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Phew I got this post in before the day was over! The theme for day 26 of the OMD Challenge is FAVORITE VACATION and my fave has always been Portland Oregon! My best friend Amie has lived there for about 10 yrs now and I usually make it out there at least once per year. I always fly into Portland International Airport so the airline code PDX is engrained in my brain! I’m always scouring the web for good prices to PDX.

Amie and I have done some fun stuff over the years during my vacays- ghost tours, seaside excursions, weddings, devouring mass quantities of meat (her hubbie’s a butcher)… but we usually have the most fun together just doing nuthin and hanging out! Friendships like that are priceless, don’t you think!? I have another trip to PDX scheduled for August. A nice break from work, some Portland sunshine and some much-needed time with my BFF and her family (oh, and pugs too). Can’t wait!

Here’s what I’m wearing- two coats of a Julie G gold polish called Metallic Heels, some studs from Claire’s Boutique and my black Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen. It was nice and easy, which is perfect for a TGIF-kinda friday!

There’s only 5 days left of the challenge! The links will be open til Aug 5th for any last minute submissions… then we will pick our 4 random winners! It’s pretty exciting! From looking at the raffle numbers it looks like you’d have a good chance of winning too- especially if you’ve been participating everyday! Good luck everyone!

26 Favorite Holiday/Vacation :

I can’t believe we are half-way through the July Nail Art Challenge! It’s a lot of work to consistently put out original nail art designs every day- but so worth it, right? Day 15 is all about HEARTS and I have a cute purple design for you today!

I started with two coats of Butter London Scoundrel which is a nice dusky purple. A few of my nails I topped with two coats of an OPI glitter called Lights of Emerald City. Since that OPI glitter is white I decided to make some white hearts on my other nails to pull the design together. FOR THE HEARTS: I started with my Sally Hansen Nail Art Pen in black. I am loving this pen and just ordered two silver ones (do I see a giveaway in Crafty’s future? Yes, yes I do!) I drew the hearts on with the black pen and then dotted inside the hearts with NYC white nail polish. Since I used my skinniest/smallest dotting tool it was easy to position the white inside the black heart shapes. I like the way that they have a nice black outline around them now.

Do any of you guys have a white textured polish, like maybe OPI Solitaire? If you use that to fill in the black heart outline then I bet they’d look like cute little PUFFY HEARTS! Wish I had a white textured polish like that!