Lookin' Like Christmas

It's going to be a busy day for me!  I've had one cup of coffee, but I have a feeling I'm going to need another cup before I really get going.  I'm not making much progress in my Christmas preparations and it's starting to stress me out a bit.  All I can do is take it one project at a time and hope that everything that needs to get done, gets done.  I have a week until my vacation and a week and a day until I get to see my mom and dad.  Luckily, I'm taking the day off before we leave so I can get everything ready without having to run around the (*very* early) morning we leave.

To try to get myself in the Christmas spirit, last week I did a Christmas-inspired water marble.  I've been on a water marble kick lately...this is my third in three weeks.  Just before this mani, I had to chop off all my nails because I broke one down to the skin.  I was afraid that the marbling wouldn't look as good on nubbins, but I think it turned out just fine.  Let's see what I did, shall we?

I started with two of my favorite Zoya colors: Lisa (bright glass-flecked red) and Ivanka (glass-flecked green).  I did a layer of Ivanka and then marbled on top of that.

I'm pretty disappointed with the quality of pictures I got with this water marble.  It was so pretty IRL, but you'd never know it with the pics I got.  It's hard to take good pictures with flash when it's pretty dark when I leave for work in the morning and already dark when I get home at night.  Anyway...this is my left hand, indoors with flash.

Outdoors in indirect light.  Gah!  Such bad pics.  This was so pretty - I got a TON of compliments with this mani.  I wore it for days, which is usually unheard of for me.  But for as busy as I've been lately, I'm lucky if I have time to change my mani every third or fourth day right now.

This is my right hand, indoors with flash.  I think my thumbs were my favorite this time, though it was hard to pick because they all came out so good.

I tried to get a good pic with all my fingers together, but it didn't turn out so good.  I need more practice and/or need to use a tripod more.  I guess you're just going to have to trust me that this was a good marble.  LOL  I've found that photographing sparkly polishes are hardest to capture.  I think I need to drag out find the manual to my camera - I'd probably learn a couple things!

Well, I'm off to get stuff done!  I have a list a mile long of things I'd like to accomplish today.  I wonder how far I'll get.  Has the Christmas spirit found YOU yet?