Sunday, February 2, 2014

Simple wine glass holder

This is my shelf in the kitchen, it has been everywhere from my mothers living room, to my living room and now it's gracing the wall of my kitchen. I love it. My Uncle Roger made it for my mom years ago. I don't know the story of "why" he made it, all I know is that it's been around as long as I can remember, I can even still remember a few of the trinkets mom used to display on it. It was a dark walnut color until we moved here a few months ago. I knew I wanted this rustic beat up style, I love it. (I've had comments about how crazy I am to like this style, it's ok everyone's entitled to their opinion). 

So anyway, I'm not a huge drinker, but if you looked at my kitchen you'd think I'm a daily wino. Nope sorry can't afford daily drinking. Not sure if I'd want to drink that often anyway. So anyway to get this story a little further in.... 

I've got a lot of wine glasses, not sure why. But I thought why not display them? They are pretty after all. Besides I needed something else to collect dust, as if I don't have enough already. 

So with the ever amazing talents of my husband and his wonderfully helpful father, I suggested we do this to the shelf, & Eric and his dad came up with exactly what I had envisioned. They really are that awesome! So anyway, without further ado, check out the shelf and the glass holders. They are shorter on the inner sides so that I can just slide in the glasses and have no fears about them shaking out when the little elephants are running around the house. (And by little elephants I mean Wes and his buddy who like to run up and down the stairs behind this shelf as much  as they can on nice days :) )

Please over look the decorations, this is not how it will end up styled, this is just the hodge pudge of what's left over and is trying to figure out if it's staying or going. Plus Eric suggested we find a cool wine bottle holder to go right there in the middle space, I agree it would probably be a cool place to display such things.
  Thanks for stopping by! 
                





Reviews of nail places I've been to in Columbus, Seymour and North Vernon

It used to be I loved to go to "Lees nails" in NV. For the first year I went in they did a fantastic job. I never had any complaints. Then I guess they started getting busier and the quality went down hill. 


What do I mean by quality? I'm not one of those people that are so picky that a little extra polish on my skin freaks me out, I know that will come off in the shower or when I was my hands.when I say quality I mean, was the acrylic smoothed out or did they leave ridges? Did they smooth out the cuticle area? Did they check and make sure the length was the relatively the same and were they straight or were they on a weird angle?  Then there is the price. Are they consistently charging me the same price for the same issue each time? 

So with Lees it depended on who was doing my nails. Danny was always super nice and did a great job. Kim just acted like she didn't give a shit and it showed. I finally got to the point that I stopped going there. I usually walked out of there with crooked nails, and I never knew how much they were going to charge me. 

Then I started going to Rose nails in Seymour. I never could tell you the guys name that did my nails, it was hard to pronounce and I never saw it soooo. But he is either the owner or manager or whatever he's the first station by the check out desk. I never had bad service here. The prices were always the same, and they have the pretty tips in a hundred different colors and patterns and they charge the same as white tips to put them on. They also have the glitter acrylic, which is just gorgeous and not much more expensive than plain white tips. It takes longer to get done, but they are so gorgeous. I'm seriously thinking about making the drive to go back to Rose in Seymour just because I'm so disappointed in Columbus so far! 

Ok which brings us to moving to Hope and I need a new place to get my nails done. 

So I went to that pink n white place by hobby lobby 2 x's now. I had an older guy fill the first time and he did a half ass job. Not smooth, I could ( and have) done a better job myself at home. Then the next time I went some kid did my nails, and it was like the heavens parted and I had a perfect set of nails when he was done, the next time I went in he wasn't there so I left. Stupid me didn't get his name. Sigh oh well. 

So this past week I went to Tina's by chuck e cheese. I'll admit that when I walked in I was impressed. It's clean, up to date and at first look it seems like a nice place. And again I got a new person. I must have a sign on my head that says I won't complain give me the newbie to let them practice.... Sigh....
So anyway, she did ok. She didn't make them all the same length, and the aren't smooth on all of them. And I'm not sure she got close enough to the cuticle ( if not there will be a noticeable ridge in am few days).  And they are the most expensive place I've been to so far for a full set of designer tips was $35 ouch. And they don't look all that great so I'm disappointed. 

I will probably try a few other new different places until I need a new set and come back and review them as well. 

All in all I would say Tina's is over priced. And all of these places have 1 thing in common. Their machines and tables need cleaned. Seriously take a few minutes and clean off those gel nail lights, they look gross no matter where I go! 

Let me know if this helps anyone, or if you have suggestions on other places near, in or around Columbus Indiana I should try.