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My Custom, Dual-Sided Diamond Huggies!

When I was designing my two most recent earring charms , I was also having a pair of huggies made! I ended up going custom for two reasons: it can be difficult to find retailers that disclose the quality of their smaller diamonds (like the type I have in my huggies), and it was a challenge to find offset-diamond huggies that had a smaller diameter that would suit my first lobe (which is lower on my lobe than standard, since I had these done when I was very little). To save a little money, I ended up doing dual-sided huggies, so that I could simply reverse them for a different look. One side has small, round diamonds in prong settings, while the other side has off-set, baguette diamonds for a more geometric, eye-catching look. The huggies and settings are all 14K yellow gold, which coordinates with the threadless ends I have in my other piercings. They were designed by Lauryn Volvar at Earth’s Treasury , who also picked all of the diamonds individually. The latter helps to ensure tha...

Do you have any beauty-related resolutions for 2024?

Try to wear full makeup once a week (for fun) I’d say less of a full-on resolution as more of something I’ve been noodling on. I wore full makeup for the Party pups’ adoption day!! — Christine Join Discussion source https://www.temptalia.com/do-you-have-any-beauty-related-resolutions-for-2024/

The Party is Over! A Look Back at the Party Pups

Party with her 14 pups! It’s safe to say that the Party is over! Party and her 14 pups have all been adopted and taken the next step in their journeys. Party gave birth to 14 puppies on October 25th, which is an incredible number of babies for any dog, but especially as she was more of a medium-sized dog (around 45 pounds). I grew to love both mom and her pups after spending so much time with them. It started off with twice-daily supplemental bottle feedings where I fed four to six of the pups twice a day, just to ensure that everyone was getting enough milk as 14 is a lot of babies to feed on her own. Unfortunately, poor Party got mastitis after a week and a half, and she pretty much stopped producing milk around that time. While we had hoped that antibiotics would help the mastitis and help her milk return, it never did. As a result, I ended up going to the rescue three times a day to bottle feed all 14 of the Party pups. Each feeding took around two hours, though eventually we g...