ORLY - MEET ME UNDER THE MISTLETOE

Good morning gals! Today I'm showing you Orly's Meet Me Under the Mistletoe. I picked this up the other day when I went into Sally's for like the first time in TWO MONTHS!!! Can you believe that it had been so long? Anyway I met a great girl that works there who actually remembered me from being in before and always buying nail polish. I slipped her one of my handy Blog business cards and she actually knew my blog! How cool was that? So Jules if you are reading this...HI and it was great meeting you! And PLEASE, what happens at Sally's stays at Sally's OK?

Ok, so on to the color. I really wanted to be wowed by this, but I was really kind of underwhelmed with how it looked on my nails. There wasn't anything wrong with it, it was just kind of flat. It looks so awesome and flaky and glittery in the bottle but on the nails wah wah waaaah. After yesterday I was ready to take it off. I think it just needed a little something extra like a nice big helping of some peridot green glitter, that would really kick this one up a notch.

It also bothers me just slightly that the font is two different sizes on the label. I know it was too long of a name to fit on one row, but why make THE MISTLETOE so much bigger like it was more important than "meet me under". Did that bother anyone else?


FUN FACT: Mistletoe is Oklahoma's state flower

DINKY UPDATE

First - no she hasn't had the babies yet, dang it!! lol I have been bringing her with me to work everyday to keep an eye on her for signs that she is going into labor. She has a comfy little bed I made her out of a box that has blankies and toys and a pet bed warmer in it. As you can see from the pictures, she is pretty content with it. So no baby news yet, but you can bes' believe as soon as I know something I will let you all know.



Even pregnant - she still has her America's top dog model going on!!


I have been super busy making tons of Christmas candy too! Me and Little were in the kitchen a good 2 hours making coconut bon bons, chocolate covered peanut butter balls, peanut clusters, toffee, peanut brittle and thin mint cookies. He was really an awesome helper!



These were the thin mint cookies and they were soooo easy to make and soooo good that I wanted to share the recipe with you all.

Andes Mints
Ritz crackers
Sprinkles

Melt your Andes mints, dip and totally cover your Ritz cracker, move to a cooling rack or baking sheet lined with wax paper, add sprinkles.

These cookies are to die for! I promise you can't tell it is a cracker at all, they taste awesome.


Lastly, in the middle of Christmas candy and Baby watch 2010 I agreed to make 24 cupcakes for a lady's son's party, so yeah, I've been a little bit busy as of late. I hope to at least get one or two nail related posts up this week, but I can't promise anything.

Hope everyone is having a great week :)

DINKY'S NOT SO DINKY BELLY

Thought you guys might want to see some pictures of Dinky with her belly full of baby. She should be due within the next week, and I'm getting everything ready for her, we are just so excited about her having these babies. Her head looks so tiny compared to her belly :)

(Nanner is totally bombing all these pictures of Dinky!! That little fink!)





I was thinking she might only have one, but she really started showing here in the last week or so and now I'm thinking she could have maybe 2 or 3 babies.


Here are a few more of Nanner, he is totally chilling on a heating pad I had turned on for the babies on the couch, it was supposed to be for Dinky but he keeps hogging it and from the looks of it, he doesn't plan on sharing any of it with her!!





I have really short day here at work, this morning was my son's Christmas program and I have to leave early to pick him up from school, so no nails pics today.






I just had to include this picture of Mom's park job. Yes, that back tire is totally up on the curb, she knew and decided to leave it parked like that anyway. . . . . she is trying to hide it before I could take a picture and it looks like the car is running over her foot, lol!

SEEIN' SPOTS

This is one of those unlikely combos that just knocked my socks off! I'm loving this, it's bright, squishy and glittery!!

I used Wet n Wild Prancer to top off Revlon Royal. I was pretty impressed with Prancer, it added a nice amount of glitter evenly over my nails without much work. It worked best if you did just one or two strokes any more than that and the brush wanted to pick the glitter back up off my nails.

This is so cool - I took like a million pictures, hope you don't get bored looking at all of them :)

REVLON TOP SPEED - ROYAL

I was at Walgreens this morning getting some cans of Mighty Dog for our dog at work and almost walked right past this polish. I'm glad it was the only one that really struck me since these run $5.99 EACH!!! What has gotten into these drugstore brand polishes and their crazy prices?? Anyway, as usual these bluey purpley colors are hard to photograph, but I did the best I could.

About the 4th picture down I included a picture that gives you more of an accurate color idea. Such a pretty bright glowing blue shade!






(Photo above is a more accurate color sample)






I have a really fun layered NOTD I did with this and a glitter top coat coming up in a little bit!

EYEKO - CHI CHI POLISH FOR GIRLIE NAILS

Ok, be easy on me, my nails are really short. I had to chop them all off for the move. Hopefully they will start growing back in a jiffy though.

I used Eyeko's Chi Chi polish, which is a very light almost mauvey type pink. I used three coats and a top coat of Seche. For a glitter polish this is really pretty smooth to the touch and was an easy formula to control. I like it but I think it almost matches my skintone a little too much but not enough for me to not wear it again, I mean it's GLITTAH after all!!
Some things never change . . . . . :)






For those interested, my old camera was a Canon Power Shot SX110is, my new camera is basically the same thing, just the updated model Canon Power Shot SX130is.

COMMENTS UPDATE

Hey all. Just wanted to let you all know of a change I did to the comments on my blog. I took away the ability to comment under anon for a couple of reasons. First being I think it will cut down on some of the negative comments that people always seem to leave under anon. Secondly the amount of spam comments that are listed under anon are killing me! I get email alerts when comments are left on my blog and I get tons of emails from anon trying to hawk some weird product or website. So I'm sorry for those few that comment under anon and do so in a nice kind way, but I am really trying to get back to doing this blog and enjoying it!

Thanks for understanding!