A Sassy Conspiracy

This is the painting I did for Gee n Alex’s space-themed nursery. Acrylics and resin on a 10×10″ wood canvas. My favorite part is the space ship :)

Tell me this isn’t the biggest lobster you’ve ever seen. :)

Hand forged and chased sterling silver bangle with a Bob Dylan quote, for my mom’s birthday. This was the first time I got to use my bracelet mandrel, and I’m very happy with how it turned out. Unfortunately I made it too large the first time – it stretched as I hammered it into shape [...]

Four layer carrot cake with orange, ginger, cream cheese frosting and candied carrot ribbons (Martha Stewart recipes). Happy Birthday Mom!!

This weekend I cohosted a baby shower for one of my oldest friends, and my lovely cohost and I decided to eschew traditional shower themes and instead went with a subversive space babies theme (in reference to the space theme of the nursury). My ever accommodating partner hosted the evenings games, including a Space Babes [...]

I broke my first bottle of polish tonight – my Nails Inc Whitehall. *sad face*

Somehow, through equal parts sheer luck and excellent timing, I managed to nab my first ever Nerdlacquers! This is one of four I picked up: Cyance Friction from the NerdCrush Series. The listing very accurately described it as “a super bright cyan/teal with copper shimmer, large and medium copper hexagonal glitter, medium turquoise square glitter, [...]

That’s right. Three kinds of chocolate AND bacon. A whole pound of it.

Pretty much every lacquerista on the internet has posted Hunger Games inspired nail art, so why not me too, right? Might as well use some of the China Glaze Hunger Games polishes I greedily snatched up, and what better excuse than when we went to the see the movie last night. This is Stone Cold, [...]

Here is the second ornament I made for the FIL, also inspired by one I saw on the internets (though mine is more of a recent victim than a zombie). :) Sculpey and acrylic paint (the icing/blood has a coat of gloss nailpolish to make it shiny).