Kewtorial : Delish Ring Display

 In this kewtorial I'll show you how to make a fabulous display for your rings. I got this idea cuz I kept taking my rings off & putting them on the larger paintbrushes drying in cups all around my sink. Eventually one of my useless waffle cone cups filled with Hello Kitty pens wandered to the sink & I kinda thoughtlessly stuck my smoothie straw from breakfast into it and °*°P0P°*° I got this idear & tweeted it to myself right away so I wouldn't forget.

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All you need is: 

*One Fun Cup*
I got these cups that look like waffle cones yeears ago and they were totes cheap. If you put ice cream in them (and I did) the plastic just breaks, so they've been pretty useless up til now. The only places I go regularly are craft stores like Hobby Lobby & Michaels & Target and Wal Mart; I'm sure you can find some. If not, then there's tons o cute cups fur super cheap jus perf for deco-ing.
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*Straws*
At K Mart I found these large ones that look like the ones that come with bubble tea. You can also re-use bubble tea straws if you happen to drink it..or Unforked has clear striped ones, but I'm purty shore ours is the only unforked anywhere.

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*Frosting*
I gave this Whipple stuff a try. I had to tape my own cake tip onto it since I only got a refill. Get a whiff of whipple and your eyes will water! It smells so toxic;D I'm sure all the foreign language on the frosting bag is warning you not to eat it. I have no idea what it is, but it smells toxic as fugg! ^-* trust me-you won't want to eat it. It works well enough-dries fully & is firm in 2 days. I have no deco skills and I let a bunch of whipple dry in my tip, then chipped it out so I could use this for this project days after I first opened it. Plus doin anything like this my hands shake a lot, so keep that in mind....whipple whill look better in the hands of almost anyone else. If you don't have whipple there's plenty of info out there for making deco frosting, so ask google.

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*Hot Glue*
This hot glue mat is my best frind~!~not sure where I got it, but all the cooled glue comes right off and I can just toss the gun down and place the stuff I need glued without havin to worry about setting it upright (which is maybe not such a chore to normal peeples, but is to me)

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Decide how you want your display to look. Since this is a display you'll want to position your straws next to each other toward the back of your cup. My cup deffy has a front, cuz the cone shape overlaps and it's way lower at that point. If they're makin like a triangle shape when you draw imaginary lines bettwixt them when viewed from above then your display won't really have a display side and non-display side and is more likely to stick out obnoxiously from your shelf. If  you like it that way, then fine: you've been warned.

Here you can see how I've glued my straws with the left one in the very bottom and the other 2 kind of moved up a lil & fanned out from that first one. I applied hot glue to each straw then set it where I wanted it in my cup one at a time. As you can see the straws are touching in the bottom of the cup & well spaced at the top.

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The straws are kinda thin, so don't poke the hot glue onto them...just squeeze out a nice dollop onto the straw and press into place on your cup. I positioned my hot glue at about the halfway mark of my cup.

 

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Add some cute beads or little toys for xxkewtxx factor of your display. It *is* optional, but this way even when you're wearing most of your rings you'll still have a totes adorbz display piece. I threw this one togevs in 10 minutes with stuff I had handy, but I've got more cups & will better execute my kewt-a-DIY-in' in da future.

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The last thing I did was frost the rim of my cup. I don't even mind that it looks messy; I think it looks more like real whipped topping on a cold ice creamy treat`kinda melty & swirled around.

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Let the the whipple frosting dry for a couple of days, then stack your rings on the straws*&*enjoy*!*

~*My Galibardy Favorites*~

I think wearing these with my Hellbounds & vintage nightgowns would be perfection.

~♥~*Thriftday the 16th*~♥~

If anybody asked me why I go thrifting or what it is I hope to find by shopping at second hand stores I'd have A LOT of reply....

Today I found every. single. thing. that I ever intend to find, EVER!

 These are glamazing dolls(Frankie's shoe heels are scissors!) & they have poems too!
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I have a bigger, less plush Cheer Bear, so I left her for another sweety to find.
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 My mommy made me a Minnie Mouse costume when I was four.
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 They're Rivals(i put em togevs)
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 I love vintage spandex

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  he immediately said, "you're getting that!"
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 I have the profile of a Monster High doll =p

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 If Lexi hadn't told me they existed I'd never of thot to take that bear to the window, then into the dark ^-^
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 Candy color shoes, G1 Soda Sippin MLP, Moondreamer, Darkwing Duck SET, beddy bye cat dolls, pink guns
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 Kitten purse, pink TY pony, Ice Cream Truck purse, cupcake squinkie machine, anatomical horse
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 Perfuckt floral 90's dress, wide white belt,Barbie purse w/frill trim, 2zips & vinyl pocket & heart cutout
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 Lav/Wht Stripey, pink metallic pressed details, lt pnk metallic, holo silver, holo silver hearts belts
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                                              ~*I been had thrifthaul*~


There's more than what's in these pictures(getting cleaned), but I'm pretty sure this is enuff to blow your mind.

It certainly blows *my* mind. I mean, I expect the world to piece itself together all around me, but today was beyond anything I've experienced. In a few hours I had found so much & had such a fun time it seemed like 10 hours had gone by. We got home at 2:30.

I wish I could end this day with a smaching slumburr party, but all my girlyfrins live far from me. So y'all pretend we made cotton candy, got smashed on marshmallow & whipped cream vodka, had a (cheepo)cream soda fight in the backyard, and then made schtuffs all the while talking over a marathon of the best movies evah.

Okay, so leave comments*&*tell me what snack, what stuffed aminal or doll, and what fave movie you wanna bring to share/watch at our slumbur partay.

Snack: vegan GlutenFree s'mores pops (sugar *&&&* fire)
~Stuffed Animal: Penelope my purple dinosaur (cuz she a party dino)
~~Movie: Fern Gully

Grape Icee Drip Tip Nail Art

What I used for this look:

OPI Natural Nail Base Coat

Sinful Colors Purple Diamond (a very sheer lavender glitter)

Revlon Scented Grape Icy (thin consistency nearly neon purple)

Sally Hansen Complete Manicure Yellow Kitty (thick consistency soft yellow)

Glow in the Dark Nail Polish (it has glitter and I'd prefer it to not, but it's the only GID I have)

Revlon Extra Life No Chip Top Coat

Size 3 small round synthetic paintbrush

Start with your base coat.

Apply 2 coats of Purple Diamond ( allow 1st coat to dry before applying 2nd)

Let dry.

Then take Grape Icy and let the excess drip off the brush so there is just enough to cover your nail making this first layer pretty sheer. When the first layer is dry add your second layer being a bit more generous with the amount of polish on your brush..just barely dangling off the brush, not dripping.

You can stop here and apply top coat once dry to get deelish ice slushee nails. The glitter underneath the Grape Icy shows thru and it's just like looking down into a cup of your favee ice slushee treat. The scented nail polish makes it smell like the real thing, too.

I want my nails to be ever so slightly Halloween inspiring, so I put pastel yellow slime drips on my nail tips.

Purple with black, orange, red, or green seemed like it'd be too spooky. And I've already done pink, hot pink, and seafoam green. So this time I offfset a bright purple with a complimentary pastel yellow.

Here's how ^-*

We're still putting nail polish on, so I used a thickish layer of BASE coat on my slushee nails and let it dry.

Now you need Yellow Kitty(or your color of choice) and your small round paintbrush.

Either dip your paintbrush into the bottle or allow excess polish from the built-in brush to drip onto it. Keep in mind the first dot on your nail will be about the same size as the dollop on your brush.

Decide where you want the drip to be and apply the polish to your nail with a light dotting motion. For a look like mine(on shorter nails)  visualize a horizontal line across the middle of your nail and place the longest drip just above that. Now when you put more drips on one fingernail you'll get a great look just by making each of them shorter than the first one.

One or two bobs of the brush should be sufficient to get a sizable glob from the brush onto your fingernail. If you've got a nice rounded glob in one bob, then do the next step. If you need more nail polish then quickly get a round glob on your brush and apply it to your too small dot using light pressure. You don't want to push on the nail's surface. Putting wet nail polish on dry nail polish will soften that already dry layer and we don't want to smear the purple when we drag the brush upward.

Quickly drag the paintbrush's tip from the middle of your glob to the end of your fingernail, then pull the yellow polish to the left and right covering the tip. Now that the polish has been further spread out on your nail it should look less globby, more flat.

If not then you probably have enough nail polish to add an adjoining drip (or two) to your first one. Or if excess is mostly on the tip of your nail you can create more lines by pulling down lines from your tips. If you do this, then it's best to leave them as lines ( don't try to make a bottom drip with the excess unless there's a rounded glob still on your paint brush tip) and get a smaller amount of polish from the bottle/brush and make a dot at the end of the line you made and pull up to join the new dot to the line.

Dotting on the ends of your slime drips is the best way to make sure they stay nice and round. You may need to wipe the paintbrush off as polish builds up. The larger the brush the larger the dot on your nail and the drying nail polish build up basically makes the brush larger as you go.

For my right pinkie nails falling drip I took the smallest dobby I could get from the bottle and in one dab right on the midway line instead of above it I put the glob on my nail and pulled it upward, just not all the way to the tip.

*!*Apply top coat and enjoi*!*

You can stop here and have B0MB drippy nails.

...OR...

You can put your glow in the dark nail polish to good use & make glowing, black lite reactive drips. Yawp~I'm goin all out to the strat-o-sphere with this *!*

Since the drips have a bit of relief from the surface of your nail it's pretty easy to put the GID polish on just them. My GID polish is really thin and lightly glittery with a very fine glitter and it's pink in the bottle, but it'd take 4-6 coats to get it lookin pink like that, so with one thin coat it's basically just adding the glow and a tiny bit of glitter. I wiped most of the polish off the brush before applying it to my drips and actually tried to get as little glitter as possible with each dip.

This particular Glow in the Dark polish glows in the dark for like 2 seconds at most, so don't get GID polish that looks like this bottle if you want your nails to glow in the dark and not just under black light. =p Tis cheap, no brand, and I'm looking forward to Halloween for lyke a hundred reasons, but *one* of those reason is to get oodles of new polishes. ^-*


~*Here's what they look like with the lights out*~


~*Here they are under black lite*!*~



~*Nobody outglows Rarity, teehee, but I absoluv my nails*!*~

~*T!P*~ run your paintbrush under hot hot water to soften the polish, then clean with a non-acetone nail polish remover~*T!P*~


Let me know how you like this tutorial and show me your drippy nails*!*

P.S. : If you're wondering how me, myself, and I managed to pull this off considering my disability stay tuned to my livejournal

*♡ミVoodoodall Got Me PINK Prezzies♡ミ

I didn't fall asleep til around 9 this morning, so I just woke up at 7pm.

To treatZs*!*

~*I see my favorite colors*!*~

 ~*OMG~absoLUV lace*~

~*This new bag is both adorbz*&*recylclable*!* VS proves that an eco friendly bag doesn't have to be a drag*~

My baby's the best*!*. I was totes a wreck all yesterday, cuz I had plans to see my friend while she was in town for her birthday. But yesterday on top of headache and fattygoo I was also nauseous, so couldn't go. This orange sherbet color makes me so happy*&*these lavender lace back panties with purple zebra stripeys are the best. This evening I started my day with smiles & hugs for my Seany~the best boyfrin ever*!*

I Choose Not To Poison Myself- Truth about Soy and Milk

Sick of Soy propaganda.
Reasons to Not Drink Delicious Soy Milk:
Soy is a major GMO; right up there with corn.
Soy disrupts hormone balance and contributes to thyroid disorder and estrogen dominant cancer.
When soy is processed it liberalizes MSG; an excitotoxin that damages the brain.

I fail to see how the Shatto having residual phosphatase is bad. From what I understand this fact is letting us know that even tho Shatto is pasteurized it still shares it's chemical structure with raw milk. Dangerous pathogens die off at lower temps than does phosphotase.

What the Disinformation Dissemination Corporation, ABC, Isn't Broadcasting

The healthy normal human body is not built to consume dairy/milk. Every optimally healthy adult should not be able to digest it. Isn't age five THE limit for dairy? Beyond childhood the body stops making the digestive enzyme, lactase, to process that particular sugar, lactose. If you can handle dairy don't give yourself a round of applause; you're genetically abnormal. You're in the minority( less than half the people of earth are lactose tolerant) and just becuz you *can* consume dairy does not mean you should. It's hard on your digestive system and slows your metabolism.

Coconut or almond milk will effectively stand in for cow milk & soy milk in every recipe I've tried it in. They are both, also, really delicious beverages.

New My Little Pony Toys at Target

Nostalgia: What It Is & What To Do With It

Watching TV & movies has cast a clear reflection of my past. I'm often confronted with difficult emotions regarding the loss of what I thought to be the greatest friendship. Lately it's been walloping me upside the head more than has been typical in the years I've been dealing with this loss.

Thinking of the past, good times and bad, I can't help but get nostalgic. So, naturally, I set my mind to the task of rationalizing my emotions. When functioning at even half capacity my mind is more whole than most. I'm not bragging: it rather sucks.

But this time it worked in my favor. And when I found answers via the www they were only confirmations of my instincts or suspicions. See, when I thought of the word, "nostalgia", I felt a weight: it was moving me out of my present. Present is home to me. The word, nostalgia, caused an ache within me. Turns out nostalgia is a compound of two Greek words, meaning...homecoming and pain/ache.

Ah~ha! We bandy the word about not even realizing it binds us to a deep emotional trauma. The word binds home, that which we inhabit, to pain. Ultimately we inhabit the present, so it's clear to me, via the Greek word, nostos, denoting action or journey,  when we embrace of the word " nostalgia" this moves us to an energetic space of pain we associate with our past. Here is where it may get tricky.

The past and present are illusion. Time and space are conditions we agree upon as a consciousness. There is actually only the present. So even though an emotion seems to dredge up our past, it's really only making us aware of another present. Do you follow? All experiences are eternal and infinite. Our memories; what we recall and the flavors we assign to those experiences dictate who we are as a person. We are under the assumption that the past cannot be changed, yet even within the confines of our limited time space the mind can quite logically conclude that seeing as how the past is happening now, simultaneously with our present, we are able to change the way we felt about previous experiences.

Conversely, as you went about your life in the past you were also subconsciously aware of your future self and future experiences, so your memory of events was auspiciously selective.

What does all this past, present, future talk have to do with the price of tea in China?

Well, do you ever feel closer to your past than when you are feeling nostalgic? I know I sure don't. It's like it happened yesterday. Perhaps, like me, you wonder why you remember these things at all, whether fondly or regretfully.  I am often lamenting this current fact of nostalgia; all the while admonishing myself becuz I know the past is gone and I can't go relive it again. Even if I wanted to I cannot recreate the exact experience I've held in my memory.

So I'm left feeling as if I've just tried to take a step up the evolutionary ladder only to slip on the rung and fall off the freaking ladder completely. I question, "why must this pain from the past be so present? and what did I do to summon it?!"

Answer: Well if I wish to release a hurt from my energetic being I have to pick it up and move it. If it's at arms' distance where I'm more comfy with it, then I'm just letting it still be part of me. I sure don't want to hang onto lower vibratory resonances that are in stark contrast to that which I desire and attract to myself consciously. It's bubbled up cuz it's time to heal.

It might not be a simple dusting of your mental cobwebs & kiss upon your heart sores, then wa~lah! you're right as rain. The change may be incremental, but it is change no less.

You're able to transform a memory by allowing yourself to feel it. All you need to do is to recognize what the purpose of nostalgia is. Words are woven intention and the most benevolent utilization of this language of ours ( handed down to us thru the ages ) is self-healing.

Reality is always a reflection of you. Your self, your energy, pours through time and space to create all experiences, past/present/future. Eschew ideation of guilt: self love and self healing is the greatest gift you can give to the world we all share.

So, let us all use this word with awareness of its magic and let us recognize our innate ability to transmute energy from low frequencies of sorrow, pain, fear to the higher frequency of unconditional love.

How?
When that feeling of nostalgia comes over you embrace that you are now inhabiting your past and present at once.

To deny, ignore, or become angry about your state would only serve to strengthen or expand the very energy you don't want to be feeling anymore.

Ask yourself why this feeling has come up. Be patient with yourself if you feel as though this is re-hash. It may be, but that's because you missed etwas the first or tenth time around. Had you learned all you wanted or needed to know from that experience you'd not be feeling this way. If you're really sure you're not getting anything out of it then I suggest you use EFT to clear unwanted energies that may have become blocked.

If it helps use your logical mind to work through this all. The mind cannot get us to unity, but we need to use it along the way. I've laid it out as clearly as I can here, but feel free to ask me to extrapolate.

We have the gift of perspective and our open mind can more readily view any given circumstance from a slightly different angle.

For me, personally, this time I thought of what our friendship was like for my best friend. Put myself in her shoes as best I can. She had many friends and unlike me wasn't lonely or alone when our contact with one another ebbed. I didn't offer myself to her, often keeping insights and opinions to myself, in the way I did (the way she found offensive)recently. And I wonder what she recalls of me...like did I even cry in front of her when we were both sober? Remember, it doesn't matter if in my mind I did or didn't. Her perspective and opinion of me is based upon what she recalls of our time together. I think that she was probably aware of my manipulative nature. I had thought stating the fact(often) that I am utterly insane and faking it really well for the world was enough to convey that idea to her. But looking back now I recall how she rolled her eyes when I claimed to be nuts. Seems like the cushion I was trying to give her to soften the blow of our future interactions was ignored. I'd like to ask if I was a poor friend and if so, then how? I felt I was fun, interesting, and as honest as I could be with shadows pulled up around me. It'd help me to be part of the human race, but that is not as yet happening. Maybe, though, the person I thought she was never even existed...simply becuz she recalled or didn't recall certain things (ahem, drug use/blackouts) or she just felt differently about our shared experiences than I did.

My fond memories of Tracee are not many. What is clear is crystal and much more is muddy. I see that at the time I was forming those memories (in my past) I was believing there would be, could be no other friendship as meaningful to me as that one with Tracee. Now I know that's not at all the case, so maybe my mind won't feel the need cling so tightly to those memories.

The magic of nostalgia has brought me to this collection of experiences and since I am aware that I'm there to learn, to learn to let go, to heal the pain I am able to examine not just my memories, but the manner in which further past and future contributed to the creation of them.

After looking at it from different perspectives I can contribute new or different energy to the memory & since we are very much the sum of our respective perceptive stored and shared experiences my memory changes then and now and in the future. I am able to more fully love the way things unfolded and love is the most powerful creative force extant. Being in the past & aware it is my present I know that I gave love and forgiveness and that my memory will be forever changed by being brought out of the shadows.

Honestly, I don't feel awesome about the whole thing. I feel like I've let go and healed. How much; time will tell. Maybe for awhile I'll stop crying every week or thinking about her every day...or maybe I just won't need to cling to her as the sole evidence of my humanity. After all, now I have friends and my best friend is my boyfriend. I'll maybe not ever know if or how I was a bad friend to her, but if I was a good one, from her perspective, then she prolly wouldn't have abandoned me. If I was the me I am now then it'd be different. I like to think that this love and light version of me was present for brief shining moments in my past. It doesn't really matter if they are or they are not though.

I am who I am now. I love who I am now. The other me was so that I may know the dark and I thank it truly for without it I would not fully know the light.

~*and so it is*~
Mindy

Mayan Tzolkin: 9 Wind. Oh gawd, this never fails to amaze me! Nine is patience & Wind is actually Tracee's sun sign.

http://www.mayanmajix.com/TZOLKIN/DT/DT.html

It says exactlay this:
"The energy of Nine is one of getting a better perspective of the bigger picture. With the energy of Nine plans or patterns begin to come to completion. Nine requires patience and perseverance that is found in the bigger picture, otherwise there is great suffering from the lack of insight. The completion of cycles of action is all-important to Nine.