LRS class projects I made...

I taught the Aug class at LRS this month and thought I would share some pictures of what I taught. The classes are now closed and the Sept classes taught by Jennifer Swartz are now up so go check out her classes, they look like so much fun! Here is the stuff I taught using the Daisy D's "Fall in love" Line.

Altered mini hat box-





Circle mini paper bag album "My favorite things"-













Close up of each page-















Altered Journal-



Cards with stamping techniques-













TFL

Nikki

New music Playlist

I was blog hoping and saw that someone had this neat playlist on their blog so I thought I would make my own. It's alot like the old one only just music no videos. It took me HOURS to add almost 70 songs to it. I picked a bunch of different stuff, new and old, mostly songs I LOVE. I did get carried away with John Mayer LOL, but we all know he is my favorite ;) So enjoy the new songs and if there is something I should add, let me know :) The playlist is at the bottom of the blog page, you can chose any song on it or just listen to it all the way through, I do this when I am in here cleaning or scrapping :) Or you can just turn it off if you do not want tohear the music, it's up to you.

Nikki

Dream come true!

Last Friday I received a call from Natalie from Creative Xpress . She told me that I had made it onto the Creative Xpress DT. I was in shock, Who me? I really made it? WOW! I was so nervous on the phone lol. I can not tell you how excited and happy I am! Creative Xpress is amazing, it has an amazing community of people who are so friendly, like a big giant family! The gallery is full of inspiration and talent, the store is awesome! I have spent some $$$ in it LOL, they are always stocked full of everything and anything you need. And the Design team, WOW! So many talented people... look at this...

The 2007-2008 Creative Xpress Design Team Members are:

Anna Davison
Cari Locken
Becki (CKmommy)
Elizabeth Carney
Greta Hammond
Heidi Trejo
Heather Thompson
Jen Nichols
Jen Gallacher
Kristy Lee
Kara Henry
Melissa Philips
Liana Suwandi
Melanie (meldouthit)
Nancy van den Berg
Nikki Hobbs
Peggy Severins
Robyn Weatherspoon
Michelle (Shellie) Hubbartt
Wendy Malichio

I am so honored and happy to be working with these amazing women and this company and a bit nervous lol, how did I get a chance to do this, I am still in so much shock and keep pinching myself. Thank you Creative Xpress for taking a chance on me :0)

Color your Memories

I received an email last month from Keianna the owner of the Kit club " Color your memories " She was just as sweet as can be. She asked if I would like to be a guest designer for her kit club. I was so excited and said yes. When the package came with the kit inside I was so happy, this kit was loaded with a bunch of goodies, I could make at least 8 layouts with it, plus have a bunch of stuff leftover for cards and stuff. I can not believe the price of these kits either, you get all of this, Patterned paper (the latest and greatest), Cardstock, ribbons, buttons, brads, Frames, Flowers, thicker letters, rubons and more, all for only $18.50. Seriously you need to go check this club out! That price alone has me sold, but just wait until you see all the kits! Here is the awesome September kit I had the chance to work with...



I am so inlove with that Amy Butler paper, and the Daisy D fall in love line is a new Summer CHA hit. It's great for any theme. All the embellishments are a perfect match! It's a must have kit!

Here are a few things I created using the kit...



















I had so much fun working with this kit. A big thank you to Keianna for letting me be a guest designer this month, it was so much fun! If you have not seen this club go now lol, you will love it!

Nikki

Quick post

I have to make this post fast because blogger is planning on having an outage in 7 minutes lol, but I wanted to get some of these pictures up for my family who have been asking for them :) I will make a better post tomorrow I promise, plus I wanted to show you guys what I did as a Guest Designer for an awesome kit club PLUS some very exciting new for me, all coming tomorrow...

Here are the pictures... (I was so behind!)















































Okay I think I am caught up with the weeks now :) so this Friday I will have to post the 13 week pictures ;) How cute are the pool ones? She went in the pool (full body, she has had her toes in it before lol) with her grandma and her big brother. She is filling out now and weighs about 9 lbs, still tiny for a three month old, but she is gaining. If anyone has any advice on re-building your milk supply or things I can do to try and get my milk going better I would love to hear. I am seriously thinking about purchasing the Lact Aid Nursing Trainer system, it's a little pricey ($49.99) but it will really help, anyone use one of these? It's the tube that hooks up to the breast while feeding, you pour formula (she is still doing both) into a baggie and hook the tube up to it and then tape the tube to your breast and it helps them get your milk supply going again. I am not going to give up on this, I am so sad that it is still taking forever to rebuild it back up from when I stopped during the surgery/recovery/meds, week and a half I had. I read that it can take 3+ months to rebuild. I am still pumping and feeding her but I think with that Lact-Aid nursing trainer it could help it along faster. Anyways, I am running out of time to get this up, so I will end it here and I will post more tomorrow.

Nikki

Halloween, school, the good stuff!

So I logged online this morning at around 6:30am and was greeted to an IM from my good friend Mely :) She linked me to this page at Babystyle with all these adorable Halloween Costumes for babies. I LOVE Baby's first Halloween, Austin was the pea in the pod, Aidan was a Pumpkin and Thanks to Mely Adriana will be this...



How cute is my little butterfly going to be? I love this! And I especially love that it has legs lol, no bunting, Adriana moves her little legs so much! (Dustin calls her Froggy because of it lol), it's just so perfect I could not be anymore happier and how girlie is it :) so stinkin cute!. I can't wait for this costume to get here. They also had these cute little costumes to...



Beautiful Peacock, but it's bunting lol and a bit boyish to me.



And a kangaroo and look what is in the pouch lol, a Baby Kanga, soooooooo cute!!!! I LOVE this time of year, it is my favorite, Fall, Halloween, my birthday LOL ;) Austin wants to be a transformer this year and Aidan wants to be a pirate. Next year we are all going to totally FINALLY do the scooby gang (family) theme, ALL of us ;)

Well I was up bright and early this morning because it was my son's first day of first grade, Okay is every year going to be a weepy mess for me on the first day of school? He was so nervous and excited he hardly could sleep last night and with him being up throughout the night and getting up with Adriana I am so tired today, I could totally use a nap. He was up to see his daddy leave for work, I fed him breakfast (poptarts, we decided on this because his stomach was a bit upset from nerves), I made him take a shower last night after I cut his hair so he would not have to bother with it this morning. I got ready, showered, makeup etc. We waited around, I made his lunch (Egg salad sandwich, capri sun, apple, scooby fruit snacks and a mini pringles cup.) When my mom got here we were off to his first day of first grade. We stood in his line and got to meet his teacher (very nice lady), then when the bell rang we went into his class. First impression, it's alot different then Kindergarten, so, so, ....well.... grown up :( no rainbow colored carpet for singalong time or story time, no group tables, it was so grown up, we put his backpack into his cubbie (had his name on it, it was so cute!) and walked to the desks/table he shares with one other student (Rosemary). There were 5 Kindergarten classes last year and this year there are 6 1st grade classes. He only had one child from his class last year (Ramon) in his new class. I think he is a little sad that Mara (his very close friend who is a girl, we CAN NOT call her his girlfriend or he gets so upset LOL) is not with him :( On his desk was his name tag taped to it and a pencil box with supplies in it (crayons, pencils and erasers), a gift from his new teacher. I remembered to take pictures of him before he left but silly me I forgot my camera on the counter in the kitchen on our way out :( so there I was the actual scrapbooker mom lol and the only mom there without her camera :( There was a dot to dot worksheet on his desk/table so he got right to it and started working on it, he loves dot to dots (this one had numbers you follow to make the pattern). I leaned in and told him it was time for mommy to go and that I loved him very much (at this time I start to feel the tears coming, not there just building) he said very slow (he was very nervous and I did not want to upset him so I whispered to him as I spoke.)that he loved me to, and then I told him I would be back when school was out to get him and that I hoped he had a wonderful and exciting day with his new teacher and all the new friends and classmates he would meet today. Then I went for the door. I of course turned around and stood half between the door and outside and watched him a little more, he was so into his Dot to Dot, I smiled , got teary eyed again and left. I can not believe he is in first grade, I am going to blink and it will be 5th grade, blink again and he will be finishing up Highschool, I don't want to stop time, but darn it where is that slow-mo button :)

Okay well I need to get my sketch up for my class and finish my second project for my second class, I will try and post those pictures tonight if I get time, probably after Big Brother 8 is over, I can't wait to see the Jen meltdown (I saw on the livefeeds) and how they play up the pen. nom/vote she will be getting tonight. TTYL

ETA- Here are my DT layouts for LRS...

I know I used these pictures on another layout but they worked out so perfect with This DT challenge we had at LRS (A sketch by Jennifer Swartz)



The background is stamped with one of the SassaFrass Lass stamps I designed for LRS.



More stamps I designed on this layout, they all match the new Dasiy D fall in love line.




Nikki