Neon Leopard Mani

Here's todays nails:

Vintage Rose Nails

I recently started painting my nails again after a long hiatus. There are so many inspiring nail designs on instagram and on youtube that I couldn't resist.  With this design I followed a tutorial on youtube from getnailedd.  She has some great tutorials and they're relatively easy to replicate.

Heres my version of the Vintage Rose Nails:

I love the way this turned out. Check out the youtube channel for more fab designs.

Studded iPhone 4 Case

New phone cases added to the etsy shop: iheartmaterialgurl

Big Cartel

I decided to start a new online shop off of Etsy for jewelry and accessories not handmade by me.

Visit me here at iheartmaterialgurl on big cartel.

These are a few of the items I have available on the site.

Follow the shop on instagram @iheartmaterialgurl

:)

Faux Leather

I ordered some of this faux leather material from Fabric.com because I had a vision of the Keyka Lou pocket clutch in leather. I figured this would be a more sophisticated version that the ones that I usually make with the fun kawaii fabric.

This is how it turned out:

I like the way it turned out, just a few minor adjustments need to be made.

New Stuff

I've been ordering merchandise for my supply shop like crazy lately.  Its fun ordering and then receiving the packages in the mail and seeing all the pretty little cabochons.

Here's a few new goodies:

All of these are available in my etsy shop.

What I've Been Up To

Today is officially the last day of my vacation week. I unfortunately have to go back to work on Monday (waaaaaaahhhhh). But anyway, while I was home, I got so much done in terms of the shops. I was able to work on some new pouches and was able to update some pictures. It's amazing what the crop feature can do for your pictures. I just discovered it a couple weeks ago (slow, I know).

Here's a little before and after of one of the pictures that I cropped:

Before

After

Ahhhh-mazing lol.  I never was much of a photographer.  At least now I know. I edited these pics using picnik, but now they're shutting down picnik after April 19th. Now I'll have to find another editing website thats as user friendly as picnik is.

The quest continues..........