Holidaze... 4th of July in September!

I know, I know, it's way late, but I'm still playing a lot of catch-up from being gone so long. So anyway, over the 4th of July, I didn't have as much time to do a lot of celebratory manis, but I did manage one that I loved.  Let's see how it turned out!

Supernatural!

No, it's not ghosts, but it is a mani inspired by the supernatural. I wanted to try to find something a little less common, so rather than go with ghosts or haunting kinds of things, I went with something that was way supernatural in the past, but is kinda known nowadays. I chose St. Elmo's Fire, and tried to make it look like it was against the night sky.

St. Elmo’s fire sometimes looks similar to lightning but it is a separate meteorological phenomenon. Although called “fire,” St. Elmo’s fire is a luminous plasma that can glow a bright blue or violet. It can also appear like an eerie fire burning at the top of tall, pointed structures like ship masts or aircraft wings. It has also been reported on leaves, grass, and tips of cattle horns during a stampede.

Unlike the thunderous boom which follows lightning, St. Elmo’s fire can be heard “singing” on an aircraft’s radio, a frying hiss or buzzing sound running up and down the musical scale. It is often as a precursor to a lightning strike.

Sailors would regard St. Elmo’s fire with religious awe, an omen of heavenly intervention. It was named after St. Erasmus of Formiae, the patron saint of sailors. It has been recorded over the centuries, starting with the ancient Greeks, Julius Caesar, Columbus and Magellan. After Benjamin Franklin’s lightning rod, the phenomenon was seen more on land, sparking fear as the ghostly blue flames inspired stories of spirits and hauntings.

If you'd like to read more about it, and see some pictures, then just click on this sentence. Then, I'd love it if you'd check out my interpretation of St. Elmo's Fire on my nails.

Music!

So tonight I'm posting the mani inspired by a song. Hopefully we are safely home by now, although the weather reports were a bit scary, so we shall see. Anyway, I scheduled this just in case, so that I wouldn't miss out on a challenge post. I've only barely missed the deadline once, otherwise I've been getting these done every night. Pretty cool! So, let's see what song I chose to be inspired by, and how I worked that into nail art.

July is a hot month here.

Gee, am I a master of understatement or what? Actually, it wasn't terrible, all things considered. We did finally give in and put air conditioners in a couple windows July 5th, mostly because the dogs were getting a bit miserable. I suppose I would be too, if I were wearing a fur coat. So, we have cooler air in a couple rooms, and we can enjoy (HA!) the heat as we want. For now, though, let's enjoy some more pictures of polish.

Orange rhymes with... well, nothing.

Orange you glad I'm sharing these? *cackles* Sorry, I think I'm getting a little too wired up. Let's take a look at the oranges I got swatched.

April Showers Bring May Flowers. Or Not.

Since I'm still up after some impromptu training sessions with the dogs, I'll share the rest of April's pictures, and then I'm nearly caught up. Although I went on a swatching fest, so I'll have a LOT of pictures to share. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's just stick to looking at these for now.