Blue Mountain Ranch nails!

BMR nails to celebrate our wonderful trip to Blue Mountain Ranch summer camp. Send all your kids there! Oh, and yellow part represents "A Mountain Made of Gold" for "Friendship is a mountain made of gold that cannot be bought or sold." Seriously, people, send your kids to BMR!

Nail Art: Birch and/or Aspen Trees!

Possibly my favorite nails of all time (tied with Snoopy and candy canes??). Totally copied from this tutorial. I just love, love, love the design. I kept staring at them the entire week, getting lost in the forest. I felt totally transported to the Colorado mountains. Which I'd say is a pretty big feat for some tiny trees on a tiny backdrop on tiny fingernails.

If you don't get lost in them, do you have a soul?

The Hairpin: Camp Series

Also, this series on camp!

I wonder if they're accepting submissions. I've got so many great camp stories.

Every summer since I stopped attending, I miss camp. It really is an incredible experience. I'm sure everyone thinks this (and why shouldn't they?), but my camp is extra special. There's just something about it that's so incredibly pure. It really shaped who I am today in all the best ways.

Plus, it is one of those magical places where I can feel completely at peace. Like a straight-up monk or something.

If you haven't been to camp before, I also recommend listening to TAL's episode "Notes on Camp" from 1998. They just replayed it this week, so you can download the podcast until Sunday.