Phases of the Moon

Happy Sunday Loves,

I hope you are well and having a good weekend. For us here in the USA it's a holiday weekend which means we have a three day weekend from work. I actually went back to working in our office a week ago and it was an adjustment after working from home for 5 weeks due to the pandemic. But, it was good to get back to the physical office to work. 

I haven't been feeling too hot the last several days. My allergies are kicking my butt and I am just feeling run down and crappy from it. This year's allergies are extra worse since we had a really warm and wet rainy Winter, ugh. I suffer badly this time of year and this year is no different, sigh.

So, I haven't done much this weekend. I did go thru and got rid of some some stuff this past week which is always a good feeling. I'm just lately feeling that I am at the point in my life where I need way less stuff and things to be happy (nail polish and acrylic paint aside, lol :) ) I did finally purge most of the music CD's and DVD's I had laying around too. There is no need to keep a bunch of that stuff around any longer in the technical age we are living in. That felt good to purge a bunch of them too! 

Today I have some phases of the moon stamping from a new stamping plate I just recently got. I love the way these turned out and they were super easy to do! I love anything universe/outer space/galaxy/planet/moon and these were too fun to do! Hope you enjoy them too!

My base is OPI "Viking In A Vinter Vonderland". I stamped with Sally Hansen X-treme Wear "Heavy Metal" and ZZ Moon plate. I dabbed some OPI "Pirouette My Whistle" on all but the full moon nails and a full coat of it on my thumb nails.

Viking In A Vinter Vonderland on it's own, perfect base for these I think. 

That's it for this week. Have a great rest of the weekend and enjoy the holiday if you celebrate. Talk soon. I leave you King Dino from last year chilling outside. This came up in my Facebook memories a few days ago and decided to share him again on here! He's such a handsome gorgeous cat!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Springy Marbled Green

Happy Caturday My Loves, 

It's the weekend, yay, even though not much going on. Hope you are well, safe and getting through these strange days okay. I am okay and we really have no choice but to just muscle forward.

Today I have some green marble nails. I did these on a silicone mat then used a stamper to transfer them to my nails. My base is Orly "So Fly". I then painted OPI "Alpine Snow" on the mat then did dots on tops of that with Orly "Oh Snap", Essie "Bustling Bazaar" and Finger Paints "Glitz & Glow". I then used a dotting tool to mix the colors a bit then picked up the image on the stamper and stamped it on my nails. The glitter is Color Club "The Plastics". I think these did come out pretty but I do wish that I would have used some different colors to get more contrast in the marble. This was the first time I marbled using this technique so it's a bit of a learning curve. I will do this again in the future. I do like these though. It's a very subtle marble and is pretty I think. Clean up on these were a bit a pain and time consuming but worth it in the end for a cute marble! 

So Fly on it's own. This is from the current Orly Summer collection that is out now. It's super pretty. I love it. 

That's it for today. Have a great weekend. I plan on doing a lot of nothing while binge watching Melrose Place still. I'm on season 4 and there's 7 seasons with 30 some episodes per season so I've got a while to go yet with my binging. Loving watching this all over again since I haven't watched it in so long! 

I leave you with kitties. Here's Princess Pebbles, King Dino and Mr. Kitty being lazy kitties! 

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Elephants on Pink Parade

Happy Sunday My Loves,

Hope you are well, safe, staying healthy and having a good weekend, if an uneventful one as we are all having I am sure with the pandemic still happening, ugh. I am doing okay, stir crazy, but okay. Our state is slowly reopening thankfully.

It's Mom's Day and normally I would be going to church with her and then hanging out with her but I did see her this past Thursday when I took her and the one dog to the vet and then fed my horse and the cats since I do that every Thursday since my sister works late that day. I told my Mom that I will try to get to church around her birthday the end of June hoping things are more normal by then. I love my Mom so much and she is a great woman. I'll be calling her later on for sure today!

Friday, May 8th, was also what would have been my Dad's 81st birthday. That is a sad day but also a great day since it is his b-day. Dad passed January 6, 2016 and I miss him so much each and every day. I am so thankful and fortunate that I had a dad that I miss more each day since a lot of people do not have that and for that I am truly blessed.

This week I went through my little notebook I keep of nails and nail art that I want to do, it's my Nail To Do book and elephants were in there. I absolutely LOVE elephants, I think they are such a neat, cool and super cute animal so today I decided elephants it would be. My sister-in-law also loves elephants so today I will be dedicating these nails to Sue, who is a super awesome amazing person whom I love dearly. I think these turned out super cute and I love them on their pink background and pink grass parading around. Hope you like them too :)

My base is Essie "Flying Solo". I used a nail art brush with China Glaze "Recycle" and Essie "Free to Roam" to draw the elephants and pink grass. I used a dotting tool with some random black I have to do the eyes. The glitter is a no name, no label that came from a local beauty supply store that I have no idea what it's called since something must have happened to the bottle that I poured it into an empty OPI clear polish bottle. It's a pretty glitter just no clue what it is, lol. On my pinkies and thumbs is a coat of Color Club "Glow Away".

Flyng Solo on it's own. This is one of my new polishes I got recently, love this shade of pink, it's pretty I think! 

That's it for today. Happy  Mom's Day to all the wonderful hardworking loving Momma's out there. You are appreciated and loved dearly. Have a great day. I leave you with my heart kitty, Miss Betty, snuggling and cuddling with her Mommy (me) yesterday. I love this little girl so much. She's my baby girl! Talk to you all next weekend!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Blossoming Trees & Flowers

Happy Tuesday Loves, 

Hello my friends. I hope you are still doing well and staying healthy during this time. Things are okay this way. I'm so tired of this "new normal" but what can you do but get thru it. I am very thankful that I still have a job and can work from home. Our state is starting to reopen some areas and places this coming Friday so hopefully now things will get back to a more normalish way of life. We shall see. 

Today's nails I did yesterday of some Spring time blooming flowers and trees. I feel like I am totally missing this year's rebirth of Spring since I've been stuck home so I might as well have some on my nails. I really love the way these turned out and hope you like them too.

My base is Essie "Blue-La-La". I used a slew of polishes that I was too lazy to keep track of to draw the trees and flowers. On my pinkies and index nails is a coat of Color Club "Throwing Shade".

Blue-La-La on it's own, love this shade of light blue 

That's it for today. Have a great rest of the week, talk soon. I leave you with one of my very favorite pictures of Miss Betty. She's so darn cute. I love this little lady so much, she's my heart! 

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Fun Fan Brush

Happy Sunday Loves!!!

I hope you are all doing well and having a good weekend. Mine has been okay, uneventful as we are still in the stay at home orders so it's just another day home minus working from home since it is the weekend! I've been binge watching Melrose Place, the original, from the 90's on Hulu. I have not watched this since it was first on. I loved Melrose Place and used to watch it with my mom and am loving watching it again all over. I'm on season 2 right now :)

Nothing else much really to say, life is boring being home all the time. Miss Betty is completely back to herself again after her enemas and for that I am so thankful.

Two weeks ago I decided to cheer myself up and ordered some new polishes online from the Essie Valentine, Spring and Summer collections and a couple Orly's that I had on my polish wish list.

So for today's nails I decided to use all new shades that I just got. The only one not new is a really old Misa sparkle top coat I used. I went for a fan brush mani today since I had not done one of those in forever. I think these colors look super cute together and hope you like them too :)

My base is Essie "Worth the Tassle" (just got this one from 8ty8 Beauty Supply online). It's from the Summer Essie collection that just came out and I LOVE it, always love a good purple and this is definitely a good one! I then used a fan brush with Orly "Lips Like Sugar", Essie "Bustling Bazaar" (also from the Summer Collection) and Essie "Free to Roam" to do the fan brushed nails. These polishes were all from my recent order of polish so all new and from current collections. I put one coat of Misa "Candy Girl" from a really old collection. I think it's "Candy Girl" but not 100% sure as my label fell off long a ago.

Worth the Tassle on it's own. Love it!!!!

I have some links for the online retailers I regularly use to order polish. Check them out. Never had an issue with any of these sites and been buying from all three for years now. Here they are:
8ty8 Beauty Supply: http://8ty8beauty.com/
Head 2 Toe Beauty Supply: https://www.head2toebeauty.com/
Transdesign: https://www.transdesign.com/

Here's some sites I regularly use to purchase stamping plates and nail tools:
Lantern & Wren: https://www.lanternandwren.com/
Whats Up Nails: https://store.whatsupnails.com/
Maniology: https://maniology.com/

the above sites are located in the USA.

Below are two that I use on occasion out of the USA for plates and other nails tools:
Mundo de Unas (Mexico): https://www.mundodeunas.com/
Born Pretty Store (China): https://www.bornprettystore.com/

Locally I go to Sally Beauty Supply https://www.sallybeauty.com/ to get my acetone, nail files, polish thinner, base and top coats.

That's it for today. Have a great Sunday. I'm being lazy and will be binging more Melrose Place and hanging out with the kittes since it's rainy out and won't be spending any time in our back yard :)
I leave you with Mr. Kitty looking too cute in all his Mr. Kitty cuteness! He's a good cat. Talk to you next weekend! Have a great week! Be and stay healthy and safe!

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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Happy 50th Earth Day 2020

Happy Earth Day 2020,

Hello my friends. I hope that today finds you well and that you and your families are staying safe and healthy. It's been close to a month now that I have been working from home and I am so ready to get back to the office every day and have some normalcy again. Our state just extended our stay at home order thru May 8th so who knows when that will be, sigh. Even just going to the grocery store is so stressful and anxiety inducing. Sadly I don't think that's going to be changing anytime soon. We just have to accept that things are different now and just learn to adapt, we really have no other choice.

Last Wednesday I had to take my little dear sweet kitty, Miss Betty, to the vet due to her being constipated. She has poopy issues but had been doing good for a couple years. She had to get three enemas and it took her until Monday afternoon to start feeling herself again. She's going to be on a different food with higher fiber along with her daily laxative to help her going forward. I was one stressed kitty momma until she started to feel better. Sunday was my birthday, I spent it hanging out with Betty and snuggling her on the bed since she still was not feeling good, so it was just a day. Not like I was going to be doing anything anyways. Casey, my brother and I were going to be going to camp this past weekend for our first trip up of the year but that sadly for obvious reasons did not happen. I probably would have had to cancel anyways to stay home with Betty if it would have been normal times. We are hoping to get a trip to camp in May. We shall see. I miss camp and the bus and am so ready to get away to the mountains with the crazy that is life currently, more sighs.

Anyways, on to the nails. Today is the 50th Earth Day. I think it's awesome that it's now been a day for this long. This year too the Earth is doing much better due to people being home during the pandemic. Air qualities are so much better the entire world over, wildlife is moving back into areas that humans have pushed them out of and water ways are running clear.  This kind of stuff is pretty awesome to see happening. Maybe there is some silver lining in all of this, it's giving the Earth a chance to do some healing of her own. Mankind has messed this planet up on so many levels for so long, who knows, maybe this is Mama Nature's way of saying, "hey, I need a break from you people screwing me up for a bit.".

So, of course I have some Earth Day nails to celebrate our beautiful and wonderful planet. I really like these, think they turned out cute and hope you like them too!

My base is China Glaze "DJ Blue My Mind". I sponged OPI "Green Come True". I stamped using Funky Fingers "Gesso" with Winstonia W104 and Bundle Monster BM-XL476. On my pinkies and thumbs is a coat of China Glaze "A Grouchy New Year".

DJ Blue My Mind on it's own, a pretty shade of blue and perfect base for this mani I think. 

That's it for today. Have a great day, celebrate and appreciate Planet Earth and I'll talk to you soon. I leave you with a super cute picture of Miss Betty, my poor little poopy problem girl. She's my heart and just the cutest! I love her so so much! She is my baby girl!!

Polish & Purrs

 Melly

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Stay Home Easter Eggs and Robin's Egg Easter Candy

Happy Easter My Loves,

Hello my friends. I hope you are doing well and staying safe still in this crazy that is life right now, sigh. I am doing okay. I'm going a bit stir crazy and so ready for life to return to some semblance of normal as is everyone else in the world. Normally on Easter I would be going to church with my Mom then we'd be going to have Easter dinner with Casey's family. Obviously that is not to be this year so I am planning a pretty lazy day of TV binge watching and reading. Casey will be making us ham later on so we are still having Easter dinner with just the two of us.

For today's nails I did some decorated Easter egg nails and then added glitter to the others to give the look of Robin's Egg malted milk candy nails. Robin's Eggs are some of my favorite Easter candy and I always loved decorating eggs so it was cool to put two of my Easter favorites together for this year.

I decided to do "skittles" nails for this mani today. My bases are China Glaze "Fresh Prince-SS" (thumb), Essie "Bond With Whomever" (index), Essie "Salt Water Happy" (middle), China Glaze "Cutie Mark the Spot" (ring) and China Glaze "Casual Friday (pinky). I then used these same polishes to draw the egg designs with a nail art brush and on top of those nails I put a coat of China Glaze "Fairy Dust". Then to create my Robin's Egg candy nails I simply put a coat of Baroness X "Twinkle Lights" on my pinkies and index nails. I love the way this mani turned out, it's perfect for this year's edition of stay at home Easter nails. Pastel colors always make me so happy :)

Here are all these lovely pastel shades on their own, so pretty and so Eastery! I love them all! China Glaze "Fresh Prince-SS" (thumb), Essie "Bond With Whomever" (index), Essie "Salt Water Happy" (middle), China Glaze "Cutie Mark the Spot" (ring) and China Glaze "Casual Friday (pinky). 

That's really all I have for today. Try to have a great Easter if you do celebrate. I'll talk to you next week with some more Spring nails I have in mind to do. Since it is Easter I leave you with our sweet sweet girl bunny, The Girl (that is her name). She's the best pet. She's so sweet and completely spoiled. We love her so much! 

Polish & Purrs,

Melly

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