Monroe Monday

New Plates

No, not for the record player, but for my nails. I follow Sophies blog, and when she showed nails stamped with PUEEN plates, I thought they were so nice and different that I had to own them too. I found them super cheap at Amazon. But look at them:

You can enlarge the photo by clicking at it.

What I like about these plates are most of them are full nail size patterns, which I call "wallpapers". And they really do cover the nail completely. I highly recommend them.

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My Nail Polish Collection

I have shown you the lovely drawer DH gave me for my nail polish collection a few years ago, but I have never shown you the content of the drawers.

In the first drawer I have top and base coats, stamping plates and stamping tools, manicure tools, rhinestones, tape, pearls, stickers, and my beloved test plates:

They are simply brilliant, both for keeping my polishes in system and to get inspired by.

In the second drawer I have all my red and pink polishes - and various gift boxes with minis:

Red and pinks are those I have less of, perhaps because I have used them all my life, so now they are not that exciting any more.

In drawer number three I have (from left) a row of black, grey, and white. Then full rows of purple, blue, and green polishes:

All my polishes are nicely sorted in rows from colour shade. This way I can easily find the one I need.

In drawer number four I have lots of glitter polishes:

I ADORE glitter and really try not to buy more, but it is hard, because new combinations keep popping up that I NEED to have in my collection. At the upper left corner is my small collection of magnetical polishes and at the upper right corner is a glow-in-the-dark and two crack polishes from OPI.

I have just tidied up the bottom drawer, which a.o. contains a lot of art pens, which I have sorted out and given a lot of to my small girlfriends. If the colours are too close to each other, some of them have to go. And I don't use them that often. Normally, I just use a thin brush and ordinary polish. Here is also a small stock of top coats, quick drying drops, thinner, and empty bottles (which is always nice to have, since you never know when you come up with a brilliant idea for a Franken):

So as you see it is almost filled up. I have approximately 200 different colours, so I have made a rule that I may only buy colours that does not look like any others I already own, and it is quite difficult.

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Vintage Cars from the TV Series "Matador"

In Denmark we are all great fans of a TV series from the early eighties called "Matador", which equals to "Monopoly", the board game. The actions takes place right before and during WWII, so I also enjoy the vintage cars and have wondered what had become of them. When visiting the annual Whitsun car exhibition I got the answer, because they had collected the cars from all over Denmark and made a real "Matador" feeling. This is "The Ladies Department Store", where it all began:

On the other side of the street, the main character, Mads Skjern, started his shop with clothes for the lower and middle class:

The local bank was also represented:

Later in the series Mr. Skjern got very successful and opened "Skjerns Department Store":

Well, on to the cars. Here we have the Mistress' car, and Austin Seven from either 1932 or 1935 (according to my dad, who is a real car nerd):

And here is Oluf Larsen's, aka Pig Dealer Larsen, Chrysler from 1930:

This is Mr. Skjern's brother's car, a Ford Model 18 from 1932:

Still a very nice car.

And here is Mads Skjern's Morris 10 Six from 1934:

It is also still a nice car.

This is not:

It is Ford Junior de Luxe from 1937, an "extra".

There is not that much "De Luxe" here any longer:

This is Colonel Hachel's Fiat 501 from 1924:

And lastly - another extra, a Chevrolet from 1924:

It was such a good and cosy idea.

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