A sad blue Monday

Hi everyone,

Today it's a sad blue monday for me :( Because we should have been celebrating my mommy's birthday today and I just really miss her so much. So I made some rainy sad blue nails really quick.

Base is HEMA (local Dutch drugstore) metallic blue (no name or number). And I stamped with Konad SN pastel blue and Nailways Snowwhite Weather Forecast imageplate A-NW00001. It isn't all very neat but I thought it was okay for a day.

Some swatches of this pretty blue (I had it for a few years already but didn't used it yet)

Danbo is crying too :( next to mommy's picture.

Thanks for reading.

xoxox

Best Wishes for 2013

Hey everyone,

 

Hope you all had a great New Years and were careful with fireworks! I thought let's write my first blogpost of 2013 and start by wishing you all the best for 2013. Hope you'll have a great year with love, good health, polishes and nail art and many more great things :)

 

Base Flormar Supershine Miracle colors U60 (sort of black with golden shimmer) Stamped with Essence A Piece of Forever and Nailways Snowwhite New Year plate A-NW00004.

 

Some more pictures because it was kinda hard to capture because of the shimmer and gold stamping polish.

 

 

 I really like the shaking hands image and that it is also mirrored.

 

Of course also some swatches. I must say I really like all the Flormar polishes I have, it isn't many but the ones I do have I like :)

 

 

 

 A bit red hands but the polish color is quite accurate. You really see the golden shimmer here.

 

 

Danbo wanted to say "Hi" and he tooks his "New Years" bath and is ready for a new year full of adventures ;) 

 

Again I wish you all the best, and I hope my phone gets better so I can comment more on other blogs :(

 

Thanks for reading!

 

xoxox

My sad gray Mommy memorial Christmas nails :(

Hi Everyone,

Today it's been exactly a year that my mom died...it was 2nd Christmas day 2011. So I decided to make some less happy Christmas nails for Christmas. I've been making happy nails for a couple of weeks already and I really wanted to make these now for my mommy, cause I don't feel happy at all. And as you know I love doing my nails for special things/themes/occasions. And I really like making sort of landscape/scenery nails too.

I did a black, gray, white gradient for my zebra fashion nails and I really like that, so I decided to do it again but then the other way around, so black tips instead of black at the cuticles. It gives the whole scene a bit of dramatic, sad feeling, but to make a little more sparkly for Christmas I added a holographic topcoat.

Base a gradient of Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy, Catrice 01 Pebbles Beach and Beauty UK Midnight Minx black. Added a layer of Chine Glaze Wireless holographic topcoat. All the snowflakes (bigger and little) are from HB23 stamped with Konad SN white. The rest is stamped with Konad SN black.

Pinkie: trees from Nailways Snowwhite Christmas A-NW00002 plate.
Ring finger: cross from Konad S2, tree from HB33, cute snow bunny from HB38.
Middle finger: big tree HB012, small tree HB33.
Index: snowman from BM318 (I gave him a sad face), tree HB33.
Thumb: the sort of tombstone is actually the slot machine from Konad M48 that I colored in and painted a little cross on top, tree is from HB33 and the word mom and 2011 are made with the numbers and letters on the side of Konad M20 and M11.

Here another picture.

And some swatches of the gradient base.

I like this gradient.

And also a picture of Danbo in my mommy's memorial corner.

With the funeral thank you card (where she is watching the endless sunset in Greece), my little urn with Greek signs, her picture and the funeral card we designed our selves (she took this picture herself on Santorini).

Hope you all have a great Christmas.

xoxox

Merry Christmas from Mickey and Disney friends ;)

Hi Everyone,

 

Let's start by wishing all my lovely readers a wonderful Christmas (Eve). Although I don't really feel up to it, we will have to make the best of it, but I do really miss my mom :(

I made these nails Friday, I am currently busy making new Christmas nails so I just removed these ;) But these were on my nails this weekend when I went Christmas shopping with my sister to Maastricht and Valkenburg (there you have Christmas markets in the marl caves that is always very pretty). My boyfriend had to work the whole weekend :( so he couldn't come so it was a sisters only day :) It was a really fun day but we were totally soaked from the rain :( I will also show some pictures of our trip and Danbo who went with us ;) Most of the time we spent in the train..since it is a 3 hours trip from the center of Holland to the south. But my sis and I always talk sooo much that the time flies by.

 

Base Essence 50's girls reloaded 01 Ahoy with Golden Rose Paris magic 301 for the golden shimmer over the white base. Stamped with BM301 and SN wine red and SN green. And the Disney cuties are again self made and designed water decals. I added the bone with bow, the Christmas hat, the candy cane, the present and the tree myself.

 

Here another picture.

 

 

Here some pictures of our trip :)

 The laser show at the bridge in Maastricht.

 

The shopping street with lights and also laser on top of a building.

 

 The Maas with the laser above it <3

 

 The otherside also with laser on the big screen.

 

Danbo went with us ;) He liked the laser show and  "mommy" the Christmas angel is in the back ;)

 

After shopping in Maastricht we went to Valkenburg to visit the Christmas market inside the marl caves. At the entrance there were some Disney characters at display :)

 

Captain Hook with Peter Pan.

 

Me with Baloo bear :)

 

 Pic without flash on night stand, this is how it really look liked...with the blue/green glow.

 

Totally soaked me with Pooh bear <3

 

 Mickey, Scrooge McDuck and Goofy.

 

Danbo and Goofy.

 

And some more pictures of inside the cave.

 

 

 

 Danbo's eyes are glowing just like all the lights :)

 

 

 

Danbo visited Santa and Rudolph ;)

 

 

 

Danbo found his own little cave inside the cave ;)

Have a nice Christmas Eve and day everyone!

 

Thanks for reading.

 

xoxox

 

 

Fashion Inspired: Christmas dress...FAIL ;)

Hello Hello,

I made these nails last friday. I had so much fun making my Zebra Black and White gradient nails for Wacky Laki's Inspired by Fashion contest that I wanted to do another one again. But I was happy that I've sent in the zebra one and not this one, because this really was a fail. You can see all the amazing entries and vote for your favorite by clicking here. If you like mine I am entry number 7 :)

Now back to my fail Fashion inspired Christmas dress nails ;) You know I told you I really like Danbo the cardboard box guy? Well Danbo helped me with these nails...lol see the pictures below. I can blame him for the fail :P haha.

Base Golden Rose Paris Magic 308 (a gorgeous shimmer red that is hard to photograph) Saran wrapped with China Glaze Snow. Stamped with Konad SN white and M9 and the bow from the candy cane on M12 in SN red.

I really did not liked how the saran wrapped nails turned out...you can still see where my inspiration is coming from, but I removed these nails the same night..lol. I did not wanted to spent my Saturday with these nails ;)

A picture of the Christmas dress.

And my nails again.

Of course some swatches of the red base...that was really hard to capture. You still see a bit of visable nail line. But it really is a pretty red.

Here the cute pictures of Danbo helping me with the Saran wrap..lol.

Thanks for reading :)

And don't forget to vote for your favorite Fashion Inspired nails on Wacky Laki. If you like mine then vote number 7 :)

xoxox

Blue and Purple OPI gradient with golden nail art

Hi everyone,

 

These nails I made for the weekly AIS challenge last Sunday. The challenge was to use gold as a base or stamping color...I chose gold as a stamping color.

 

I also really wanted to try my OPI Ger-minis that I got from the sweet Gosia from Live in Color. Thanks again <3 So I made a gradient base with 2 of the OPI's Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf and Unfor-greta-bly Blue.

 

I have lots of pictures because we have a new camera and I also used my moms and my bf's phone. Still trying to figure out what works best ;)

 

Base a gradient with OPI Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf and Unfor-greta-bly Blue.Stamped with Essence a Piece of Forever and Konad M90. A very simple design but I liked it a lot :)

 

Some more pictures with different camera's and settings.

 

 

 

 

Some swatches of just the base OPI Suzi And The 7 Dusseldorf.

 

 

 

 

And some pictures of the OPI Germany gradient.

 

 

 

 

 

My nails with Danbo in the back :)

Those of you who also know me on facebook, know I really like Danbo (the cute cardboard box guy) Now I got a "real" Danbo from my sister so I can make my own Danbo adventures pictures :) On my nail facebook page I have a Danbo album with Danbo's nail and other adventures D.I.A.N.A Danbo. But I will also sometimes post a nail related Danbo picture here :)

 

Here is Danbo with the OPI Ger-minis :)

 

Thanks for reading :)

 

xoxox