I'LL NEVER LEARN

I can just feel myself slipping into a not wanting to do my nails slump. I'm feeling just pretty slumpish in general for reasons I won't go into. And yes, I have now deemed "slumpish" to be a word.

Hopefully I'll be feeling in a better mood when August is over. Until then, I'm seriously forcing myself to do just about anything.

This one is no exception. I once again started it way too late at night. When it was done and disliked, it was just too late to start over or try to make corrections.

The "idea" was to do a neutral base with some stamping, and then do something sheer on top of it. It is actually exactly what I did; it just didn't look like I hoped it would.

I started with a base of Zoya Amminah, which I then stamped on with Mundo de Unas White and my Fab Ur Nails FUN 13 plate. Once that was dry, I added two coats of OPI Sheer Tint Be Magentale With Me.

I found that the OPI didn't go on very evenly, and even after two coats, I could see darker and lighter sections of pink. Maybe a third coat would have taken care of the issue, but it was just too late to try that.

What's even sadder about disliking this is the fact that I ended up wearing it for two whole work days. I finally made time to remove it last night. And I was shocked at how difficult that sheer tint was to remove! I probably should have wrapped my fingers with tinfoil to help move things along, but I was in the middle of a long text conversation and didn't want to be rude and end the convo.

I had to rub so hard I actually managed to pop off a thumbnail. That really did not make me any happier than I already was. I do plan on hopefully doing a reapplication this weekend, but that doesn't mean I wanted to spend time fixing just one. Lame.

After monkeying around with that forever, I barely had time to paint them. I did manage that, but I didn't get to actually do anything else other than a color. 

Boring.

FIGURES. NOW I LIKE IT

Maybe it's spring fever, but I decided to start cleaning weird things around the house.  After having awful water for so many years, my T-Fal pan covers were completely covered with this sticky yellowish-brown film that I couldn't get rid of no matter how hard I tried. It has always grossed me out.

A couple of years ago I discovered that if I put my gas burner covers in a ziploc bag with a little bit of ammonia and let it sit overnight, all of the cooked on crud wipes right off. So it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps that might work on those covers.

I found a big ziploc, poured about a 1/4 cup of ammonia in it and then put one of the covers inside and let it sit overnight. Yesterday I held my breath, opened the bag and rinsed it off. Every bit of that crud came right off, and that cover looks like brand new. I was completely tickled.

So last night I threw in 2 of the burner covers and 2 more pot covers. I just got done washing those, and now I have the last 2 covers and burner covers in soaking until tomorrow.

Next project, get the damn cloudiness off of my glasses. I just hate them and anytime I need to give someone a glass around here I have to look through all of them to find one decent enough to use.

I had tried the vinegar trick a long time ago without success. I checked out an antique site that said to use Dow bathroom cleaner. Nope. They said to rub with alcohol. Nope. They said to pour ammonia in them and let them soak. Not gonna' do that because with those fumes, Kev will get home tomorrow and find me unconscious. So I grabbed one and threw it in the bag with the other stuff.  I'll find out tomorrow if that worked, and if it does, I'll be doing a happy dance everywhere in the house.

Hmmmm....now I'm wondering what would happen if I put a pan in there. The outsides of all of them are cruddy looking with that same sticky film the covers had. That might be my next experiment. I really want to buy a really good set of stainless cookware without non-stick properties, but damn, they are pricey. One more thing to add to my list for when my ship comes in or Kev wins the lottery.

I always see these mani's using that leadlight technique, and I almost always think they're pretty.  I didn't really have many sheer polishes so didn't think I'd ever try it. Finally I couldn't take it anymore and broke down and bought the OPI Sheer Tints.

Last weekend I decided to give it a try. Even with all the stamping plates I own, I had a really hard time trying to figure out a design to use. After looking through all of them at least three times, I opted for this one from the MoYou Pro 10 plate.

Evidently I need to find a sheer polish that is actually red. I wanted red.  I used all of the OPI Sheer Tints,  Be Magentale with Me, Don't Violet Me Down, I'm Never Amberrassed and I Can Teal You Like Me. For the green which you can't really see much of here, I used China Glaze Keepin' it Teal.

I only did my left hand because I really wasn't impressed and really didn't like it much. I took my pics and then took it off.  After I put this picture in my blog drafts and looked at it again, I decided I really do like it. Dammit. I hate when that happens.

I don't love it nearly as much as others I've seen, but overall it was pretty fun to do, and I'm sure I'll eventually try it again.

Now I'm going to eat some oatmeal scotchies I made last night and watch Grey's Anatomy. Sounds like a productive day today!