color club to sweden please

Hopefully we will have a new nail polish brand in Sweden soon. Perhaps you can find it already at some places already but mostly you have to buy them online if you want them.

Mom came home the other day with three nail polishes from the brand Color Club. The company that produces those nail polishes had a conference at the hotel where she works and they left some bottles of polish! Of course she could not really bring home one of each (although I wish) but I got three pretty colors. Always fun with nail polish for free! (Especially since I am on a no-buying-policy at the moment.)

Start selling Color Club nail polish in Sweden soon! And at a fair price and not like China Glaze and OPI prices.

Color Club - Mrs Robinson, Peppermint Twist, Koo-Koo Cachoo

taxi

Not much at all has been going around here today this lazy Sunday. After a late breakfast I started to read a book that was lying on a table downstairs. I sat down in the armchair by the fire place and started reading. I continued reading until dinner and by then I only had a few pages left. So that is how I spent most of the day.

A book by Alexandra Pascalidou about taxi drivers she have me all over the world and their stories. Really interesting. I liked it.

a no go

I was right in my prediction. When they tell you they will get back to you within a week or two and that week passes then it is fairly certain they chose someone else over you. It has happened a few times now so I am getting to know the signs.

But that I have to make a call to them to drag the answer out of them. Not so cool.

Apparently they went with someone who had experience from banking, at least it is a fair explanation (yeah, I think I will always keep coming back to that). The competition was quite tough as they received more than 100 applications and I was one of ten that they called for interview. I guess I should be happy that I was one of the ten.

scotch tape manicure #4 and more

I have had some fun doing some nail art recently. A little bit of stamping, dotting and scotch tape manicures. I am in love with all these three manicures. Here is where the pottering and the creative side get its outlet.

Another scotch tape manicure with some H&M - Dashing Diva (which I had on almost a whole summer the year it came out) and some black and white stripes. I adore this manicure! I got inspiration from Lacquerized and Wah Nails (where plenty more inspiration will come from).

Some H&M - Dashing Diva (a favorite) and some black & white.

Here we have some half and half with leopard print stamped on. A more subtle manicure compared to the others but I still love it. Inspiration from nnysworld.

 IsaDora - Ashes to ashes and Combat khaki and some stamping.

Bright and pretty yellow with a fun pattern that I got inspired by at The Daily Nail. Really simple manicure made only by making dots (with my dotting tool) of black and then with a variety of colors on top.

China Glaze - Lemon fizz and a whole bunch of colors.

gimme

That interview that I thought went so well might not have gone so well. At least that is my feeling for every day that passes now. He said I should hear from them at the beginning of last week. Yesterday I sent him an email wondering 'what's up' and now I damn myself for taking the easy way out and not dialing those digits instead.

For every day that passes it is more and more likely that they have chosen other candidates for a second interview. That they are just waiting for one of them to accept the offer so they can send out rejection emails to the rest of the poor bastards still hoping until the very end.

Bitter? No, why would you think that?

job update

It is going in the right direction. It feels good. At the moment I am in three different job processes and waiting replies from two and the third one I have an assessment day booked in for. For one of the jobs I should have heard something this week but no news so far so I am going to call them on Monday to nag a bit and see where it is heading. That interview went so well (at least in my opinion) so I am hoping for some good news and a call back. It is my time now.

The other job is also very interesting but unfortunately only temporary for one year and I would be hired by this recruitment firm and therefore the salary is not so great either. Which is not really optimal but at least the job seems interesting and if I would end up getting it, it is not really that I can afford declining it just because of the money.

i reject your reality and substitute my own

That is the quote of the day (or week).

Been watching a lot of MythBusters lately.

stamping

Finally had some fun with my Konad nail stamping stuff. It is so easy and fun to get all kinds of pretty nails. It might look more difficult than it really is.

Orly - Shine.

Then the lovely color of OPI - From A to Z-urich.

cooking, dessert, and polish

Among my favorite things. 

Sis came over today and of course we had to have a nice dinner as it is her birthday! We made a really nice dinner with home made pasta, ravioli filled basil and four different cheeses (ricotta, parmesan, aged cheddar, and a bit of feta), together with home made tomato sauce (of course) and a cheese/cream sauce. Really delicious. Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture. But I definitely have to try making more home made pasta, it is so easy!

Of course I also made a delicious dessert. A chocolate fondant, a chocolate cake with a runny inside. Served warm with warm raspberry sauce and vanilla ice cream. Recipe found at the ever inspiring Swedish blog Kalasgott (just look at all the yummy pictures). Luckily there are several left so I will have one or two for tomorrow. Unluckily I did not get a yummy picture of the runny inside.

Chocolate fondant.

Happy birthday sis!

And of course I had some gorgeous nails. A gorgeous green glitter polish from NYX.

NYX - Lime.

what a wake up call

Do not think I told the story of last fall and my worst wake up call ever. It happened again early this morning. There was someone else waking up really early this morning making so much noise so it woke me up. That does not sound like being a worst wake up call ever you might think. Here's the thing, that someone woke up rambling around in my WALL.

This time I was not as freaked out as last time but it is incredibly annoying as it was impossible for me to fall asleep again when that someone was still moving around in there. The first time it happened last fall I got really freaked out as it moved around under my floor right where the head of the bed is located. I tried hitting the floor with my fist to make it stop and go away, but no. It sounded just like it was running around under my bed, and I was even worried that he would come out and gnaw on my clothes lying all over the floor at that time (it worried me so much that I started cleaning my room the next day, even though I know it would not do that).

This time it was a little bit worse as it was in the wall, still right at the head of my bed. But as it is in the wall I could hear it so much louder. Truly the worst wake up call. Can the spring come now so that the things can go outside?

Damn those mice.