Hi Everyone!! Happy Monday to all! I had a great weekend. I spent all day with my little sister Nel and our grand nephew Sean. We went to a kids learning and activity fair on Saturday morning and there was so much cool stuff to check out. Sean is four and loves to dance so we looked at a dance school for him which I think is going to be pretty cool. He also tried his hand at tennis with a real racket and was pretty good. He loved it! So lots of fun options ahead for him for sure.
He's got a birthday coming up in June. Don't tell him but we are buying him a new riding toy! He has a small motorcycle he has to push with his feet to ride and it's too dang small for him LOL. His tricycle also too small. We are going to try to find another motorcycle but are also going to check out a big wheel and a bike. He wants a Batman cake for his birthday this year too so he's moved on from Spiderman now LOL! Poor Spidey.
After the fair we went home and played outside for a couple of hours and shot some hoops. Tee Tee Laurie was a cheerleader though. I'm too old to be shooting hoops. After that we went inside to watch the movie Spirit again( for the fifty millionith time) but basically for me that meant nap time! We had some pizza rolls and pizza for dinner and then it was time to head back home. Really a great time!
Sunday my son finally caved in to watching a scary movie with me. I had been trying to get him to watch one with me forever and he's not a huge fan so then naturally he picked one that was super terrifying! The Babadook. OMG totally freaky and terrifying. I stayed up until like 2 am before finally caving in to sleep because I felt like I would have nightmares. Thankfully it was a restful night's sleep!
Yesterday I played around with some dry marbling. And I really loved what I did but naturally I messed it up by stamping over it! Curse you Sunday Challenges!
So here's a couple of pictures of the cool drying marbling I did
If you remembering my bowling ball mani I did the dry marbling the same way by using an old plastic plate sleeve and then just applying stripes of color and working through them with a toothpick
Isn't it cool??? It is! Totally!
Then I stamped over it with FUN13 for the AIS Sunday Challenge--flowers of a different color and it's not as great anymore :(
Lesson learned!
I really do enjoy this dry marbling though. I'm working on another idea later today and I'm going to play with some of my alcohol inks too!
I hope everyone is having a great Monday so far! Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Everyone! Happy Hump Day! I hope everyone has been enjoying our Childhood theme so far this week. I know I sure have been. I want to thank those of you commenting on Facebook and Instagram as well as here and letting me know how much you enjoy the story I am giving behind my mani's. It makes me feel good to know people read what I have on here and not just check out the nails LOL!
On my Golden Birthday which was when I turned 12 my Grandma & Grandpa Welch bought me a purple bowling ball, purple bowling bag and purple bowling shoes. It was the coolest thing ever! Back then I was on a bowling league with my sister Lisa and two of our cousins--Debbie and Krissy. The name of our team was The Kissin' Cousins!! Oh yeah the girls were nice enough to let me get an Elvis movie name in there BUT since we were cousins it was the best name! We really had a lot of fun. I was the best bowler out of all of us and I would continue to bowl for years to come. But I will never forget how cool it was to get that ball, bag and shoes from my grandparents. The purple bowling ball was SO cool and had swirls of purple and white in it.
I wish I still had it but since that was 40 years ago that sucker is long gone. Luckily I remember what it looked like! After a failed water marble attempt (because hey let's face it what's room temperature water to people in Wisconsin is not room temperature to people in Arizona AND my bottles of polish feel like they've been in the fridge because it's April and I don't care how cold it is outside the heat is not on) I decided to listen to the Oh Wise One Amber from Nails Like Lace told me to dry marble. I thought pffft I can't ever get that to work because it never peels off the baggie. But then I decided to try it on one of the left over plastic sleeves my plates always come in and EUREKA! Amber is a freaking genius!
So here the are! My Golden Birthday purple bowling ball nails!
How cool is this????
My hands never touched water!!!!! I didn't have to put on any liquid latex!
I'm not going to lie I did have to wait several hours for it to dry so you could easily peel it up off the plastic BUT it was well worth it!
All I did was paint stripes with the polishes I used a couple of purples and then white. I took a toothpick after I had as many lines as I wanted on my plastic and I did figure out swirls through the lines. I waited for it to dry then peeled it off with a tweezers and cut the large sheet into decal size and just applied to my nails. I smoothed out any wrinkles and then applied my Seche Vite. That's how easy it is!
I'm heading over to check out what everyone else came up with for their 3rd day of Childhood!