9 easy Halloween nail art

I have decided it is time to start the Halloween nail art.  I love doing my nails and I love having fun nails but I am not the best at nail art.  I love fun easy nail art.  I have compiled a few great tutorials that I have used and loved that I thought everyone would enjoy. :) 

Here is a cute and easy candy corn tutorial from the beauty department

Here is a super cute jack skeleton mani.

This has three great easy nail arts from MissJennfabulous  I love her nail art for beginners series.

I used some of this one in my monday mani Very cute and very easy

This one is super cute I love these whimsical nail ideas

I hope this gave you some great ideas for some fabulous Halloween nail art ideas

easy spot cleaning for make up brushes

 I have been out sick all week slacking off.   I have that may respiratory bug that's going around.   So I haven't had much to share.   My nails aren't even pretty because I am doing nail envy strengthening treatment.  But I have had this little life Saber of a trick up my sleeve for a while.   I have been using allot of cream products lately and if you use a gel liber with your brush and go to use it the next day. .. not going to work.   Here is what I do to spot clean my brushes.

I use a stamping up stamp pad cleaner some spray brush cleanser. 

 See how dirty this is with gel liner from yesterday

Well I spray the cleanser on half the pad.  I then scrub the brush around then sib it on the dry side and boom clean! ! And no dry time or laying flat.  I can toss them back in the holder out use them right away. 

See how clean that came. 

I love this trick when I am traveling so I don't have to pack tons or brushes and don't have to worry about having a good clean brush for my eye brows or liner.  The pad I use is just fuzzy one.  You could use anything like that texture I use this when I clean my brushes to.  I just put I bit of ivory dish soap on one side to scrub them on. Works beautifully.   Have a good day guys. 

creamy sweet ice coffee

 One of my favorite summer treats is a nice cool sweet ice coffee in the summer.  I have usually made my own I have shared how to make cold press coffee with you guys before.  It is basically like the coffee version of ice tea.  I have loved it for years and years and I make mine the way I did when I worked at a large coffee chain.  But I found my self lately grabbing these.  Well for one they are too thick for my taste so I add milk, for two they have allot of calories,  and for three they are caffeinated and I like to drink my ice coffee in the afternoon evening so I don't always want caffeine in it then. 

I thought I would share with you how I am going to make my sweetened creamy ice coffee.  So these are all you need.  I have some decaf coffee a can of sweetened condensed milk and a can of evaporated milk.  (i used the fat free version of both)  

First off open both cans of milks and dump them into a jar and shake the crap out of them.  This is what is going to make your coffee creamy and sweet.  Toss that in the fridge until later.

 Take a jug I found this gallon jar one at walmart for 10$ and couldn't pass it up.  I filled it a bit over half the way with cold water.

 Then take one cup of ground coffee and just dump it into the water.

 Put the lid on or cover your jug with saran wrap and let it sit on your counter 24 hours or atleast over night.

 Mine was about 18 hours and this is what I had.

 Now what I do is dump the coffee into a different container and rinse my jug.  I then place my reusable coffee filter (you can find these at most stores for 5$ or so) and a regular one on the top.

 I put this in the sink in case I over pour.  Then just start filling the filter.  I usually change it once as it gets gunked up.  I just kept filling it as it needed while I unloaded my dishwasher.  Before I was even done unloading my dishwasher it was done and I had..

 This.. I threw out the filter .  And tossed the jar back on the counter for the next step.

 Take your jar of sweet cream and pour it into your coffee.

Now if you like your coffee thicker and creamier you can stop at this point.  It will be perfect but if you want it a bit more milky you can add some milk..

 Now next time I will do about half of the amount of milk I did.  Or maybe even add some almond milk instead..

 But there you have it .  Keep it refrigerated and serve it over ice for a nice cup of creamy sweet perfection.  Way cheaper, and better for you then the store and WAY cheaper then the coffee shop version.

 I hope you guys give this a shot it is great and all my supplies cost less then 5$ and I can make at least 3 or  jugs out of the grounds I have left :) 

Enjoy!!

sunset eye look wet and wild

 In my friday favorites post I shared a new look I tried out that I loved.  It is sorta a sunset orange eye look that is comprised of browns and oranges. I watched leighanns video a while back and when I saw the pallets were finally in town I snatched it up.

 It mostly uses this wet and wild fergie pallet.  I dipped into some other matte shadows in my drink a glass of shine pallet but any matte shadows semi close in color to what she shows in the video will work.  :)

 Here is the video.

and this is my finished look.

 For the look entirely I used my maybelline 24 hour foundation, covergirl/olay concealer, flower brow pencil in brown, nyx jumbo pencil in milk for my highlight, milani eye tech for top winged liner, remmil scandaleyes in nude in waterline brown on bottom lash line, my mascara is almay one coat waterproof, bronzer sunny, blush is jordana coral sandy beach ( a new great new budget freindly find recommended by melissa on youtube) and my lips are lined with jordadas liner in baby berry then lipstick is fergie wet and wild fergie daily.   That is the whole kit and caboodle people.

 I figured since we are going out it would be a fun time to try out a new look :) 

 Let me know if you try this look out or any of the fun favorite products I used in this look.  :)

shark week Mani monday

Sorry guys forgot my many Monday post until just now! Was busy watching shark week. Me and my family treat it like a national holiday.  We wait all year.  So i was super excited to see this tutorial. 

. And don't judge about the shark teeth my white nail art polish wasn't cooperating!  Happy shark week i will have another post for you guys at the latest wed.  I promise My big 9 month preggo but will find motivation; )

diy duvet cover.

Yesterday I had a endocrinologist appt.  which means I got to travel through the land of 10,000 wind farms to Sioux Falls SD.

It is some crazy business just fans every where which is good since it means clean electricity but it is still crazy to look at some times.

 We took off early, had a picnic after, and were going to do some shopping but I started to feel sick.  I did stop and grab fabric for the nursery's duvet cover.  I have a company store crib duvet and I figured I would just make a cover for it.  So we went in and dug through fabrics and here is what we came up with.  Some robins egg blue minky and a fun grey, blue and white animal print.  I bought one yard of each plus the 6'' that was left of the minky.

 Once I got the kids in bed last night I whipped it together. I used the purple duvet cover as a templet.

 I figured I would have just enough with the cotton so I cut the minky to match.

 Here is a up close of the pattern on the cotton.

 I wanted a Velcro closure on the bottom I knew so I hemmed one side of each piece of the fabric for the bottom.  Then I lined up and sewed on the Velcro. 

 I then cut some ribbon to put in each corner.  ( I wanted to be able to tie the duvet cover to the duvet) I pinned those in each corner and sewed a french seam   ( I linked a tutorial on french seams they are easy and finish beautifully.)  I did that around 3 sides of the duvet cover.   I then took the duvet and sewed a ribbon across all the corners to tie the duvet cover to.

 Now it is done.

  I love the way it turned out I like having the decorative side and the snugly fabric for snuggling.  Obviously I am not going to be using this unsupervised with a newborn since they don't recommend any blankets for newborns pretty much.  but I will have it for when he is older or for snuggling and for laying on the floor or what ever when he gets older.  

 We only have one project left and the nursery will be complete.  I can't wait!!  That project will get finished this weekend :)  Hope you guys are having a great day.

braided cheesy chicken broccoli bread

I don't remember when it was but I (like often happens) decided to try a recipe from pintrest and it was spaghetti bread.  It looked complicated but was really quiet simple and It was a big family hit.  The hardest part of the recipe is remembering to take the loaf of rhodes bread dough out to thaw lol.  I have since made all kinds of braided bread recipes (taco, buffelo chicken, ect.) At some point a while back I decided to try braided cheesy chicken broccoli bread and it was a big hit with the family (even fire monster who has always told me broccoli was poopoo).  I made it last night and did a step by step process for you guys. One loaf feeds my family of 4 (my girls aren't huge eaters but my hubby eats atleast seconds and I go back for seconds normally and he has a bit left for lunch if you have teens or what not makes a side or a second loaf :)  here is all you need:

• a few frozen chicken breast
• a loaf of frozen bread dough
• 1 small can cream of chicken soup
• about 2-3 cups cheddar
• and half bag frozen chopped broccoli  

Start by tossing your chicken into the crock pot.  I used more then a few frozen boneless skinless chicken breast because I figured I could use the second half for dinner tonight.  I love to cook my chicken this way it leaves it juicy and is no fuss no muss.  I toss them in throw a bit of sea salt and pepper on top and toss it on low for about 3-4 hours

At that same time take a loaf of frozen bread dough out (rhodes is most common but I think I used hyvee brand for this).  Place the bread dough on the counter on parchment paper or a silicone nonstick mat like I did.  And just leave it to let it get to room temp.  (I took all this out about noon and started dinner about 3:30 or 4:00 because of my hubby's work schedule he has to be in bed by 6:00 p.m. which means we eat at the same time as nursing homes lol)

The bread will be more of a room temp but not have raised.  You take it and roll it out into as big a rectangle as you can(you will need to use a bit of flour on the top to keep from sticking to your rolling pin but don't flour surface you are rolling on or it won't stay rolled out and stretched).  Then place plastic wrap over and let sit for about 15 min while you work on the rest of ingredients.

Here is the chicken fully cooked and falling apart in its own juices. (start oven preheating to 350 f)

Shred up a few cups of it just using a fork

Add the can of cream of chicken soup.

Blanch and add half the bag of frozen chopped broccoli.

Add a few cups of cheddar (normally I have been liking to by brick and shred or chop my own but shredded was on sale so meh what eve) mix it all up and you are ready to move on.

Fill the middle of the dough with the mixture. (making sure to leave room at sides and ends of rectangle).

Use a knife and slice the edges like so about every 1'' to 1 1/2''

Fold in ends like so

Then take one strip from one side and wrap to other like so..

Then wrap one from other side like so and keep alternating just like that until you get to the end..

It will then look like this..

I sprinkled with a bit more cheese.

Bake at 350 f for 30-35 minutes and this lovely thing will come out.  Sometime you get some leakage like I did  if this bugs you take care to leave a bit of a gap between cut lines and filling during the process.  but this doesn't but us we just scoop up the spillage when we dish up.

It is soo yummy and cheesy and delish. 

I hope you guys like this and I hope you give it a try.  If you do please let me know how you like it :)

Have a good day guys.