In some ways, our lifestyle is cheaper than it was. We will need more space one day-ultimately, I’d like our daughter to have her own bedroom-but for now we are quite content. Our bed is built into the boat, and is slightly bigger than a double but smaller than a king (as well as being a weird size, it has a square chunk missing from the top left-hand corner, so I had to cut our mattress to make it fit, marking out the shape I needed with a Sharpie, then slicing through the foam with a breadknife). Then there’s a walk-through bathroom, with a full-size shower and compost toilet (my least favorite part of boat life), and our bedroom, which is big enough to fit the crib (yup, I was pregnant within months of moving aboard), as well as a clothing rail and small chest of drawers. We have an open-plan living area, with a fully equipped kitchen, breakfast bar, solid-fuel stove (our main source of heat), sofa, bureau, and (naturally) lots of shelving. Our boat is 60 feet long, and, like most narrowboats, 6’10” wide. We did keep about a hundred books, which is still quite a lot for a narrowboat, but we have more space than you might imagine.
RAINDROP NAILS STEP BY STEP FREE
It was like I’d set myself free from some imaginary syllabus I hadn’t even known I’d signed up for. I felt decidedly rebellious, discarding all the books I’d carted around for years yet hadn’t read, finally admitting that I probably never would. It was a daunting task, choosing which to lose, but I found that once I started, I couldn’t stop. As a bookseller-cum-writer (me) and librarian (him), both with post-graduate degrees in English, we’d accumulated a vast collection over the years, at least a thousand individual volumes. The biggest job was sorting out the books. We sold most of the furniture-including my beloved oak writing desk, easily the hardest goodbye-and streamlined our clothes, kitchen utensils, and general knick-knacks. Of course, we needed to significantly downsize. After 18 months trying and failing to conceive, worrying we’d never afford to buy a house, and generally feeling adrift in life, I had the strong, sudden, and uncharacteristic urge to make a radical-some would say reckless-change. Everyone assumed it was his idea (I can’t blame them as a seasoned rock climber and mountaineer, he’s far more adventurous than I) but in actual fact, it was mine. And yet, in June 2021, my husband Nigel and I decided-having never driven, slept, or even set foot on one-to live on a narrowboat. I prefer staying home with a good book, my feet kept firmly on the ground.
To be honest with you, I think this rain drop effect would look better on a tad darker color, maybe Blue Moon from Wet n Wild Wild Shines would be a more appropriate color.I’ve never thought of myself as particularly adventurous. That was how this rain drop effect was achieved. I added a blob of SV to a piece of paper and used a tooth pick to make the rain drops. The next step was to use a quick dry topcoat to make the “raindrops”. After wearing this a couple of days I then added a matte topcoat. I also thought the light blue would make a good back drop for the rain drop effect for your nails.
RAINDROP NAILS STEP BY STEP SKIN
I just love it, a big Thank You to my friend CoCo for sending this one to me, she said it didn’t work with her skin tone and I couldn’t be happier about that! I know I will wear this a ton this summer. Give Me the Moon falls somewhere in between. It was easy to apply, it seems like it might be a frost but it is not, nor is it a cream.
Give Me the Moon from OPI Night Brights collection of 2007.
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