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Sunday, December 28, 2014

State of the Blog Address (hehehe)

Nothing to Disclose 


Hi guys!! Didya miss me?

I hope everyone had wonderful, happy holidays, whatever you celebrate!

Me, Eh, I'm glad they're almost over. I don't do well with holidays - probably because I have had impossible expectations in my head since I was a child watching the "movie holidays" that just can't be real. And not having anyone to celebrate with sort of puts a wet blanket over the whole thing. Plus I dislocated my shoulder and survived pneumonia. December hates me. I think I always expect a Norman Rockwell Christmas and always end up with a Salvador Dali one. And yet I remain the glass half full girl. But the holidays are the closest I come to glass half empty.





So while it's tempting to say I haven't posted because I've been so busy with the holidays, the truth is more like I've been in "hibernation mode" waiting for them to be over. And actually Christmas wasn't bad - I spent Christmas Eve and the night of Christmas Day with friends, eating and playing games and generally being silly. So I really don't know what I'm griping about since I know I'm so blessed compared to so many.

But I have been swatching like a mad woman. I'm SO behind and I have so many beautiful things to show you if ever I get all the photos cropped and watermarked! Elevation Polish, Chaos and Crocodiles, Picture Polish, Darling Diva, Girly Bits, Colors by Llarowe, Pahlish, MORE Darling Diva, KBShimmer and dozens of miscellaneous individual polishes. And nail art! 2015 is going to be GREAT!

Right now, I'm sitting here contemplating my end-of-year posts. Last year I did so many! This year there won't be as many. But here's a helpful hint - I will be doing a giveaway of 2 bottles of my Favorite Polish of 2014!





So while you may have noticed I haven't been posting as often lately, there isn't just one reason, there are several. I'm still trying to find a balance between work and blogging. I've been sick/injured. It's been the holiday season. I'm a bit overwhelmed with the volume of polish. The sun doesn't shine as often. Most of it is, "oh, I'll have time to get to that tomorrow." Still the Queen of Procrastination. So only a small part of it is actual blogger burnout. Not enough of it for me to really worry. Yet.

Back soon to assault and overwhelm your optical nerves! Or just get on your nerves?

XOXO
Sheila





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Saturday, December 20, 2014

Crows Toes Overtime till Springtime: Exclusive for January's A Box, Indied

Press Sample 
*This product is Cruelty Free 


Happy Saturday!

It's actually a bit cold and a bit miserable here, by South Texas standards anyway, so unfortunately I wasn't able to get any sun photos of the polish I'll be showing you now. But it's still quite sparkly even without the sun.

It's Crows Toes Overtime till Springtime, an exclusive created for January's A Box, Indied.

Crows Toes
Overtime till Springtime



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Friday, December 19, 2014

HPB Presents: Holiday Nail Art! - Pretty Packages

Some Press Samples
were used in this nail art




Happy Friday! This month the bloggers of Hobby Polish Bloggers (HPB) are getting together to show you our holiday/festive/winter manicures!

And I have yet another Christmas-themed mani for you! This one is a framed gradient with bows for some pretty Christmas packages!




For this mani I started with a simple gradient. The base is Zoya Hunter with Zoya Tilda and a plain white creme for the gradient.




I followed by framing the nails with Chanel Dragon...




I then added simple bows on the middle and ring fingers for the finished mani!




Be sure to check out the other great manis from the bloggers in Hobby Polish Bloggers in the links below!

*Zoya Tilda and Hunter were Press Samples
*All other polishes used were purchased by me










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Christmas Nail Art Ideas

Nothing to Disclose


Happy Holidays!

I haven't done a lot of Christmas/Winter nail art in the past. Don't know why, just never really could get "in the spirit" in time to do much. But that's changing this year!

I have a Christmas Plaid design for you today along with a sort of "round-up" of the few Christmas Nails I've done in the past.

For today, though...

Christmas Plaid Nail Art



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