Flowers for Floriade

Today has been a crazy day! I had practice for my singing group because we are singing at Floriade, a big month-long flower festival in Canberra, tomorrow. Then after practice, I headed down to Floriade to meet my husband and some friends from our video game club. It's been a busy, but fun day.

You can't tell from these pictures, but they make really beautiful patterns and designs with different flowers. This year's theme is Refection and the patterns are all military based. It'll look even better from the Ferris wheel when more of the flowers have bloomed! My husband and I may end up going back in a few weeks.

I did some basic flowers on my nails for this weekend. I was glad to find some flowers today that matched!

It's Spring!

Spring started on the 1st of September down in Australia. I wanted to do this mani for the first day of Spring, but it's been a busy few days. I finally had a chance to finish my mani this morning! I used a sugar shimmer for the background to give it some texture like grass.

Dragonfly

My mind was out of inspiration a few weeks ago, so I posed a question on my facebook page asking what I should paint next. My mom answered with dragonfly wings. She recently got a tattoo, which I still think is weird and random. Her tattoo was my inspiration for my nails, although I don't have permission from her to post a picture of her tattoo.

All the babies!

My husband and I are loving this stage of life where all of our friends are a bit older than us and having babies. It means we get the cute without the responsibilities! We both love babies, we just aren't ready for our own yet.

We already have two couples that had adorable baby girls and this weekend our friend had a shower for the baby boy that they're expecting next month. It was fun and we can't wait to meet him.

I've been struggling for some nail ideas, so I knew I had to take advantage of an event to create an idea. My left hand matches the wrapping paper and my right hand says boy with some fuzzy polish on the other fingers since it reminded me of confetti. My hand was going to say "It's a boy" but I messed up my pinkie with the "it's a" bit and didn't have time to try to rewrite it.

OMD3 Day 31: My nails and my perfume

I don't wear perfume, but my now-husband's aunt gave me a travel perfume set for Christmas. I thought that this one with the gradient is gorgeous. I loved how this manicure turned out, but it was difficult to photograph. I wanted to give the look of the transparency of perfume, so I used one of the OPI sheer tints for the blue and I realised that one of my purples was also pretty sheer. I was so glad!

*note: I didn't finish this one until after the challenge was over, so it's not on the inlinkz. *

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OMD3 Day 25: Weather

My plan for this theme was just a basic blue sky with clouds. They were pretty simple.

*note: I didn't finish this one until after the challenge was over, so it's not on the inlinkz. *

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OMD3 Day 19: Lipstick

This manicure was a nightmare. I received these lipstick kisses decals from the born pretty store as a free gift from my purchase a while ago. They weren't at all like the decals that I've had before. The instructions made no sense because they were making it not stick. Even if they would have, the design would be backwards. I think this was my third attempt, which I ended up just flipping it over.

*note: I didn't finish this one until after the challenge was over, so it's not on the inlinkz. *

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OMD3 Day 16: Fast Food

My husband loves to cook and we almost never eat fast food. But Grill'd is a burger place in Australia and it borders between actual food and fast food. They also have zucchini fries, which are amazing!

*note: I didn't finish this one until after the challenge was over, so it's not on the inlinkz. *

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OMD3 Day 29: My nails and my drink

My nickname while growing up was CCG which stood for Coca-Cola Girl. However I haven't drank coke for a while and actually prefer Sprite. (Sprite is owned by Coke, though, so it's ok.) I also already did Coca-Cola nails, so I wanted to do Sprite. Plus I had the Sprite themed OPI, Green on the Runway. I created an old logo on my middle finger.

*note: I didn't finish this one until after the challenge was over, so it's not on the inlinkz. *

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OMD3 Day 30: My nails and my bag

I couldn't decide if I loved these or didn't like them at all. Then I realised that was my first thought when my in-laws gave me my bag and I absolutely love it!

*note: I didn't finish this one until after the challenge was over, so it's not on the inlinkz. *

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