Tuesday, January 21, 2014

My Little Corner

Today I'm giving you guys a peek into my little corner of the world. I'm always curious about how everyone else has their nail stuff set up so I thought I'd share mine. I recently outgrew my helmer and the apartment I share with my husband is pretty small so out of genuine concern for him I got a melmer so my stuff can stay neatly contained. I'm sure it had nothing to do with this post by Refined and Polished about cute decorated melmers. 


I got my helmer a little less than a year ago and I had all my nail art supplies in three of the drawers so there were only three more left for polish. Not nearly enough room. Now all my supplies are in the melmer so I have a lot more space to organize my polish into categories in the helmer. All my cotton balls and acetone bottles fit nicely on top too.


It was really easy to decorate the melmer. I got some scrapbook paper from Michaels for about 20 cents per sheet. After I trimmed the sheets to fit the drawers I stuck them on with double sided tape. So far it seems very durable since the tape is right up against the edge of the paper. I was afraid it would start to wear and peel off, but it seems to be adhered well enough to avoid that. It's a very affordable way to decorate and if I change my mind about the designs later it'll be really easy to change. I also spray painted the handles and screws black because the silver finish didn't really go with my paper choices.


This is where the magic happens. I do everything from painting to editing and blogging about my nails right here at my desk. Don't let the clean surfaces fool you. I usually have 10-20 polishes out at any given moment. In fact I'm pretty sure I shoved them over just out of view for this picture. I may also have over 20 gigs of nail pictures on my hard drive. #bloggerproblems


And here's my light box. I'm all about blogging on the cheap so of course it's homemade, but I think it works great. If you're interested in making your own check out this tutorial by Sarah at Chalkboard Nails. It's looking a little sad at the moment because my terror of a kitty went all Godzilla on it a while back. He jumped through the tissue on the top and started tearing large chunks out of the cardboard before I noticed. Cats.


Speaking of... this is my cat Styx (I call him Mr Stickers for short). Here he is helping me tear foil into strips for the foil method of glitter polish removal. Awwww. So helpful.

How do you organize your polish and where do you do your painting? If you have pictures send me links. I'd love to see!

6 comments:

  1. Thanks for sharing! It's nice to see a sneak peek into "real life". :)

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  2. I love your setup! Mine is just basically my whole apartment--there's nail art stuff EVERYWHERE. I'm sure my sister appreciates it. Luckily, my cat doesn't mess with the nail stuff. He knows better ;)

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    1. My cat once knocked over a small container of acetone. My desk is surprisingly acetone resistant, but I took the hint and started cleaning up a bit better. :)

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  3. Great setup! My light box currently has a tear in the top and both sides... one is from my daughter accidentally sticking her finger through it (and then me mashing the whole box over her head while we laughed maniacally), and the others are from my cat! LOL! I really need a bigger box so I'm not even fixing this one since it still works really well!

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    1. I feel the same way! I'd love to make a bigger box, but this one keeps working too well to throw it out.

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