Minnie Mouse Nails

 Today... the wonderful world of Disney, well Minnie Mouse at least.  I'm hoping (cross fingers) that these last until I'm sitting in a hotel room in Milwaukee on Wednesday night.

Nail is bare is except for base coat, tips are China Glaze - Ruby Pumps with a black striper and Wet & Wild White Creme dots then Seche Vite.

 A simple idea but it took a while to do.  I have this annoying eye twitch today and was getting stressed out about work, my trip, etc etc etc so I had some striper issues which led to the bows being a little out of place.

Still think they're cute though.  

Photos taken with my crystal ball, LOL.  It's supposed to go on a light thing that changes colors but was broken many moons ago. 

The best bow on the ring finger.  

Til next time... which will probably be in about 10 days or so.

VACATION TIME!!

Chicken Tikka Masala

 Another Indian dish this week. 
Chicken Tikka Masala
I got to take a long walk through my spice rack as I used at least 10 of them. 
This is the chicken breast cooked sliced and plated.  I promise one of these days we'll work out the photos, this one isn't great.  Little Miss 'Spensive Camera insisted on using mine.

 This is Pakistani Spiced Toasted Chickpeas.  Several spices in this one too but not as hot.  Actually, it's a pretty fresh tasting dish.

And this is the plated meal with the Masala sauce on the chicken.  The chicken was spicy enough, the sauce took it beyond my comfort level.  My daughter and I were stuffing bread in our mouths to get through it.  We broke out the applesauce too.  Next time.... less of the hot spices and no sauce as it was fine without it. 

I might make Tilapia tostadas tomorrow but it's iffy.  Then I'm on vacation for a week.  I am cooking on vacation though, and making a couple of my specialties so I should have a long post when I come back.

Til next time...

Addiction Collection Additions

I have 4 new polishes to share.
The first is Revlon Blue Lagoon - seen in my Robin's Egg nail post.
Next are two Sally Hansen's I picked up on sale at Walgreen's, $2 each. They are Plum Power and Blizzard Blue. I want to call them both duochromes; but I'm at a loss. The blue has a hint of green shimmer in it. The plum is maybe burgundy/pink-ish? Dunno, but gorgeous anyway.
The last is also a Sally Hansen I picked up at work. It looked promising, frankly I'm disappointed. It should be a great shimmery mint, and I guess it is though it is far too translucent for my liking and after a couple days looks yellowy-gangreney, kind of a snot color. LoL I'm so not impressed.


And here are the barrettes I made this week. Loving the chain, though it hangs lower than I had intended and I am considering redoing it. I'll try wearing it tomorrow and we'll go from there.

Til next time...

Robin's Egg Nails

Today I have Robin's Egg nails to show and tell.

I'm not sure where I got the idea, but I found this blue at work and had to do something with it. It is Revlon Blue Lagoon. The spots are Revlon Hot Chocolate (or Hot Mockolate because it was originally a little too dark for me so I lightened it) and Wet & Wild White Creme.

I'd like to point out that while yes, it is a week after Easter and yes, those are decorative Easter lights - the lights are on their way to storage... next week.

One of these days, I'll start posting decent pics too. This photo was actually taken with my daughter's way-too-expensive-out-of-the-blue camera that she got from her father for Christmas (nope, nothing suspicious there, but I digress) however we had to use my itty-bitty-can-you-imagine? 128 mb memory card. No really. Quit laughing.

I guess next weekend I'm going to have to sort out the photos on all my other memory cards or I'm not going to have one for my trip to Wisconsin at the end of the month. (6 more work days! Woot-woot!)

Haven't been cooking at all for the last week. I'm thinking of making Chicken Masala next weekend, but we'll see.

Til next time...