Thursday, June 26, 2008

Time out.




Brody threw a cup at Riley the other day and so I sent him to "time out"...not sure if he knew what it was, but when I told him to go to time out, he walked right over to the time out corner and sat down. Well, he looked so cute I had to take some picts.
xoxo
nikki

Monday, June 23, 2008

Dirt cake, bowling, presents...

Happy Birthday my sweet boy... I love you so much. This has been such a fun birthday. We decided to have a bowling birthday party with some of your friends on Saturday and boy did you guys have fun. None of you had ever bowled before and it was hysterical to see you all try your hearts out.
On Sunday we had Nanna, PopPop, Bubbles, Pat Pat, Uncle Ryan and Aunt Lori over for a family birthday party and that was lots of fun too...you had such a great time. You got so many fun presents and were so thankful for each and every one!
I told you a couple of months ago that on the morning of your birthday I would let you have anything you wanted for breakfast and you told me that you wanted icecream, well ICECREAM it is! What a fun way to start your birthday...and a fun tradition we will always continue.
xoxox
mommy

a few birthday picts







Bowling...dirt cake...birthday presents...so much fun! How amazing it would be to be 4 again.
dream.
nikki

Friday, June 20, 2008

Something cool...

After I published my last post, I noticed a note from Picassa (they are an online site where you can create albums of your photos...etc). They created albums of all the photos I have uploaded to my blog...pretty cool huh.
xoxo
nikki

Thought of the day...




...is a dogs mouth actually cleaner than a humans...I hope so. LOL! :)

xoxo
nikki

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Sneek Peek!

In July and August I will be teaching this great class at K2 called 20-20-50. This will be an all day workshop where you will be completing 20 layouts from 20 different sketches using 50 of your photos! You will receive a whole line of Scenic Route paper, whole packs of embellishments from Basic Grey, Maya Road and American Crafts. We will be playing with all different techniques including sewing (both with a machine and by hand), sanding, painting, hand cutting, stamping etc... all of this is included for $75.00 Check back soon for the dates or call K2 941-926-1744.


dream.design.create.
nikki

Friday, June 13, 2008

Quick reminder...

If you haven't gotten "dad" anything for Father's Day yet, join me at K2 on Saturday from 12-2pm to make this adorable 3x3 hanging album! We will be using Basic Grey papers and fibers along with Hambly transparencies, tag punches, buttons, stamps etc. All you need is your basic tool kit along with 12 2x2 photos (I used sepia toned photos).
dream.design.create.
nikki

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Family Photo

I just loved the photos of us taken on Mother's Day..so playing around last night I created this digi LO. TFL.
dream.design.create.
nikki

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Where I am finding Inspiration these days...

These are just a few places I am finding my inspiration these days... Fashion Camp (I "sew" want to take my girlfriends here and make one of these bags...), Heather Bailey (love her fabrics, patterns and her photography), Blissful Living (this is the coolest...wish it was closer to us...Kim, when you move out there to AZ, I am so coming to visit and we are going here!!!!!!!!!!!!), Cat Scrap (my new favorite digital scrapbooking site) and Reusable Bags (I just ordered one that I am going to embellish then use for groceries and shopping etc...). This should keep me busy for a while...
dream.design.create.
nikki

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Inspiration delivered...

I decided I needed some new inspiration... I had been scrapping old photos and have lost my creative mojo looking at them. I uploaded all my photos from January to May to Winkflash (they are having a 6 cent sale for 4x6's) and got 489 photos developed. I have only flipped through a few and already new ideas are flowing....yeah!! Off to sort and place the photos in albums so they at my fingertips when I want them! Hope everyone is having a great creative summer so far.
xoxo
dream.design.create.
nikki

Monday, June 02, 2008

Holli's Baby Shower...

(a game we played at the shower)
(Holli's sweet niece Sophia)
(the cake)
(Holli and Grandpa John)
(Holli opening up one of her presents...)
I went to a friends baby shower this past weekend and had so much fun. My dear friend Holli is due next month with her first baby. She is having a little boy they are naming "Mason". She looks fantastic...pregnancy really agrees with her.
xoxo
nikki

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Slip n Slide




Remember when you were 10 years old and you had a slip n slide in your backyard...I have some great memories of running as fast as I could and throwing myself through the air onto the piece of yellow plastic and flying off the other end into the grass...pure bliss. Well, the only thing that has changed is that the plastic is no longer yellow, it's orange. My boys had a blast...
xoxo
nikki