I've been away for quite some time, yet felt the urge to get out some things via creative energy..so to speak lol. Without further ado, I'd recently come up with this idea after wanting to do some work with LEDs to give off a neon sign effect without the expense and complexity of an actual neon sign. I wanted to surely be able to do it myself, but how? I discovered el' wire which is basically a wire that emits glowing light and can be used for various projects. It's also relatively inexpensive in comparison to other lighting out there. I decided to take to photoshop to roughly illustrate my idea and put the wheels in motion! I've already purchased my el' wire and am currently negotiating with a seller for a laser cut mouse head that fits the measurements that I need for my piece XD  Hopefully this idea will materialize soon enough so I can come back with the actual product! *Excited*

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.

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.. :)