Minty Cool Color Block Nails with Sally Hansen

Now that it's Spring I've been feeling the itch to start up my Mani Monday shares again.

I'm so inspired with all the great bright colors for Spring.

I love perusing the nail polish colors and thinking of all the great

color combos that can be paired for great color block designs.

I love the look of color block nails - they're so clean and fresh.

I saw this great mint and orange outfit via Polyvore

and so when I headed to Walgreens on Saturday with Isabella to shop for some 

Sally Hansen manicure supplies, I knew just which colors I was looking for.

I was super excited to to find that Walgreens had the Sally Hansen Extreme Wear polish and Salon Effects on sale for two for $5 with 1,000 points using my Balance Rewards card.

I love a good deal!!!!

When I saw the Mint Sorbet from the Sally Hansen Sweet Stripes -
I knew I found the perfect match.
Since the Extreme Wear nail polish was on such a great deal, I had to stock up.
Plus, I let Isabella choose a few colors. Can you tell which colors she picked?

First I started with a base coat.
When I first started doing my nails I never bothered with a base or a top coat.
However, over the months of doing my own manicures I found out
that a base and top coat make a big different in the longevity and uniformity of a manicure.

Next I grabbed my Mint Sorbet and Sun Kissed Extreme Wear polish.
I put down a coat of Mint Sorbet and let it dry for about 20 minutes.
The first mistake I made when trying the taped method for achieving stripes was
applying the tape too soon and it just melted to my polish.

I used washi tape to create my color block sections.
It worked great. It's not too sticky, but still makes a nice seal.


Place the tape across your nail at an angle.
I like to do a different angle for each nail.

Then paint the nail in the same manner as the bottom color.
I wait 30-60 seconds and then remove the tape.
Be careful not to get too much polish on the first swipe.
If there is too much it will run/bleed when you remove the tape.

Woohoo! Then I have a beautifully color blocked nail courtesy of Sally Hansen.

I added an accent stripe with the white Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen.

I really love how the entire look turned out!

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Shout Outs: The {OH NO!} Summer is Over Edition

 

Eeek! 

It's Labor Day!

That means school starts this week.

I'm having mixed feelings about my little guy

going to school ALL DAY and being a First Grader

this year, so let's look at some pretty

things to take my mind off of the stress :)

 {Pin Tuck Pleats Wallet Clutch Tutorial @ Sisters, Sisters}

{DIY Captain America Shield @ Tales of the Scotts}

 

{Back to School Shoes @ One Charming Party}

{Super Star Student Mantle @ This Is Happiness}

{Personalized Teacher Straw Cup @ The Crafty Blog Stalker}

{Rainbow Steps & Stairs Quilt @ Saltwater Quilts}

{Paint Pallet Sugar Cookie Tutorial @ One Creative Mommy}

{Nutella Dipped Frozen Banana Bites @ Mommy's Sweet Confessions}

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In honor of school starting I did fun school nails this week.
Apples and pencils!
I want to make the white into notebook paper,
but I'm still working that out.

Easy Peasy Faux Peach Cobbler

 This is seriously the easiest dessert to make and everyone loves it.

I know some people call it a dump cake,

but that just doesn't sound very good - if you get my drift.

So I like to call it a faux peach cobbler.

 

You'll need:

2 cans of peaches in juice

1 yellow cake mix

1/2 c. butter (cut into 12-16 slices)

1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 tsp ground cinnamon

Starting with the peaches, layer in a 9x13 pan in the order listed.

Place the butter slices even across the top of the cake mix layer.

You can use more or less of the brown sugar, depending on your tastes.
Sprinkle the top with cinnamon - to taste.

Bake for 40 minutes at 350 degrees F.

 I always mean to snap a picture of the cobbler before the group digs in,

but I'm always too late.

I like to top mine with whipped cream or ice cream.

My husband likes to eat it straight up.

I straight up did my nails this week too.
A little cupcake to brighten my day!

Stop Being Sad and Start Being AWESOME!

That's my new mantra.

Love me some Barney Stinson.

I've got friends and family that have been going through

some not so great thing over the past month or so.
Hard things.
Sad things.
My heart aches for their heartaches and sorrow.
My prayers are whispered in their behalf.

Just this week I was watching TV with my husband
and he {LOVES} to watch reruns of HIMYM.
This episode just happened to be on and I just happened
to be listening - I usually tune it out while I multitask.

I generally don't wax all philosophical on you,
but when I heard this quote it made me think of
my years of early morning Seminary and memorizing
scripture mastery and 2 Nephi 2:25 -

Adam fell that men might be; 
and men are that they might have joy.

And I truly believe that.
Heavenly Father wants us to be joyful.
It's hard to be joyful when things seem terrible.
But I really believe that the Lord wants us choose happiness.
He wants us to be awesome.
He wants us to smile and choose joy in the small things.

So, here's a small thing to help remind us to all
choose to be awesome.
Let's make a pact to not let the Adversary win.
Let's stop being sad and be AWESOME!

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 And one thing I'm doing each week 

to help me be AWESOME is to paint my nails.

It makes me smile when I look down and see pretty nails looking back.

Through small and simple things . . .  :)

I used four different polishes this week.
I just have to tell you that I {LOVE} my Sally Hansen Disco Ball.
It adds the perfect sparkle to any color.
It's fabulous and only like $3, so you can't go wrong.

I got a little crazy and did something different on each nail this week.
My favorites are the sparkling ring finger and the flower pointer finger.
THIS was my inspiration this week.

So, what will you do this week to be awesome?