Astronaut On Eros

Hello loves,

Quick post tonight. I've had a long last couple weeks of work and running my mom to different doctor appointments. I'm looking forward to a weekend of doing a whole lot of nothing this weekend!

Tonight I have some spacey nails. These images reminded me of the asteroid Eros so I thought it would be fun to do an astronaut making it there and being on it. I think these are cute. I love space!

My bases are Holo Taco Electrostatic (holo) and Rogue Lacquer Traitors Day (flakie). I put a coat of Holo Taco Reflective Taco on top of Traitors Day. I stamped using Maniology MXM082, Uber Chic Out Of This World and B Loves Plates B.13 Cosmic Space with different stamping polishes. 

That's it for tonight. Have a great night, talk soon!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Out of this World Horse Show Fun

Happy Monday loves, 

Yesterday I was at a horse show that I helped at. It was a fun year end show with fun timed and elimination events plus a costume class. This year's theme was galaxy/universe/spacey. It was a fun theme and fun to see the costumes people come up with. I have some pics at the end of this post.

I of course did some fun spacey nails. I am so pleased with how these turned out. I love them, hope you do too 😊

My bases are ILNP Party Bus (thumb & pinky) and ILNP Cityscape (index, middle & ring). I stamped using Born Pretty BP-A09 Deep Cosmos and MdU Space 1 plates with Maniologh Bam White! stamping Polish and several different holo polishes. I added K.B. Shimmer Love At Frost Sight magnetic polish on top of the Party Bus nails to complete this spacey look.

Here are the show grounds first thing in the morning when I first got there. It was so pretty and so peaceful. It was also a beautiful weather day. It was so nice all day long and such a pretty day!

Here are the fun entries in the costume class. It was so good!

That's it for today. I'll talk to you tomorrow when I post my blog b-day nails.

Polish & Purrs,

Melly 

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What Say You Percy, Will You Find Life On Mars Or Not???

Happy Caturday My Loves, 

It's the weekend, yay! I love weekends even if there is not really anything to do, lol. I am okay with being at home, being lazy, hanging with Casey, the kitties and bunny and doing my nails :) 

This past week the Mars rover, Perseverance, or Percy, landed on Mars. Percy's purpose is to drill and try to find out if there is or has ever been life on Mars. I love space, the planets, the universe, stars, galaxies, all of it, so for me this has been super fun to watch and read about this rover landing. It sure would be cool to have life being discovered on Mars whether currently or in the past! So, we shall see what Percy finds out :) 

In honor of this rover successfully landing on Mars I decided on some red planet and rover nails for today. I think these turned out nice. I like the DNA for life and think the little rover is too cute!

My base is Color Club "Cosmic Fate". I sponged Color Club "Sidewalk Psychic" and Cupcake Polish "Frankencense" on the nails to be stamped. I stamped using Uber Chic "Out of this World" and Whats Up Nails "B059" plates with Clear Jelly Stamper 059 and Maniology "Bam White!" polishes. I colored the rover in with Funky Fingers "Dark Knight", Sally Hansen X-treme Wear "Heavy Metal" and China Glaze "Low Maintenance".

Cosmic Fate on it's own, the perfect base for the red planet I think! 

That's all for now. Have a great rest of the weekend. I leave you with Miss Betty and myself snuggling. My baby girl, this little cat is. I love all of our cats, but Miss Betty is that special one. She's such a momma's girl and we love each other so much ❤

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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In A Galaxy Far Far Away (my first try at reverse stamping)

Hi all, 

I have just a super quick post today. This past week was a trying one. Miss Betty had to go to the vet on Monday and stay overnight to have her poop manually removed since three enemas did not work. She has constipation issues and this was the first time enemas did not move it thru her little body, sigh. She is now on all special food and another medicine in addition to her daily laxative. It is so sad for me when she does not feel well and she struggles to poop. She is my baby girl and it stresses me so much when she has to have medical stuff done. She is doing okay now and once I am done with this post we will snuggle the rest of the day away and be lazy. My poor baby girl. If she continues to get blocked up then the next step is removing the distended part of her colon. I hope it doesn't come to that and that this new medicine to help keep things moving along with the high fiber diet does the trick and works. Keep your fingers crossed for her and keep her in your thoughts and prayers that she keeps pooping. 

Yesterday I got to see some of my cousins that I have not seen in a long time at my mom's and that was really nice. Got to hang out with my horse too which is always awesome :) 

So, for today's nails I have my first attempt at reverse stamped nails which is where you stamp an image on a stamper head then color in the image with polish, let dry then transfer to the nail. It's pretty easy to do actually and I can't believe I waited so long to try it on my own nails. I chose to do a galaxy/space inspired mani for this. I absolutely LOVE the way these turned out. They are so pretty and so spacey, love them and hope you do too :) 

My base is Essie "In Plane View". All the stamped images are from Bundle Monster "Kelli Marissa BM-XL213" plate. I stamped with Broadway Nails "Snow White" and then used a slew of polishes to color in the colored images on the stamper head. I let that dry and then put a sticky base coat on my nail to make the dry stamp images stick to the nail when I stamped it on. Before I stamped those I did add some random spots of Sally Hansen X-treme Wear "Disco Ball" on to add some sparkle. I added some "Disco Ball" to the other stamped nails after I stamped to add sparkle on them as well. I added one coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of all my nails to finish. I am so happy with these and can't wait to reverse stamp again in the future. It's pretty awesome to add color like to this to your stamping. There's tons of videos on You Tube about how to do it and if you are interested definitely watch some :) Here they are! 

In Plane View on it's own. I think this pretty shade of really dark teal was kinda cool for a spacey background. 

There you have my first run at reverse stamped nails. Have a great rest of the weekend. Talk to you soon. Be safe and stay well! I leave you with Miss Betty, Mr. Kitty and Princess Pebbles currently beside me on the couch. I love being surrounded by kitties, it makes my heart happy :) 

Polish & Purrs, 

Smelly Melly 

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Out Of This World Galaxies

Happy Sunday Loves,

Hello my friends. I hope that today's post finds you well and having a good weekend. My weekend has been good. I went to work yesterday morning to clean the office. I do that once a month and it's a super easy seventy five bucks for me for 2 and half hours of work. Then I came home and did some laundry and then my sister came over last night and my two other friends, Valerie and Zach, stopped by for a bit and that was super nice since we hadn't seen them in a bit. Today I have done my nails and plan on being pretty lazy the rest of the today. Other than putting laundry away I have no other stuff planned that I need to do. So it's a TV and hanging with the kitties and Casey day :)

Today's nail are galaxy nails. It's been quite a while since I've done some galaxy nails and I am super super happy with how these turned out. I think they came out really pretty and totally do look like galaxies. Hope you like them too :) I love them!

My base is OPI "Lincoln Park After Dark". I then sponged on OPI "Funky Dunkey", Orly "Brittney Beach", Essie "Around the Bend" and OPI "Alpine Snow" to create the galaxies. I put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the galaxies and on my thumbs and pinkies a coat of Milani "Rainbow Prisms" to finish this pretty galaxy nail look.

Lincoln Park After Dark on it's own. This is probably one of my oldest polishes and one of my very favorite vampy shades ever. It was the perfect base for these galaxy nails I think! 

In other artsy stuff here's the rocks I've painted since the last time I posted rocks in a post a month of two ago. I love painting rocks, it's so much fun and gifting them to people or hiding them around town is so much fun too :)

Here are the Thanksgiving rocks. I put these at each table at my Mom's church's Thanksgiving dinner they had. They were a hit, people loved them!

Here's some Christmas and Winter rocks. Love these all :)

 This rock I gifted to my one crazy cat lady friend who works tirelessly rescuing, helping andn feeding feral cat colonies. She loved this rock and I did too.

 This one I made for my sister whose favorite kitties are gingers. She totally loved this rock and so did I :)

 I made this one for my Corgi friend, Tanner's, mom and gave it to her at puppy graduation, Barb was very touched that I made this with love for her. It made me happy.

When I found these rocks they screamed to be painted as dogs so made them both for my mom. The beagle since she has a beagle right now and the Lab since our family has had many Labs over the years and Labs hold a very special spot in our hearts, she loved these! I am pretty proud of how they came out too!

That's it for today. Have a great rest of the day, talk soon!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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