd fix meals for the kids and not eat any myself. I'm proud to say that over the last year, I took time to eat when I should. This year, the focus is on making sure I'm eating as good as I want to. Making sure I'm not filling up my daily calorie count with too many carbs and sugar just to make that minimum. My second resolution is to be better about making time to get my work outs in. This second one will be made somewhat easier by the fact that on my birthday a wonderful dog came into my life, she's everything I could have wanted in a dog. She'll be relying on me to make those trips to the park to play and do some walks with me. Funny how it is I have this tendency to make time to take care of others but not so much on taking care of myself. Which brings me to my third and final resolution this year. Make that time for taking care of me!
That's pretty much it as far as the resolutions go. So far, so good. I've downloaded this calorie counter app on my phone and I love it. I can look up nutritional facts about pretty much everything and then decide if it's what I want to eat. Of course it also tracks my exercise too :P
As far as the nails go - I'm still going to continue my quest to keep working on my skill sets and making sum awesome nails! woohoooo! How has your new year been? Any resolutions this year?
It's that time of year when we look back and then look forward. Last year was the first time in ages I'd actually made a resolution. My resolution was pretty simple - remember to eat a bunch of times a day. I've always been bad for getting caught up in what I'm doing and forgetting to eat meals. I'd fix meals for the kids and not eat any myself. I'm proud to say that over the last year, I took time to eat when I should. This year, the focus is on making sure I'm eating as good as I want to. Making sure I'm not filling up my daily calorie count with too many carbs and sugar just to make that minimum. My second resolution is to be better about making time to get my work outs in. This second one will be made somewhat easier by the fact that on my birthday a wonderful dog came into my life, she's everything I could have wanted in a dog. She'll be relying on me to make those trips to the park to play and do some walks with me. Funny how it is I have this tendency to make time to take care of others but not so much on taking care of myself. Which brings me to my third and final resolution this year. Make that time for taking care of me!
That's pretty much it as far as the resolutions go. So far, so good. I've downloaded this calorie counter app on my phone and I love it. I can look up nutritional facts about pretty much everything and then decide if it's what I want to eat. Of course it also tracks my exercise too :P
As far as the nails go - I'm still going to continue my quest to keep working on my skill sets and making sum awesome nails! woohoooo! How has your new year been? Any resolutions this year?
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A little twist on a classic look
Today I am showing you some pictures of what I've been doing with my time lately. I finally got around to taking some photos. These are available for sale on ebay.
I really liked the Christmas Tree designs with the zig zag style trees and decided that would be perfect to do with mirco-beads since I have so many left from the Fish Egg Mani trend that was so hot last spring. I also took the time to use the Gelish Structure Gel to overlay the bead design. It makes for a smooth nail and keeps the beads completely secure! I have about a bazillion designs in mind for beads and other little nail art doo-dads along these lines.
Now, to the pictures!!
I really liked the Christmas Tree designs with the zig zag style trees and decided that would be perfect to do with mirco-beads since I have so many left from the Fish Egg Mani trend that was so hot last spring. I also took the time to use the Gelish Structure Gel to overlay the bead design. It makes for a smooth nail and keeps the beads completely secure! I have about a bazillion designs in mind for beads and other little nail art doo-dads along these lines.
Now, to the pictures!!
Friday, December 7, 2012
Making that leap
Well today I have no real new nail art. I just felt the need to share what it is I have been doing instead of blogging lately.
Over the last year I've had so many friends and family give me feedback that it's too bad I don't live closer. More than a few are aware that you can buy nail art and have asked - when am I going to start selling them? The girl at my local nail supply has even asked - Do you do that? I've even gotten requests for different designs through my website. Up to now, I have hesitated to go that route partly because of just outright fear of failure and partly because I wasn't sure what would be involved in making that happen. What are the up front costs involved for materials, where to sell it, etc?
When I started getting it from my Dad and my husband, that was it, I needed to seriously look into it. Just for the sake of simplicity, ideally I would like to have used my website. I already have a merchant account through my provider and currently use that account to accept Credit Cards for my services. I have been known to take risks to try something new, but at the same time, I like to keep an eye on my bottom line.
After a few very frustrating days, I was able to determine that my website provider required that I pay an additional fee per month to add a web store to my site. My inner cynic tells me that it's great I have so many supportive people around me, but will I be able to sell enough per month to cover the cost??
Ultimately, I decided that it wasn't worth the risk. So I looked at other options; ebay, etsy, craigslist, etc. In the meantime, I was finally able to purchase some supplies I would need and I got to work. In the end I decided to go with ebay since they are no longer charging you for a basic listing with them as a seller. Of course, that does have some limitations, but those limitations are more than acceptable to me since I'm not bringing a huge amount of inventory to the table right off.
I took some pictures of my product and this morning I set everything all up. You'll notice I've added a link above to a complete listing of what I have available. Linked it all to my website as well...posted a few links to facebook and here I am.
I thought I would feel more nervous about this venture than I am. I'm less anxious about anyone buying them and more relieved that I did it. It's like I did it and now I can focus on making it work. I've been a firm believer that whatever you put into the things you do is what you get out of them. That's a philosophy that had one pretty good for me so far.
What do you think? Am I nuts? Would you or have you ever put yourself out there like that?
Over the last year I've had so many friends and family give me feedback that it's too bad I don't live closer. More than a few are aware that you can buy nail art and have asked - when am I going to start selling them? The girl at my local nail supply has even asked - Do you do that? I've even gotten requests for different designs through my website. Up to now, I have hesitated to go that route partly because of just outright fear of failure and partly because I wasn't sure what would be involved in making that happen. What are the up front costs involved for materials, where to sell it, etc?
When I started getting it from my Dad and my husband, that was it, I needed to seriously look into it. Just for the sake of simplicity, ideally I would like to have used my website. I already have a merchant account through my provider and currently use that account to accept Credit Cards for my services. I have been known to take risks to try something new, but at the same time, I like to keep an eye on my bottom line.
After a few very frustrating days, I was able to determine that my website provider required that I pay an additional fee per month to add a web store to my site. My inner cynic tells me that it's great I have so many supportive people around me, but will I be able to sell enough per month to cover the cost??
Ultimately, I decided that it wasn't worth the risk. So I looked at other options; ebay, etsy, craigslist, etc. In the meantime, I was finally able to purchase some supplies I would need and I got to work. In the end I decided to go with ebay since they are no longer charging you for a basic listing with them as a seller. Of course, that does have some limitations, but those limitations are more than acceptable to me since I'm not bringing a huge amount of inventory to the table right off.
I took some pictures of my product and this morning I set everything all up. You'll notice I've added a link above to a complete listing of what I have available. Linked it all to my website as well...posted a few links to facebook and here I am.
I thought I would feel more nervous about this venture than I am. I'm less anxious about anyone buying them and more relieved that I did it. It's like I did it and now I can focus on making it work. I've been a firm believer that whatever you put into the things you do is what you get out of them. That's a philosophy that had one pretty good for me so far.
What do you think? Am I nuts? Would you or have you ever put yourself out there like that?
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