I hope all of you are having a brilliant (and SAFE!!) New Years!! Here is the round up of my top 5 most popular posts of 2011.  And before I post my VERY LAST (sad) post for this year, I want to thank Debbie over at The Crumpet, for inspiring this blog with her own top ten most popular posts!! Enjoy everyone and thank you so much for following along with me this year! Hope the next one is even better!

Without further ado:

My very first attempt at needle marbling. Popular I'm sure because this is a relatively new technique (from what I've heard) and lots of people are starting to try it out. I really had fun doing these and they didn't take long at all but looked pretty intricate on my nail. :)

Oh yes. THESE nails. I honestly hated these nails. REALLY hated. In fact I didn't even bother with cleanup on them because the second that picture was over I took them off. I really don't know what it is that bothers me so much about them but I just REALLY didn't like them at all. They came out nothing like I'd planned. And GAH! Look at that awful lighting. This is another early March posting. I think the only reason these get so many hits is because everytime someone types "symphony" into Goolge, these pop up.

Mamegoma nails! These also came from my Week of San-X posts. I love Mamegoma. I may do more of them in the future because they're really just too cute not to!

My Deborah Lippmann Dance Music set swatches. People love swatches. I won't pretend to be great at them because there are certainly better swatchers out there. But I was quite proud of these ones because the lighting was right, the colors were accurate and the painting job was one of the neatest I've had. So I'm pretty satisfied that they made it to the top ten!

My Reindeer nails for the 31 Days of Christmas challenge! I actually wasn't a HUGE fan of these nails. I thought they could have been better, but then I'm a bit of a perfectionist which is not always a good thing when you're doing nail art. They really have turned out to be my most popular design of all time and got about 250 likes on Instagram. Crazy times. I'm glad you all liked them though! :)

Thanks so much for following along with me! Did your favorite post make it to the top ten?

The end of the year has finally arrived!!  I'm so ready to start a new year and I have so many wonderful things to look forward to in 2012!  So for my New Year's post (and my last two posts of the 2011!) I'm going to do a round-up of the most popular posts I did in 2011.  Some of them are older, and some of them are newer and it's fairly easy to tell which are which! I've definitely learned a lot this year and in January I plan to do a then and now blog with some of the things I've learned since I started on this nail art journey just over a year ago. :) Enjoy!

Candy Cane inspired nails from the 31 Day Christmas Challenge. I really don't know why these were so popular. I kind of lazed out on them. I really wanted to do some lovely stripes, which I ended up doing anyway for my Christmas Day mani. The base is one of my most favorite polish colors of all time though: China Glaze Ruby Pumps. So pretty and sparkly.

My very first Dupes Up post and my very first holo polishes. This post is from March, a mere three months into my nail art addiction. You can really tell too! Just look at that awful cleanup and those dry cuticles! Ah! It's terrible. But we all start somewhere, right? I'm sure these are popular because people love holo's AND comparison posts.

A two-fer! My Pokemon nails! I was really pleased with how these turned out. They're also from March so the awful cleanup is still in play! But these really took me HOURS and they were the most intricate thing I'd done to date. I even had to mix colors for some of the balls. I got a lot of good feedback on these and I'm sure the popularity stems from the Pokemon craze. My favorite ball: the dive ball.

These are from my Week of San-X. My Tarepanda nails. I really love the San-X characters and they don't get nearly as much love as the Sanrio ones. These were the first art nails I'd done in awhile and I was (and still am!) working on improving my art skills. Patterns are a bit easier because if they go pear shaped you can work it into the design. But characters are another story! They came out pretty nice but I hated the glow in the dark coat I added on the top. They were done in a cabin on a West Virginia vacation though, so I feel good about it!

My first Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge. Your oldest nail polish. Lol...I actually ended up loving the color I had so I'm glad I did this challenge. The art wasn't half bad either!

My first 31 Days of Christmas post. These came out totally different than I expected them to. And I was in a hurry and stamped them too quickly, thus mashing the stamp and the polish. Yuck. But I'm glad you guys were interested in the challenge! Did any of you join in?