I needed to not feel (or look) like I have a FOURTEEN YEAR OLD kid.
I feel pretty today.
Category Archives: Work
Today is a good skin day
These days use to be rare but I feel like they’re happening more and more often! I don’t even wear makeup nearly as much as I used to!
My hand is numb.
This is what happens when I try to work. She HAS to be ON my hand.
Starting 2023 off with a bang!
I’m #2 and in the top 25…so far this month!
Olive really wants up in my lap.
Playing with makeup
Anna wanted to do our makeup together and then Katie wanted me to do hers…
She can stop growing up now.
Once again making it hard to work.
But so damn cute.
Number 12. So far!
Someone came up to see me and now I’m stuck.
At least I can get work done from bed!
Then I thought she was leaving…but she was just turning around!
And then it turned into playtime when she found a hair tie on the floor outside Katie’s room.
Fave lipcolor day!
Today just felt like a fave lip color day. I just wish I had better lighting in front of our tree!
Earning her keep.
Katie helped me take apart some beauty advent calendars to save some space. She owed me some work after she took some of my makeup (from my office) without asking.
Olive was being a pain in the butt so Katie put her in one of the boxes we just emptied. Olive didn’t seem to mind too much.
Making calendar angels. Or trying to.
Olive wanted attention.
And I’m a sucker.
The video edit:
I might have accidentally ordered too much.
But it was all an UNBELIEVABLE deal! And now I can treat my clients!!
WHOMP WAH.
The cuddles have moved to the office
It’s a little hard to work like this…
And then to the couch with Katie…
Jester makeup!
I was challenged to do jester makeup today. It was harder than I thought but I think it turned out okay!
Trying to work this morning…
A fairy eye look!
Trying out a fairy eye look for Halloween! I started by attempting something I found on Google but that quickly went south so I improvised and came up with this!
It was really easy because there wasn’t much blending at all—just a touch so it looked like I put forth some effort.
And I think the Violet Volt lipstick looks amazing with it!
Pysanky on the River 2022
We were up early this morning to hit the Ukrainian Museum Archives in Cleveland. Surprisingly the bathroom lighting was pretty good—I love Hampton Inn!
I bought a new necklace there (because I broke my necklace on the way here).
With my mom at the museum.
Then it was off to State Meats and eating lunch at Mama Maria’s Ukrainian Kitchen!
Then we visited a Ukrainian cathedral (to see the gold spires in the sun), grabbed a donut across the street, and then some ice cream at the Honey Hut!
Then it was back to the hotel to grab our stuff to setup for the event!
OMG all the “naked eggs” for sale… Typically you’d have to blow them all out yourself and it’s not complicated but it is a lot of work. These were already blown out and cleaned! And on sale! For less than it would cost to even buy them in the store! Turns out the vendor was getting out of the egg business and just wanted them gone. Stay tuned to see just how many I ended up buying!!!
And then I bought my Christmas present! A goose egg from Pysanky Master Lorrie Popow! It’s absolutely stunning. I couldn’t take my eyes off of it!
I asked her how she could even see to do that and she said “When my eyes were younger!” I eventually looked through her Facebook page to see if I could find it to see when she did it…and it was 2012!!
Lorrie Popow: LorriePopow.com and on Facebook
Cleveland(ish), I am in you.
A few months ago my mom asked me if I’d go with her to a 4-day Pysanky Retreat in northern Ohio. I jumped at the chance—I think I said yes even before she finished asking! I’ve long been wanting to get back into Pysanky—and I never get to spend any alone time with my mom—so it was a no-brainer!
So this morning I was in the car and on the road by 9am (in a super quick and easy road trip look) to Middleburg Heights/Berea!
Tom always does the driving so it kinda stunk not being able to work while on the road, but I did listen to an audiobook (which eventually made me sooo tired I took to eating popcorn to stay awake)! But I made it!
After we got settled and visited for a bit it was off to find dinner. I found a local Chinese place with really great Yelp reviews (Little Hong Kong) about a mile away…where we had some of the best General Tso’s chicken I’ve ever had. Highly recommend!
Then it was back to the hotel to make 65 goodie bags for the event…
And take a Covid test to be able to attend.
I’m still making the lists!
I’m a clown today!
I was challenged to do a clown Halloween look…and as fate would have it, we just watched Killing Eve last night and a character played a clown! So this is the look I decided to recreate! Unfortunately I didn’t have a clown nose and the makeup looked silly…so I changed course and did my own thing.
I’m a maiden again!
Four of my customers signed up for the Distributor account last month and three of them placed qualified orders which means I hit the rank of maiden! (It really doesn’t do anything major for me other than “yay I did it” but since I’m not into building a team it’s rare I even got this far!)
I also hit Ruby SeneSales, which makes 11 quarters in a row I’ve hit one of the three SeneSales levels!
Holy crap I’m 49!
Yes you bet your ass I’m wearing my crown!!
No fun errands or escapades… We were on our way to Michigan for my cousin’s wedding (technically like second cousins – whatever my cousin’s kids would be to me!).
Birthday dinner at a super yummy Chinese restaurant in Saginaw.
And a birthday margarita, because of course. The waitress guessed it was my birthday – telling me her mom wears a crown, too. Hey, it got me $1 off. LOL
And then we realized we wanted water for the hotel room so stopped here.
And this is how she gets me.
Nude Honey
I’m not even sure I’ve worn this color in a picture before! It’s lighter than my normal colors so I probably put it on without much makeup and said NAH, NOT FOR ME.
But today? I’m LOVING it! It’s definitely a neutral for me.
I’m also loving wearing black pencil on the top and the new gray pencil on the bottom! It looks smudged out without actually having to do that!
I mean I HAD to get this dog toy.
She’s so spoiled.
She would not stop barking at me while I was working which means I want to sit in your lap. So it’s easier for both of us if she lays in her bed on my lap.
2022 annual party!
This is the extent of the photos I took all day! We were busy!!
Dark Pink vs Velvet
These are the two LipSense colors I tried today. I started with Dark Pink because honestly it’s not my favorite… But I ended up liking the resulting photo better than Velvet!!
That just goes to show you that even when you think you don’t like a color, it can totally surprise you. So try the colors you aren’t sure of and you just might find a winner!
Broadway Bronze
I’m moving slow today…my back hurts for some unknown reason (guessing it’s just one of those “I’m old” things since I didn’t do anything to aggravate it) and it was all I could do to get out of bed. It feels like my back is going to go out at any moment so I’m moving extra cautiously because I. DO. NOT. WANT. THAT.
Anyhoo, I decided to do some of my fave natural earth tone shadows today (Sandstone Pearl Shimmer and Copper Rose Shimmer) so that obviously called for Broadway Bronze LipSense (out of stock Limited Edition, but I still have some). It’s one of my all-time faves.
