Merry Christmas!!! + DIY - Christmas Themed Nail Art (of course! :D)

Merry Christmas Everyone!  I hope ya'll are all having a fabulous day... I know I am :)  But right now, I'm going to share my Christmas Themed Nail Art.  So here we go!

Supplies:
- Nail Polish - Red, Green, White, (basecoat/topcoat=optional)
- A toothpick

 

First, paint a red basecoat.  I used 3 coats to make sure it was really bright :)

 

 

Next, use a toothpick to put mistletoe leaves on the nails of your choice.  I did the top right corner of my accent nail and the bottom left corner of my index finger.  However, you can do one nail or all nails.  It's your choice.

 

 

Close up of the accent nail.  For my leaves, I dipped the toothpick in green polish then drew a line across the top of my nail for the "stem" in the corner.  Then I did two inverse arrow line for the pointed sections of the leaves.  Finally, I drew a one little point at the end.  Then I repeated those steps down the side of my nail, to create an "L" shape.

 

 

Same thing on the index finger, just in a different corner.

 

 

After the green leaves are dry, use a toothpick dipped in white polish to put a cluster of three "berries" in the center of your two leaves.  Also, this step is optional, but I put three white dots in a vertical line down the edge of my other nails (without the mistletoe design).  I just liked the way it looked :)

 

 

There ya go!  Merry Christmas!

 

"Well look at that; I've been NAILED!" ~Olaf

And Olaf has been nailed.  Get it?  In the movie he got "impaled", I "nailed" him.  :)  Here's proof...

My friend Emily came over a couple weeks ago and we did nails.  She asked me to put Olaf on her fingernails.  However, since we had a time shortage, I put Olaf on the thumbs and did a "Frozen theme" on the rest.  They actually turned out pretty good for my first time!  :)

Close up of Olaf.  It was so cute!

So yeah, that's basically my story of how Olaf got "nailed".  :)  Merry Christmas!  

"O Christmas Tree..." - A Different Kind of Tree

I like Christmas.  A lot.  Especially the Christmas baking and food.  I'm sure you do too :)  Anyway, a few years ago, my friend and I entered a Gingerbread house contest.  It was super fun building and decorating the house.  I can't remember if we won or not, (this was a LONG time ago :D)  but I still remember all the fun we had putting it together.  At that point, winning didn't really even matter.  We just liked having fun

together.  I haven't done anything else like that since... until this year.  A lady at my church gave me a little gingerbread kit for building a Christmas Tree.  Pre-baked, Pre- everything.  Except put together.  And that's the fun part!  Yeah, I like the baking part too, but the best part is putting it together.  So that's what I did.  I built... A Different Kind of Tree.  

The kit.

The "taken apart" kit :)

This is what it will look like... sort of... just prettier...

Step 1 - Apply WHITE frosting to each cookie, then stack them, alternating the points to create the effect of a tree.

Applying more frosting.  To more cookies.

So far, so good.

It's a little taller now...

Done!  (It took about 30-45 mins just to get this part done... yeah)

I like photography, so I took this pic.  It looks pretty cool!  Oh yeah, and after you put the frosting on, you sprinkle sugar all over it.  That's what the sparkly stuff is :)

Next step (2 I think)  - Use the GREEN frosting to go around the edge of each cookie.  This makes it look like a tree.

Working my way up... (this was the super tedious part :) )

All done!

The top view... again.

Next - Use these little edible pearl candies to "decorate" your tree.  I think I put enough... what do you think?

The final touch - The Star!

I added a "little" more sugar too... can you see it?  :)

The star on top.

The "top shot" again.  :)

And that's my Gingerbread Tree for ya!  Coming up soon.... Christmas candy!  And cookies!  Or, in other words, my BAKING PAGE!  :)