January Wish List || Nails

Aloha Sprinklerinos,

With the festive season safely tucked up in bed and a big family holiday to save up for this year, I'm trying very hard to curb my spending. It's boring I tell you! 

In a bid to quench my beauty thirst, I have created this visual wish list of nail products I'd love to own. 

All the products in the collage can be found on BeautyBay, accept from the Dotting Tools from eBay, which I accidentally just placed a bid on. In fairness, they were only £1.38!

I flip flop between pastels and neons like nobodies business. For months I'll be obsessed with mints, pinks, peaches and greys and then all of a sudden, out of the blue, I'm enchanted with anything luminous. My nails are terribly fickle. 

What nail colours and products are you utterly obsessed with at the moment? Do you ever go bare?

Toodlepip!

xx

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2012 Recap

Before we get going with the all the new stuff, how about we take a look at the old stuff? Here's a recap of the top five projects for 2012. Counting down to the top project of the year... lets start the recap.

1. The Ugliest Chandelier Contest Winner.

Do you remember what these lanterns started out life as? No, well go take a look.

2. Serpentine Dresser Reveal
One of my most favorite pieces of the year. Sadly, I had to sell when we moved.

3. The $25 Organizing Challenge

4. Impossibilities Challenge - Done

5. And coming in as the top project of the year with 200,265 views (thank you Pinterest) is... Making Standard Binders Pretty!

Can't wait to see what I tackle this year! Till next time...

Happy Mint Hares

Aloha Sprinklerinos,

Before Christmas, on one of my many jaunts through ASOS (an online clothes shopping haven), I stumbled across a bag that embodies everything I look for in a piece of arm candy and snapped it up quicker than you could say, 'Shouldn't you be saving for a holiday?".

ASOS Mint Hare Bag

Oh hello beautiful mint green bag with (faux) gold hardware, tassel and a embossed hare detail.

This bag is described as a 'Tassel Bowler Bag" but in my humble opinion it should be the Mint Hare Bag- far more whimsical. 

Retailing for £35 for not real leather, I do think the pricing is a little steep. However, the fact that it is mint & gold, has forest animal detailing (I have a love of woodland creatures), is large enough to fit all my mummy junk and regular stuff in it, can be held with short handles or long straps and has a tassel....well that makes up for it for me.

This bag is just what I needed to brighten up a grey January and look forward to Spring with. I tend to wear a lot of pastels and florals from about February-August, so with any luck, this will see me through. 

I haven't had an opportunity to take it outside a lot and really road test it so at the moment, on the durability front, the jury's out. I've never had a 'big bag' from ASOS before so I can't even look back and compare, but based purely on aesthetics, I LOVE IT!

What do you think? How much do you allow yourself to spend on a 'big bag'? I think my limit is about £60 if it's very, very special. Let me know in the comments, I'm interested.

Toodlepip!

xx

It's 2013 Already!

Well... well... well. Look what the cold air blew in. Yes, I am still alive over here in California. I have taken a much need break to regroup, refocus and redefine.... you know all the re's that person tends to do when you don't hear from them for awhile. I took this time the get settled in a new job and new area, spend time with my great nephew, and much much more.

You know what's funny? During my hiatus, I did not decorate nor organize the new digs at all. That's not to say the place is in total disarray. I mean, I can count on one hand that number of pictures hung on the wall and I do have a neat space to pay bills and plan menus. What I'm talking about goes beyond surface level fluff. I haven't dug deep and got down "business." Have you ever been in this place before? Have you ever thought, " Awe, I'll get to it," and getting to it never happens? Why? Well, you realize there are more important things in life at the moment? Well, that's been me for the past four months. And while I enjoyed my down time in the back of my mind I thought about my blog. I even kept up with all the blogs that I follow. And now I'm ready to rejoin the land of the blogging.

What's ahead in the next six months for The Uncluttered Lifestyle.

1. New blog design! (I'm really excited about this one!)
2. Decorate master bedroom (There is not even a bedskirt on our bed... oh the horror.)
3. Organize blogging space
4. Organize awkward coat closet (Just wait until you see that crazy space. Picture deep and unlit.)
5. A little "temporary" decorating in family room (Why temporary?)
6. Possibly a new home... 

Oh yes people more than likely there is a new home coming for us in the next six months. If it does come to fruition I look forward to bringing you along on the selection process.

These are just the highlights, there many fun projects ahead. I look forward to getting back into the blogging world and spending more time with you in this new year. 

Till next time...

Happy 2013

Aloha Sprinklerinos,

Another year, another fresh start, another clean slate. I'm excited. 

I hope that 2012 has been all that you hoped it to be this time last year and that 2013 will be even better.

If you read THIS post, you will see I have a lot of things I want to do and achieve this year and I'm really looking forward to sharing a lot of them with you.

I'm so glad I have you lovely lot in my life. I really am.

Happy New Year to each and every one of you.

xx