Feeling simplistic today...

Starting the year out with a very simple polka dotted Mani. This new year is full of new plans & projects, so I will be quite busy & probably a little scarce in the first quarter. You will see an occasional post, but probably not as frequent. That being said, one of the new plans this year is to have a baby, yay! So in my web searches I find myself drawn to all things baby & found this really cute little dress that made me smile & I thought how pretty those colors looked together...voila, polka dot nail inspiration! the only difference is I reversed the colors.

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Bye Bye Baby, Baby Goodbye!

As 2013 came to a close, here is a look back on some of my favorite things:

Christmas take 5: "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas!"

For Christmas week I wanted something elegant, sparkly & simply pretty. I picked hollies. I used one of my favorite glitter polishes, can't remember the name, but it's really sparkly, has a holo effect & also changes color in UV light. It was the perfect choice & I'm really happy with the result. I now feel like my Christmas spirit is if full swing & I can proceed with the celebrations.

Here are my Holly Jolly Nails...MERRY CHRISTMAS to all & to all a Good Night!

Christmas take 4: "...walking in a Winter Wonderland!"

I got a Christmas card in & was suddenly inspired, so off with the red & on with the "winter wonderland"!

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Christmas Take 3: Oh Christmas Tree...

It's the week before Christmas, all my shopping is done, all my presents are wrapped. My brother & sister who are in the army are home for Christmas & we're going to have a wonderful time!

This week's design I was inspired by a picture I found on Pinterest, but for the life of me I can't find it anywhere today. So if you know who did this lovely design, please let me know so I can give credit where credit is due.

Anyways, it's just a simple little tree but it looks very elegant & the white contrasts so well on red.

Christmas take 2: "....and a Partridge in a Pear Tree"

Today I was trying to really get creative because I have done so many similar Christmas designs & I didn't want to be monotonous, but it still had to be Christmas-y. So I started singing carols in my head landed on the 12 Days of Christmas. I remember loving this song as a kid & settled on doing the Partridge in a Pear Tree.

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Company Christmas Party

I did a couple of the ladies nails for our annual Christmas party!

Yesi's Snowmen

Ena's Snowflakes

Christmas take one:

As promised I am back! I am still nursing some very short nails, but then again my nails have never really been long, anyways I'm kicking off the season with a very simple Christmas plaid design. I copied 100% from this site, she did a matte version & mine is a bit more sparkly!

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Merry Christmas!

Pink Ribbon design for 2013

It's pink ribbon month again, gotta show some love for the "ladies", here's my support nail art design:

A few Fall Designs for 2013

I've done a few nail art designs for Fall this month so far, I didn't LOVE any of them enough to keep them on for very long, but figured I'd go ahead & post them anyways.

Fall 1 Inspiration

Fall 1

Robin Moses Fall 2 Inspiration

Fall 2

Fall 3

Halloween Nail Art Contest Entry

Here's my entry for Born Pretty's Halloween nail art contest, fingers crossed!

31DC2013 Day 31: Honor Nails You Love!

Oh my goodness, it's the last day of the 31 day nail challenge, WHOHOO!!! I can't believe I made it, didn't miss a day & really challenged the heck out of my right brain cells.

Today we honor nails that we love. It's a little bit cryptic, so I took it to mean literally a lovely lady's nails that I love. There is one blog that I follow, it's in french, called Pshiiit. I don't know her real name, but this girl has the most beautiful hands & nails I've ever seen & I would like to honer her by using one of her nail art designs as my inspiration. I have huge nail envy, being that I have small nails & short fingers, plus my hands are a little pudgy so it doesn't look half as elegant as I would like. I have resigned that this design won't ever look as pretty as hers, I can only hope it does her justice & that she might be flattered.

I did a little bit of a twist though & used some color changing polishes. So you will see in the indoor pictures it's silver with pink just like hers, but outdoors they're burgundy, it was really cool seeing the color change!

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indoors

outdoor sunlight

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outdoor sunlight