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Hand Painted Flowers

I was watching a video on YouTube on how to do hand painted flowers on your nails. I fell in love with the design so I decided that I wanted to try it myself.

For being my first time of doing hand painted flowers, I would say that I did a pretty good job. In the video she used paint brushes and acrylic paint. I used just my normal nail polish and nail art polish (the brushes are very thin). I think next time I do it, I will use paint brushes instead.

Nail Polishes Used: (all polishes were bought at Rite Aid for $1.99 each)
White Tips: Sinful Colors - Snow Me the White
Pink Flowers - Sinful Colors - 24/7
White Outline (on flowers) - Sinful Colors Nail Art - Bad Chick
Black Outline (on flowers) - Sinful Colors Nail Art - Time Off

I absolutely love the Sinful Colors collection. They have so many different colors and glitters and for $1.99 each how can you not love it! The nail art collection is really nice as well. My only complaint about the nail art collection is the brushes have a tendency to get stray hairs, which can make outlining difficult.

Home Opener Nails

I am a huge baseball fan! I love everything about it, especially the Cleveland Indians. I am currently a season ticket holder and I get to enjoy games all season long. I also try and catch a game when they are on the road somewhere as well. Thursday is the home opener and I have started to get ready. I do my nails every year and this year I decided to do something a little different.

One of the current trends is to paint your ring finger nail different from all the others. At first, I wasn't sold on the idea, but I decided what the hell and I gave it a try. The ring finger nail is a baseball and the rest of the nails are a red and blue french. My nails are now ready for  First Pitch!

Go Tribe!!!!

Pinning These Pictures to Pinterest

I tried to upload these, but Pinterest or my computer are not working with me today, so I am going to post these pictures on here just so I can pin them.

St Patrick's Day Gradient Nails

I was struggling on how to do my nails for St Patrick's Day. I tried a few different designs and I couldn't figure out exactly what I wanted. Nothing seemed to look right.

While browsing Pinterest, I came across a purple gradient nail design and I loved it. So I decided why not do them in green for St Patrick's Day. So here they are:

Donating Hair

When I was little, I always had long hair. My hair was down to my waist for most of my childhood. When I was in high school, I cute it for the first time and throughout high school and college, I wore my hair shorter. In 2007 I decided that I was going to grow my hair out after going really short. (at least short for me). I kept my hair about midback from 2007-2010 and then 2010 I decided to just let it grow. In 1 year, I grew my hair back down to my waste. I always wore my hair in a pony tail or in a messy bun because it was just so long that I didn't know what to do with it.

One day at work, we were browsing on Pinterest and I found a hairstyle for one of my co-workers that I thought would look great on her. After finding her a new hairstyle, I decided that it was time for a new style for me. I went to Facebook for some ideas and a friend of mine suggested that I donate my hair. I highlight my hair and a lot of places will not take bleached hair. After researching, I found an organization call Children with Hairloss.

Children with Hairloss is an organization based out of Michigan that provides hair pieces for children. The minimum donation is 8" and they take chemically treated hair!! They aren't as big as Locks for Love, but they do the same thing.

I talked myself out of doing this and Saturday when I was browsing facebook from my phone, I saw a special at a salon in town. They were doing a free cut with any color service. I knew that if I was going to do this, I was going to have to do it on impluse and not allow myself to talk myself out of it. So I booked the appointment, had lunch with my mom and went to the salon.

I was so nervous when I got there, but I knew that I was helping a child in need. The salon that I went too, Edge Hair Design in Canton, Ohio. My stylist Ashley and the owner Patty were so nice! They measured the hair and next thing I know, my hair was cut!!! 9" was cut from my hair and they were going to send away for donation.

2 hours later, I was done. I had a new color, a new style and a uplifting feeling in my heart. I was able to give a child something that I had. It is a great feeling.

Pinterest

Has anyone else been on this site? Oh! My! Goodness! I am addicted!

I came across Pinterest because my cousin posted something on her Facebook page about a different way to fold clothes in your drawers. After looking at that, I found so much more stuff! And, now I'm hooked.

I have a section on my page that is for DIY things. I am a fairly craft person, or so I always thought I was. But some of the craft ideas on this site, make me look like an amature. And some of the home organizing tips are unbelievable.

So far, my 2 favorite things are the spice rack turned into nail polish holder:

And the curtain used as a Canopy for your bed:

I have also found some tattoo ideas and even some new nail art that I want to try. The design I have on my nails now came from Pinterest:

Well back to pinning I go!