It's Back To School!!! - Day 2

WARNING: this may be a somewhat lenghty post filled with irrelevant moochi-moochi reminiscing - you have been warned! :)

Today's theme? ABCs

And why is this bound to be lenghty and moochi-moochi? Because, apart from always having been a child who loved school, I loved learning my ABCs - learning how to read and write were definitely of the best moments in my life! :D

Ever since I learned to walk, I used to always have a book on me (Mom and Dad can atest to it) and you could hear me 'reading' in my babbling baby language whatever stories little me thought those weird paintings (letters) told.

I've got to thank Mom and Dad for all the books they bought me and all the incentive they always showered me with! Till this day, reading is still something I cannot go by without if I want to keep my mind a sane one ;) 
'Cause you know what?, READING TOTALLY ROCKS <3

That being said, and trying to keep it short, this is my ABCs mani:

Doing these letters and words with a brush was very much like learning how to write all over again! ;)

When I look at these I remember my first grade teacher, one of the awesomest teachers I've ever had!
She was strict as strict can be but did we learn well!
She wouldn't allow rubbers on her class, so we had to be careful with what we wrote and how we did it, because there was no erasing any mistakes we might make.
That lady did teach us a great lesson for our entire lives: think before you do anything!
Thank you, teacher Sara! <3

As for the manicure and trying to leave reminiscing out of this ;)
I started with white for the background, using the last droplets of my most cherished but now gone OPI Alpine Snow.

I then took my nail art brush (the two of us have been getting very attached to each other lately ;)) and did the blue lines and the pink margin with acrylic paints.

For my thumb and pinkie, I did the first five letters you learn - the vowels :)

Do you remember practising them on your little notebooks?! 

I filled so many pages with these!!

And last, but not least, I wrote some of the words I remember practising over and over again when the consonants were introduced  and we had to learn how they sounded with the vowels (this is getting me all teary, dammit! hahaha)
I wrote the words in Portuguese - hmmm...wondering if anyone will look up what they mean ;)

Just kidding - after such a long post, I've probably drained you from all your energy! ;)

Hope you liked this one anyway - it'll forever hold a special place in my gallery <3

Make sure to leave me a comment with your thoughts and feelings about it and check everyone else's ABCs manis ;)

Hugs & Kissies,

Mina *