Flowers

I used two coats of NYC's Nolita's Lavender which is a darker lavender that typicallycomes to my mind's eye, but it's a great shade of purple - along with any shade of purple!

On tumblr, I saw someone do a "flower crown" design that I thought was super cute with different flowers framing out the nail. I was blanking in the design department, so I thought I'd give it a quick shot! I can't find the original post which is driving me nuts because it was a hundred times better than my take on my thumb!

Update: I found the original!! 

I used acrylics to paint light yellow, pink, and blue flowers; top coat to seal.

Tamara

Earth Day

Happy Earth Day everyone!! 

Today's mani has three coats of Sally Hansen's Breezy Blue. It's a pearly, baby blue that is so precious with subtle shine in it. I have to remember to apply a base coat so I don't have to apply so many coats of Breezy Blue. 

I used yellow paint with a touch of brown to make it golden to paint on portions of the sun onto each nail. On my thumb, I used a bright green paint for grass and two flower stems. I then dabbed on dots of Sinful Colors' Pink as the flowers.

Tamara

Clouds&Rainbows

It is finally sunny and warm in Minnesota, and I think it will last this time - fingers crossed! I used two coats of wet n wild's Chambray Showers which is the perfect sky blue color. I added an extra stroke here and there that I thought would look horribly bumpy, but the polish settled down without a hitch. 

 I used white paint to make the clouds and then I added the rainbow onto my middle finger and thumb nails with paint was well that I watered down a bit. Really fun and easy to do nails!

Enjoy the weather,

Tamara

Ezra

Last Tuesday, I was able to go to George Ezra's sold out concert at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis with my sissy. We got there around 5:30 to join the short line that had already formed. We ate Subway while we waited to the doors to open at 7; while waiting a car full of college guys drove by THREE times. Round one and two resulted in cups full of water being thrown near the line - they didn't have enough power behind their tosses, cute. For the third trip round, my sister stood in shock as she watched a guy lean out of the same car with a water gun - luckily they had horrible aim.

Under 21's got "VT" written on their hands.

The Ruen Brothers from London were the opening act for George; they're pretty good, but I personally wasn't going crazing over them. Sorry, my heart was set on Georgie!

A set shot. My sister and I were able to get into the second / third row behind tall people, it didn't help that there was a slight ramp that made them giants. Doesn't help that I'm barely 5'1".. 

George Freaking Ezra. I can never take clear concert pictures and it drives me nuts! But how gorgeous is he? Six feet of man right there! Someone brought out tea for him to drink which made him even more charming on top of his British accent. I took a bunch of videos, but I didn't realize how loud the amps were blaring, so most of them only give off loud static. 

He sang maybe half of his set on his own with his guitar: Barcelona, Leaving It Up to You, Blind Man in Amsterdam, and Benjamin Twine. There were probably more..

His encore ended with Did You Hear the Rain? and foam rained down from machines on the ceiling; it was awesome!

I had a blast, but by watching him, you can tell that he needs time to mature into preforming and interacting with the crowd. He was very much into the music. He would close his eyes and just sway to the music which was a great thing to see since it shows how much he loves his music. So much fun!

We bought a concert shirt and a CD. The reason I bought it was because it was pre-signed, yay!! 

After the concert, my sister and I waited outside the theater for our ride - there was zero chance I was going to drive downtown. No thank you! We noticed a large group being lead by security guards back into the theater, so we quickly entered behind the last people to meet George!!

We got to hug him and get our picture taken!! I had our tickets out to get them signed, but my mind completely emptied of all intelligence and common sense. CRAZY, RIGHT?!? I wish I could have bought him! Only joking.. 

Such a fun and cool experience! I'm so grateful to have had this (relatively cheap) opportunity since he's gaining fame fast. 

He's so adorable, eek!

Tamara