Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Hello friends! ​

So I've been super, super busy this past week (which is why I haven't been around).  I'm working on a HUGE project and as the deadline is fast approaching, I have been finding less and less time for personal ventures.  But that being said, I really missed blogging!  It was something I looked forward to every day, and was sort of a challenge - which is a good thing for me!  So here I am, back for more.  

I think today I am going to take some time to work on uploading my portfolio.  It's something that has needed to happen for a really long time (over a year now), and I've just accumulated SO MUCH WORK.  How do you guys stay on top of keeping your portfolio fresh?  I'm thinking I might try saving web-ready files, and uploading as soon as I complete a project so that I'm never in a situation like this, where it's such a daunting task, again.  I really want to put everything up, because I have worked on so many projects that I am proud of.. But I feel like this relaunch is a chance for me to really edit my portfolio down to projects that really display my strengths, and the kind of clients that I want to attract.  So that's what I am up to today.  Sifting through my projects and figuring out how to organize them in a way that represents me, my work, and the clients that I want to work with.

​Should be an interesting afternoon I guess!

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NAIL ART: Coral & Black

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If you saw this week's COLOUR CRUSH​, you saw my Colour Me Coral post.  Continuing my adventures in nail art, here is a cute look for spring.  It reminds me of watermelons, and picnics, sunny days, and grassy lawns.  Mmmm.. springtime (and coral)! Yay!

I used two coats of the coral.  I love this colour, it's Essie's Tart Deco, which I thought was fitting because I picked it up in Miami.  I really, really wish I had gone on the art deco tour while I was there.

I then used tweezers to pick up the black studs, and placed three in a straight line down each of my nails.​

Added one coat of my top coat, and that's it! Super cute nails in no time at all.  I painted these guys right before eating some sushi (which coincidentally matched the colour of my nails).  Mmm.. sushi.

​USED: Essi Tart Deco , Nicole by OPI Top Coat Plus, black studs