Weekend Link Love

Enter the Apothica giveaway over at Lacquer Ware for Tips and Toes to score a $25 Apothica give card and some awesome lacquer swag!

Let them have Polish is celebrating 500 followers (yup...I'm a little jealous lol) with a great giveaway including Zoyas and a whole lotta filmo canes...if you're not sure what filmo canes are you should go check out the post! :)

If you are lusting for luxe polishes then look no further than Beauty Crazed...enter to win Dior, Chanel, and Yves...yes it is true :)


Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend. I am hitting the books pretty hard but hopefully I will be able to get in a couple posts this week. Thanks for sticking with me :)

Weekend Link Love

I know I am sooooo late getting my weekend link love post up but we have been out of town since Friday and just got home. While on the 6 hour drive I decided to catch up on my favorite blogs when I saw two posts I just had to share!

This one over at Scandalously Polished might just be the greatest idea since chocolate and peanut butter got together...and I seriously love me some Reese's! Anyway, Scandalous has this great idea for a "traveling box of international polishes" for those lacquer lovers that are stateside and haven't had the luxury of filling our polish stash to the brim with European beauties! If you're interested just shoot her an email. I most certainly did! :)

I also wanted to share with everyone the giveaway over at Hot Pink Aurora. I just discovered her blog after Google-ing Funky Finger's Sand and Stilettos after seeing it on Chloe's nails. I really like her blog and the fact that she is a new blogger like me (*edit* her blog is actually a little over a year old so I guess its newish...either way it ROCKS!) I wish her the best of luck and I have to tell her that I NEED that glitter...and everything else in the giveaway too lol :)

I hope everyone had a restful weekend. I have another week packed full of lovelies so thanks for reading and for your comments! :)

Current Giveaways!!!

I finally had time to create posts for next week so stayed tuned for a new post every day! And here's a little to keep you busy in the meantime...

Snag the new Zoya Intimate collection and some other goodies over at Scandalously Polished

Win a whole lotta pretties over at The PolishAholic

If you've been coveting the Katy Perry collection it could be yours at Beauty by Brittany 

Aaaaaand just for your entertainment...here is a pic of one of my dogs playing in the snow. He loves it...can you tell? :)

Just another random Monday...

MAN! This Monday was rough! Getting back into the swing of things after 4 days off last week was nothing short of painful! Luckily I came hope to a package from Beauty by Brittany with this lovely note and some fab polishes inside. I can't wait to show you all the pretties she sent me! :)

I also made an exciting/random find at Big Lots this afternoon while I was looking for inexpensive dog beds:

That's right...I bought 4 of them. And perplexed is what the lady at the check-out counter probably was when she rang these up. But at only $1 each I really couldn't pass them up. I bought one for me and 3 to share. Let me know if your interested :)

I also had to share this rant over at Let them have Polish about the new OPI Texas Collection. I saw these polishes in person at Ulta this weekend and I really couldn't have said it better myself! It's a travesty that OPI took their inspiration from something as colorful and diverse as Texas and gave us bland and boring!

And just to wrap up what has proven to be my most random post ever I want to give a shout-out and a big thank you to Beauty Shades for tagging me with the Beautiful Blogger award. 

 And here are the questions that come with this award:

 

1. When and how did you start your love of polish? My love of polish started back in high-school when I was on the swim team. When you're in a competitive sport where your only way to express yourself is a tiny swimsuit you have to get creative. My school colors were blue and gold and I loved to wear deep blue jellys with chunky gold glitters. 

2. If you could choose to do anything in the world what would it be? How can I possibly narrow this down? I would love to be on one of those quirky Travel Channel shows and travel the world, making real connections and friendships along the way.

3. What's your favorite love story? I hate to go all philosophical on you guys but the story about how this dude God "so loved the world that he gave his only son" is a pretty amazing love story.

As for tagging others I'm cheating and I'm gonna go ahead and say tag yourself! Thanks for bearing with me through my randomness. Back to polishes tomorrow I promise!

Oh what a night!

Everything was closed again today because of the ice so I actually had the time to do a WHOLE bunch of swatching. I was really excited to post the pics but unfortunately life had other plans. I just got back from the ER vet with my dachshund (Blitz). Earlier this evening I went to pick him up to snuggle on the couch with me when something in his back or leg must have pulled or twisted. He started crying and shaking violently and I started freaking out. We braved the ice to take him to the ER vet (which luckily is only a few miles from our house). He is drugged up now but the doc is talking like back surgery is in his near future. My dogs are my babies so my heart is breaking right now. I don't feel silly asking you to say a little prayer for Blitz tonight (if you're into that sort of thing) that all that's wrong is a pulled muscle and he won't have to have back surgery.

Blitz (the short-haired red) and Bailey (the long-haired creme)

The only good thing about tonight is that I actually won a giveaway over at Beauty by Brittany. I recently discovered her blog but I have really enjoyed reading it and seeing her beautiful pictures! And I love it even more now that I know we're both Texans! I'm pretty stoked about everything in her giveaway but I can't wait to see the the 2 MoodStruck color changing polishes and the KleanColor in Starry Purple looks right up my alley. Thank you Brittany for your amazing giveaway and for lifting my spirits tonight!

Twilight/Honey Coated Combo

Everything in the DFW area was closed today due to ice and snow so I had a chance to snap a picture of my manicure. Its 3 days old now but the tip wear is fairly minimal.

I'm really thinking about using my Sally Hansen Salon Effects in Blue Ice. It's an appropriate color for today now that I think about it! My husband and I are both stuck at home and starting to get stir crazy. I can only watch so much TV and there is a good chance we might be stuck at home again tomorrow! AHHHHHH! Any suggestions on how to keep ourselves entertained?

Also, be sure to visit Beauty by Brittany...today is the last day to enter her fabulous giveaway! I would LOVE to try out the color changing polishes from Mood Struck!