These are my nails for the past week. As you can tell I was feeling the green. Base color: SINFUL COLORS- Show me the way (833), *dots* Happy Ending (946), *ring finger* Call You Later (932)

So.....I'm back after having been gone for how long??? lol Terrible, I know. A lot has been going on between the time I abandoned my blog and now. It was almost a struggle to motivate myself into making this post -_-;..Things get better with time though right? uh..yeah...hmm lol... Anyway, I sucked it up and finally did something halfway decent to my nails this past weekend lol. Newsprint, mickey, leopard print, and letter rhinestones.

Left to right from top: Redwood, Dusty Rose (Bottom) Golden Sunset, Terracotta, Dark brown E/S, Brick Red.

I'm always on the lookout for well priced and good quality pigments and while on you tube I stumbled across a tutorial using Glamour Doll Eyes eye shadow pigments (http://glamourdolleyes.com/). I took a look around their website and decided I would try out a few of their pigments. While browsing I saw that they provide eyeshadow towers with various shadows in different number combinations. I decided to get the 4 shadow "Olivia" stack ($14.00) , and the 5 Shadow "Yuliya" Stack ($17.50). Regular pigment containers are $6.00 each so I figured this would be a cheaper way to try out more shadows and get more product seeing as the sample's of course don't contain as much.

My nails had been boring for the past two weeks so I decided to add some color via water marbling.

As far as breakfast foods go I can't really say that I'm very innovative. This isn't very great seeing as some staple breakfast foods don't appeal to me very much (cereal, oatmeal, cream of wheat, boiled eggs/sunny side up gaggggg gaaggg gagggg and triple gagg lol).

In my quest for nice breakfast treats I have discovered......YOGURT lol. I can't say that I was previously a fan..Though I didn't find yogurt gagg worthy I sure wasn't going out of my way to eat it. I was having a discussion with my friend about her son. She mentioned that he didn't like to eat certain fruits and that he likes yogurt..We started thinking and I was like "Ahaa!!" lol Came up with the idea to add fresh or dried fruit to his yogurt with granola and maybe add sprinkles on top (yes..tis trickery) *giggles*

I decided to try out the idea for myself due to my lack of breakfast ideas..This is what I came up with!


All I used was vanilla flavored yogurt (Dannon Light), a crushed crunchy granola bar (nature valley), and added a cereal mix (Granola cranberry Orange) I purchased from New Leaf Market. (I put fresh strawberry in my mom's)

For this week I did another take on icecream nails.. I used Sinful Colors "Nirvana" for the chocolate, and "Snow Me white" for the cream and index finger. As for the Lilac and aqua color...I mixed those from Beauty Supply Store $1.00 polishes (lol) I could never find some shades in the price ranges that were good for me so I just decided to mix my own.


On the thumb I added some "sprinkles" and a strawberry slice..The sprinkles are nail art metal balls I purchased on ebay (set of 16 or 18).

For the strawberry I thinly sliced a couple of pieces off of my fimo nail art fruit cane that I purchased also on ebay with a set of around 24 other canes.



My nail clippers, brushes, files, and dotting tools!

My current workout vid! I'm trying to do this work out at least 5 times per week and include hooping as a part of my warm up/cool down. When I'm done with this work out I'm literally covered in sweat. Though it doesn't look intense it sure feels that way! I wasn't able to complete the full workout today due to lack of energy..I'd had a headache last night which eventually led to me throwing up the contents of my stomach lol..ugh..I know


So...I've been attempting to get into shape seeing as I had gained over or around 15lbs back after switching to Lo/ovral from ortho-tricyclen. While on Ortho-tricyclen the lbs. just melted off and I actually had to eat more to keep from losing more weight. I'd lost around 25lbs with very little effort. ANYWAY those days are over. It's hard as hyale just to drop 5lbs. lol Not to mention I hold on to water weight like woah.

While I want to drop the gained lbs. (not only because of all the clothes in my closet that I can no longer fit but to be sessy lol) it's hard to stay motivated!!! I've never been thin in my life..well except when I was in what pre-k
I honestly have no intention to be thin..I prefer the curvy look on myself..and other women actually.. Now..when I say curvy I don't mean cottage cheese, muffin top, blouse poppin', thinking you're "thick" when you're really fat curvy. (lol) I mean a body type similar to these ladies below...

The middle nail had a crack and some peeling going on so I had to trim it :(
Colors used:- Sinful colors: Nirvana (pointer finger), All about you (middle ring & pinky), Snow Me white (thumb) Wet and Wild: Black

I was rather bored today so I tried to think of something to do..I recently bought 2 24packs of contacts (I wear a different prescription for each eye). I looked in my bathroom drawer and came across several contact cases so I thought I'd clean/disinfect and then bling one out! I decided to do this outside due to the fumes of the glue..

These are the supplies I used. I didn't want the green portion of the case to show through under the rhinestones so I painted it white with acrylic paint..






After painting that portion of the case I added glue to the bottom side of the large pieces *the whipped cream and green flower* so that they would stick well and added them onto the case. I spread the glue onto the case with a tooth pick in small sections and used my jewelry pliers (couldn't find my tweezers) to attach the rhinestones and pearls onto the surface of the case.

I included a closer look at the "whipped cream". This was made previously out of Acrylic latex plus silicone caulk piped through an icing tip. The rhinestones and flatback pearls were added before it dried and I didn't have any glaze on hand so I just sealed it with clear fingernail polish.


I didn't want to case to look too cluttered so I just stuck with rhinestones and flatback pearls for the left side of the case. I also didn't fully "bedazzle" all of the sides of the contact case because if I did it wouldn't be able to screw off! This is what it looks like finished.. :)

So...! I decided to make spaghetti and meatballs previously. I came across a youtube vid featuring Ricotta meatballs. Hmmm I thought to myself..I bet that's yummy..Might as well try it! For the Ricotta cheese meatballs I used..

• Ricotta Cheese

• Ground turkey meat

• Seasonings: Seasoned meat tenderizer, Parsley flakes, and Chili powder

•  Tomato sauce

 I wasn't too picky about brands, I figure it'll end up about the same anyway.
First I emptied the ground turkey into a container. I then added half a container of Ricotta cheese or enough so that the ratio of cheese to the meat was about 1:3 or 2:4. I added my seasonings/herbs and got ready to mix!

 I was sure to combine everything into the mix though not over mixing. It's not exactly supposed to look like a big glob of brown..lol
I got my lightly oiled pan ready (a skillet will work well) and set the heat to around medium. I shaped the meatballs and let them cook until full browned.

 After the meatballs were fully cooked I drained off the excess oil and added my tomato sauce and 1/2-1 cup of water (depending on how much sauce you use) to let the flavors get acquainted with one another. I let that simmer anywhere from 10-30min covered...and That's is!

These were my previous nails..before full clean up. This is also my first time trying "leopard print" freehand with a dotting tool. I used SINFUL COLORS: Feeling Great (pictured), Nirvana, Snow me white and WET N WILD: Black. The design is all over the place because I couldn't decide on anything.

I've really been wanting some rings and necklaces to add to my accessory collection. Of course my first stop to look for cute stuff was on ebay! Apparently I got side-tracked and started looking for earrings...that I didn't really need lol but...but...they were so cute! The search term I used was "Betsey Johnson earrings". Now...Are these really Betsey Johnson earrings..? lol I have no idea and I doubt it..Some claimed they were factory rejects with minor imperfections...yeah....idk about that but I'm not really concerned with the name..Just thought the earrings were cute..lol