New Years Nails

"Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!" 

- William Arthur Ward

Two coats of Sinful Colors Black On Black then two coats of Elf Golden Goddess on my ring finger.

BBQ Chicken Wrap (TGI Fridays Style)

My husband, father-in-law and myself used to hang out at our local TGI Fridays every Sunday to watch football and I would pretty much always order their BBQ Chicken Wrap. Then one Sunday everything changed! They had totally revamped their menu (again) and dropped a bunch of their items which included my beloved BBQ Chicken Wrap....dun dun dun. Missing and craving the wrap I decided to try and make it at home and I have to say what I made tastes pretty close to the real thing and is probably a lot healthier, I am a happy camper once again!

Ingredients: wheat tortillas, skinless boneless chicken breast (cut into small chunks and cooked), sliced pickles (I used dill but bread and butter would taste great too), original BBQ sauce, Ranch dressing (fat free or light would be healthier but all I had at the time was buttermilk), lettuce and french fried onions. 

 I didn't use any measurements, I just put in as much or as little of the ingredients as I wanted. 

Preparation: Spread some of the BBQ sauce on one of the tortillas. Add some lettuce then some of the chicken chunks followed by some of the sliced pickles. Top with the french fried onions and roll up the tortilla like you would a burrito. (I like to dip the wrap in the Ranch but you could put the Ranch inside the wrap instead, this would probably be a little less messy.) 

Yummy! Makes me hungry just looking at it.

Merry Christmas To You And Yours!

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful." 

-Norman Vincent Peale

Fun Frosty Breakfast

Its Christmas Eve...yea! I cant believe that Christmas is tomorrow, where has this year gone? I am in such a festive mood that I made a fun winter breakfast for my family and myself.

In a pan I made a large circle pancake then poured a smaller circle pancake into the pan making sure they connected. After my snowman body was done cooking I plated it then sprinkled it with a bit of powdered sugar. I used chocolate chips for the eyes, smile and buttons. I added a bacon scarf and a raspberry nose and Frosty was finished. I sliced up a banana and made a candy cane out of some of the slices and some raspberries. My family loved it, it definitely got them into a Christmas mood!

Merry Christmas Eve!!!

Merry Movie Night...Santa Clause 3

"On the fifth night of Christmas Disney gave me....the Santa Clause 3 movie"

Dinner: We had Santa turkey burgers. I cut up some white cheese to form a beard and sideburns, black olives for eyes, ketchup for the nose and hat and mashed potatoes for the trim and ball on the hat. We had mashed potatoes on the side which represented snow once again.

And for dessert we had a nice cold glass of milk and Christmas tree cookies.

I hope that you enjoyed our Merry Movie Nights as much as we did. This is definitely a tradition that we are going to keep, it was great seeing my sons face light up with excitement every time I gave him his dinner and dessert. It was a wonderful way to bond with my son and it made us even more excited about Christmas. 

Merry Movie Night...Shrek The Halls

"On the fourth night of Christmas DreamWorks gave to me...the Shrek The Halls movie."

Dinner: Since Shrek loves to eat bugs we had caterpillar hot dogs (sliced hot dogs on a wooden skewer with black olive eyes and raw spaghetti legs) and ants on a log. We also had green macaroni and cheese (I made the mac and cheese then stirred in a little bit of green food coloring.)

And for dessert we had green vanilla pudding (also dyed with food coloring) with gooey gummy worms.

(P.S. Shrek The Halls will be on TV...on Christmas Eve night...on ABC)

Merry Movie Night...Polar Express

"On the third night of Christmas DreamWorks gave to me...the Polar Express movie."

Dinner: I made a bell out of a personal size cheese pizza and pepperoni that I cut to make all the shapes, I used green onion to make the little decorative bow. Using apple slices, grapes, sliced strawberries, banana chunks and tooth picks I made some fruit trains.

And for dessert we had some Pepperidge Farm Chessmen Christmas Cookies and a nice warm cup of hot coco topped with some marshmallows.

Merry Movie Night...Beauty And The Beast The Enchanted Christmas

"On the second night of Christmas Disney gave to me...Beauty And The Beast The Enchanted Christmas movie."

Dinner: Since Beauty And The Beast live in France I thought peanut butter stuffed crepes would be appropriate (here is a great French crepe recipe.) I served vanilla pudding on the side to represent snow and I topped that with a strawberry I cut to look like a rose. 

And for dessert we had some warm cinnamon apple spiced tea.

Merry Movie Night...Merry Madagascar

I wanted to start a new Christmas tradition with my son, something we can look forward to around this time a year for many years to come. What I came up with was Merry Movie Nights. Every Sunday morning, in December, before Christmas we will pick out a Christmas movie to watch together that night and I will come up with a themed dinner and a themed dessert for us to eat while we watch the movie. Sunday night was the first night of our new tradition and my son loved it! So without further adieu....here is the first Merry Movie:

"On the first night of Christmas DreamWorks gave to me...

the Merry Madagascar movie."

Dinner: We had chicken nuggets for Alex (Alex eats steak and sushi but my son doesn't care much for either so chicken it was), fruit for Gloria and I made some penguins to represent Kowalski, Skipper, Rico and Private (click here to find out how to make the penguins)

And for dessert we had some animal cookies.

We hope to see you back for our next Merry Movie Night!

Spicy Cinnamon Coffee

In October I am obsessed with everything pumpkin but once December hits its all about cinnamon and spice. Our house smells spicy all month long and everything I bake has to have cinnamon and other spicy ingredients in it. And of course my coffee flavoring changes from pumpkin spice to gingerbread and spicy cinnamon. I already posted the recipe for the gingerbread flavored coffee, you can go to that by clicking here, so today I thought I would post the recipe for the spicy cinnamon flavored coffee.

Ingredients

1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

1 1/2 teaspoon sugar

1 1/3 cup milk

A dash of cinnamon

A fresh brewed pot of coffee

Preparation

Mix milk, sugar, ginger and cinnamon in a pot. Just before this mixture starts to boil remove it from the heat. Pour yourself a mug of your fresh brewed coffee and stir in some of the milk mixture, the amount you add is totally up to you and your taste buds. Enjoy!

Holiday Nails

I decided last night that my nails needs some Christmas pizazz! Here is what I came up with:

I used Maybelline Express Finish in Plum Intense, Wet N Wild in 469, Sally Hansen in White On and tape.

I painted 2 coats of Plum Intense on each nail then painted over that with one coat of Wet N Wild. I let it dry completely then put a piece of tape just below the tip of each nail creating a line. I then painted the tips of my nails with White On and when it got tacky I took off the tape leaving a white French tip on each nail.

Crunchy Peanutnut Butter Cookies

My mom used to make these cookies around Christmas time every year and when she stopped making them my brother and I started. They are by far my all time FAVORITE treat to make and to eat. Since Christmas is only 9 days away I figured it was about time to whip up a batch.

Ingredients: 1 cup sugar, 1 cup light corn syrup, 1 1/2 cups crunchy peanut butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 6 cups Special K Original cereal.

Preparation: Stirring constantly bring the sugar and syrup to a boil in a large pot. Remove from heat and add the peanut butter and the vanilla. Blend well until smooth. Pour the Special K cereal into a large bowl then pour the hot peanut butter mixture over the cereal. Stir until everything is mixed well and the cereal is well coated. Let it cool for a bit, just long enough to where you can handle the mixture without burning your hands. After it has cooled grab small chunks of the mixture and roll them in your hands making little balls. Set on a plate to cool completely.

Depending on the size you make the balls the mixture should make about 4 dozen. That is it, they are now ready for you to enjoy.....and trust me you will enjoy them! 

Words don't even describe their deliciousness!

Hanging Holiday Cards

For as long as I can remember my mom would hang a string across the archway that led from our living room into our dinning room, this is where she would hang all the holiday cards we would get in the mail. I kept this tradition when I moved out into my own place but of course I had to put a little decorative spin on it. This is how I hang our holiday cards:

I hang a string across the wall and pin a red sparkly bow I bought from The Dollar Tree in the middle of the string. I hang our holiday cards on the string using clothes pins that I dyed using water and food coloring. I put a small amount of water in two separate bowls then add a couple drops of green food coloring in one bowl and a couple drops of red food coloring in the other. I put a couple clothes pins in each bowl and let them sit over night. I like the slight tint of color they have now.

Thrift Gift Tips

I am so excited that I am already done with ALL my Christmas shopping...go me! I'm even more excited by the fact that I didn't put us into debt doing it. Money is super tight for us right now, I'm sure a lot of people are in the same boat, and if it wasn't for thrift stores I don't think anyone would be getting much from us this year and that would break my heart because I love giving gifts. I know a lot of people are put off by thrift stores, I was at first, but after finding some amazing products for almost nothing at all I was hooked. I am now a huge thrift store shopper, my nick name has become The Queen Of Second Hand Shopping, and I hardly ever shop anywhere else (besides the grocery store of course.) Over time I have learned some tips and tricks to finding the best products for the best price and since Christmas is right around the corner I thought maybe I could help by sharing what I have learned.

15 Thrift Store Shopping Tips

1. Goodwill is my all time favorite thrift store but there are a lot more out there like Arc, The Salvation Army, Buffalo Exchange, Plato's Closet and Once Upon A Child. There are also tuns of personally owned thrift stores, just Google Thrift Stores in your town to find them.

2. Goodwill has a Facebook page and if you LIKE their page you will get updates on sales and coupons. Just make sure to LIKE the Goodwill page that is in your area. 

3. All my local Goodwill stores have a 50% off sale every other Saturday and this is the best deal ever. Everything in the store is 50% off besides blue and orange tags. (I went to their last 50% off sale and found almost everything on my list, I spent $30 and bought multiple gifts for 6 people.) The only problem is Goodwill does not have this sale in every state, this sale does not exist at the Goodwill stores in my home town, so go to http://www.goodwill.org/ put in your zip code and under each store address that comes up there will be a link to your local Goodwill store's website. You can search that site for their sales or you could call a store near you to see what sales they offer.

4. Goodwill also has a coupon called Make My Monday where you get 25% off everything you buy on select Monday's throughout the year. If you LIKE their Facebook page you will see an update on their page Monday morning about the coupon, you just click on the coupon link print it out and go shopping. My friend and I print out multiple coupons and hit multiple stores and get 25% off everything we buy at each store.

5. A lot of the thrift stores I have shopped at offer a military and a senior citizen discount, my local Goodwill stores offer 15% off every day for both military and senior citizens and every Wednesday senior citizens get 50% off at my favorite personally owned thrift store, so call your local thrift stores and find out if they have a discount and what day they offer it if they do.

6. One of the first things you should do after walking into a thrift store is look for signs telling you if a specific color is discounted that day. For example right now everything at my local Goodwill stores that is price marked with a pink tag is 50% off and at my favorite personally owned thrift store products marked with a green tag are 75% off, yellow tags are 50% off and white tags are 25% off. Getting any discount off already low prices is awesome.

7.  I am not sure if this goes for all the Goodwill stores in every state but my local Goodwill stores now have a Club Blue Rewards Card which gives me 20% off every time I spend over $25 which is pretty easy to do. That is another thing to check up on before you go shopping at your local Goodwill stores.

8. I have noticed that personally owned thrift stores do charge more for their products because they are trying to make a profit but they do have more name brand items then the thrift stores like Goodwill.

9. Before you go shopping know your brand names because if you find a Simply Vera Vera Wang shirt for $10 that is a steal but if you find a Faded Glory shirt for $10 that is a rip off.

10. If you find a product with a price tag still on it from the original store then this product has most likely never been used...duh. The Goodwill stores in my area get brand new products straight from Target so I can buy brand new clothes, bags and toys for more then half the price they sell it for at Target (these products are priced with a blue Goodwill price tag.)

11. I always take two trips around the store because they are constantly bringing new items onto the sales floor from their back room. If you see a rolling clothes hanger at the end of an isle the items on it are new items that are going to be put onto the clothes racks so these have not been picked through yet.

12. Dig! I have found some of the best products I have purchased under a heap of other items.

13. Inspect everything. I have not done this a few times and have been disappointed when I get home and find a large rip in a sweater or a pen mark on a jacket that I just bought.

14. Check the glass lock case first because this is where most of the expensive items are kept and if it is a 50% off sale day or something in this case is marked with that days 50% off color you can buy some extremely expensive things for almost nothing (for Father's Day I bought my dad a gold Citizen watch for $5.)

15. The very first thing you should do after walking into a thrift store is ask about their return policy because you don't want to spend money on something that doesn't work when you get it home and you are un able to return it, that would be frustrating! A lot of the personally owned thrift stores do not have a return policy so I am very weary to buy anything that plugs in or needs batteries. Goodwill however does have a return policy: items must be returned in 7 days of purchase, you must have the original receipt and the price tag must still be attached to the purchased item, you have to return the purchased item to the original store you purchased it at. Most stores do have open plugs where you can plug in items to see if they do work before you buy them but this is still pretty iffy.

Here are just some of exciting things I have made out with after thrift store shopping:

Jessica Simpson glasses in store $50+ bought for $2.00, POC glasses in store $250+ bought for $5.00, Smith glasses in store $100+ bought for $2.00

Kids Polo Shoes in store $50+ bought for $5.00

Coach shoes in store $90+ bought for $25.00

Red Aldo purse in store $40+ bought for $6.00, Balenciaga knock off real $1,545+ bought for $3.00, Green Sophia Caperelli purse in store $40+ bought for $6.00, black Simply Vera Vera Wang purse in store $100+ bought for $10.00

Simply Vera Vera Wang tank in store $40+ bought for $9.00

Thrift stores definitely have something for everyone: books, toys, clothes, shoes, tools, electronics, jewelry, purses, sports equipment, cooking wear, home decor.....the list goes on and on. And I have to admit that its a pretty great feeling walking out of the store with bags upon bags of fabulous items that hardly put a dent in my wallet. Thrift store shopping is pretty guilt free and pretty addictive, its amazing walking through a department store and seeing the same sweater you just bought for $2.00 on sale for $20.00 (it makes me go ha ha.) I think the best advice I have for you is don't knock it till you try it.

My Top 10 Christmas Movies

Since Christmas movies have began playing non stop on almost all the television channels I spend the little free time I have parked on my couch watching them....I love them so. The older movies remind me of my childhood and immediately put a huge smile on my face when they begin to play. I remember sitting on the couch in my parents living room glued to the TV watching Christmas movie after Christmas movie feeling the anticipation of Santa Clause's visit building up inside of me just like it was yesterday. Christmas movies are seriously one of the best parts of the holiday season for me.

Here is a list of my top 10 all time favorite Christmas movies: 

1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas

 2. A Christmas Carol

 3. It's A Wonderful Life

 4. Miracle Down Under

 5. The Santa Clause (1, 2 and 3)

 6. The Nightmare Before Christmas

 7. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

 8. Arthur Christmas

 9. Scrooged

 10. Elf

Delicious Cookie Dough

My friend came over for a movie night last night and I wanted to make us something sweet to munch on. So I searched my all time favorite website (Pinterest) for a yummy recipe. I came across this egg-less chocolate chip cookie dough originally from here. I love cookie dough, who doesn't, but I never really eat it raw because of the eggs so I really wanted to give this recipe a try. I ran out and bought the ingredients I needed then came home and whipped up a bowl......Oh My GoSh I'm In LoVe!!! This recipe is so awesome I had to share it!

Ingredients

3/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup softened butter

 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 cup milk
1 cup flour
A pinch of salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips

Mix the brown sugar and softened butter in a bowl until smooth. Then mix in the vanilla and milk followed by the flour, salt and chocolate chips. Mix until everything is well blended. Put in the fridge to chill. 

Heaven!

Gingerbread Coffee

Now that is it December I can admit that I am super excited for Christmas! I love everything about Christmas...the lights, the smells, the music...it all makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. So to start off my day the Christmas way I made a Gingerbread flavored coffee. It was so good and the smell totally gave me the warm and fuzzies.

 Ingredients

2 cups water

1 1/2 cups sugar

2 1/2 teaspoons ginger

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preperation

Stir all the ingredients into a medium pot and bring them to a boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for about 15 minutes, then take the pot off of the heat. After it all cools you can pour it into a seal able container and put it in the fridge.

I put about 2 tablespoons of the syrup I made into the bottom of my mug, then I poured in my HOT fresh brewed coffee. I then added some milk and stirred it all together.

Delicious Drink

This last week has been extremely long and busy! Between hosting Thanksgiving Dinner, my car totally dying and my husband having some health issues I haven't had a second to breath. Thankfully things are starting to slow down and I have decided that tonight I was going to relax and have some me time. So now that my two guys are in bed I am going to sit down and catch up on all my favorite shows, thank you DVR, and have a nice big glass of my favorite wine. I was never a wine lover until I discovered the Nehalem Bay Winery http://www.nehalembaywinery.com/. Most of their wines are so fruity and taste like juice....spiked juice. I introduced my husband to their wines a couple years ago and he was automatically hooked so every winter we order a case of all our favorite flavors. My all time favorite is Pacific Plum and my husband's is American Niagra but we also love the Apple Jack, Peach, Pear and Coastal Cranberry.

Tonight I poured myself a yummy glass of the Peach wine. To keep my wine cold I threw in some frozen red grapes, they work great and unlike ice cubes they don't melt and water down my tasty treat. 

I just wanted to share my Nehalem Bay wine obsession and my grape cube trick with you all. Now I'm off to watch Hart Of Dixie (Wade.....mMmMm!) Have a great night.

Happy Thanksgiving

Decorations For Thanksgiving Day

Like I said in my last blog I decorated our house for Thanksgiving Day since we are hosting this year. I didn't do much but I thought I would share what I did do with you. 

I put a fall table cloth on our table, since our table is so big the fall table cloth wouldn't cover the whole table so I put it on diagonally over the dark brown table cloth that is on the table all the time . I hung my Be Thankful banner that I made over the window

To make the "center piece" I used a fall colored round place mat, 4 different fall fake leaf bunches that I bought from The Dollar Tree, 3 glass candle holders and 3 tall red candles that I cut to make different heights (I bought them from The Dollar Tree as well.) A black napkin holder and black salt and pepper shakers.

For the center piece on the long counter top I used another fall colored place mat, a glass plate and rock set with 3 candles I bought from The Dollar Tree. I laid a fall fake leaf wreath that I bought from The Dollar Tree around the bottom of the glass plate. 

I stuck fall colored fake leaf bunches on top of our cabinets.

I also randomly placed fall colored fake leaf bunches around the house

I hung this little guy on our front door to great all our guests.

Be Thankful Banner

I don't really decorate for Thanksgiving and that's pretty much do to the fact that I have never really found Thanksgiving decorations in the stores, I feel like Thanksgiving gets jipped being the holiday stuck between Halloween and Christmas. But this year we are hosting Thanksgiving dinner so I thought decorations were a necessity. I went to The Dollar Tree and bought some of their fall decorations but again nothing to Thanksgivingish. So when I got home I decided to make a Thanksgiving banner to hang on our dinning room wall. Here is what I came up with:

Supplies: yellow and red and brown construction paper, a leaf stencil, letters that spell out BE THANKFUL (I traced them on my computer monitor from online), string, tape, glue and scissors.

I traced the leaf stencil onto each piece of construction paper then cut them all out, there were 10 leaves. I then cut out each letter and glued them onto the leaves making sure the colors were in a pattern. Then I taped the leaves onto a long piece of string. Its a great touch and its my only true Thanksgiving decoration.

Toddler Turkey Lunch

I really cant believe that Thanksgiving is only 3 days away, this year has flown by! Trying to get myself into a festive Thanksgiving Day zone I made my son a turkey lunch today. I thought it was cute and my son thought it was funny...it was also healthy which was a plus.

I made him a sandwich using wheat round sandwich slim bread. I rolled some cream cheese into two small balls then topped them with two tiny piece of black olives. I cut a beak and two little feet out of cheddar cheese and pealed a small piece of red apple skin to use as the gobbler. I then sliced up a red apple, green apple and a banana and alternated them making a turkey tail.

Gobble Gobble!

A Taste Of Twilight

I have a confession....I knew absolutely nothing about Twilight, the books or the movies, until one of my friends brought over Twilight and New Moon for our movie night about two and a half years ago. After watching both movies I was hooked! (I must of seriously been living under a rock because I don't know how I missed the Twilight bandwagon.) I ran out and bought all the books, which I read in just a few months...that is fast for me, watched Eclipse in the theater when they re released it on "Bella's birthday" and watched Breaking Dawn Part 1 a couple weeks after it came out...I was finally with it. And today, two days after it came out, I went and watched Breaking Dawn Part 2 with the friend that introduced me to Twilight two and a half years ago, fitting right?! All I can say is wow and oh my gosh, in my opinion it is the best Twilight movie out of all The Twilight Saga films. Like most Twilight fans I have become attached to all the characters so I am sad that its all over but I am so happy and excited by the way it ended. Leaving the theater was definitely bitter sweet.

Since Breaking Dawn Part 2 is the last Twilight movie I thought it would be appropriate and fun to have a little Twilight inspired pre movie get together.

Since each book cover is red, white and black I wanted to use those colors as my theme. I also wanted to take the cover art, the red apple, the white rose and the torn red ribbon, and use them as my decorations ( I didn't have a white or red chess piece so I figured the cover of the book would do.) I didn't want to put out to much figuring we would be getting things to munch on at the theater so all I served was red and white and black jelly beans, black and red licorice, red apple slices and of course red wine. 

Grimm Dinner

One of my favorite TV shows is Grimm, I love the dark take on the classic Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales. Plus the show is based and filmed in Oregon and I love everything Oregon since its my home away from home. If you have never seen the show click here to see what its all about. Tonight is the Fall finale of the show so of course me being me I wanted to make a Grimm themed dinner for myself and my family to eat while we watch the Fall finale episode tonight. Here is what I came up with:

Since Oregon is cold and wet 99% of the time I thought grilled cheese and tomato soup would be appropriate. I bought Tillamook cheese for the grilled cheese sandwiches since its made in Tillamook Oregon. I found a recipe for Homemade Tomato Soup in my Eating The Oregon Way cook book that I bought from Goodwill.          

 Recipe: 2 teaspoons finely chopped onion, 2 tablespoons butter or margarine, 2 1/2 tablespoons unbleached white flour, ground pepper, 3 cups tomato juice, 3 cups cold milk. Saute onion in butter then add flour and pepper. Cook until smooth and bubbly stirring constantly. Remove from heat and gradually stir in tomato juice. Bring to a boil stirring constantly, let it boil for about a minute. Stir the hot tomato mixture gradually into the cold milk then heat to serving temperature.

For dessert I thought a nice hot cup of Oregon Chai tea and sugar cookies would hit the spot. But keeping with the Grimm theme I cut the sugar cookie dough into little sword shapes then sprinkled a bit of cinnamon onto each of the sword handles. I baked the dough using the directions on the bag.

I bought Dead Guy Ale to drink with dinner which is Oregon Brewed at the Rogue Brewery in Newport Oregon. And to give the meal a little something extra I topped off the tomato soup with a piece of cheese cut into the shape of Oregon.

Of course I had to break out my brass knuckle mug to drink my Oregon Chai tea out of, it goes so well with my sword sugar cookies!

If you love Grimm like I do I hope that you find this idea fun, and if you haven't seen the show then check it out. It is entertaining to see a different take on some of my old favorite fairy tales....plus Monroe is awesomely funny!

Quick Quote Scarf

I love to personalize things, I love making them my own....making them one of a kind! So I took a plain boring scarf and made it my own by writing one of my all time favorite quotes on it. It was so quick and easy and now it is my favorite scarf to wear.

All I needed was a plain white scarf and a black Sharpie marker.

I laid out the scarf on my kitchen floor then tightly taped it down. With a piece of paper between the scarf and the floor I wrote my favorite quote on the scarf with the Sharpie marker. I let it dry over night then washed and dried the scarf the next day.

“Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” -Judith Thurman

Nature Fall Nails

I found inspiration for this design when I looked out my kitchen window and saw all the beautiful yellow, red and brown leaves blowing around in the crisp fall breeze.

I used Sally Hansen's White On, Sinful Colors Morning Breath, Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby, Revlon's Foxy and two small leaves. I painted two coats of Foxy on all my nails but my ring finger nails which I painted with two coats of White On.

I painted the tip of one of the leaves with Morning Breath and placed the painted part on my ring finger nail over the White On polish making a leaf imprint. I repeated this step with Ruby Ruby and Foxy.

Don't leave the leaf on your nail for to long or it will dry and wont come off.

After the leaf prints dried a bit I painted all my nails with a top coat.

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree."-Emily Bronte