I quickly want to start off this post by saying God bless America on this day, and always.  My thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who were affected by the September 11th attack, as well as our military who fight day in and day out to protect our freedoms as Americans.

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Good day, polished world!  How are you?  I have been pretty out of it lately.  Late Sunday, I found out that an older woman who was like a second grandmother to me passed away.  While I am comforted in the fact she is at home with the Lord and no longer suffering, it still is sad.  I will miss her and never forget her.

It's funny, I never thought my nail painting hobby would impact an older woman such as herself.  She was a huge supporter of my hobby and this blog.  Whenever she would see me she would always ask "what's on the nails??" while taking out her reading glasses so she could get a better look at my hand.  I would have never dared to have a naked nail day around her!  Once I started blogging, she used to come sit with me and we would scroll through each and every single design.  As each design appeared on the screen, she would give me her honest critique about the manicure.  Generally she loved anything glitter or full of detail, and hated anything that had tons of black.  Black crackle was a no no.  I'm about 90% positive that her rubber duckies were my favorite design.

I had the base coat on for this manicure I'm sharing with you today when I found out that she passed.  I thought to myself "take them off, do something for her" but I continued on and finished up my little piggies.  Since she liked my duckies so much, I'm sure she would have loved these just as much.  Part of me slightly remembers her loving my first attempt at the piggies wayyyyy back when.  So I can stop my tearing up, let's take a look and talk about the nails a tad.

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