KB Shimmer Totally Tubular

Back on land! To celebrate, I'm having a Veronica Mars marathon! I'm also trying out some new KB Shimmer polish I just got :] I'm really loving this turquoise with the pink and blue glitters! I'm not sure who started making circle glitters, but I am a huge fan.

Darling Diva T.N.T.

I'm currently in the middle of a Veronica Mars marathon! It is actually ridiculous how many episodes in a row I have watched today... I felt like a super lazy bum, and I figured that doing a little nail work would make me seem more productive! I'm not sure if this counts as work, but now I feel a little better about myself :]

I tried out one of my new Darling Diva polishes - T.N.T. I'm pretty smitten by it! It's a black jelly with green and gold flecks. It's a little tough to see the colors, so I took a bunch of different angled shots. I might have been singing the song the whole time.

Tips from a Shopaholic - Etsy Nail Polish Edition

Hello. My name is Laura, and I am an internet shopaholic. I spend hours meandering through my favorite sites, adding shiny new items to my invisible shopping cart. Just a few more clicks and these glittering gems are on their way to my doorstep. Over the years I've collected quite a list of fantastic online retailers that the novice shopper may not know about. Here are a few of my favorite nail polish shops on Etsy.

Pahlish
Pahlish has quite the collection of creams, jellies, and shimmers chock-full of a variety of glitters. Plus they have a clever name! Here are a few of the ones on my wishlist.

Dark Paradise

Toxic and Timeless

Smitten Polish

This shop has a knack for coming up with polish names that perfectly describe their color combinations. Some of these look edible!

Mint Chip

Chocolate Bunny Soup

Glimmer by Erica
Glitter attack!!! Seriously, if you love glitter polishes this shop is for you. Every time I wear one of these polishes I spend most of the day staring at my blindingly blinged-out nails.

Muy Caliente

Worlds Away

KB Shimmer
This is one of my all-time favorite shops. They also have a website which posts products a little earlier than the Etsy site if you're like me and need things immediately. I've actually camped out on this site eagerly awaiting the release of new collections. Many of these collections are seasonal, and if you don't jump on them quickly they are phased out.

Get Clover It

Jack

These are just a few of the dozens of polish shops I frequent, and I hope you like them! Do you have a favorite? Let me know in the comments! Next time I'll pick a different genre of shops to point out, and I'm always open to requests or suggestions.

KB Shimmer Where My Peeps At

It was approximately 5000 degrees out in Houston today. I was outside for a total of like 30 minutes and barely managed to avoid melting. This does not bode well for the whole April - November part of the year... I guess the weather is forcing me to get into a Springy mood, so today I whipped out my new KB Shimmer Where My Peeps At! It looks just like Peeps and jelly beans!

Check out KB Shimmer to get some of her adorable polishes!!

Lucky Goldfish

I've been doing laundry for 8 hours and counting. It's the worst. My dryer is so slow and clunky that I have to run it at least twice to get anything dry! The only good thing about it is that it gives me enough time to do my nails in between loads. I've actually done 3 different sets today. I've only really like one enough to take some pictures though. This is one of the many new polishes I've gotten in the last couple weeks - Kunimitsu Nail Potions Lucky Goldfish.

January Slump

January is so boring. There's nothing to do but work and sleep! I've been highly unmotivated to do my nails at all lately. But I'm determined to get back into the swing of things! Here's just a couple pictures of what I'm currently wearing. This is Smitten Polish Confection! I'm really into white creamy bases with colorful glitters right now :]

My First Christmas in Texas - Photos!

Here's my original plans (in italics) and all of the associated pictures! Warning: picture heavy! But aren't those the best?


December 21: I planned out all of the holiday dishes I am going to make and figured out what I needed to go buy. I also built a massive shoe cabinet!

The two gigantic boxes housing all of the pieces.

This was the hardest part! I was pretty proud to get it together all by myself without anything breaking.

December 22: I hit up Whole Foods, Randalls, and Bed, Bath & Beyond to get all of the things I needed. I decided to make lamb instead of turkey this year, but I didn't realize how expensive it was! When I was younger my family raised sheep, so we had lamb for free all the time. Little did I know that it's $11 per pound!! I also had to go buy a roaster and a few kitchen supplies that I was missing.

I don't have any pictures from my shopping excursions, but here are some pictures of a pretty flower I grew! It just bloomed! It's actually the size of my face!

December 23: I'm going to the beach! I'm really not usually a fan of the ocean/beach/salt water, but it kinda sounds fun right now. The high is supposed to be 78 degrees tomorrow, which is just cool enough that I'll venture out of doors. I've got a massive list of books to read, so I'm packing up my sunscreen, towel, maybe a beach chair, some cucumber lemon infused water I just made, and The Book Thief and heading down to the Bolivar Peninsula tomorrow morning. I have a feeling that there won't be many other people there.

I went to the beach! I planned on going to the Bolivar Peninsula, but I was too lazy to get my car on the ferry. Instead I went to Stewart Beach on Galveston Island. There were more people than I expected.. And it was chillier than I planned! I'm glad I brought a jacket! I read on the beach for a couple hours and then wandered around Old City Graveyard for a while. Most of the graves were from the 1800s, so it was pretty interesting. I took a bunch more pictures, but there's a few!

The view from my lawn chair

Old City Graveyard

December 24: Cooking and cleaning day! I want to get all of the food I'm making prepped and ready so that I can just pop them all in the oven on Christmas day. I also plan on cleaning out my closet. That won't be very fun, but it has to be done. I'll probably watch a few Christmas movies while digging my way through it all.

I didn't get around to the closet bit... That'll be moved back a bit. But I did a lot of cooking!! And I even managed to fix up my nails a little bit! They got a little destroyed with all of the dish-scrubbing.

My very first attempt at making "cheesey tatas!" I'm sure they're not nearly as good as my Grandma's. But they look pretty!

Green bean casserole! I tried a new version... I think I'll be going back to the original.

Garlic rosemary biscuits. Eat your heart out.

KB Shimmer We Three Blings and Essie Scarlett O'Hara

All I have to do tomorrow morning is pop the little lamb into the oven!

December 25: Lazy day! Finish cooking, eat to heart's content, then watch a bazillion Christmas specials! Some movies on my list are: Die Hard, Die Harder, It's A Wonderful Life, White Christmas, The Santa Clause, Christmas with Holly, The Mistle-Tones, Holly's Holiday, Under the Mistletoe, and Finding Mrs. Claus. PLUS there's all that great holiday football to watch!! It's going to be a busy day to say the least.

Check out my movie marathon post to see the ridiculous number of movies I watched on Christmas. I put the lamb in the oven early-ish in the morning and it came out delicious! This is my first attempt at making lamb!

Right after dinner a ridiculous wind storm / cold front blew through. It kept kicking my power off so I just sat on my porch and watched the temperature drop 30 degrees in less than an hour!

December 26-27: These plans aren't totally thought out yet. Maybe go see some movies at the dollar theater? Or Les Miserables!! I think some friends may be in town... If not I'm going to see some movies and then perhaps find some old-timey towns in the area to go stroll through.

I don't have any pictures from this... I had brunch with a couple friends I hadn't seen in a while. And then I played a lot of Lego Batman!

December 28: Hanging out with Laura Tully! We're gonna do a test run of her wedding hair and then shop for wedding shoes!

I DO have pictures from this, but juuuuuuuuuuust in case the groom reads this (he won't lol) I can't post any.

December 29: Family comes back late tonight. Probably do brunch with Laura before she heads back to San Antonio.

December 30: Hang out with the fam-fam.

Also no pictures. I kinda failed towards the end here. But my brother and I beat all of Lego Lord of the Rings in one afternoon!

December 31: New Years Eve party!

I should have taken pictures of the decorations we put up for the party... It was pretty! I made these Samoa cupcakes!

January 1: Recover from New Years Eve party.

This isn't a pretty site. Sorry guys.

January 2: Go back to work.