Santa & Rudolph Nails

So Christmas is 12 days away, yay!

So here's Santa and Rudolph nails.  

So here it is, sweet and simple and easy to do as ALWAYS!! :)

Hope you liked!

Snowman Nails

There hasn't been any snow in our part of England, no snowballs, snow angels, snowflakes, nada. I get on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and I see everyone's awesome pics of snow. Beyond jealous, I want snow!!

So I brought the snowballs, and snowmen to me.

We recently got this cared in the mail and this inspired this lovely super easy nail design

The colors: BarryM 'Blueberry', Pure Ice 'Super Star', LA colors orange & black, & Collection 2000 frosty black, and red.

I always use the same tools; toothpicks and a buisness card. 

And now the easy part, it looks like it's hard, but its really not.

Here's my snow without all the chills.



Enjoy!!

 The super easy task here is: Nothings has to be perfect. I mean what snowball is perfectly circle.

Also instead of me using black for the eyes, buttons, and arms, I used the frost black by Collection 2000 in 'All that Jazz' and used the black for the hat.

Tada! Snowmen and snow! Now slap on a topcoat to make it shiny and last long. I usally wait about five to ten minutes before I put my topcoat on though. It keeps the colors from mixing.



There you have it, looks hard but its not :)

X-mas Nail Tutorial: X-mas Lights

So December is here, tree's are being decorated, Christmas songs are being played on the radio, and Christmas lights are being hung on trees, windows, buildings and nails.

So here's my early gift to you, a really easy simple nail tutorial. 

Christmas Light nails :)

 I've seen a couple nail designs with lights on pinterest, but came up with a easier less complicated way. Enjoy!

The colors. I used frosty colors because it gives more of a shimmery effect.

Toothpicks, and business cards. See those random business cards you have in your wallet can be put to good use. Nail polish swatches!!

Always use a base coat. I love Sally Hansen's Double Duty.

Used white as my background color, but green would look really neat also and would look like tree decor just don't add the socket part.

Using the toothpick just drawn lines, and for the socket just a square and two lines down.

 And the lines don't have to be perfectly proportioned because you can cover the messed up parts with the lines you use to attach the lights.

Adding the lights in a color order, draw them like your making a "C" with a pointed end. That's the easiest way to do it.

After all the bulbs are drawn on, I add white streaks on each bulb to give it more of a dimension. Slap on a top coat and you're bringing in the christmas cheer.

And there you go. Super Easy. Also to give it extra holiday cheer feel add one coat of a sparkly silver confetti color.

My mission this month is to do a new easy nail design each week.

No Cod-ing Around

First, let me start of by mentioning a very important quote from a very influential man. That way you can see this blog post as being educational and informative....So a great man once said, "If you're not first, you're last" No explanation needed.

Very Motivational, but there is always 2nd place right?! Anyways, Ricky Bobby wouldn't be pleased to know that my suggestion of coming in 2nd place is worthy or close to coming in first

To be quite honest, this post isn't about anything BUT food and well my husband, (recently Ben asked if my blogs would be targeted at him or making fun of him. Pretentious of him huh? He can be concieted at times). This is all about fish and chips my friend, picked and hand fried to perfection for you tummy's pleasure.

Welcome to Number 1 Fish & Chips

Let me start of saying that my husband believes that the best fish and chips shop is a mere eight minute walk from our flat, and the kicker its called 'Number 1 fish and chips'. Now I don't want to rain on his parade but he's clearly delusional. While I have only lived in England not barely three months I can clearly state for the record, that shop is not number 1. Not saying that their food rating is low its, a 5 and has been voted best fish in chips for two years. But being honest, I've tried many fish and chip shops on numerous occasions and I've heard the same thing come out of his mouth. Okay okay maybe I'm being to rash, he has said once that one place just was terrible somewhere in Haddenham. Maybe the fries just weren't cut to his liking. While fish and chips are the thing of England, I feel that that frozen cod from the freezer section that some people might not call food taste better than the supposedly 'number one' fish and chip shops are dishing out. Or to put it mildly, I think that they all just taste the same.  

Okay I will give them some credit. Their ration of fish sauce 'cough cough' vinegar that’s so strategically poured over the contents of my happily wrapped food in paper does make all the difference.

So, it’s the sauce that gives it that bland to oooh so yummy taste to my carefully wrapped with care fish and chips. Its all in the sauce 'vinegar' my friends, you can find it at you local supermarket. I'll happily place some store names at the bottom of this blog post to please the eager customers searching for that special flavor that makes the meal go from zero to HERO.

These pics are just here to make you hungry.

Did it work?!...  

However, I will give this shop a thumbs up, it has the vibe of an old fish and chips shops and not being so mainstream, but that old traditional town shop, if that makes sense, which I love! 

I will have to say though, having the fish and chips shop has become convenient. Their located very close to our flat. I don't know what that will do to my husbands waistline in the future or mines because I do enjoy the chips...A LOT!

Hiking and Climbing: High heels not permitted

Who knew someone as girly as me would be riding along with my husband on a four hour trip to Hayfield to have a "nice walk" around Kinder Scout. This would result in me being tricked into thinking this would just be a easy walk around a park. Equipped with nothing more than an umbrella, because the weather looked quite dodgy, comfortable footwear, and an extra jacket. I thought I was quite prepared for this little trek. Well, I was wrong, it was not a walk around the park, it was literally climbing and hiking. The umbrella never came out, my comfortable footwear turned into a disaster waiting to happen. I had to watch my step because my ill equipped Sperrys were no match for mud and wet rocks. Numerous times my backside tried to make contact with the ground. Oh and that extra jacket, I shed that ten minutes into the climb.

The beginning of the walk looked quite easy, Kinder Scout welcomed us with open arms.

      A nice walk with the husband.

Enjoying the scenery, snapping away telling Ben how amazingly the weather has turned around. 

Sunshine throughout the walk.

Map in hand we were ready to go into the unknown. Carefully selected sandwiches, water, and fruit bags occupied that bag. 

I was overtaken at how picturesque everything was, the scenery was just Beautiful!

This doesn't make you think "this is going to be hard" 

The Reservoir 

Every view was just amazing.

That looming hill like mountain that just makes the background look amazing...well you see that tiny dot at the top of it? Yeah that's were I would be finding myself. My thinking that the walk would just lead us to circle the Reservoir. Well, it did, just not in the direction I was thinking.  

It was GOODBYE nice easy walk to this.....

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Once across this small bridge, I was informed by Ben that we were going up...all the way up! So away we climbed. It was the toughest, hardest, exhausting thing ever. If I knew that we were climbing, my breakfast would have consisted of carbs and not a bag of fruit that consisted only of grapes and apples that consisted of only a measly 48 calories. Seriously, I burnt that off walking across the bridge and pushing my index finger down to capture cool shots like this.

Made it to the top! A victory dance was in order, but clearly I was to wiped out to even kick my leg up let alone do a dance. An oxygen tank seemed more appropriate. However, the view from up top is breathtaking, literally.

Although it was the hardest obstacle I had to face, I couldn't help but appreciate how amazing the view from up top was. Ok, there were some moments while climbing I would look down and freak out, because we were unbelievably high and felt like if I wasn't in the bent over hands on the ground stance I was going to roll back. A perfect example of this pose....

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There's me on the left. Dreamy! After my degrading hill crawl I was finally allowed to stand upright and snap away and give you pics to enjoy.

So without further intermission Kinder Scout

All and all I have to say it was an amazing climb and hike. I slipped, fell, grabbed handfuls of grass, and grunted my way to the top, but at the end of it all it was a great experience. Everyone we encountered were friendly as ever, also made the experience amazing. What baffled me the most was seeing some people run throughout the trail...I had two words for them...."Show offs" but also "Holy cow, total admiration for them" 

Altogether, what Ben said would possibly be a two hour, seven mile walk turned out to be actually four hours long, with us taking the hardest route down. To sum it up it was a four hour drive, a four hour climb and hike and a four hour drive back which turned out to be a great experience. The views are beautiful, breathtaking, and the most exhilarating thing I've ever done. I would gladly do it again...well with the proper shoes, carbs, and a less fear of heights.