Christmas Nails

11 Days Until Christmas !

 

Recently, I have been trying my hand at Christmas nails. I am not very talented in painting my nails as it is and its usually pretty sloppy. Especially when it comes to doing my left hand since I am useless with my right hand. However, in the spirit of Christmas and thanks to pinterest I have been inspired to try Christmas patterns on my nails. I have two this past week so far. My nail color never lasts fully more than two days when I work because I am ALWAYS washing my hands and dealing with chemicals that just live to take off nail polish. The first design I did was just gold, green and red stripes! It was for the most part pretty basic looking, but took forever! I need a much steadier hand. In the end it turned out ok - or it must have - because I got some compliments from co-workers and a nurse.

 The second one I just completed about 20 minutes ago. It is a Christmas Light pattern. I spent about 30 minutes trying to find objects around my house that could make small little light size dots on my nails without looking ridiculous with no prevail. So I have to use a make up sponge and dont very slowly. Some of the light bulbs turned out larger than others - this is a pattern I will need to practise more! But I do really like it.

The next ones I am thinking about is blue and white snowflake pattern, and/or a red and white Santa design. If you have any ideas or suggestions, let me know :)

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Baking Inspiration

With only 12 days left to real Christmas, and only 9 days left until my Christmas I need to get the ball rolling. This year I am contributing to my mom's Christmas baking. I am going to choose 2-3 desserts and bake them, and bring them home for the holidays. I've never really make dessert food before, except cookies and cakes that come premixed so this will be a challenge for me for sure. I haven't really decided which items I will make but have a few ideas. I will not reveal which ones, because I want it to be a surprise for my family. I just hope they turn out delicious.

 

 

This is a collage of some baking ideas I've gathered from my pinterest account. I especially love the fancy sugar cookies. I have no idea where to get icing that shimmery - I am having a hard enough time finding sugar sprinkles.  

 

I am all completed my Christmas shopping, just waiting on a few more items to arrive in the mail. I managed to not put myself into debt. I can't help but spend too much on Christmas. I even got the cats a little something! I am super excited to go home for the holidays if only got a couple of days.

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Hello December

 

I am a little late at welcoming December on the blog, but not late in reality.  I love December. Everyone usually hates winter but December is a good month. Its the start of the winter so its not too cold yet. And the new fallen snow is still in its pretty state and not brown with mud. Also, Christmas, and shortly after New Years -Two of the best holidays. And an extra for me, snowboarding!

 

I haven't done much lately, except work, so I created a collage of Christmas decor inspiration!

So many good DIY ideas here. I have a lot of cork crafts above because I have a bunch of them stuck around from a project. I went to the dollar store today to get some supplies to maybe make some of these items, and couldn't find enough to complete even one! I didn't want to spend too much so just wanted to get supplies from dollar store. But since its Christmas, the craft isle has been taken over by all Christmas items. I will have to remember these for next year and stock up early.

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