Dogwood Trees and Flowers

Hey Y'all!  TGIF!!  How is the weather where you are?  It seems nuts in most of the USA.  We had upper 70's, low 80's last week and this entire week has been cold, windy and rain.  Lots of rain.  I'm over it.  I'm ready for the heat.  And the rain isn't supposed to stop until Tuesday :(  And of course, I have a ton of running around to do today and tomorrow.  My blogger buddies and I have a swap this weekend and I have to go get the last few things for my person.  But I adore and love her, so she's worth facing the cold and rain!

But since it is "technically" Spring, and I am in Georgia, the Dogwoods are in full bloom and that is what I have for you today:

I Used:
Sinful Colors:  Love Nails, a medium, bright blue shimmer
Orly:  Frosting, a white with gold shimmer
Orly:  Rapture, a chocolate brown crème
Dotting Tool
Fine Liner Brush

In case you haven't seen a Dogwood tree before, I snapped this one when the teen and I stopped for lunch:

They are EVERYWHERE here!  Seriously.  They grow wild.  I have a strong love/hate relationship with them.  They are gorgeous for about two weeks a year.  The rest of the year, they are a weird yellow green color.  And I'm allergic to them.  But my girl wanted me to do Dogwood nails so I did.  I like how these turned out, but I think next time I will make more of the flowers (more white dots).  But still, I did like them.  Remember, you don't need a dotting tool or brush to do this design.  You can use a toothpick.

I hope you enjoyed today's mani.  Have a wonderful weekend!  Happy Polishing!!

Nail Polish Canada Contest, Week 3: HOLIDAY MEMORIES

Hey Y'all!!  Today is the last of the Nail Polish Canada Contest and this week's theme is HOLIDAY MEMORIES.  As many of you know, I now live in North Georgia, you should know because I spend about 5 months complaining about how cold it is!  (And yes, it's really cold today too).  But I grew up in Central Florida where we celebrated a green Christmas every year.  So green in fact that my Dad put up the Christmas lights outside at night to avoid a heat stroke! 

And put out the lights he did!!  Every year the tv stations, newspaper, and a ton of people came by to see the house.  It's one of my happiest childhood memories so I decided that would be the theme of my nails this week, my Florida Christmas!! (only nail polish was used to create these, the list will be at the bottom of the post)

First, if you like my nails, PLEASE GO VOTE FOR THEM BY CLICKING HERE!!!

Now the fun part, explaining my Dad's decorations!!  The index finger and pinky have our palm trees that were in the front yard (yep, we had palm trees and orange trees!).  Dad would wrap them up in strings of Christmas lights...used a semi truck to reach the top!!  These were so pretty!!  My Mom always swore that Disney World got the idea of wrapping their trees in lights from us!  As for my middle finger, our backyard was pretty much taken up by our pool, but Dad would create a 45 foot Christmas tree over our pool by using a tall pole and strings of lights.  It was topped by a 5 foot star he made of white lights.  You could see our "tree" for miles!  Did I mention that Florida is super flat??

The ring finger is our Christmas tree!!  We always had fake trees (I'm allergic to the real) and my Mom always insisted that our tree be "snow" covered!  She was born in Kentucky and missed White Christmases...I think, lol.

As for my thumb, my poor Mom always wanted to put, in her words, "tacky, plastic. pink flamingos" in our front yard and my dad and I always said no!  So I wanted her to have her flamingos now  :)

If you like my nails, PLEASE, PLEASE GO AND VOTE FOR THEM!!! Just click here!

And treasure your family this year!  This will be my 7th Christmas without my Mother and 19th without my Father, and it's still really hard.  But I loved being able to do a manicure in their honor!  Happy Polishing!!!


I Used:
Sinful Colors- Sweet Nothing (light blue crème)
Finger Paints- Pink Perspective (neon pink)
Revlon- Cupid (pink crème)
China Glaze- So Blue Without You (blue shimmer)
Orly- Hook Up (yellow shimmer)
Sinful Colors- Snow Me White (white crème)
LA Colors- Palm Tree (medium green crème)
LA Colors- not named (red crème)
Barielle- No Not Now (beige shimmer)
Barielle- I Got A Headache (taupe shimmer)
OPI- Into The Night (dark blue shimmer)

Nail Polish Canada Contest, Week 2: DECORATIONS

Hey Y'all!!  It's Week 2 of Nail Polish Canada's Contest and this week's theme is DECORATIONS!!  After a lot of thinking, seriously, a lot, I came up with a decorated tree for my entry:

For the Water Marble, I Used:
China Glaze- Def Defying (lime crème)
China Glaze- Exotic Encounters (medium green crème)
Ulta- Envy (foil finished dark green)
BornPrettyStore- Holographic 12 (dark green linear holographic)

For the Decorations, I Used:
Orly- Rococo A-Go-Go (purple foil polish with gold shimmer)
Zoya- Dream (dark blue with scatter holographic glitter)
White rhinestones

Shameless plug:  PLEASE HELP ME BY CLICKING HERE TO VOTE!!!!  PRETTY, PRETTY PLEASE<3 <3

If y'all like this design, I have a big favor to ask, please go vote for it by simply CLICKING HERE!!!  Thank you so much!!!  I really appreciate it!!

Happy Polishing!!

Nail Polish Canada Contest, Week 1: SNOW

Hi Y'all!  I hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving, Hanukkah or Thursday yesterday!! I did!  But I ate WAY too much food!  That is a big part of the fun of Thanksgiving though, eating yourself into a food coma, lol.

Today I have a special post for you (and could really use a favor too)!  I was invited to participate in Nail Polish Canada's Holiday Contest.  There is one theme per week for three weeks.  The person with the most likes, wins!  So in a minute, I'm going to ask y'all to vote for my mani.  This week's theme is SNOW and here is my design:

Left hand

Right hand

I couldn't quite make up my mind, so I went with a few themes, trees, snowflakes and of course a snowman! 

Now if y'all could do me a big favor....please CLICK HERE to VOTE for my mani!!  I would appreciate it SO much!!!  Thank y'all!!  I have the best followers in the world!!

And after you vote for my design (wink, wink) be sure to enter our International Giveaway for a $150 e-card!!!

Have a fabulous Friday and Happy Polishing!!

I Used:
Milani- Cyberspace (light blue scatter holographic)
Sinful Colors- Snow Me White (white crème)
China Glaze- Dandy Lyin' Around (white crelly with silver shimmer)
Orly- Rapture (brown crème)
essence- Walk on the Wild Side (sage green polish with bright green shimmer)
Orly- Unlawful (bright red crème)
Sinful Colors- Black on Black (black crème)
Finger Paints- Vermillion $ Painting (orange with orange and gold shimmer)
Dotting Tools
Medium Liner Brush
Fine Detail Brush

Day 14: Flowers, R31DC

Hi Everyone!!  I'm so sorry this is late, but I'm still feeling like crud and I think there is a marching band in my head, but I made it!  Today's theme is flowers.  In a couple of weeks, my little corner of Georgia will be colored by all the gorgeous Dogwood trees in bloom.  I love these trees, but only while they are blooming, otherwise they are an ugly green color!  They come in all shades of pink and white, sometimes all the colors on one tree, which is my favorite.

 

I Used:

Loreal- Club Drive (I think, it was hard to read the label)

Orly- Basket Case (bright pink crème)

Wet-n-Wild- Tickled Pink (pink crème)

Wet-n-Wild- French White Crème

Orly- Chocoholic (brown with silver shimmer)

Small Liner Brush

Dotting Tools

 

I'm sorry this is such a short post, but I need to go before my head explodes.  I just hope I feel better soon, Sunday is my wedding anniversary :-(

 

Anyway, be sure to check out all the other beautiful flowers and I will see y'all Monday!!  Have a beautiful weekend and Happy Polishing!!