LRS DT designs for July and CX design

I saw that the LRS July DT gallery is up now so I thought I would post my layouts here. I had alot of fun working with this kit, October Afternoon is such a great company with lots of awesome goodies.

Here is one of my CX design team assignments. The assignment was to use the "Stretch your imagination" Cricut cartridge on a layout. I used it for the birthday cake and the candle border. I also used the Cricut cartridges, "Doodletype" and "Home accents solutions".

Thanks for looking :)
Nikki

A little late posting these....

I wanted to post my June CX assignments that I forgot to post a while ago. The first layout was the American crafts assignment, I had to use the new AC stuff we just got in the store. I love this Spring/Summer line so much, the bright bold colors are so much fun. I used pop dots to make the butterfly have a 3D effect off the page.

This next layout/assignment was to use the new Indie Art Cricut Cartridge (The idea was to use any diecut as a border and some of the other images on the layout) and a little something else from cricut that will be released soon I believe :) I will post more about that when I can, I promise. I also used some of the new Basic Grey Archaic collection paper pack and some other goodies from the CX store on this layout.

Thanks for letting me share :) I also finished up my July LRS layouts that I will share with you as soon as the gallery goes up.

Nikki

Oh my...Yummy Heather Bailey paper..

Okay so I don't have a picture of the paper to show you lol but here is a picture of some oh so cute fabric/felt strawberries she made from her blog :)

The new paper line from Autumn Leaves by Heather Bailey is to die for, seriously some fabulous stuff! It's got these pastel but bright yummy colors and patterns that are like her fabric lines. as soon as I create something with my new paper I will share with you :) in the mean time you can purchase alot of this line (papers and all the embellishment goodies) at Lifetimemoments.com.

There are no words....CBX Finalist

That can truly sum up what I am feeling right now...

I am still in so much shock about the email I just got from Courtney at Chatterbox. I can't believe that I am on this amazing list of talented people, anyone who knows me, knows what I feel and how long I have loved chatterbox. I am going to do my best once I get that box of CBX supplies to come up with something amazing. Even if I don't make this team, I am just so honored to make this list of 35 people, that is 35 out of 438. Can you people that? Someone please pinch me, this is truly amazing!

In other news, my poor baby girl is very sick right now. Dustin took Bella to the hospital tonight. She has a virus called Hand,foot,mouth so she has bumps in her mouth that are very painful for her, she can't really eat anything and the DR said they will be there for about 7 days. She also has a rash (bumps) on her body (hince the hand foot part). She has a high fever and will have one for a few days. she is so sick all she wants is to be held.

Nikki

Awesome Twilight interviews and news.....

Some of the cast :) ... (these videos are from The Twilight Lexicon )

Meet Jacob ( . he is soooooo stinkin cute! :)

Interview with Mike :)


Interview with the wolf pack :)

This new interview with Stephenie from Borders is awesome...

and look Barnes and Noble is now staying open late like Borders (I will still be going to Borders :) it's closer and gives me more time to get home and read lol ;)....

A hiking we will go...

We got up early today and were a bit bored so Dustin suggested we pack the kids up and take them on a hike in the mountains. I said sure, I was just a little worried about how hot it would be. It's muggy here still from all the fires in the mountains so that worried me to. We drove up to "The Rock", one of my husbands FAVORITE places (he use to go there alot by himself or with friends in HS, he said his first time there was with his uncle as a child). We parked the car and took a trail (not the one to the rock). It was very shady from all the trees, there were some spots of light that would shine through, it looked awesome! We hiked for maybe 45 minutes there and then of course Aidan started saying he was hungry lol. So we went back to the car, snacked, and drank water, then headed up to Castle rock to hike a little more and climb the rock caves. The caves were so cool. It was a great family day :) Here are some pictures...

:)

Nikki

Our little bike rider...

This boy can seriously ROCK! his bike! He learned to ride without training wheels a few months ago, in fact he learned the same day Austin did. Austin is 7 and Aidan is only 4 so this was pretty early. He is so good on it, he can even do a few tricks. He is just like his daddy in so many ways lol, Dustin is amazing on his BMX! When I met him this was like his all time favorite hobby. Figures our boys would follow in his footsteps, well Austin is a little scared of riding, he is pretty good just very serious about it. I tried to snap a few pictures of Aidan on his bike but he was just way to fast for my camera so this is the only one I got LOL...

He does have a helmet for it (there is a red and a blue one and the boys always fight over the red one lol) but I had not taken it out of the car yet (where the bike was when we took it to the park). Aidan was sick (24 hour flu bug) yesterday for the 4th so our plans to head to the beach and do fireworks was out. We do have a ton of sparklers so maybe next weekend.

TTYL

Nikki

First time....

My son, my first born is going on his first "trip" with my MIL, this is the first time one of my children will be away from me for more then a couple days and out of state. I have been going through a bunch of emotions over this. It's so hard, because I have been with each one for the most part home with them since they were all born. I am going to miss hime so much, but I know he will be taken care of and is in good hands and of course he will have so much fun visiting with family in New Mexico (MIL's Brother and family live there). I took these pictures of him yesterday. He left this morning at about 5am. I told them to call me everyday so I can at least hear his voice. I miss him already :(

Nikki

Jacaranda Mimosifolia

LOL no I am not speaking another language, for those of you who don't know what a Jacaranda Mimosifolia is, it's a type of tree. One in which we have in our backyard. Well it's really on the outside of our backyard but all the beautiful, messy, have to clean up everyday purple flowers make it into our yard, so yeah it's like it's our tree if we have to clean up after it right LOL. Anyways here it is....

It truly is a beautiful tree, like I said it's a bit messy. I enjoy this time of year when these trees are in bloom, there are alot of them here in California, you can drive anywhere and see a few of them. Same goes with cherry blossoms or plum trees in the spring, which I also love, and we actually have one of these in our yard, it was a gift from Dustin for me a few months ago. Anyways sorry about all the boring tree talk lol, we have been working on the yard and talking about how we want to landscape the yard and I just wanted to share some pictures of the pretty tree lol.

Nikki

Oh the fits....

LOL, so I was taking a FEW (yes this post will have alot of them) pictures of Adriana this morning and yes started getting mad, when she gets mad now she will slam down on her bottom with her feet tucked behind her and she will start waving her hands all over the place and once she has made her point she lays down calm on the floor, these are full out fits, she is such a girl lol, the boys NEVER did this lol...

She really was in a bit of a mood, she seems like she might be coming down with something.

Nikki

Yummy Scarlet Lime kit, my silly son, john mayer...

I can't wait to get this kit and see it in person. I did not get the project kit this time though, I have a few of the things in it and some of it I don't think I would have used. I did love the stamp and of course the beautiful trim though. Anyways here is the main kit.

And in important John Mayer news :) His new CD/DVD comes out today, just a reminder ;)

Also My son Austin has this clone mask from Star Wars (part of last years halloween costume) well he decided to make his own copy of the mask out of paper and crayons today lol (my kids are so creative, they are little artists lol) anyways I took these pictures of him, lol both boys are also lego and big block fans, hince the lego "star wars" gun lol.

Nikki