Easing into the Christmas Spirit

OK, I normally save the snowflakes for later in the season (January) but I felt like it, so I painted them now. They will probably make a return visit later since now that I am painting my own, I change the designs more often than when I was paying for skill.





I started out with a dark blue base, and irredescent tips and flakes, but the flakes were too subtle so I went over them with white. Then I was not happy with the irredescent tips so I went over the whole thing with that color. I will be doing some touch up since I was impatient and scrambled one snowflake and smeared another. Ah well. No sense repainting tonight since I will just mess them up once I go to bed. There is always tomorrow.

Halloween 2006

Better late...
Frankenstein on my thumbs:


and

a mummy, boogie monster and witch on the fingers. (there were skeletons on my pinkies but the pics were too difficult to see)

Thanksgiving Day 2006

I needed to fill my nails but did not have a lot of time so I did a quick design for Thanksgiving Day, knowing I would be changing the polish the next day to begin celebrating Christmas. I try very hard to never decorate for Christmas before Thanksgiving is over, but just over :)


So, here is what I wore for Thanksgiving at the Grandparents':






They aren't great, but hey, the price is right.


Last Thanksgiving I was still going to the salon to have my nails done and this is what I had painted on them:


And because I just can't take nails too seriously I convinced the technician to put one cooked turkey on my thumb. They seemed to think I was nuts, but who am I to argue with that theory.

Thanksgiving 2006

OK, These nails are about to be replaced, but I wanted to save them here. So, for my own amusement, I am going to post pictures of the designs I paint on my nails. I will try to add previous designs as well. This set was inspired by the childhood Thanksgiving turkey created by painting the fingers each a different color and the thumb and palm brown, then stamping the design on paper and adding details to make a hand turkey. :)







Here is a perfect example of the inspirational artwork, created by my friend's son Taylor.