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I decided to try out some multi-media blogging, and played around with my video editing software.

If video blogging is something that you guys would like to see more be sure to message me, comment or let me know! 

Enjoy :) 

PS. The Bachelorette starts tonight (at 9:30!) so be prepared so see the occasional "Rose Rant" if this is  anything like Bachelor Ben's season! 

Customized Rocking Chair

Today's project is NOT a pinterest found project, I just decided to do this randomly.

D's mom (who is an amazing scrapbook-er) got me a Cricut for Christmas. After the craziness of Christmas day and the mess it left behind, I didn't get to play with my new toy until recently.  I was just cutting out letters and pictures and playing around when I started thinking what I could do with all these things I have cut out now. And then it hit me. I can customize things with some paper letters and some DIY decoupage.

Last Christmas, my parents got baby A an unfinished wooden rocking that I was going to paint. I haven't yet and decoupaging seemed like the perfect fit for this handmade wooden rocking chair.

I had cut out A's name and some hearts so I arranged her name on the back rest and put one of the hearts on the back of the chair. I covered the seat with coordinating paper and decoupaged it all. It turned out amazing. You could really apply this technique to anything. I covered it with some spray on acrylic sealer.

I love it and so does Addilyn. Her reaction was: "ooh Mommy, I love it! It's beautiful."

And that makes it all worth it!!

Scotch Tape Manicure

Last night I had a nail polish/spa party with baby A. So I thought I would try out some of the really cool, nail polish ideas and tricks I see on Pinterest. Baby A's nails are too small and so is her attention span so we just regular painted hers.

I tried a Scotch Tape Mani that I found on Pinterest that links you back to an awesome blog called Chloe's Nails . (Follow her blog  if you love nail polish, she has some amazing ideas, tips and tricks!) 

THE FINAL PRODUCT

Finished!

I started out with a pretty nude I have called Cafe Au Lait by Sally Hansen Perfect Manicure.


I put "less sticky" scotch tape at a diagonal. (stick the tape to your skin and take it off a few times so it loses some sticky so you don't pull your base color off )

Then I painted my Rimmel Lycra #322 Russet Flame  color over the tape and exposed nail.








Gently pull the tape off BEFORE the polish dries. It is easiest to do one nail at a time to avoid the risk of the top polish drying to tape and pulling off.

Chloe gives more details and better instructions so be sure to check out her blog post about it! 

(the link is at the top of the page!)

To do all my nails, base, taped and top did not take long at all. I tried using another pinterest idea ( running nails under cool water to dry faster ) to help speed things along and cut down on nail drying time and it didn't work that I could tell.

This is definitely a do again project. I can see all kinds of things coming out of using scotch tape as a stencil of sorts....


Happy Polishing!