10 Things Making Me Smile

1) A perfectly organized play corner:

and then...

2) A smoothie made with frozen berries, yogurt and apple juice!

3) Destructo-Baby

4) Candy Corn!

 5) The last goodies in the garden ~ Collard Greens and Swiss Chard!

6) My nails ~ I wish I could have gotten a better picture of them (can you tell they sort of fade to darker blue sparkles from bottom to top?)

7) Hangin' outside with Lila Rae!

8) Perfectly posing cats:

9) Lila's new shoes!

10) These pics of the butterflies I raised this summer from caterpillar eggs I found in my backyard!

10 Things Making Me Smile Today

Jacques who's not afraid to look the camera right in the eye!

Lila Rae playin' so nicely by herself!

Seeing my Mom's Handbells music and her practice spoons on the dining room counter!

 Pathetic looking window clings... (can you tell what they used to be?)

The moon! And my attempt to photograph it.

Crackle nail polish!

Lila Rae tryin' to climb the stairs! (This also makes me a little nervous!)

Fall!

Kittens on my Uncle's farm.

My new Tumblr account! I am having so much fun with it!

Tippie Toes!

I am still in love with the Sally Hanson nail polish strips, but they are kinda pricey ($10) so I noticed that Broadway Nails makes a similar thing for half the price. Of course you get what you pay for, and they aren't nearly as nice. They are more like stickers than real nail polish strips, so they don't stretch to fit your nails like the Sally Hanson ones do. Also the sizes are really weird, there are too many large strips. So I was staring at the larger-than-my-thumb sized strips wondering what I could do with them, when suddenly I got an idea:

Ta-Daaa!

(I didn't do a great job shaping my toenails when I cut them because I won't be showing them off yet- its a little too cold! But at least now I have a new style for summer!)

They are so quick, and when your done you just have to peel them off!

New Nails

The final product: 

First I started out with plain houndstooth nail polish strips:

Then I quickly got bored with them so I snazzed them up a bit:

(and got nail polish all over my hands - left hand)

(right hand)

and added my matching hairclips and bracelet from B. Radley! I love that shop and they have great stuff on sale!

(see bracelet in top photo)

Thanks for reading, have a great evening and happy daylight savings!!!

Time for Myself

After my baby was about one month old, I started trying to do something for myself at least once a day. One of the things I love to do is paint my nails:

 

OPI is my favorite brand of nail polish, this is from Katy Perry's new line of colors, this color is called "The one that got away." I really wanted to try the "black shatter" polish that is designed to go over a color and get a crackely, but the salon was out when I went to pick some up :( Oh well, this color is really pretty by itself, don't you think? It goes with a lot of things, including my pretty new camera bag:

Actually its not technically a camera bag, it is a Clinique makeup bag but I have so many of those that I have to use some of them for something other than makeup!