A Car Named Katie: 2017

Sunday, September 24, 2017

Color Street Nails - Emily Yates

Welcome friends!

Want to improve your outfit, accent your makeup - feel pretty in yoga pants at 4pm?

Color Street can give you the power! May I introduce to Color Street Nails.

The first time I put on my Color Street nail flair was on a day I was not feeling so hot, I was running low on steam. My friend offered me to give them a try and I told her I didn't do my nails anymore. They just didn't survive the application and drying time. Running a home business for A Car Named Katie, chasing after the little busiest wonderful tiny human, multiple daily dishes, nightly Baths - NEED I GO ON LADIES??

"C'mon, just try a nail..."

So I did. Three fingers in a cup was spilled and I left the process to save the floor while tossing a glance at said friend with eyeballs that read 'I told You So'.

As I stood up I inspected.....THEY WERE EXACTLY AS I LEFT THEM. Minutes later I finished each of my fingers and as as my lovely nails flashed up at me they left a mega-watt grin on my face. Giving me such a happy boost of confidence I decided I had to pass the joy onto others.

Best part of all? The jazzy designs have survived the following Two Weeks of yard work, dishes, daily bath time for tiny human and more.

Details:

Color Street is made of 100% Nail Polish and do not have any kind of glue-like adhesive. They apply in seconds with no special tools, require no dry time, and last up to 2 weeks. They are just as easy to remove too - just use nail polish remover!

Color Street products are free of Parabens, Formaldehyde, DBP, Toluene, Formaldehyde Resin, Camphor, Ethyl Tosylamide, and Xylene!

I mean this seriously! There is no DRYING time!!! WHooooooooTTTTTTTT!!! No chipping, no smudging - just clean your little fingers, stick on glitter, solids, designs and then Go Conquer your moment with style.

In the photo above, I am wearing Valley Girl. :)

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Tuesday, June 27, 2017

The Journey

A gift in art is the visual history of one's progression. A look back at one's path. When I first began to play with abstracts.... I fumbled... there was too much freedom in strokes unguided by a firm shape or form to use as reference. I tried, tripped, set them down, took a step back, then tried again and again... such a beautiful journey.

The allure of art is it can be a glimpse of a world unseen, a world half hidden. It can relay emotions the viewer didn't know they had, expose the grace another may have thought they lost, move a hardened heart to joy. My Abstracts very much are composed of emotion, of time, of unspoken thoughts. I am humbled when another person connects to them... that is such a gift to receive.

The grace of art, is there is often a gentle brutal clear understanding of one's limitations. It was in art I realized I was not special, not unique. That I am just an ordinary person. What is special is that I get to live, to express, to explore. I get to love and be loved. What a humbling and joyful realization.

Someone commented they like my new style, these abstracts I am doing. This person commented that my abstracts are completely different then anything I have ever done before. And I smiled. I thought it was odd but ok.

Then someone else said it.... and someone else.... and someone else. At last I asked a fellow artist about it. Why is this seen as new? I always have focused on a single subjects with patterned background, landscapes (usually pulled from dreams) and abstracts. Then I had a thought, perhaps their question is inadvertently encouragement. Perhaps I have grown that much....

So while the repeated question feels uncomfortable, it it inspired me to look back at prior works and to also look forward, eagerly, wondering how my work may continue to grow.

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