Thank You

I know it has been a while since I last posted. I promise I will be back soon. I was very sick for a while and then real life took over. But I had to take a moment tonight to make a quick post in remembrance to an artist who's music helped me through many tough times in my childhood. I will not go into detail because this is not that kind of post.

This post is to thank someone that really helped me when I needed it most, who's music made my soul sing and made me fall in love with music even more and much fun was always had when his songs would be played in my house.

One of my favorite memories is when I was eight years old. My uncle and I changed all the light bulbs in the living room to purple bulbs, we moved the furniture out of the way, we dressed up as Michael Jackson, and we sang and danced along through a bunch of MJ's songs.

Every time I think about that evening, it brings a smile to my face. My uncle always knew that no matter what, MJ's music would always put a smile on my face. Thank you too Tio!

Thank you God for putting this amazingly talented individual, who even with all his flaws is/was loved by many people. Thank you MJ for sharing your gift of music with us. May you forever rest in peace.

I love this video:


With much love, your forever fan:

~S

I am back...

From my little hiatus feeling completely miserable because I am sick as a dog. I have been feeling this way since Friday morning and I feel like jumping off a bridge to take myself out of my misery. I mean, It was a long holiday weekend for gods sake! I was supposed to be out having fun not at home with a sore throat, stuffed up nose and feeling like a two ton truck just ran me over!

Alas, life must go on. I will take this time to recap on what I have been up to....

As you can see here my trip to NYC was a success. I had a lot of fun and as usual it was hard for me to say goodbye.

I decided since I cannot be out and about enjoying the long weekend doing fun things. I would bring the fun and sunshine to me with a fun and bright manicure.

Also, while I sat in solitary confinement, on my couch, away from Mr. P as to not get him sick too. I got cracking with some over due crafting and made these:

Meet Erika, My hair model. LOL




As usual, these are only previews. The better looking photos will be posted on my accessory blog. I will let you all know when they are up.

I also have some new jewelry pieces but those will be on another post.

There are a bunch of other things that I want to blog about. I did not forget about my bedroom make over but with house guests, road trips, getting sick and other life things that has been put on the back burner for just a little while. I will be getting back to that very shortly!

So much to do, so little time.

What have you guys been up to? I have a lot of blog reading to catch up on!

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of The Week: Strawberry Lemonade

This is my manicure for the week. I had pictures of the last weeks manicure but Mr. P's computer was attacked by a virus and the picture was lost before I got to post it.

Nail Polish Brand: China Glaze
Color: Its Poppin' (Pink)

Nail Polish Brand: Shaeds by Barielle
Color: Lemondrops (Yellow)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

New York, New York

Last weekend I went home for the day to hang out and just get out of DC for the day. Since Mr. P or Ms. J could not take the trip with me, one of my other friends came with me on my adventure.

We spent the day walking around the city and just acting like tourist. It was a great time and cannot wait to do it again. I even got to go to one of my favorite museums The Guggenheim.

Here are some pictures from my trip:

I took a picture of this ugly toy because it reminded me of something. I will give you a clue, I named him Mr. Blue Balls. hahahaha..... I am really five years old and a pervert. I did not know that they made toys like this for kids. Geeez.







Ciao!
~Dissolved Girl

Slow Week

I have been slow with the posts this week because I have a house guest that was supposed to be here for a 3 day visit but has extended itself for two weeks (I am sure everyone knows those type of guests). The chi in our apartment has kinda shifted. Does not feel like home right now and therefore has put me in one of those moods where I do not want to do anything. You know what I mean?

But on a happier note, I will be going home this weekend. It is only a day trip but a day trip is better then nothing. By the time I get back, our house guest will be gone and all will go back to normal.

So my dear street vendors, yummy pizza, crazy people, and stinky subways, I am coming home!! woooo hooo....

I wish you all a great weekend and I will return back to my normal blogging self on Monday!

Ciao! xoxo
~ Dissolved Girl

Garden Botanika Slip Gloss

I got My Pretty Pink Box a couple of days ago. The main reason why I ordered it is because I wanted to try out the Shadow Shields that were going to come with the box. Also, I wanted to get one for Mommy Dearest as part of her mother's day gift.

Little did I know that I was going to fall in love with a lip gloss that came along with the box. Actually, I think love is not a strong enough word to describe how I feel about this little tube.

I am the lip gloss queen. Seriously, I have tried, owned or still own a ridiculous amount of glosses (the glosses you saw here is only the tip of the ice burg) I will not even tell you how many I have because it truly is ridiculous.

Why, you might ask I own so many? Is because I am always looking for the perfect gloss. The one that will give me the right amount of gloss with out looking like I ate a bucket of greasy chicken, or attract every strand of my hair, real or other wise, one that is not so thick that it feels I am wearing a second skin, one that does not start to make my lips flake as it starts wearing out or taste like Vaseline when I lick my lips.

Well ladies, I have found the holy grail of lip glosses or I should say, My Pretty Pink Box found the holy grail of lip glosses and mailed it to me. What is this lip gloss you ask?

Is the Garden Botanika Slip Gloss.
The one that came in the box is Cranapple Slip gloss. It applies light, no tacky greasy mess on the lips. It does not have a taste and it is so light weight it feels as if you have applied nothing to your lips. It has high shine, long lasting and even makes my lips look plumper.

I went on the website and all their slip glosses are on sale for $9.00. So that made the glosses even more attractive.

The down side to the glosses? They only have seven colors to choose from. That is something I can live with. I am loving the Cranapple color so I know I will be getting another one.

This one gets a rating of 5/5.

I cannot wait till next months box to see what other goodies will come. :-)

Ciao! xoxo
~Dissolved Girl

Nail of The Week: Shower Together

Nail Polish Brand: China Glaze
Color: Shower Together (2 Coats)

Base: Orly Bonder
Top Coat: Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Sorry for the messy looking polish. The picture was taken before I did the clean up.

This color is pretty cool. But I think I will leave this color for the fall, it does not scream spring or summer to me. This polish is so thick that I could have gotten away with one coat but I was not satisfied with the color turn out. So I went ahead and applied a second coat just too see how dark the color got. I must say I like it much better but not one of my favorite polishes.

What do you all think?

Ciao!! xoxo

~Dissolved Girl