Summer Sunglasses & Flip Flops/Updated Stash and Set Up

Happy Sunday Loves, 

Hello my friends. I hope today finds you well. I am okay, have a bit of a sore throat right now and my hips are bothering me but other than that I am good. Friday night we heard a crash and turns out the plaster ceiling gave way and came down in about half of our kitchen bringing the ceiling tiles down too. It was terrbile, so dusty and so much to clean up, ugh. We live in a really old home, it's around 100 years old and Casey thinks that the humidity may have caused some of the plaster cracking to happen. It's getting fixed this week. Think my sore throat may be because of all the dust that was stirred up and lingering. The kitchen is nice and clean now until it gets all dusty again when the ceiling is replaced. Oh well, such is life. 

In other news I finally got a desk!! I had been wanting one for quite a while now and decided I was going to just get one so that I can have a dedicated area for nails and a place to do them instead of on my couch and using the coffee table as my work station. This morning was the first time I did my nails at it and it was great having this area to do my nails. I have some pics at the end of this post of my new area and updated stash/set up. 

Today's nails are some summer sunglasses and flip flops. Love the sunglasses. They remind me of the ones that everyone had back in the 1980's :) My flip flops didn't come out the best but oh well I still like them :) Hope you do too! 

My base is Essie "Talk to the Sand". I drew the glasses and flip flops with a nail art brush and the following polishes: Orly "Put the Top Down", Orly "It's Brittney, Beach", Orly "Melt Your Popsicle", Orly "Glowstick", China Glaze "Drink Up Witches" and Essie "Tangoed In Love". I put one coat of YC Shimmer Blast "Sweet Candy" on my pinkies and thumbs to finish. I think these are cute! 

Talk to the Sand on it's own, love, love these white pinks so much!

I think these turned out cute! Here is my new set up, so excited to have this area, yay :) 

The picture above my cabinet is my Mom's senior picture, that's my Dad back in the 1950's to the right of the polish rack in that black and white photo. The antlers were from a deer my Dad got and the hat was one of my Dad's. All the light jars I sponge painted and put battery operated Christmas lights in except for the one on the left with the white lights. Casey's Mom got that for me a few years ago. The rocks were all ones I painted and kept for myself instead of gifting or hiding. I love love love this set up so much! It makes me so happy! 

This is the top drawer of the desk. It has all my silicone mats, stampers, extra stamper heads, tape/tape refills and all my fluid art polishes.

This is the second drawer that is just towels, my Sharpies, marbling dishes (if I ever do that again, lol) and some paper for ideas or whatever. 

This is the back up drawer, has acetone, thinner, a bazillion clean up q-tips, orange sticks, cuticle trimmers, files, cut up felt for removing polish, paper plates, lint rollers (for use in stamping to remove polish if I don't use tape.

This is the shelf under my desk. On the shelf is all stamping plates and the box on the floor is polish I use for stamping and some actual stamping polish. 

Here are my super amazingly awesome lights. These were fun to make and I LOVE these! Can't wait to make more in the future :) 

This is the wall to the right of my desk with polish. 

This rack is by our couch. 

This is by our couch as well. My living room really is my polish room and I am so okay with that!!! 

There you have my updated stash and set up. Hope you enjoyed seeing it as much as I enjoy it :) 

Have a great rest of the weekend. I am just chilling with the kitties today and watching and some TV and reading. It's rainy out today so it's a good day to be lazy! 

Today's feel good is this:

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

This is a good one!

I leave you with Miss Betty after she had a good poop the other morning. She was so content and so happy. She's been pooping great lately. The medicine and food cjhanges are helping my little girl and that makes me so happy after her constipation issues she has had! 

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

Have you loved your cuticles today?

My Stash and Set Up

Happy Sunday (again) loves,

I have a  second post for today. I have been wanting to do a my post on my stash and set up for a while now for the madness that is my nail polish love. So, without further ado, here is my crazy collection of polish and all that goes with it :) I hope you enjoy seeing my madness!! I know it sure does make me happy!!

I have to have everything in my living room since I live in a one bedroom apartment and don't have anywhere else to home my massive polish collection and all that goes with it.

This is the wall by my couch on these corner walls. There's all my pinks, purples, blues, blue/greens/teals, reds and orange cremes here along with all my shimmering topcoat types.

This rack is all glitter that I use for accent nails. this one is on the wall on the other side of our chaise couch.

This is the wall across from our couch that houses my nuetral, yellows and green cremes along with more glitters for accent nails.

These racks are on my coffee table that hold my base and top coat, remover, files, felt squares, thinner and all my brushes and dotting tools.It's also holds all my white, black and gray cremes along with some silver and golds.

This sits on a bookcase against another wall and has all sorts of random stuff in it. It has some stamping polish, cleanup stuff and all sorts of stuff for art, sponges, straws, paper plates, extra tape, stampers, etc. The container with the dots and box it's sitting on is all stamping plates and stampers. On the shelf below is my remover along with some other tools (the brushes in front are my rock painting brushes, that's just the only place I have to store them, so there they go :) ) On top of the jewelry box is more stamping plates in holders. In the jewelry box is all art stuff, sponges and eyeshadow applicators. Below that on the shelf are some nail magazines and a couple books along with felt that I'll cut up for polish remover and felt already cut up in the tupperware. There's also more stamping polish in the basket container. 

 

There you have my method of madness that is my polish world. In a perfect world I would have a polish room but oh well, since I don't, I make do.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my mad stash of polish and supplies. I'll leave you with some super plain pretty nails from a couple weeks ago when I was going to do this post but just never did, so you get nails twice today!

My base is OPI "Planks A Lot". On my ring nails is a coat of Kleancolor "Metallic White" on the rest is a coat of CND Effects "Amethyst Sparkle".

Planks A Lot on it's own. 

That's all for the second time today. Talk soon! I leave you with Princess Pebbles on our stove. This is an old pic I came across, not sure when I even took it!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

Have you loved your cuticles today?