My week in pictures (with some explanations)

Did something last weekend that made me decide to have long hair like this. 

Unfortunately that same thing made my face do this.  Stupid makeup.

But I totally fit into these!!!

And I took pictures of water on my yard.

And played with a new bag design.

And I plan on doing this to my dog this weekend.  She will get me all the candy ever.

Nail Polish

New obsession?  Yeah, just a bit.  I blame Haley.  I have become obsessed with painting my nails.  Actually I blame Haley and Pinterest.  Lots of very cool pictures and manicures.  You should have seen the crazy that occured while I was trying to find the Hard Candy Matte top coat around here. 

It has hooked me up with a few blogs to read.  For ideas and pretty colors.  Although some of the best information has been on how to take care of my nails so that they grow out long enough to do stuff with and what the best products out there are.  For example, I found Seche Vite.  The angels began singing the first time I used it as a top coat.  Super fast drying.  I didn't have any trouble with bubbles or weird texture.   My only gripe (and only because I'm cheap) is that it is a bit pricey (I've found it between $7-9).  But I just plan on keeping an eye on sales flyers and stocking up a bit when it is on sale.  I also do a base coat and try to use cuticle oil whenever I think about it (i.e. I set it out in the downstairs bathroom so everytime I go I use the oil)

Blogs I read:
Nail Polish Art Addiction
Nail Slide
Polish Amor
The Manicured Monkey (actually where it started, with the water marbling.)

yay pretties!

My first attempt at water marbling.  Done for the Pumpkin Run.  I think it turned out great.  It was a bit time consuming and messy.  But worth it.  Next time I am using vaseline instead of tape to keep the polish off of my fingers.  I also found a tutorial for doing a dry water marble. 

A gradient.  I need to try this again.

Possibly my coolest mani so far.  Inspired by this picture.  I feel cooler just having tried this.

My polishes.  I have filled up 3/4's of a 4th wheel by this point. 

A touch of crafting fame

I'm feeling a bit of pressure to be witty and brilliant today.  If you are a crafter, you have probably heard of and read Craft Magazine.  I know I do.  75% of the time if you see a random craft on my blog that doesn't fit into my normal range of crafting or is out of the blue, it comes from there.  For example:

This sideways, plush wookie (stupid Blogger won't let me rotate the picture).  The tutorial came from here.  So lots of fun stuff.  It is a lot of links to how-to's and articles about cool crafty stuff.  Being mentioned on there is sort of like an athlete being featured on ESPN.

Why do I mention this?  Something I made, made it to Craft.  My Tulle Dishscrubber pattern.  Mad props to Lindsay at A Wooden Nest for the much better picture than the one in my pattern.  Which is actually a funny story.  I was reading Craft (shocker) and came accross a chai tea concentrate recipe.  Yum!  So I wandered over to the blog to get the recipe and started reading because it was a nice blog and seemed interesting (great pictures!).  So I get a few entries in and there is her Dishscrubber post.  Now, 90% of the time when I am designing, I design for me and everyone else gets to take advantage of what came out of my brain.  So I rarely expect to actually see my patterns being used in the wild.  It was very cool.  Little did I know we would both be back on Craft in a few days. 

So, my brush with fame.  Not nearly as amusing as the time I flipped out because I thought that maybe the Yarn Harlot had ready my blog because I had commented on hers and it was showing that someone from Toronto had looked at mine.  I finally calmed down when I realized that I'm sure there are many people from Toronto who also read her blog who might have followed my comment back here.  But I still like to pretend it was her.  :)  I'm creepy that way.