No More Nubs

I went back to Gel nails, again...

I love natural nails and I wish I could stay bare but it's just not in the cards for me right now.

I also love gel on my nails and the added length.

So for now, I'm going to keep the gel on until I can relax more and give my nails (and cuticles) more attention! I also might try doing some more acrylic work.

I need to set up a table outside for that. Just for the smell lol

My wonderful hubby took me to Ulta this last weekend and let me spend a bit. They had a lot of great sales. I believe its still going on, if you buy $19.50 of Ulta products you get a free gift. It's a really cute Lavender (or pink) rose designed hand bag full of make up. I got the lavender one. I love it.

I also went over to the polish isle and found a giant discount rack... Oops :)

I spent just under $100! But I got a lot.

 This is the bulk of it. And the gift bag. I have a couple polishes not shown and I gave the OPI kit to the right, to my mother in law. I was super excited about the Zoya Pixie Dusts being there and on sale. I thought that after they discontinued them, I would never get them. I still have a couple I want from the Pixies. Mainly the blue ones. But I believe I might be able to get them online. Through Zoya directly or Amazon.

This is what came in the gift bag...

Sorry for the bad lighting. I tried to make it a little better.

You get quite a bit in it. (BTW... I am not paid by them in any way! I bought this and all products from them cause I love their store, prices and products!)

You can go on their website for more details and how to purchase.

http://www.ulta.com/ulta/promotion/gift-with-purchase/detail/0000129632?Ns=product.startDate|1

It ends 3/14/15 or while supplies last.

Don't forget to sign up for their Ulta Rewards card too ♥

On to more personal news, I started my Jillian Michaels 90 Day Challenge again. Going to follow thru this time and finish it. We won't be moving around this time either.

Shane bought Fitbits for both of us and I'm trying to stay focused using it. We'll see :)

I try to keep myself motivated and I want to do daily check ins with my community board and Instagram. Hopefully this will help and keep me focused.

I think that's about it for now. I got the app on my phone working as long as I don't post any pictures with the post. So I might be posting from my phone more. Little updates here and there.

Thanks for reading and have a great rest of your week!

Little Update

So far, not much is going on. Thank goodness. I kind of like it this way.

We have been getting everything organized and making plans to travel the 3-4 hours to get the rest of our stuff. Hopefully we can get rid of most of it, before we bring it all back here.

Life is finally settling down and looking up. We're very blessed right now :)

Shane and I are still talking about having another baby soon. At least he wants to try soon. A couple months, soon... I'm still on the fence about it and I want to get a little more settled first. Right now, we have agreed to wait till July-ish. Which was my plan for a while now.

Maizee is almost completely potty trained!!

We finally went threw all her clothes and found the little panties we bought for her. So far, she only wears a diaper when we know we'll be in the car for a while or at night. She's been really good so far and we are more than proud of her!

She seems to be getting back to her normal self and being more independent since going back to being on our own.

She's been spelling more and can say most of the alphabet herself.

I'm so happy that she feels more comfortable and is happier now. Enough that she is being more herself and has freedom to do so! 

Well that's about it. Like I said, not much going on.
Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!

Valentines Day Nail Struggle

So for Valentines Day, I wanted to do something very cute and girly with my nails.

Even though we won't be going out, I wanted to do it for myself.

But then I had to come up with a cute but simple design...

It's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be.

I did a couple simple ones and had my daughter help me on others. She loves picking out the colors. We also did her nails and eventually I did end up doing one I really liked.

I will list the the colors I used below all the pictures.

Here are some of my attempts at my own Valentines Day Nails:

 

 

From top to bottom...

Her nails: #ChinaGlaze- Pink Voltage (neon) and #WetnWild Mega Rocks- Always In The Pit

Light Pink Ombre with Stamps: #Ulta Snow White, #Julep Maren #WetnWild- Red Red

#BundleMonster Plates are BM-H23 and BM-H18

Candy Hearts: #OPI Mod About You, #OPI Charged Up Cherry, #SinfulColors Black On Black

#BundleMonster Plate BM-H16

Red Heart: #SinfulColors What's Your Name, #SinfulColors Snow Me White #PureIce Hit The Floor

#BornPrettyStore Plate 02

Neon Lace: #ChinaGlaze Pink Voltage (Neon), #SinfulColors Black on Black

#BundleMonster Love Stamp- BM-H16 #BornPretty Plate 02

Pink and Gold: #JulepReagan and #JulepSavoy

(The next two are the same, one has a glitter topper)

Ombre: #SallyHansen Blue-Away and Lacey Lilac with #OPI Mod About You

Glitter Topper is #SallyGirl Bikini

Purple Smoke: #SallyHansen Lacey Lilac #JulepPadma 

Pink and Silver: #JulepGlenda #SallyHansen White On #OPI Mod About You

ALL Mani's are topped with #SallyHansen fast drying Top Coat!!

I hope you enjoyed the Many Mani's of my Valentines Day struggle lol

Have a great weekend and Valentines Day! 

P.S. Don't forget 50 Shades Of Grey comes out in Theater this weekend!! ♥♥

We Moved Again

We moved again! Seems like we keep doing this. And we do, but this should be a good year or two before we move again. We have a storage to load up and bring here but other than that, we have almost everything squared away. And getting rid of that storage will be one less bill to pay. Yay!

We finally are getting back to our lives being somewhat normal and at least more balanced. I think this will be a good thing in the long run. I know where we are isn't where my husband wants to live but it'll do. He likes living in the country more than the city and we live right in the middle of one now. It's not permanent but it will be for a year at least. He wants to move to Alaska, and we have to save for that and it'll give him time to find a job there or one here he likes. Oregon isn't bad and we might find someplace we like and not want to move ever again. I guess it'll all depend.

I'm happy where we are for now. Granted I don't like the city anymore than he does but it's a roof over our head and we have a good town around us.

I want to get back to doing photography and maybe selling some. I don't know how I want to about that though. I have sold some pieces in the past when we lived in Bend. And I sold a couple on Etsy but I didn't really like that. I want to go back to going to Art Expos and Art Walks. I'm not sure if they do that kind of thing here but they do in Bend and in Astoria. Bend isn't really an option right now but the art sales usually start in September there. I'll have time to plan, if we go that route. I'll have to look into the art world in this area and/or look into what Astoria dates are.

Other than that, just trying to get settled in. I'm taking a break on my nails for awhile so I can clean and organize my new place and not worry about it lol

That and I bruised my middle finger really bad, I don't know how, and it kind of feels weird to have anything on it right now. The spot is fading a little and almost feels like it's half numb. We shall see. Now that I have all my polishes in one place again, I might get a big itch to do them more often :)

To fill my bored moments, I've been tinkering in photo shop and playing around with some new actions I got from a friend who makes them. I seriously wish I could understand how to do that. It's amazing!

Tomorrow I want to take a walk around town and see if there is a library near by. I don't get Wi-Fi till Wednesday and I want to look up some new books. Also I love libraries.

I always wanted to be a librarian!

We're right next to the water now, so maybe some early morning runs with the jogger and a camera might be fun.

Well, that's about it for now. Just a bunch of ramblings from me. We'll see how thing to out and pray for the best.

Thanks for reading.

Kayla