* The following post features a product sent for review and sponsored giveaway.
My favorite holiday movies have always been the original Home Alone films. I was always awestruck by the scene in Home Alone 2, where Kevin goes into the massive Duncan's Toy Chest store completely decorated like a Christmas wonderland. I love everything and sparkly and festive, so this was my inspiration for my polish...
Steph's Toy Chest
My charity of choice is the SPCA of Central Florida. I spend 1-2x a week here volunteering. If you follow my Instagram, I'm sure you're used to my bombardment of cat pictures on Wednesday and Fridays! The love, care, and attention given to these animals by staff and volunteers is incredibly heart warming and inspiring to me. This organization not only has made the lives of dogs and cats better, but it has made my life richer.
Steph's Toy Chest over white
Steph's Toy Chest over black
Steph's Toy Chest over dark shades and light shades
Steph's Toy Chest over light shades
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Steph's Toy Chest is a is a magical glistening topcoat with loads of gold shimmer, red, evergreen, lavender and light green "ornaments"
This is such a versatile glittering top coat. I love it over dark colors and light colors. The layering options are endless. I used 2 coats over each base.
This collection has been released today! Please visit Silly Bee's Chickadee's shop to purchase Steph's Toy Chest. This polish is $10 and as mentioned before, 20% of the sales of my polish will go to the SPCA of Central Florida.
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The Gift of Melly isn't just about me though, there are 4 other wonderful bloggers involved in this project! Check out their polishes and charities below!
Emily's Wonderful Life (The Lacquerologist): Emily's charity of choice is the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. 20% of sales on her polish will go to that charity.
Dulcie's Fairy Slap (Oh Three Oh Four): Dulcie's charity of choice is Vested Interest in K9s. 20% of sales on her polish will go to that charity.
Mishka's Major Award (Accio Lacquer): Mishka's charity of choice is the Cancer Research Institute. 20% of sales on her polish will go to that charity.
But wait there's more...how about a giveaway?
Would you like to win a bottle of Steph's Toy Chest? You can thanks to Silly Bee's Chickadees for offering up a bottle for me to giveaway.
Enter using the Rafflecopter widget below:
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Giveaway ends Sun, Dec. 1st @ 11:59PM EST
Happy Friday!
Oh wow, not only do I love the inspiration for your polish, but I love the color! It's super pretty. I really like it over black but it's awesome that it's so versatile.
ReplyDeleteI love that you all are getting together and doing this! Your polish is super gorgeous as well! My favorite thing about the Holiday's has to be how most people magically become more nice. Not everyone and it's kind of rare, but I love that the Holiday's tend to bring people together.
ReplyDeleteThis is so exciting! I'm so excited for you :) Love your polish!
ReplyDeleteGreat polish! I love everything about Christmas--the Reason for the season, the spirit of giving, the decorations....
ReplyDeleteThis year, I was looking forward to the Candy Cane Oreos and the China Glaze Holiday Collection. I found both :). It's going to be a happy holiday!
ReplyDeleteI love being able to spend time with my family and friends. (And the 3 weeks off from college doesn't hurt either!)
ReplyDeleteI love all the bright and glittery decorations! I love the inspiration for the polish, that's my favorite scene from the movie :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats Steph and a great cause :)!
ReplyDeleteI love the polish, it's very pretty and unique! My favorite thing about the holiday season is definitely getting to spend more time with my family. We don't get together often enough but I know I can always count on spending time with them for the holidays! Thank you for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome! The inspiration for this polish is great, and you picked an awesome charity to support as well :)
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing about the holidays is all the beautiful, twinkly lights!!
ReplyDeleteThe food! The festiveness! Wrapping gifts!
ReplyDeleteThe food, gifts, family everything...lights, snow!!
ReplyDeleteGetting together with family.
ReplyDeleteI love so many things about the holiday season! One of my favorite things is the food ;), but I also love the decorating (with friends and family), and just being able to spend time with family.
ReplyDeleteNormally it would be spending time with my husband. But I lost him in September. I am so thankful for my daughter being here for me. I would never have made it through any of it without her. She is my love now. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a gorgeous polish! Nice work Steph! I pretty much love everything about the holidays...I am particularly in love with the lights and decorations.
ReplyDeletemy favorite thing about the holidays is all the baking plus putting up the tree.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite things about the holidays is being with my family and the decorations
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing about the holidays is our tradition of getting in the car, either bringing a thermos of hot cocoa or more recently going to Starbucks, and then driving around looking at Christmas lights. Last year was the first year my daughter (now 3 1/2) really appreciated it. She's going to love it this year!
ReplyDeleteI love everything about the holiday season!!! Glittery, shimmery decorations, Christmas music, giving presents, getting presents, awesome food, spending time with loved ones! If I had to pick a single favorite thing, it would probably be... Christmas lights! White lights on the tree, colored lights outside. :-D
ReplyDeleteSpending time with family and friends and all the lights and decorations.
ReplyDeleteI love coming home, and being surprised with the Christmas tree being up. My husband gets everything set up and ornaments dragged out so that all I have to do is, together with him, put the ornaments up.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing about this time of year are all the traditions. Every year in early to mid-December my family will get together at my grandmother's house to have baking day. While most of us are in the the kitchen baking various cookies and desserts, some of my cousins will put up the Christmas tree and all the other holiday decorations. We usually end up cooking a meal as well and spend the whole day together having a wonderful time.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite thing about the holidays is being home with my friends and family, and getting to spend time with them! Oh, and the food is good too.
ReplyDeleteI can't even decide. I love the food, decorations, music, movies, clothes, presents, friends and family, and definitely the nail polish!
ReplyDeleteI love riding around at night looking at the Christmas lights :)
ReplyDeleteSeeing my family!
ReplyDeleteHam at Christmas! And pie! Tons of pie! haha
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful top coat! Love how good it looks over multiple shades.
ReplyDeleteSpending time with my family!
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