This weeks DIY manicure is all about Easter. It’s only a few days away but there’s still time to decorate and celebrate. Start with your nails!
What says Easter better than bunnies and decorated eggs?!
Happy Easter & happy polishing!
This weeks DIY manicure is a wonderful step by step tutorial on how to get those perfect salon style cheetah spots everyone loves.
I promise that it’s a lot easier than it seems and you can do it! To make it a bit easier you can use the nail polish brush to dot on the spots and then outline them in black with a toothpick or thin art brush.
I have to find the time this week to do this look in fantastic colors!
P.S. This is not my photo tutorial. I’ve tried to track down the original post so I could link back to them, but I’m not having any luck…. Anyone know where this originally comes from?
Happy polishing!
Rayne was asking me when we were going to get valentines for his class and pondering which ones he wanted to buy: super heroes, legos, angry birds, etc… But when I told him we could make our own, my arts and crafts loving 3rd grader was hooked!
Not allowed to bring candy or treats to his class for the valentines exchange, we had decided to make our own crayons.
This DIY project has been on my mind for a while, and then fellow mommy blogger friend Tori at The sTori Book made some heart shaped crayons for her preschoolers class, and they came out perfect, so my mind was made up that we were doing it! Luckily, Rayne loved the idea and was excited to start!
Grab a box of crayons (we used about 60 to make 24 crayons), and an oven safe silicone mold.
Rayne chose this one to make little crayon friends for his friends. Cute.
First, preheat your oven to 450
Then peel off all the paper from your crayons.
Break or chop them up into little pieces that’ll fit into your mold. Try to keep them all the same size so they melt at the same rate.
Rayne decide he wanted to make rainbow swirl colored crayons so we just kept the colors all together and Rayne picked and chose the colors he wanted to mix.
Silicone molds are pretty flimsy so I placed mine on a cookie sheet before placing it in the oven.
“Bake” for 5 minutes or until they’re all melted down. It happens quickly and you don’t want them to bubble and burn so watch carefully!
Rayne thought it was cool watching them melt down. We watched them change from solid crayons to melted pools of colors.
Once they’re all melted, place them in the freezer for a few minutes to set and them simply pop them out of the mold!
To turn them into Valentines, use double sided tape to adhere them to card stock.
“Valentine, thanks for being such a colorful friend!”
Each one hand signed by Rayne
I’m anxious for Rayne to come home from school today and show me all his Valentines and to tell me how all his friends liked his homemade crayons!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!
I’m going to slack on my nails this week. But thanks to Gita over at MiMi and ChiChi, i’m still bringing you a DIY manicure of the week.
Click on over and check out her tutorial. And if you’re looking for another snowy night manicure, click here to check out my DIY snowflakes manicure!
Happy polishing!
As I was looking at my 10 month old daughter Honor bouncing in her rainforest jumper it started me thinking of pandas (don’t ask me to explain the inner workings of my mind).
So this weeks DIY manicure features panda nail art.
Adorable right!?!!
I have every intention of doing a panda face on every nail but just got lazy, and Honor was getting tired of being in her bouncer, her patience wouldn’t have lasted much longer. So I copped out and did a black french tip to finish each nail.
To get my look use L.A. Colors polish in white to paint a half circle for the panda face, then using L.A. Colors in black velvet, dot on ears and free hand in some eyes and a nose.
Champagne taste on a beer budget 