Pettson and Findus

Last week I posted these nails over at Polish Art Addiction. And boy did I learn a lot! A girl named Laureen simply  suggested "Pettersson and Findus," and I went to Google to learn more. Everything that turned up was in German! So I figured this was a German children's cartoon. I watched an intro to a show on Youtube, saw some book covers, and figured this was a huge fad in Germany (welcome to why my thumb says "und"). Well, as soon as it posted at Polish Art Addiction, a ton of helpful commenters corrected me and said that it was originally a Swedish cartoon! Originally the Swedish cartoon was called Pettson and Findus (or Pettson och Findus) and it was a set of children's books about a farmer and his cat. Here's a photo of them:

Where's Waldo?

Yay! Where's Waldo nails! I painted these and then after I was done I looked up "Where's Waldo nail art" on google and realized that I probably had filed away in the back of my mind Leslie from Polish Art Addiction's version of Where's Waldo nails.

Here I made Waldo's shirt and pants, then painted his face and made him give a little wave. I accidentally put his thumb on backwards (whoops). But my favorite nail is my thumb which is the logo that is usually on the inside cover of the books, sometimes it's on the actual cover as well. I was really proud of the lettering, which if you notice how short my nails are, is really small!

Still Life with Woodpecker

My favorite book of all time is Tom Robbins' Still Life with Woodpecker. It about a developing relationship between a princess, Leigh-Cheri, and an outlaw, The Woodpecker. It is poetic in every way imaginable. On my nails I painted some of the themes of the book:
My index finger says "Yum," the mantra of the Woodpecker.
On my middle finger I have a pack of Camel cigarettes, the setting of the entire tale.
My ring finger is The Woodpecker's bushy red hair. This red hair shows up a lot in the novel.
My pinky is a match stick, for The Woodpecker to blow things up
And my thumb is a bottle of tequila underneath the moonlight. If you look closely, you can see the UFO in the upper right corner.

The Armchair Economist

Largely this is presented without comment until a later date. All I'll say now is that this is a book my father wrote that is awesome.