Christmas Bells

Happy Sunday Loves,

Hope you are doing good.  I am doing great :)  I've been off work since Thursday for my staycation at home and go back to work this Tuesday.  Thursday I cleaned all day, then on Friday my sister and I did a bunch of barn work and then yesterday I kinda just chilled, did my nails, then went to our Santa Stumble in the afternoon.  I only did the first two stops of the stumble, then we came back to my apartment and hung out here and I decided to stay home after that since it was slushy and icky out walking with the freezing rain and ick we had all day.  It was fun and I am old so not going out late for any longer doesn't really happen.  I loved that it started at 4 PM in the afternoon so it didn't end up being a late night. What can I say, I am OLD :)   Today and tomorrow I am just kinda relaxing and chilling the rest of my staycation and looking forward to it after being busy the last few days ;)

Here are the nails I did for the Santa Stumble. I did bells.  I am very pleased with how they came out :) The red base is Orly "Unlawful" and the green base is China Glaze "Starboard".  The silver glitter on my pinky is Essie "Set in Stones" and the gold on my index is Essie "Rock at the Top". I did the bells using nail art brushes and a few different polishes.  I put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the bells nails to finish it off.  Hope you like them as much as I did :)

Unlawful, the red, and Starboard, the green, on it's own. 

Here's a few pics of me and some friends at Santa Stumble.  It was a lot of fun and I got to meet some new people too and Casey made some banging meatloaf for when we all got back to our apartment and we had some yummy shots too.  A good time indeed :)

Your feel good for today is:

"Today I choose happiness."

This one I love, love, love so much :)

I leave you with a bed of the boys, Buster, Mr. Kitty and Dino :)  I'm going to try to get another post up later on today or tomorrow of a couple other Christmas nails I've done so far this year.   Have a great rest of the day and I'll talk to you soon :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Want Some Gum?

Happy Sunday, Happy Dead Day Friends,

Hello my loves!  I hope you are well and that your weekend is going good.  Mine has been okay. Friday afternoon I spent at the ER with my poor Mom, she popped her hip out of joint and had to have it popped back in, so, my sister, Tina, and I were at the hospital until she was able to go home. She's had both hips replaced and the one she popped out is about 20 years old now and she did it twice back in 2015.  She may have to have this one replaced again now since this happened yet again. She's okay now, but, please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.  It's extra stressful now since Dad is gone, sigh, and she's such a good woman and I hate to see her in pain, but, she's a super strong woman and keeps a positive attitude which is so important.

This week is a short week for me at work.  I am using up some vacation time I have to use by the end of the year and am taking Thursday, Friday and the following Monday off of work, so, I'll have a 5 day weekend that I am so looking forward to.  On Thursday, Tina and I are doing some barn work and having hay delivered so we can get as much in the barn as possible before bad weather hits, then Friday I am cleaning and doing some purging, then on Saturday night is our Santacon/Santa Crawl/Santa Stumble in the city that is always so much fun and shenanigans.  I think this is about the 5th year we've done this and it's always a good time naughtly Christmas caroling and barhopping, I can't wait. Then, I'll just relax and chill on Sunday and Monday.  Sometimes staycations are the best :)

Tonight is the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead and I can't wait.  This season has been pretty good, but, can't believe it's mid-season finale already, boo!  There's been a marathon on since Friday that I've been, shocker, watching pretty much all weekend and will watch thru tonight.  Pretty sure someone is dying tonight, my guess is possibly Spencer, so, we shall see.

Yesterday I did start my holiday nails and the first one I did was some Christmas galaxy nails that I'll post sometime this week.  But, for today, I have some super cute, super awesome gumball and gumball machine nails I did a week or so ago. I love the way these turned out and am really proud of these suckers.  I love them and hope you do too :)

For my base I used Essie "Mint Candy Apple", then used nail art brushes, dotting tools and a slew of polishes I was too lazy to write down to draw the gumball machine and all the gumballs.  I then put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" (as usual) on top of those nails, then did a coat of OPI "Happy Anniversary!" on my thumb and pinky nails to finish. I love them :) :) :)

Mint Candy Apple on it's own.  This is a classic Essie shade that I love so much, it's quite pretty :) 

That's it for now, your feel good today is:

"Today, count your blessings."

Love this one :)

I'll talk to you soon. I leave you with Princess Pebbles and Dino one day on the chair.  I love these pics, they are too cute :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Cute Acorns

Happy Monday Loves,

Hope you are doing good today and had a good weekend.  I am doing good and did have a good weekend too.  Cleaned the apartment on Saturday, then surprised my Mom and went to church with her yesterday, then spent some time with my horse and brushed him. Then it was Walking Dead last night.  Next Sunday is the mid-season finale already and this season has been pretty good so far.  I am excited for next week.  In case you didn't know, I do indeed love me some Walking Dead :)

Tonight's nails are some really cute acorn nails I did a couple weeks back as part of my Fall nails I've been doing. I loved the way these came out, they are so cute.  I loved them :)

I started with a base of OPI "I'm Gown For Anything", then used nail art brushes and China Glaze "Desert Sun", Maybelline Color Show "Neutral Statement" and China Glaze "Mahogany Magic" to draw the acorns.  I then put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the acorns.  The glitter accent is Essie "Summit of Style".

I'm Gown For Anything on it's own.  I love, love light shades like this.

That's it for tonight.  Have a great rest of the night and I'll talk at you soon with some more nails :)

Your feel good for today is:

"Remember, you're the one that can fill the world with sunshine."

I LOVE this one so much, it's so good :)

I leave you with Mr. Kitty being Mr. Kitty and so cute :)

Talk soon!!!!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Smooshy Unicorns

Happy Hump Day Love Bugs,

We've made it the middle of the week, yay :)  Hope you are well. I am, but, it's been raining like crazy the last two days, so, it's been kind of dreary and I've been feeling dreary myself, oh well, it could be snow this time of year, so, I'll take the rain!!

Tonight I have some smooshed, then stamped unicorn nails I did a couple of weeks ago.  In truth unicorns or horses with horns scare the bejeebus out of me.  If horses or ponies really had horns I probably would have never made it age 5, LOL :)  But, unicorns are really pretty and they are horsey, so, I do love them in the end :) I love the way these came out, they are so pretty I think :) Hope you likey too :)

My base was China Glaze "My Way Or the Highway", then I did some random dots of polish on the smooshed nails and a stamper to smoosh the polish using Essie "In the Cabana", Sally Hansen X-treme "Big Teal" and Orly "Gumdrop".  Then I used Sinful Colors "Snow Me White" and Bundle Monster Plate BM-XL214.  I then put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the stamped nails and a coat of Color Club "Lady Liberty" on my pinky and the unstamped smooshy nail.

My way or the Highway by itself, this one is really pretty.

That's it for tonight.  I just got done doing some awesome gumball machines and gumball nails tonight that I love and am super proud of.  I'll try to post them in the next few days.  They came out so cute :)

Your feel good for today is:

"Life is short-let's do this."

Love this one, it's so fun and so true :)

I'll talk to you soon and here's all my black fur kids in one pic, Princess Pebbles, Miss Betty and Dino. I LOVE black cats in case you didn't know that :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Holy Huntin' Holiday

Happy Monday,

Hope you are well and that today is treating you well.  Mine is okay for a Monday.  Today is opening day of deer rifle season in Pennsylvania and this is a seriously special day for hunters in this state. They get so damn excited that deer season and deer camp time is here, it's cute and funny. Every year my Dad, brother and Dad's buddies would all be out for this big day of huntin' or as I call it, "Holy Huntin' Holiday".  My boyfriend, Casey, is out with his family hunting today also, so, maybe we'll be having some fresh deer meat for dinner later on.  I think my brother, Dave, and my Dad's last man best friend still alive, were going out too. Three of the guys here at work are off for hunting today and numerous other folks I know are out too.  Casey is off work to hunt thru Wednesday of this week yet.  Every year my Dad would go up to Potter County, PA and the bus hunting this week.  It was the thing he most looked forward to all year, he loved it.

The last couple of years I did some deer season inspired nails and dedicated them to Dad. Well, this year is not going to be any different even with him being dead now and not here.  They are still dedicated to Dad and will be forever more when I do my huntin' nails.  So here's my openin' day of deer nails dedicated to Dad, but, also for all the other hunters I have in my life :)  Hope you enjoy them. I dig them and do hope to have some fresh deer meat to eat this week :)

My base here is OPI "Is Mai Tai Crooked?", then I used eye shadow applicators and sponged on China Glaze "Community", OPI "Don't Mess with Texas" and OPI "Suzi, The First Lady of Nails" on the nails I then stamped on using Sinful Colors "Black on Black" for the camo stamp with Winstonia "Hunter's Life" plate and the deer are Born Pretty plate "BP-LO11" and Bundle Monster plate "Work It BM-XL178" stamped with Essie "Penny Talk" for the deer stamps. I then put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the stamped nails.  The glitter accent on my index finger nails is Funky Fingers "Glitter Matters" and on my pinky nails is Color Club "Go Go Green".

Is Mai Tai Crooked? on it's own. 

There you have my openin' day of deer nails for this year.  Good luck and be safe out there if you go hunting yourself.  It is kind of a sad day today knowing how much this day meant to Dad and him being gone, sigh.  But, I know he'd appreciate my silly little dedication to him and for something he enjoyed doing so much.

Your feel good for today, this one is silly fun:

"You can't make everybody happy. You aren't a jar of Nutella."

 Enjoy the rest of your night and I'll talk to you soon.. I'll leave you Miss Betty trying to push Buster out of her way on the couch :) She's funny, she will get up and just boot him out of where she wants, but, these two are really good friends and sweet to each other.  Their facial expressions in this are funny I think :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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On Cloud Nine!

Happy Friday Love Bugs,

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving if you celebrate and didn't eat too, too much, lol :)  I had a good day.  It was nice.  Today I did work and was the only one there, thankfully the phones weren't too terribly busy at least.

I've had these cloud nails to post for a couple of months now and I guess better late than never, eh? :) These were really fun to wear and pretty easy to do too.  I like them, they are such cute little happy clouds :)

The base here was China Glaze "Bahamian Escape", then I used a dotting tool to create the clouds using Sally Hansen Extreme Wear "White On" then Nicole by OPI "All About the Glam" to add some sparkly white to the cloudes. I did a coat of Ruby Kisses "Snow White" on my index and pinky nails.

Bahamian Escape by itself.  I've had this polish for a long time now and it's still one of my favorite blues for sure.

That's it for today.  Have a great rest of the night and I'll talk to you soon.

Here's your feel good or well, rather, words of wisdom for today:

"Most people have five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch & hearing.  The successful have two more: horse & common."

I love, love, love this :)

I leave you with Gypsy chilling in a bookcase one day :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Happy Turkey Day Pie Slices

Happy Thanksgiving Loves,

I hope you are all well on this day of giving thanks for those we love, both human and animal, and for the good we have in our lives.  I am thankful for so much every day, not just on the day we are "supposed" to be thankful for.  I am thankful for Casey, my boyfriend, that I love dearly and is always there for me, I am thankful for the loving family I have, I am thankful for all the amazing souls I have in my friends that I have in my life, I am thankful for having Casey's wonderful family in my life, I am thankful for my horse, Dusty Bucks, and am so, so, so very thankful every single day for my kitties that bring me such happiness and joy every day.

This Thanksgiving is a bit hard as it is the first one without my Dad and I've been thinking about him a lot this week, well, I think about Dad all the time every day, but, I think you know what I mean, and been kinda dreading not having him be here today.  But, at the same time, I am also thankful that I have a Dad that I do miss more and more every day since he died.  Not a lot of people have that sadly and I did have the most awesome Dad and for that I am eternally thankful and grateful.  He's still with me every day also and for that I am thankful too.

Casey and I are going out to see my Mom and sister this morning, then going to Casey's parents for dinner, then tonight my sister is coming in to catch up on the last two weeks of The Walking Dead and that is my turkey day plans, so, it's a going to be a good day.

For my nails for today I did some pumpkin pie slices and since I love pumpkin pie, these were fun and so easy to do. They turned out so stinking cute I think :)

I started with a base of Orly "Coachella Dweller", then used a nail art brush and China Glaze "Desert Storm", Orly "First Kiss" and Nicole by OPI "It's All About the Glam" to paint the pie slices.  I then did a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust" on top of the pie nails and Color Club "Orange Crush" on the glittered nails.  Are they making you hungry for some pie?  They sure are me :)

Coachella Dweller on it's own.  This is a pretty green.  I love it actually, it's dusty, my favorite kinds of cremes. 

That's it for today.  Enjoy your day with family, friends and pets.  And, make sure to eat all the food, lol :)  I know I sure will :)

Your feel good for today is:

"Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful."

I love this one and it's so true.

I'll leave you with Mr. Kitty, Dino and Miss Betty :)  Talk to you all soon and Happy Turkey Day :)

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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