Gradient Glitter Nails

Happy friday! I hope everyone is having a great day! Me? I get to go car shopping! It's exciting but annoying at the same time. I got in a wreck a few days ago (it was not my fault!) and fully paid off 2007 Toyota Yaris was completely totaled. I know sad day but, what can you do about it?

I was at my sisters house and she had the cutest gray gradient nails! I just had to replicate them (using different colors of course)

Anyway, with out further ado my gradient nails! For this project I used Orly Nail Laquer in Cotton Candy:

I also used Etude House Nail Polish (The white one):

I started with a base coat of the Orly Polish (two coats) and let them dry. I put a clear top coat on and let it dry completely! Next I put a thin coat of the Etude nail polish over all the nail. After that I went back and and just put a coat halfway up the nail (this is how you get the gradient effect). I think they turned out pretty good! 

After that dried I finished with a clear top coat! Try it yourself in different colors.

Sunday Funday Fashion Post

No, I don't have a fancy camera, maybe one day. But, if you love clothes and fashion as much as I do then it doesn't really matter does it?

Cardigan: Forever 21
Tank: Ross
Jeggings: Maurices
Bullet Necklace: Gift

Boots: Thrifted

Maybe one day i'll get rich and be able to afford the right equipment to make these post pretty. But, for now, this will have to do!

Happy Sunday 

Small Change

    As some of you know, my Husband, Mother-in-law, and I have started a small time vintage store:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Small-Change/368051516599774?fref=ts

   No, unfortunately we don't have a brick-and-mortar location or a real website, but it is still exciting none the less. One of the best parts is using it in your home until you find something even more interesting to replace it with.

   I've actually learned a lot about "junk", what's worthless, what's not-so-worthless, and what it's worth to other people. Some say things are worth what you are willing to pay for it. (But it's so much more fun to find it cheap!)

Take this little guy for example:

   We sold him for $75! The lady that bought him runs a store in uptown Dallas. So now she is selling him for $240!!!! I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw it. It just goes to show that if it's worth it to you, get it. 

   At the last sale we were at I fell completely in love with this rug. Thomas, not so much. Well, I waited too long to make a move and someone bought it out from underneath me. But then my eye hit that little jewel behind it. The blue rug was a $300 rug from Anthropologie (drool). I wanted it! She had $60 (and to be honest, I probably woud have bought it for that) but she sold it for $40! But to me, it was worth it! It all just depends on how you thing

I finally have a house and kept thinking to myself, how to have a grown up house, but not be boring?!

(I love my house!)

This is NOT a rhetorical question! It's simple. You have to learn to offset things. Place something grownup around something (you) might find fun and interesting!

   I find the best part of starting up this small business is finding pieces that are grownup AND fun! You get the best of both worlds. 

I want it all

There are so many cool blogs out there on decorating and designs. Maybe someday I will put my house on a blog because it looks neat. But, for now, i'll just envy others, like this bathroom:

'bout time

I am so very excited to finally start the "guts" of my musical. I had a very inspirational conversation with Ember yesterday. She wrote and produced "The Severed Kingdom", which is a folk/rock opera I was in a few months back.

It was such an amazing production that it inspired me to write my own. My plot is almost complete and I have two songs written. I have ideas for others but what I really need to do is just bite down and start writing everything down!

The plot is growing more everyday and I can't believe that I am making it happen!

I now leave you with this picture.  This picture is so you can grasp the "feel" of the musical...

- Amanda

slacker

ok, so, i've slacked off; a lot has been going on. the big thing right now is the opera that i was recently in. i met some awesome people and ignited my passion for theater again. and further more inspired me to write my OWN MUSICAL (whoa!).  This is something big for me because well, i don't read or write music. i do hear it, but this will be a challenge for me. but it is a challenge i am willing to face headstrong.

I've written a lot of scripts and plays for church and radio, all of which were family oriented. My musical will not be. This might be a challenge for other people that know me. I've never written anything over "PG" and some people might not expect that of me, however i've had this vision that i've been dying to put out there. only time can tell what will happen, but i've written my first song for it and i can't wait to write more.

Think "sweeney todd" meets "jack the ripper" meets "sense and sensibility".  It's very gothic victorian, (however i will take liberties on the time period) and has a very dark sense of humor.

Well, that's all i have for now here's my rough draft of the first song:

Stupid Girls

Stupid girls with their head so inflated and then

Just sitting, waiting, like a worm hooked and baited, and when

They were done and their lover was finished they knew

There wasn’t any chance, foolish romance, did what they wanted to and

When they were slaughtered, how precious their daughters

And when they are buried their bodies were carried

We plead in the nave while they rot in their graves

And, Oh, how foolish one can be

So Ignorant and naive

Intoxication has spread

Unfortunate since you’ll soon be dead

Stupid girls that boast for only one reason then just

Fertilizing seeds when the men are in season and thus

Judgment consumes emotional drama ensnares and then

They realize, all half truths and lies, now unavailable

Their destined to lose so enthralled in their muse

Live, laugh and procreate in time they disintegrate

No memory of them just pure amusement for him

And, Oh, how foolish one can be

So Ignorant and naive

Intoxication has spread

Unfortunate since you’ll soon be dead

Now in that last instance, they tremble in silence

Regret their decision, and beg for remission

They scream one last time, While In sync with the chime

But their bodies are found, in the dirt on the ground

And…

Oh, how foolish one can be

So Ignorant and naive

Intoxication has spread

Unfortunate since you’ll soon be dead

How foolish one can be

So Ignorant and naive

Intoxication has spread

Unfortunate since you’ll soon be dead

Copy Right 

Amanda Gish

a very merry steampunk christmas

as i have stated in my last post, this christmas i have decided to have a steampunk theme. here is my progress thus far:

 tree topper

 before 

 after