so heres another update guys! if anyone still reads this hah!
so we have 10 year old twins with us right now as an addition to our own two children its kind of chaos! lol they've been with us for about a month and a half and things are just now begininng to slow down and we are all getting used to it. They are awesome kids and get along great with our kids so thats always a relief! they go to school in the city so a transportaion van comes and brings them back and forth everyday to school.. which means they have to be up extra early!!! theres a girl and a boy so ive been doing my fair share of nails and hair and ive also been taking pictures of her nails because she wanted to do it like me:) if anyone is interested in checking some cute manis thats ive done on her or hair.. ill post the pictures:)
i swear im getting back into things! and there will be plenty of posts soon to come! now that april vacation is over and they are back in school its a bit more calm around here
take care
<3Aj
Monday, April 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Where are you from?
Hey everyone! read my last post to catch up on what I've been doing because I've been super busy around here!! but a while back I made a tab up there^^^ on my page asking where you all are from! I really want to start swapping again and would love to know where you all live and if you are willing to swap and what you would like from me! and what you like to swap!
I live in Massachusetts in the United States and really want to know more about my fellow bloggers and followers! so let me know on the "where are you from" page!
I live in Massachusetts in the United States and really want to know more about my fellow bloggers and followers! so let me know on the "where are you from" page!
Sunday, February 26, 2012
What ive been doing! UPDATE,pictures and current mani!
holy moly Ive been so busy!! A lot of you who follow me know that we have a diner.. well DH and his dad do.. but anyways in the past two weeks Ive made a FB page for it.. menus and a outside menu (sidewalk menu) so much work!! the facebook page wasnt that bad but the menus are for breakfast and lunch so I had to type them all up make them fancy put them on nice paper and get them laminated lol..
the outside menu was a pain in the ASS.. first off the only reason why I decided to make these things is because the diner is soooooo old school .. like most diners haha.. they've never had menus.. only the little lunch menu board they change everyday but other than that no type of advertisement or anything like a sidewalk menu for specials.. so I decided what the heck! it will most likely bring in more money thats why people have them right? RIGHT! except most business buy theirs.. and they can run up to $350 for the board and the letters and numbers all that.. there was no way I was dishing out that money hah.. so I said "Ill make one".. I had the bright idea to find a sign that was metal paint it.. and then stencil out a bunch of letters and numbers,laminate them glue a magnet on the back.. and it would be done.. my ideas seem to be done in my head in like a minute.. lol so when we found a sign.. it was not metal:/ sooooo I said i would paint it with magnetic paint... that sucked so bad lol three coats of black magnetic paint and then two coats of white paint! Then I put fridge magnets on it and it worked friggen awesome.. so I went ahead with my letters.. stenciled out seriously a thousands A's B's & C's so on.. laminated them and then put magnets on the back. it worked great until I decided to put it outside of the diner on the windiest day EVER and the letters blew all into the street into traffic it was miserable.. Tom and I were running after them so we knew this whole thing sucked! how could we get these letters to stick!?
Then Toms cousin came into the diner and said use velcro! holy crap no kidding! why didn't I think of that!? it just sucked that I spent a whole weekend painting and spent the money on magnetic paint which isn't cheap.. and putting magnets on thousands of letters:/ after we bought the velcro it went real quick though and Tom helped me hah... so we've had it done for about 4 days and we've already seen a huge difference!!!! first of all those velcro letter DO NOT BUDGE!! hah yay! second of all it was basically a $20 project well $40 if you count the magnetic paint.. which was the before project:/ but I think for doing it all myself it came out really good! and besides.. if it gets crappy we will just buy one now !knowing that it has helped !!
the back says lunch :) its basically just a list of things the diner sells besides the lunch specials and a hamburger and hot dog!
the outside menu was a pain in the ASS.. first off the only reason why I decided to make these things is because the diner is soooooo old school .. like most diners haha.. they've never had menus.. only the little lunch menu board they change everyday but other than that no type of advertisement or anything like a sidewalk menu for specials.. so I decided what the heck! it will most likely bring in more money thats why people have them right? RIGHT! except most business buy theirs.. and they can run up to $350 for the board and the letters and numbers all that.. there was no way I was dishing out that money hah.. so I said "Ill make one".. I had the bright idea to find a sign that was metal paint it.. and then stencil out a bunch of letters and numbers,laminate them glue a magnet on the back.. and it would be done.. my ideas seem to be done in my head in like a minute.. lol so when we found a sign.. it was not metal:/ sooooo I said i would paint it with magnetic paint... that sucked so bad lol three coats of black magnetic paint and then two coats of white paint! Then I put fridge magnets on it and it worked friggen awesome.. so I went ahead with my letters.. stenciled out seriously a thousands A's B's & C's so on.. laminated them and then put magnets on the back. it worked great until I decided to put it outside of the diner on the windiest day EVER and the letters blew all into the street into traffic it was miserable.. Tom and I were running after them so we knew this whole thing sucked! how could we get these letters to stick!?
Then Toms cousin came into the diner and said use velcro! holy crap no kidding! why didn't I think of that!? it just sucked that I spent a whole weekend painting and spent the money on magnetic paint which isn't cheap.. and putting magnets on thousands of letters:/ after we bought the velcro it went real quick though and Tom helped me hah... so we've had it done for about 4 days and we've already seen a huge difference!!!! first of all those velcro letter DO NOT BUDGE!! hah yay! second of all it was basically a $20 project well $40 if you count the magnetic paint.. which was the before project:/ but I think for doing it all myself it came out really good! and besides.. if it gets crappy we will just buy one now !knowing that it has helped !!
we keep the menu on the porch and theres one of our cats lol! I blocked the number because even though you can look up the business and find the number ... well you know what Im talking about lol!
So after all that crap! which took days seriously!!! all the stenciling i went through about 4 permanent markers! Tom and his dad have seen a definite change.. not thousands of dollars coming through the door but people are reading the menu when they drive by and coming in or getting stuff to go! that's just regular things the diner sells the other side will say the specials.. for instance fish & chips! a lot of people that dont come to the diner have no idea that we do fish & chips and our towns only seafood restaurant went out of business last year so now everyone will know we have some seafood too:)
onto other things... some of you may also know that Tom & I are foster/adoptive parents! I've touched base on this in a post before.. not sure which one but if you have any questions or are thinking about becoming one let me know! Anyways we were foster only 0-5 year olds but we recently just changed our age limit to 8 yrs old so we needed a twin size bed ... we have toddler beds and cribs but we needed something for an 8 year old or even a 5 year old is kinda to big for a toddler bed.. so first we were going to go with a sofa bed in our play room.. so that when a kid came to us they could have there own room with a tv and stuff.. and we would just be able to pull out the bed .. and when they left we could make it back into a couch and the kids could have their playroom back .. which we still might do for the other bedroom too.. BUT I found this beautiful piece of kid furniture on craigslist haha!
Its by little tikes and its a friggen twin size bed on a play house!!! are you kidding me with this awesomeness!? I want to sleep on it hahah another unknown fact about me... I love kids play houses we now own 6 of them! I have four in the back yard and one on our porch and now this one in our play room! also you can put another twin mattress on the bottom so its a bunk bed!! so cool!
Right now Wes has been playing in there and he loves it and goes on top to take a nap but he knows that it will be used as someones bed and hes fine with it because he has a little tikes twin size car bed haha:) we love these ginormous plastic things! Tom put this pic on facebook the other day and said "another house to add to our collection".. seriously im collecting these things!! I have a problem hah
So thats what we have been up to! reallllly busy if you read all of this update you are the best!!!
and if you are wondering whats on my nails currently.. a franken!! i havent named it yet but isnt it gorgeous!?
Talk to you all soon!
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
ok ALL the new Sinfuls!!!! & a give away!!!!
Alrighttttty so after my last post HERE of the couple new Sinful Colors I bought.. I was lucky enough to get my hands on the rest of the (new) ones!!! I'm pretty sure these are all of them.. so I decided to put all the swatches in one post so you guys don't have to link back and blah blah ! read below for the giveaway..
Bikini- Blue toned bright pink with pink shimmer throughout. So if you didn't read my last post this was one already swatched but I said it was similar to SC Oasis--Oasis is like one shade lighter
a blue-r toned bright pink with pink shimmer throughout.. same polish? basically!!!Bikini and Daredevil are dupes.. for sure.. unless you can look under a microscope you can see that its a teeney tinyyyy bit blue-r toned!
ummm yup^ If you have either one of these three colors.. I would say you can skip lol. ones enough :D
Bare- OMG love this nude.. it looks like a cream but there is the tiniest bit of shimmer in this with bits of silver it seems..
Tutu- I think sinful is stepping it up with there names.. this is basically the color of a tutu! sheer light pink cream
Exotic Green- love this grass colored green!
Blue By You- a Royal Blue shimmer with turquoise/teal glitter flecks
Kissy- is a Zoya Charla dupe
Island Coral- a light coral cream!
Cinderella- The very sought after Sinful at this moment! its seriously perfectly named it just looks like her dress !
I know this is a hit right now and for some reason a lot of you cant seem to find Cinderella so i picked up an extra one today to give away!
Rules:
AND leave a comment below!
I will announce the winner on Facebook on Monday 2/20/2012
yes.. its open internationally!
Valentines Day nail spam
Happy Valentines day! here are a couple of manis Ive done lately!
Also here are some of the needle dragging marble manis I've done with the "heart pattern"
some of them I like... some of them I not so much lol but they were just taking up space in a picture album on my computer so i decided to give you some "heart spam" haha Enjoy!
Monday, February 13, 2012
New Sinfuls
There has been some new Sinfuls popping up ! I picked up these four a couple days ago!
Island Coral- gorgeous light peachy coral! I love corals!
Cinderella- This one is the most sought after Sinful right now! every one is talking about it! can you see why!? gorgeous light shimmer sky blue with orange and pink (tiny flakes) of glitter
Bikini- is a beautiful bright pink with pink shimmer throughout (I thought this was Oasis renamed.. but its a shade darker then Oasis.. same pink shimmer throughout..not a dupe BUT if you own Oasis I would skip unless you just love pinks like me:D
Blue By You- is a Royal blue with turquoise/teal tiny glitter flakes or flecks:)
just you wait & island coral
This is two coats of Island coral from SC it's a beautiful light coral cream!
I have a updated post with ALL of the new sinfuls swatched and a give away for cinderella HERE
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
star bursts
not the candy lol... this is a old manicure .. well not wicked old but a couple weeks.. lol
using 2 coats of China Glaze "sacred heart" then double stamped the image from SH04 plate with black and white special polish.. then the star from bm14 with special white:D
I think I might redo this one for the fourth of July and use blue instead of black.. or this could also look cute with a heart in the middle for V-day!
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Pink Wednesday
Happy Pink Wednesday! For this mani I used one coat of China Glaze "Innocence" as a base and one coat of SH Xtreme Wear in "Strobe light" I really love how delicate this looks:D then I added one coat of Essie "Matte About you" because I just cant stop hahah
Monday, January 30, 2012
Beware & Strike a Pose and a rant!
Three coats of Pure Ice "537cp" which I'm pretty sure has a name! "Beware" I already owned this silver glitter from Pure Ice ! gorgeous silver glitter... and I know I'm not the only one Cracked out.. but this is actually really pretty and I didnt own a crackle polish in this teal/royal blue color yet! Im pretty set on the crackles and shatters and whatever you call them for now.. The Nail polish brands went a little craaaaaay cray over this trend and it was cool for like the first week now im just over it hah:/
when pure ice hits the magnetic & flakie trend ill be all over it like "Crack" :D
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