Caturday Cat Print

Happy Saturday or Caturday friends,

I hope today finds you well.  I am good. This morning Casey and I took his cat, Gypsy, to the vet for her shots and yearly check up, then I came home and painted my toes and my nails.  I've also just been watching movies.  I didn't watch any of the royal wedding.  I think it's cool and all, but just didn't feel the urge to watch it.  I do plan on watching the Lifetime movie about the royal couple at some point though, lol.  I do love me some Lifetime movies :) The rest of the day I am just chilling and will probably take a nice hot bath later on.  Casey is making a good dinner tonight also and his cooking is always really good. Tomorrow we may try to get some yard work done at Mom's, depends on whether this rain we've been getting non-stop lately ever stops, ugh. Mom also lives in a valley so it stays wetter out there longer than other places.

For today's nails I did some big cat cheetah/leopard prints from a new plate I just recently got.  It's Lina's Get Wild 01! plate and it's awesome.  It has a lot of really cool animal print designs on it. Can't wait to use it again.  Next time I'm going to use the tiger stripe designs.

My base are China Glaze "You Drive Me Coconuts" (darker pink) and China Glaze "Neon & On & On" (lighter pink).  I then sponged on Essie "Bond With Whomever" on the nails to be stamped then stamped with Sinful Colors "Black On Black" and Lina "Get Wild 01!" plate.  I put a "Melly Mix" on the rest to finish.

You Drive Me Coconuts and Neon & On & On on their own.

There you have my cheetah/leopard print nails.  I love these with the neon shades, makes it really fun I think!

Here's a good feel good for today:

"The grass isn't always greener on the other side, it's greener where you water it."

Hmmmmmm.....now that is one to ponder!!!

Have a great rest of the day on this rainy dreary Caturday, unless it's sunny where you are, then I am so jealous of you, lol :)

I leave you with my sweet dear Momma Kitty.  Came across this the other day and it made me smile, she's was so cute.  She went to Rainbow Bridge in 2014 and I miss her every single day.  She took me two years to earn her trust to get her spayed, she was a good girl and totally became my baby girl. She was my good girl. Talk soon!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Potter County, PA "God's Country"

Happy Tuesday my loves,

Hope you are well and your week is going good so far.  Mine is okay so far.  It's pretty stormy outside right now with thunder, lightning and lots of rain.  Our power did blip once but so far so good on that.  It's supposed to be stormy and rainy the rest of the week, ugh. 

Anyways today I have my nails I did from two weekends ago on our first trip of this year up to the mountains at my family's camp.  It's so much fun up there.  I love it so much.  We even had a bear visitor since our friend Amy forgot to put her cooler inside on Friday night.  I have pics of it's two teeth marks on Amy's cooler and it's paw prints.

Here's the nails I did for that weekend.  I really like the way these turned out, they came out pretty I think :) Hope you like them too :)

I did a base of China Glaze "Barre Hopping". I stamped using Funky Fingers "Dark Knight" with Uber Chic "2-02", Uber Chic "Great Outdoors" and Bundle Monster "BM-S187" plates.  Then I put a coat of Kleancolor "Meteorite" on the rest to finish.

Barre Hopping on it's own.  This is from the spring collection this year, I love these types of pastel purples, some of my favorites. 

Here's the bus, it's a 1939 school bus converted to a camp and was my Dad's, now my brother owns it since Dad passed. The bus is awesome, I love it, it's totally our home away from home.

Casey was making pork and sauerkraut on the fire in a dutch oven, it was so good!

The land by the bus.  It was still so bare up there with the super long and late Winter we had this year.  Never saw camp this bare before like this so it was kinda cool

The awesome sunset after some serious storms up there on Friday evening. Isn't this so pretty!!!

Here is Amy's cooler and it's teeth marks. The bear didn't get in it tho', Amy woke up and scared it off before it did any more damage.

The bear paw prints, cool, right?

This is the Wharton, a little general store.  I love the Wharton, it's awesome!

The phone booth with no phone at the Wharton :)

This is where we stopped on the way home.  Casey did some fishing and I just enjoyed it :)

Look how clear the water is, so clean!

That's it for today!  Have a great night.  I'll talk to you soon.

I leave you with another old pic I found of Mr. Kitty and Buster (RIP buddy).  I am enjoying seeing these pics of Buster come up even tho' I do feel a bit sad too, I miss my old man so much, he was my buddy.

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Flowers for Mom's Day

Happy Momma's Day!!!

It's Mother's Day, happy day to all the Mom's out there, both of humans and the fur babies! I have no human children of my own and am just a cat Mom and I am totally a-okay with that :)

Today Casey and I went out to my Mom's and hung out with her, my sister, my horse, the cats and Mom's new dog she adopted last weekend named Dash.  He's so awesome and such a good boy.  We are all still really sad about losing Gracie, her old dog, but happy that Dash is in our lives now. I'll have a post for him with some doggie nails soon :)

I decided to do some flowers for Mom's Day today.  I really like the way these turned out, the are pretty :)

My base here is China Glaze "Bermuda Breakaway".  I then used a slew of different polishes and a nail art brush and dotting tool to do the flowers.  The glitter is Color Club "Invite Only" and I put a coat of an Amour polish, not sure of the name cuz' the label fell off, on the rest to finish.

Bermuda Breakaway on it's own.  I've owned this polish for a really long time now, think it was one of the first dark dark blues I ever got. 

There's my Mom's Day nails.

Here's Dash, he's a cutie :)

Here's Tina's cats, Negan and Frido, they are such handsome and sweet boys too :)  I love them!

Negan

Negan

Negan

Frido

That's it for today.  Have a great rest of the day. Last weekend Casey and I went up the mountains camping for the first time this year. I'll get those nails and some pics up from then this coming week.

Talk soon!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Updated Holo Top Coats

Hello, my friends.  I hop you are doing good and life is going good.  Mine has been sad this week. On Thursday I went with Mom to send her sweet therapy dog, Gracie, to the Rainbow Bridge. It was so sad.  She had bone cancer and went down really fast, sigh.  She was such a good dog.  I feel for my Mom, it sucks.  Mom did say that in about two weeks she will start looking for a new companion pupper. I'll have some Gracie nails soon.

Today I decided to finally do something I've had sitting for a while, my holo top coat comparison post.  I originally did one back in February 2015, you can find that one here: http://musingswithmelly.blogspot.com/2015/02/holo-top-coat-comparison.html

I have acquired a few more since then and purged one or two from last time.  Some of these you can still get, others maybe not (sorry about that).  If they are easy to get I've put an asterik behind the name and where you can find it  I love holo top coats, they are so darn pretty and add so much pretty to any polish :)  Hope you enjoy this fun sparkle on this cloudy and cold Sunday, arrrrgh...Spring is never coming this year :)

Here they are all on one wheel, look at all that pretty :)

Here's the list of names in order:
1. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Scattered) * website
2. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear) * website
3. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear & Scattered) * website
4. Pretty & Polished Halo T/C * website
5. Fair Maiden - Glory of the Galaxy *? website
6. Indigo Bananas - Rainbow All the Things * website
7. Fair Maiden - Chasing Rainbows * ? website
8. Indigo Bananas - SF35 Top Coat * website
9. Fair Maiden - Fairy Godmother * website
10. Starlight Polish - Starlight * Etsy
11. Stardust Polish - Holy Holo * Etsy
12. KB Shimmer - Prism Break * website
13. Pacifica - Gloss Rainbow Top Coat * Ulta
14. Glorious - Spectraflair Topcoat #35 * website
15. CBL - Lather & Lace *? website
16. Piggy Polish - Lunar Halo N/A
17. Finger Paints - Holographic Top Coat N/A

The ones on this wheel above:
1. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Scattered) * website
2. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear) * website
3. ILNP - My Private Rainbow (Linear & Scattered) * website
4. Pretty & Polished Halo T/C * website
5. Fair Maiden - Glory of the Galaxy *? website
6. Indigo Bananas - Rainbow All the Things * website
7. Fair Maiden - Chasing Rainbows * ? website
8. Indigo Bananas - SF35 Top Coat * website

The ones on the wheel above:
4. Pretty & Polished Halo T/C * website
5. Fair Maiden - Glory of the Galaxy *? website
6. Indigo Bananas - Rainbow All the Things * website
7. Fair Maiden - Chasing Rainbows * ? website
8. Indigo Bananas - SF35 Top Coat * website
9. Fair Maiden - Fairy Godmother * website
10. Starlight Polish - Starlight * Etsy
11. Stardust Polish - Holy Holo * Etsy

And the last wheel above:
10. Starlight Polish - Starlight * Etsy
11. Stardust Polish - Holy Holo * Etsy
12. KB Shimmer - Prism Break * website
13. Pacifica - Gloss Rainbow Top Coat * Ulta
14. Glorious - Spectraflair Topcoat #35 * website
15. CBL - Lather & Lace *? website
16. Piggy Polish - Lunar Halo N/A
17. Finger Paints - Holographic Top Coat N/A

Whew, that was a long post today.  I'm going to keep the rest short.  Have a great rest of the weekend and good beginning of the week.  I'm going to chill today and watch some cheesy shark movies, I love them!!!  I'll talk to you soon!  I leave you with my cutie patootie, Miss Betty, cuddled by my sister, Tina, one night :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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