Disney Flair

Hey Girlies!

As you may or may not know, last month, my sweet husband and I finally went on our honeymoon (only 11 years late) to Disneyland!

Before we left, I spent a lot of time talking with my friend Victoria, who is a seasoned Disneyland veteran to get tips and advice.  One of the things she told me about was the pin trading program.  The way it works is that you get a lanyard and pins that you wear (it is recommended to get at least some that are on sale or that you don't mind parting with); when you see Disney cast member with pins ask to see them....if they have a pin you like, ask to trade....a Disney cast member MUST trade with you!!  It is awesome!  So much fun to keep pins on your radar and see all the really cool ones people have collected.  My lanyard was often a topic of conversation in line!  Even my husband got in on the fun!

First are close ups or my sweetie's pins:

Baby Aladdin (trade), Fire Dragon Mickey, Haunted Mansion Mickey, Peace Mickey

Star Wars Rebel Mickey, Star Wars Imperial Mickey, Donut Mickey, & Concrete Mickey (?-trade)

Watermelon Mickey (trade), Wall-E, and Earth Day Kermie!

Now for the close ups of mine:

Wedding Mickey & Minnie to commemorate our honeymoon trip

I love this limited edition one!  I love Sleeping Beauty and feel a stronger connection to it since Sam and I saw the Sleeping Beauty Ballet last year.  

This beauty commemorates the World of Color show (trade!)

“Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding, almost as though you sense a disquieting metamorphosis. Is this haunted room actually stretching? Or is it your imagination, hmm…?”

Squee!!  My favorite picture from the Haunted Mansion!  This version is starring Minnie!  

Then we have the secret host of the Matterhorn, Yeti!

I <3 this pin!  So sparkly and the Yeti slides up the pin like he's climbing the mountain!

I got this pin because it was an Alice pin and had the most characters on it of all the Alice pins...it also commemorates meeting Alice & The Mad Hatter at the park!

This was my 2nd time at Disneyland and my 1st on It's a Small World...let me just say, LOVE IT!!   So bright and sparkly and beautiful and I LOVED the addition of the Disney characters!

This beauty is like a fake snowglobe with giant blue hex glitter in it.

One of my absolute favorites!!  My pink sparkly dangly Pirates of the Caribbean pin!

Tink & Baby Cinderella (both trades)

Baby Tink & Snowflake Fauna (both trades)

Boo & Jiminy Cricket

Eve & Cheshire Cat 

This super sparkly Mickey is in honor of the gorgeous earring and necklace set Sam got my as a gift for our anniversary last year (it was a teaser for our honeymoon trip)

Last but not least, a 2011 with Tink.

Have you been to Disneyland?  Have you ever participated in the pin trading?

ROTD! (I'm a nerd edition)

My first Ring of the Day!!

I love rings!!  I have quite a few and decided to share some of my favorites.

Today's ring is special.  In honor of the release of the Green Lantern I am wearing my Green Lantern ring.  My sweetie knows what a nerd I am and picked me up one from Floating World Comics in Portland last summer.  A few months later, I got the whole set of lantern rings from the Beaverton Things From Another World store.  (Thanks James!)

*I do have to note that the rings are HUGE!!  I wrapped masking tape around the the base of the ring until it fits comfortably.  The tape is only visible on the palm of my hand of the profile of my finger....no bigs deals.*

To coordinate with my Green Lantern ring, I am also wearing the green Mickey ring I ordered when we got back from our Disneyland honeymoon.  I bought a pink one at the park and loved it so much I had them send me the other 5 colors when I got home.

Hopefully, I will get a chance to see the Green Lantern this weekend with at least 2 of my boys (our youngest doesn't usually like to go to the theater, but will make exceptions for certain movies).

Random Recent Hauls

Hey Girlies!

I've gotten a little backlogged with successful polish hunts recently, so I've decided to purge several at once...here goes:

First a couple of dusties purchased from a salon in Cedar Hills Crossing:

China Glaze Pom Pom & China Glaze Cosmic

Both these shades are from China Glaze's Specialty Collection.....one of my favorite collections of all time!

The next 2 were purchased at Fred Meyer's.

LA Splash Baby Octopus

I love the pretty rainbows!!  Dancing prisms always remind me of Pollyanna!

My last Revlon scented polish!  Somehow I never got Pretty in Papaya, so I fixed that.  I have all the Revlon scented polishes so far with the exception of the beach and ocean scented ones....I love Strawberry Shortcake dolls and scented markers not the scented stickers of bizarre things!

From a different Fred Meyer's we have another LA Splash.

LA Splash Embellished

Absolutely breathtaking.  The swatch is droolworthy!

The next 2 are from Ulta:

Essence Irreplaceable & OPI DS Jewel

Both these polishes are incredibly hard to photograph.  Jewel is almost a wine color with an olive gold duochrome to it and Irreplaceable is a very light beige with subtle gold shimmer throughout.  

Another day at Ulta:

I picked up Essence Where Is The Party? 

a very pretty purple to teal to green multichrome

My first Glam Slam duo!  OPI Spark De Triomphe & OPI White Shatter

and Glam Slam duo #2 OPI Rally Pretty Pink and OPI Red Shatter

From Sally Beauty Supply:

Finger Paints Art You Wondering? & Finger Paints Purple Palette

From Target:

Sally Hansen In The Spotlight & Sally Hansen Snappy Sprinkles

From Fred Meyer's:

OPI Not Like the Movies & OPI Teenage Dream

OPI Last Friday Night & OPI The One That Got Away

Along with OPI black shatter, these colors make up the OPI Katy Perry collection

From Ulta:

OPI Skull and Glossbones & OPI Steady as She Roes

OPI Planks a Lot & OPI Sparrow Me the Drama

OPI Stranger Tides & OPI Mermaid's Tears

together with OPI Silver Shatter these colors make up the OPI Pirates of the Caribbean collection

Whew!!  That feel like a huge load off my mind!  More detailed reviews and swatches to come.

Brand Spotlight: ?

Hi Girlies!

Today is the first of my Brand Spotlights.  This one is a little different.  They are the polishes I cannot figure out what brand they are.

The first group contains some of my oldest polishes.  I think I remember buying this at a KMart type store years and years ago....honestly I bought it mostly for the cute wire rack the polishes came in.  It is still a cute rack, but my polish collection is so huge, I am thinking of selling the rack either at a garage or blog sale.

Here they all are together

No brand and no polish names either...

Not a bad collection of colors, but honestly thinking about putting these at the top of my list for what I'm hoping will be the 2012 Zoya Earth Day Exchange.

When do you think it's time to let a polish go?

The second group I don't think I will ever let go.  Again some of my oldest polishes.

The first 2 are nameless glitters my mom gave me for my birthday probably 8 or 9 years ago.  They looked like they had been clearance (there was a red ink line through the UPC and 1.47 handwritten).  The first is a pretty blue heart shaped glitter and the second (which I hadn't used until this year) is a coral flakie glitter! 

The last one is a Chocolate scented glitter I bought from Emporium for my high school senior pictures (wow...that was a long time ago!).  It has brown and gold glitter and is quite pretty.

Updated to include close up pic of Chocolate Glitter