Bee Polished: Aoife

Can't Catch Me I'm the...

For today's Christmas art I went simple. I'm running low on time to do them and yet they keep getting chipped at work --TRUST me-- it's a miracle this time of year if they last 24 hours. So rather than sport a chipped mani I've been trying to squeeze in some mini looks. Things that are easy and don't require loads of dry time in between designing! This one was wicked easy and only took me 15 minutes start to finish! I used A-England Dragon for the base. It's a gorgeous holo grassy green color. Then I used China Glaze Champagne Bubbles to add a gradient on all nails but the ring and then I used a stamp and some Barry M Gold Foil to add a gingerbread man! Easy but gorgeous! These managed three days before I chipped the thumb. :( Oh well...onto the next!!

Hope everyone is having a happy holiday season! Aoife helped me build a gingerbread village this year (or rather...she rearranged all the candy for me!)

7:00 AM
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Fancy a bit of tea and polish?

Aoife

I recently did a polish swap with Debbie over at The Crumpet.

I sent her some of the Milani 3D's and in return I got some of the lovely OPI Muppets polishes. OPI are not particularly difficult to come by where I live, but it's always more fun to get things in swaps, isn't it? I've gotten pretty into swapping recently and I've recieved a number of interesting and exciting things in my swap packages. I'm always curious to see what other people will send because it gives me ideas of what to send others. But wow. Debbie really stepped up her game on this swap. As soon as I opened it I noticed a familiar and lovely aroma. Tea. Not just ANY tea either. Multiple types of tea. Including my most favorite standard tea...PG Tips. PG Tips tea puts Lipton tea to shame. But it's SO hard to find around here. Although some of my local groceries have started carrying it, it's also fairly expensive. So you can imagine my surprise and excitement to recieve some in the mail!! There were also some peppermint tea bags and some spiced apple ones. It's actually quite amusing to receive tea this week as I've had a sore throat for awhile and I've been drinking more tea than usual. Tonight I needed to edit about a hundred pictures for my various blogs and I also have a lot of cleaning to do following a busy week. So I thought I'd sit down with some pretty polish and a nice, hot, cup of Spiced Apple tea. :) So yummy.

And because she can never keep out of things...you know who had to poke her fat little nose into my tea. She particularly enjoyed the peppermint bags. :P

Thanks for following! What kinds of things do you like to receive in swaps?

9:12 PM
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A little update...

Aoife

It's been a little while since I've had time to really do much with polish and the reason is in the picture above. His name is Finnegan Geimhreadh (pronounced Giv-roo) and he's roughly 4 weeks old today. He and his two sisters (both of whom were solid black) were found outside and rescued by my husband. His sisters both went to the same home, a co-worker took them home as they were sweet as could be. But not little Finn. No, Finn was a scaredy cat and would hiss and scratch at anything and everything that came near him. Once you managed to pick him up though (mostly unscathed!) he turned into a sweetheart and purred and purred! We've been keeping him mostly in our bathroom as my two other cats are none too pleased about a new comer. Especially Aoife who is a mama's girl and gets extremely jealous if Finn is anywhere near me. But they're coming around and we've been able to keep him out more which is good since he has a loud and chirp like cry and he does it constantly when left alone! Now that he's able to eat solid foods (yay for no more 3AM bottle feedings!) and is litter trained we're attempting to re-home him. So I should be able to do more with my nails soon!