Diving Back In (Little Projects)

I really haven't had much time for crafts since Clara was born.  In the last 8 months I've worked some on a couple of big projects, that will hopefully be finished before 2013, and the two projects in this blog.
First up we have a very failed experiment.  I finally signed up for Pinterest a few months ago.  This led to my believing I could paint my nails fancy if I just followed the directions others had posted.  Oh how wrong I was.  I found this pin on plaid nails.  They look great.  Then I tried it and got this

I won't be trying this again.
The good news is my second project came out great.  I've been reading about people making their own vanilla extract so I decided to try it.  This was facilitated by the fact that Jerry has been given about 4 bottles of vodka over the past year.  Some of my loved ones may be getting vanilla extract for Christmas.  If you want to make your own just do a Google search.  It's super easy!  The pic is just so you can see something that wasn't a complete flop :)  After it sat for the required time it was much darker, and tastes great.