Nail Polish, Nail Polish Art, Nail Polish-ish Swaps. Whoa.

Hello lovelies, happy Friday-and I really mean it when I say TGI-FREAKING-F.  Seriously, I had a break during the middle of the week but I'm already read for another! Cheers to the freaking weekend.  I took Wednesday off in order to take time to do some cleaning, but didn't get much done... Going to have to kick it into gear son though! Ready for some confessions?

I Confess...
I have been making art a lot lately.  Lovely little ink and watercolor illustrations of nothing other than nail polish.  Hey now, before you go judging me people are eating that stuff up!  Pretty much all that I've made are spoken for!

I Confess...
I can finally share a couple of illustrations with you I made in January.  I'd been saving them for friends for their birthdays so I haven't posted them anywhere until now.  Here are Megan and Julie.

I Confess...
I need to STOP buying nail polish.  But here is the haul this week... Some were from swaps, actually most, so they didn't cost me more than the shipping. But hey I got my very first piCture pOlish, my first A-England, my first Aly's Dream Polish, first Piggy Polish,  and my first holographic polish.  My new favorite polishes are A-England St George (seriously so amazing), and Color Club Halo-Graphic Miss Bliss.

I Confess...
This week's Manicure was Zoya Zuza.  It was grittier than I expected, but as the week grew I came to love it, and it lasted a long time!

I Confess...
Maria is an angel that knows me well enough to send me my itty bitty beauty swap box full of nail polish.  You should follow Maria over at Agape Love Designs because she's awesome, and a go-to beauty girl.  She did an entire series dedicated to doing your makeup based off of the Disney Princesses.  Amazing. Oh, and follow over at Chaotic Goddess Swaps so you can join in our next swap!

I Confess...
I got my Cara Box Swap too!  I love the Cara Box swap, it's cheaper and fun!  I sent a package of food (because I had such a hard time figuring out what to send) to Tammi at If You Could See What I See.  Carissa from T is for Townsend  sent me this lovely package from Arizona.  She must know me, because there was an Essie in that box! One I'd been wanting for a while! Thanks Carissa!  Also thanks Kaitlin from Wifessionals for hosting!

I Confess...

Mr. Bingo told me he's coming to visit this month.  He'll be here around the 17th and I'm so excited to see him!  I miss his face.

I Confess...

I want to buy a Canon T3i DSLR soooooo bad.  Amazon has it for only $799 with the fancy lens.  However I'm having a hard time parting with my savings.  You see, I've never been good at saving money (if you ever doubt that, scroll back up and look at my nail polish haul) so now that I've actually learned to and I have a good chunk in the bank-spending any of it makes me cringe.  I feel scroogy about it.  But I really really want the camera... I think it'll improve my blogging and my shop photos.

I Confess...

It's the Pride Festival this weekend, and I'm actually walking in the parade with the Utah Cyber Sluts (the drag queen charity group I volunteer with) and I have to confess that it freaks me out.  Seriously social anxiety to the max.  Also I plan on stopping by and saying hello to CFPU (the rescue I volunteer with) who'll have a booth there as well!   Kristina and my sweet godbaby are coming down to see me too! 

I hope your weekend is STELLAR! 

Rejuvenate Your Skin Anti-Aging Review & Giveaway

It's no secret that I am always on the lookout for good skin products.  My face is not my friend most days, but it has been better since I started choosing quality products to put on it.  I'm happy to say that one of my new favorite skin companies is Mía Mariú.  I was sent some full size samples of their product to try out recently, and I am for sure going to continue to buy and use this product.

All of the products FEEL amazing, which I'm a big fan of.  My favorite is the Refreshing Foaming Gel Cleanser, but the Anti-aging Brightening Serum and the Anti-Aging Eye Cream are wonderful too.  The feel light, not heavy or greasy-which is lovely, and they smell wonderful without being too fragrant.  They are all around a great product-I'm seriously hooked on these!

What's the best part?  Mía Mariú is offering one of my lucky readers a Rejuvenate Your Skin anti-Aging Pack, which has a retail value of $89!  I wish I could win it just so I could stock up on this fabulousness!  I'm really in love.  So don't miss out, and go ahead and enter! 

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Weekend Adventures with Drag Queens, Koi, and Nail Polish!

This weekend was another pretty laid back one.  It started out Friday night with a special Utah Cyber Slut bingo with proceeds going to The Glory to God American Catholic Church in Ogden, which is a "sacramental, liturgical church with a strong respect for tradition" however it's not the same as the traditional "Roman Catholic" as in they accept just about everyone-and their priests are gay. There was even a female priest.

It was interesting to learn a little about them, and while I'm not really religious (spiritual, but not religious) it was still fascinating to see a different spin on that belief structure.  They also do a lot for the community, and sadly not too many people showed up-though planning it for Memorial Day weekend was a bad idea.  Here are some of the Cyber Sluts in attendance:

Since there weren't very many people we were able to participate in playing, and I won a St. Francis statue. Sadly I broke the little birdie off getting him in the car-I'm probably going to hell for it (haha).  Oh well, super-glue to the rescue.  I also bought this awesome art print from a guy who was selling them there (with 30% of the proceeds going to the church as well) who wrote a book with these illustrations.

The piece I bought is all about internal reflection.  In the story Starkid, the main character, has just broken a mirror and now sees himself as not one person, but as multiple facets in all the bits and pieces of the mirror.  In the picture he's holding a small piece of the mirror and reflecting on his contribution to the world.

Saturday morning we met up with Jon, Meggy, Julie, and Deuce for Meggy's surprise early birthday breakfast at Pierre Country Bakery-which is a favorite of ours.  Then after we went in search of some new shoes for Josh, who didn't buy any-but I ended up with a cute pair of wedges.  Then we walked through the Hidden Hollow area in Sugarhouse and I was surprised to find that the river there was filled with Koi!

Sunday morning we made the trek down to Utah County again for Popeye's Chicken.  It just opened up here and my roommate is addicted already-it's so good though.  Bad for my diet, which I've been neglecting, but good!   Then Sunday evening the roommate was volunteering so I had the house to myself.  I had ever intention of cleaning but I ended up just organizing my nail polish... Um, I now have 152 bottles and I know there are at least 9 on the way to me...  Um, here's my last few weeks of new polish, and my entire collection.

I also started working on some new watercolor illustrations last night.  After posting on IG and Facebook it looks like people are super interested in them so I'm going to make more! :D  Yay!  I'm hoping to have some of these in my shop by the end of the month, if you have any special requests for colors/bottles let me know! Painting again really makes me happy.

How was your weekend?