I know you're all excited because it's time for another week with the Digit-al Dozen!  This week's theme is books and it's actually been a bit of a challenge for me because I read SO many books.  Literally, I'm currently in the middle of four (yes, at once) because I can't devour them as quickly one at a time!  This art work is for one of my favorite books.  There were a lot of different ways I could have taken it because the particular book I chose has SO many gorgeous details and descriptive elements.  The setting is just an amazing place.  But when I held it up to a few people and asked them to guess the book, they all got it on the first try.  Have you guessed it yet?  It's for Memoirs of a Geisha. I really love books about Japan and China and it was such an easy read for me.  It's a very moving book but it's not one of those I'm-gonna-cry-everyday-for-weeks kind of reads which really appeals to me.  I wanted to capture the most important elements of the book so I focused on the red/white color scheme and on the umeboshi.  I used some square glitter on the ring finger to simulate rice so that it would sort of resemble the onigiri with the bright red umeboshi plum at the bottom.  Then I used some fans to sort of tie in the Geisha theme.  I hope you really loved these! Please check out what my fellow book worms have come up with for today's theme and stay tuned all week for more books!!

Colors used: 

Essie Blood Curdling

 Zoya Purity 

OPI Lights Of Emerald City 

Zoya Raven

It's time for another Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge.  I actually wore this mani on Friday and meant to have it up for the challenge, but things have gotten a bit hectic around here since school started!!  So here it is a few days late!  The challenge was to do a mani based on a book.  I read A LOT of books.  A lot. A lot.  So it was a bit of a challenge to choose just one.  My initial thought was to do something based on The Hunger Games since those are the last books I read.  Then I thought, everyone is doing Hunger Games mani's and with the films coming out in March there is plenty of time and reason to do one later!  I also entertained Harry Potter because I love those books. But I really didn't have time to do them justice. SO...I chose to do them based on one of my favorite books: Memoirs of a Geisha.  As always, it's a little subtle and a bit muted, but I rather liked the results!  Enjoy and thanks for following!!

What is your favorite book?

Base is: Zoya Kristen

Flowers are: OPI Sparrow Me the Drama and LA Nail Art Pen in White

Tips are: Hard Candy The End