Pre-Shark Week Weekend Highlights

     On this, the first full day of shark week (one of my favorite weeks of the year), let's just have a chill chat about the weekend. Here's the top 3 highlights of my weekend. 

1. I made this beautiful pizza. I rolled out and pre-baked the crust in the oven to give it some structure, then loaded up the toppings and handed it off to be grilled on the Big Green Egg. It got a little too dark on the bottom, but still. Look at this beauty. What a mess of delicious ingredients.

2. I sat glued to the tv whilst waiting to learn who the 12th Doctor of Doctor Who would be. I just typed and then deleted a whole paragraph of my thoughts on the pick, because I realized the last thing the internet needs is another nerd raving about Doctor Who.

3. I got a shark week themed manicure, courtesy of Amanda. I seriously love shark week. Sharks are my spirit animal, for I too like to roam about, terrifying beach-goers (I'm wicked pale, man) and eating anything I come across. It's a good life.

4th of July nail art!

     I love when a holiday rolls around and I get to paint a bunch of weird things on my nails. The whole ordeal ranges from meditative to cathartic for me, depending on whether it goes smoothly or ends up being super frustrating. This time it was a bit of each. Here's what I ended up with for my Independence Day nails! 

  

     I wanted to try a mix of patterns, so I went with a blue nail art stamp of stars over white for the pinky, silver, blue, white, and red (though you can't see it in this picture) fireworks over black with a sparkly top coat for the ring finger, red confetti glitter for the middle finger, and a red, silver and blue gradient on the pointer. I attempted red and white stripes on my thumb, but they were a bit of a hot mess, so I cropped that out for the sake of my own dignity. 

     But overall, I'd call this a success. I know it's a little wacky and over-the-top, but hey, that's my style. And if you're going to do a nutty manicure, it may as well be in celebration of America, right? 

"Is that Doctor Who? ...Is THAT Doctor Who?"

Someone really needs to hire me. I have way too much free time on my hands. It's getting dangerous. I did this Doctor Who manicure today just to test out some freehand nail art techniques. I've dabbled in stamping and various taping techniques, but never much in freehand nail art, so this is my first real attempt at it. And I'd say, considering that, it's not bad.

From thumb to pinky: Bad Wolf graffiti, galaxy, Dalek, Tardis, Bow Ties are Cool!

If you don't watch Doctor Who, you may have to do some quick googling of reference pictures to see what I was shooting for. So yeah! That's what I do in my free time, in case you were wondering. My life is exciting.

*Post title dedicated to Amanda, because every time she sees me watching Doctor Who she points at everyone on screen and says "Is that Doctor Who? What about that guy? Is THAT Doctor Who?"