Friday Favorites...Vol #15

HELLO and HAPPY FRIDAY loves!!!

I'm soooo glad that the week has come to a close. Today marks the last day of school for most districts in my area. Summer is vastly approaching us. I'm so thankful to be able to finally enjoy some much needed days off without having to wake up with the sun. What will I ever do with these days off?

Hmm...I think I will:

*schedule some blog posts

*visit some of my fave blogs

*complete some DIY projects

*schedule more blog posts

*finally clean my house

Anyhow, here are a few of my favorite things from the past couple of weeks

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Opening fortune cookies and finding messages like this one...

My favorite pair of Chucks. I scored these at least 5 years ago at a sneaker shop in Vegas. They have to be thee most comfortable and easy to style shoe that I own.

These thrifted cuties that I attempted to use in a DIY project. Yeah, they're in the trash now. I messed them up horribly! I was too embarrassed to even take a picture of the end result.

My attempt at an abstract manicure. I got the idea from here. Her's definitely turned out a helluva lot better than mine.

I found these skinnies at Target for a whopping $8. They had been marked all the way down from $24.99 or something crazy like that. If you're an avid Target shopper then you know they had them in a gold color too. Yes, I snatched those up as well. You can't beat $8.

Simple things like date night with the dude and holding hands make me so very happy!

My mailbox swag is officially out of control. As I state each week, I don't know how I'm ever gonna catch up!

I found these lovely nail art thingies in the Dollar Tree the other day. The ones on the left look exactly like the little beads that are used for the new caviar manicures. So while everyone else is shelling out major bucks for 'caviar' nails, I'll be doing my own.

What were some of your favorite things from this week?

Do share...

Thanks for reading!

And also a HUGE thanks to my new followers, I appreciate you so much!

FBFF: If You're A Fly Gal, Then Get Your Nails Done...

Hello ladies....I'm soooo excited to be the host of today's FBFF Manicure Party.  This weekly forum, initiated by Katy from ModlyChic, brings hundreds of bloggers together via a link system in order to share ideas and opinions about all things Fashion and Beauty (and sometimes blog) related.  If you would like to join or learn more about the group, click here.

Lately, I've noticed that I've become increasingly obsessed with all things 'nail related'. I've always felt as if biweekly manicures and pedicures were an added expense so about a year ago, I began to purchase things that I could use at home to do my own manis. My polish collection is growing larger and larger by the day but by no means does it compare to this collection, which has well over 300 shades of pretty.

Keep in mind that I hadn't toyed with the idea of creating my own nail designs until about two weeks ago when I came up with the idea to host this party. They are in nooooo way picture perfect but it saved me $20 and a 2 hour trip to the nail shop.

Here are the colors that I used:

Revlon 800-PowderPuff/Yellow/IntensePink/BabyPink/BrightOrange

The Revlon was purchased on clearance from Farm Fresh (I got this on 'Double Coupon Wednesday' so it ended up being FREE after the coupon) and the Nail Art colors were purchased from the Dollar Tree.

1. Begin by painting your nails with 2 coats of a white base.

Base Coat-Revlon 800-Powder Puff

 2. Paint each nail with one strip of your choice of Nail Art Laquer-you may use as many color choices as you like (these were purchased from the Dollar Store and they have tons of colors).

Clockwise from Top Left-Bright Orange/Intense Pink/Yellow/Baby Pink

3. Finish your nails off with a top coat and viola!



Finished Nails

 If you could create a name for this mani, what would you call it?

Now it's your turn.

Would you all participate if this were a monthly event?

Post Title from: Work It by Missy Elliott