Photo excursion - Sculpture by the Sea 2012

Yay! Made it to Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe beach yesterday...lugged a macro lense with me because I wanted a different, narrowed take on the sculptures. 

Check out the Sculpture by the Sea website to get the big picture :)

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Double, double toil and trouble

...fire burn, and cauldron bubble - Macbeth Act IV, Scene I

I've been digging Milani's gold lacquer recently; it has large chunks of hexagonal glitters swimming in clear polish. Shakespeare popped into my mind yesterday so I decided to team Butter London's Macbeth with gold french tips. 

This is the first time I've used the glitter as tips and it's really fiddly; I ended up getting too much clear polish on the tips, just to get the amount of glitter that I want. Me likey a lot, but I don't know if I'll be doing this very often :S

I forgot that I had to stock shelves later that day and by the end of it, my nails were a mess. So there I was at 11pm peeling off what's left of the gold bits. 

What does one then do with half-painted nails? One slaps on something dark and mysterious. OPI comes to the rescue with its blue-black shade. 

The nail guide strips go on again...

And my nails are fixed...

...just in time for getting snap-happy at Sculpture by the Sea the next morning :)

I used:

Manicare All-In-One (as base and top coats)

Butter London - Macbeth

OPI - Yoga-ta Get This Blue

Milani - Jewel FX Gold

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ARRRR!

I love Pirates of the Caribbean. 
I especially love Captain Jack Sparrow's wit and charm.

And now I've totally taken notice of the movie's theme song. 

Came across this video the other day; my jaw dropped and my heart stopped. Mind-blowingly amazing. My favourite comment on the video - "his ass plays better than me". You'll see ...



I was so amazed by this that I couldn't wait to try it out myself. So I put this video on loop for ages, then paused and played it repeatedly in order to learn it by ear. I also found the option to play it in slow mo. Total godsend. Seriously, why have I never learned songs this way? The visual really sped up the learning process. Fully recommend it.

I managed to get to the 1 minute mark and I really don't have the energy to go any further without piano scores. So here is my attempt at half the song...obviously I didn't hit as many notes as Radnich did, but I enjoyed playing it at speed. Mum always said that I play the piano as if I'm chasing a train :D




There are a few sticking keys, very frustrating. The paddle also makes a clicking sound so I sprayed it with WD-40, which in hindsight, I shouldn't have done. hmm.

I'd gladly offer piano notes to those wanting to try my version of the song, but this is all I got. *ahem* *sideway glance*

I was never a fan of music theory, the stave, notations and such.

So if anyone knows anyone who knows anyone who might have the piano scores, may I please have a copy?

: )

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Lilac nails!

Yay, public holiday, a day to devote to creativity :) Thanks to Pinterest, I've had ideas galore for my nails and here's one of them.

With my most recent drugstore find, a pretty shade of lilac, I thought I'd amp it up just a little using a dark purple shade. 

1. One layer of base coat
2. Two light coats of lilac 
3. Dark purple polish painted freehand and cleaned up with corrector pen
4. One layer of top coat

This'll add some fun to the work week ahead!

I used:

Manicare All-In-One

Manicare Nail Enamel Corrector Pen

Natio Dazzling Lilac

Nine West Shade 317

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