Twinkling Trees

May 21, 2013

Mía Mariú Rejuvenate Your Skin Anti-Aging Pack Giveaway

Mía Mariú Rejuvenate Your Skin Anti-Aging Pack Giveaway

Hosted by Budget Earth & A Spectacled Owl

With all the different beauty products on the market today, it is hard finding the perfect products for your skin type. It can be even trickier if you are looking for products that don't contain dangerous chemicals or harm animals. For this reason, we are big fans of Mía Mariú. While this company is mostly known for their high quality natural makeup, very few people realize that they have spa quality facial products, like their Rejuvenate Your Skin Anti-Aging Line. If you like the idea of using natural facial cleaners, we highly recommend checking out Budget Earth's review of Mía Mariú Rejuvenate Your Skin Anti-Aging Pack.
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From Putrid Green to a Glossy Sheen

Before we moved into our current house back in 2010 the then owner decided to paint two of the walls and the ceiling fan this horrible avocado green color. I love the color green and avocados but this color is horrendous. And when he painted the fan he didn't even take the blades off to paint them and evidently just swiped his paint brush over the blades and the metal bits 2 maybe 3 times. I don't know why it took me so long to finally redo the fan blades into something new and pretty but I finally did. So out came the screws and off went the blades into a good bath (do you even realize how dirty they get, talk about gross) and then it was time to spruce them up.

Isn't that just a horrible looking fan? Why on earth the guy that painted it just didn't leave it white I have no idea. The painting job he did is just horrendous but then it goes along with the color he chose. After my close inspection it was definitely time for a ceiling fan paint redo.

It took about a day to try to figure out what color to repaint the fan. I dabbled with a few different variations of orange (burnt, bright, pale) but after none of them being liked I decided to go for black & white which is crisp, clean and classic looking. Making sure that all of these cutouts in each fan blade was fully painted was so time consuming and tedious but I was definitely not having green peek through the white.

Even though it will come off when it's rubbed with a wet cloth I used acrylic paint. It's what I always have on hand and I wasn't going to go buy two different things of paint just to paint the fan. For the black I used a gloss from Apple Barrel which can be a pain to work with as it's kind of tacky and thick but came out looking lovely. And the white was just two different bottles that I had on my shelf of paints. Thankfully I normally keep a backup white as I ran out of the first bottle. It really did take quite a bit to fill in those holes.

After only a few hours and layers the blades were complete and it was time to put the fan back together. I am very pleased with the final look of things. I would be a lot happier if the fan base was silver instead of this gold-brass looking color but at least it is no longer a putrid green. Now it is on to the next project.

So what do you think of the newly painted fan?

Does it look better now or would you have left it the green color?

May 17, 2013

Get Ready With Me

I was getting ready to put my makeup on the other day and I thought to myself why not see if I can make a video while I am doing it. So I brought everything out to my computer table and started filming away. It wasn't exactly how I had envisioned it because I'm not talking and such during it but for a trial I think it came out pretty decent. Hey, you have to work out the kinks in order to make things better right?

Products Used:

Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation in Ivory
tokidoki - Lion Pappa
Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer in Very Fair
Estee Lauder Mascara in 01 Extreme Black
e.l.f. Translucent Matifying Powder
e.l.f. Blush in tickled pink
mark. Luxe Lipstick in Petal

May 12, 2013

Weekend Wrap-up

This past week has been a bit slow but also crazy with all of my homework (college homework is no fun) writing up some new blog posts and creating/editing new YouTube videos. But apart from all of that I have been able to take some fun pictures here and there and thought I would share some of my favorite ones.

I just love this picture of my son. It wasn't until after I had uploaded my pictures and started to edit them that I realized what he was doing. He is definitely my child, lol. And it goes perfectly well with his Imagination Movers Rock-o-Matic tour t-shirt from last year. Awesome concert by the way.

I absolutely love this tree and find its flowers amazingly gorgeous. I actually crawled underneath it to take most of the pictures that I got of it. My friend asked if I was Instagramming, hahaha. I was like "No, just trying to get the best shot."

Aren't these flowers just beautiful?

He is such a funny little monkey. He was playing peek-a-boo but it looks like he is trying to inconspicuously spy on someone.

A rare (at least for us) glimpse of baby geese. They usually just stick to their island.

This little birdie was in my tree in front of my house and would not be quite. I say he was talking to me cat who was down below talking to him.

And here is my kittie, Salem who was talking to the bird. He even climbed all the way up the tree to try to catch the bird. Thankfully this one got out of the reach of his paw.

Salem all grown up since I introduced him in this post. He'll be a year in August.

The tree right outside of my bedroom has started to bloom. They are very pretty but irritate my allergies.

It totally looks like an angry face in these clouds to me.

Contrary to what some may think it does rain here in the desert. Not enough for my liking, major reason I want to move, but I do cherish the times that it does.