Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the long Thanksgiving weekend here in Canada and this is the mani I've been wearing all weekend.



The base colours used were Essie Barbuda Banana layered with one coat of Savvy Femme Couture Banarama (yellow nails); D2W Red Chic 2 Volcanic Lava layer with one coat of Savvy Femme Couture Orange You Happy (orange) and Miss B Rainbow unnamed brown colour.



I searched my plate stash and couldn't believe that there are no turkey image plates so during the week, I sourced all my local supply places and finally, at one store, found a couple of old packs of water decals. Stamped with Konad special polishes in Cool Red, Deep Jungle, Pastel Orange and Yellow using SdP D20 (maple leaves), fauxnad F (other leaves) and T41 (pumpkin and leave swirl above the turkey) image plates along with the water decals.



I've been having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend...the weather all weekend has been absolutely beautiful. I had my Thanksgiving turkey dinner on Saturday as we are in the process of closing up our weekend place for the season so wanted to have Sunday and Monday free to do the things we need to do (not that we want to do it because the weather has been so awesome!). Both my parents and my in laws joined us for dinner and everyone seemed to have a wonderful time.

Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canadians....and hopefully you will enjoy this mani even if you aren't celebrating!

Vacation Nails-Part Six!

This is the last of my vacation nails....while I could post lots more pictures of both mani's and vacation stuff, I'm sure there's little fun for those checking out my blog in seeing "Vacation Nails-Part Seventy-Seven" lol! I fully appreciate that what I find interesting may not appeal to others.....plus I have other mani's I've already done in between these that I want to post. In addition, I've picked up the China Glaze Metro collex, did a haul of nails inc at Sephora at Eaton's Centre the day they debuted that I thought I'd share as nails inc is now available at select Sephora's in US and Canada now...plus some other exciting posts I want to share soon too! So while I have lots of inspiration from my holiday's, plus am actually going away again in a week and am sure I'll get more ideas, this will be the end of the extra shots of scenery versus my boring ol' nails!

Here's the last mani.



Who would have thought there'd be a chipmunk stamping image! I found this while going thru my image plates. I think some of these images will be cool for some fall nails too...which will be around the corner in no time!

Mani in progress. Started with two coats of China Glaze Cyberspace. While the holo may not be terribly visible, if you click on the pix, it is more obvious in some of them.



Stamping using plates T41, fauxnad F and B02.



A variety of Konad special polishes were used which where gold black pearl, deep jungle, apple green, yellow, red and chocolate.



Added a few dots to Chippy (that's what we call all the chipmunks we see)!



Then added a few random leaves around some of the images in the same colours used. This last pix was taken the next morning in the sun in an attempt to see if more holo would be obvious in Cyberspace.....but unfortuantely, the holo in the Tronica collex was very subtle....OMG collex it is not!



And here's Chippy!






To be honest, I'm not even sure they are the same chipmunk as there were lots scurrying around and I took pix over several days!

I've had a lot of fun trying to come up with mani's using the pix of my holidays as inspiration! It was actually a good opportunity to check out all my image plates again. I've come up with more inspiration of other mani's for the future which will be posted as they come to fruition.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

This is the Valentine's Day mani that I'm wearing today.

OPI Bride's Bouquet topped with China Glaze White Cap; thumb is Wet n Wild Rockin in Rubies...it appears to have the same glass fleck like White Cap which is why I picked it!



Stamped with Konad red special polish and Beautiful Scratchers white using IP's A24, HB03, fauxnad F and fauxnad m04.



I intially had used Konad white special polish but it didn't pop bright enough and I remembered that I had Scratchers polish in white and got the results I was looking for.







Here's polishes before stamping. White Cap is gorgeous for layering.


I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's Day whether its with your significant other or just hanging out with friends!

Thanks for looking!

Valentine Mani

Valentine's Day is right around the corner...so I thought its about time to start posting some Valentine's Day mani's.






Base is Wet n Wild Tickled Pink and OPI Bride's Bouquet.



Stamped using Konad special polishes in red, white and metallic pink with IP's fauxnad E, F, T22, HB 18, HB 29 and BM 2 and 3.

Here's the polishes by themselves if it interests you....


Thanks for looking!