Espresso!

This is how I feel today! I had to have my Starbies this AM!! Tired and it's been one busy week! I've been creating pages upon pages of 2008 Christmas for one of my clients and it's been so much fun! I don't know about you, but I Heart Christmas and when I can incorporate it throughout the year (when it's not such a stressful time) it just makes me smile! I've been using my favorite holiday paper pack that I picked up last season from My Minds Eye, it's got glitter all over the pages! LOVE Glitter!! Problem is, it's hard to keep anything stuck to these pages!! I finally realized the best was Scotch tacky glue! I've also found my stash of supplies I bought at Scrapfest last year and have used the Cloud 9 chipboard stickers that were so darn cute on some of these pages. Instead of Christmas in July it's Christmas in August in this scrap chick's creative space!!

Hope you have a great rest of your week!

Nicki

Happy Birthday Sis!

Today's entry is dedicated to my sister! It's her birthday today and she's 29 again! I love you sis! Hope you have a great day today!

Enjoy Your Day!
Nicki

Reuse/Recycle

This entry is bittersweet, knowing that my 4-year old daughter is more conscious about the environment than I am. She says to me "Mommy, we have to make the earth happy by recycling." She learned this of course from the Noggin Channel, Yo Gabba Gabba and their catchy commercials. I love that she is picking up the good things from watching those cartoons, unlike when we were young and everytime you turned around there was another commercial about the Easy Bake oven we HAD to have! ;0)

Anyway, to the point of recycling I love the Body Shop's body butters and I always keep the containers when they're empty because I know there's something that I can store in those things! The list is endless. Well, I cleaned out the latest Coconut Butter that I finished off and turned it into a container for my swanky baubles (or whatever small piece of scrap I don't want to lose!). Here's the finished pics! I thought of multiple things to store in here:

• Buttons
• Jewelry
• Eyelets
• Small ribbon scraps
• Teeth (for those kiddos losing them or for those who have false ones) ;0)
• Barretts/Hairbands
• Spare change
• Safety pins

Empty Body Butter Container (make sure you wash it before decorating)

Here's the top of the finished container.

Here's the side view of the container~you may also notice the ribbon around the container, that's the Baby Gap ribbon that I had received on a gift for one of the girls. I love that ribbon!

The list could go on and on... I also thought it would make a great gift card holder (for the larger size containers). Then the person receiving the gift card would receive a little something extra!

Anyway, I hope to find more ways to reuse & recycle!

Enjoy!

Nicki

New Stuff

I finally figured it out, not that it was very hard, but I added a picture for my title. I used the scraps from my Bo Bunny projects earlier this week. Until I figure out how to design my own label via on-line this will have to do. It's fun learning all of this blog stuff! I've researched a bunch of sites and I'm trying to learn how to do some HTML coding so should be interesting or dangerous I might say on what this blog could turn into!

It's been fun being able to do some projects and I'll be scrapping again for a client of mine next week, YAY!! So excited!!

Til next time... toodles!

Nicki

I Dreamed a Dream...

Happy Sunday-Eve!

I realize it's been awhile again, it's been a fun and crazy~ busy summer! It hasn't been too hot so it's really nice to be able to spend time with the girls outside! I learned today that there is an audition for designers for Bo Bunny! I'm so excited, so I put together (in literally 2 hours) some projects to enter the audition. We'll see what happens, just having the opportunity is really cool! It makes me think I may be able to live out my all time favorite thing to do~ Scrap it Swanky Sister!! How much fun!! Well I've posted here what I submitted you'll have to tell me what you think! I did a 12 x 12 page of my parent's 40th Anniversary and a frame to go along with it, I could have dressed up the frame more if I had more time but oh well, it's still cute and I don't have to go buy my mom and dad a 45th anniversary present this year! ;0)





Wish Me Luck!

Nicki

Blog Under Construction

So, it's been awhile, AGAIN, where I haven't been keeping up with the blogging or posting pics of anything I've created lately! SO, I've been an avid follower of several other blogs and decided it was time to change up the layout of mine to get me energized to start posting more! So here goes, you'll have to let me know what you think! I'm trying to figure out how to make my title more interesting, so I may have something creative in that spot by the end of the week!

Hope you all are having a great summer! It's so much fun taking pics this time of year! I have 750 on my camera right now that I'm downloading on Shutterfly at this moment to start making some swanky creations!

I had some time last week where my sister and I got a moment to do some scrapping, it was so nice! I'm hoping to have more moments like this before the summer ends!

Til next time...

Nicki

Wowsers! It's summertime!

Ok, so I've neglected the blog! Not like anyone has read it anyway! I just had a week of vacation where I had a pretty productive week! Pretty excited about that! I did get a better grip on the scrapbook room! I've weeded through and put together a keep/toss/sell pile! I'm a huge fan of craigslist lately and have really had a lot of success selling items on there. I've also advertised my scrapbook services and have had a couple of bites. So excited about that! I love to scrap and doing other people's scrapbooking seems more fun right now than doing my own!

It's going to be a busy summer! The kiddos are growing like weeds! My youngest turns 2 this week and it just about breaks my heart that she's no longer a baby and turning into a toddler! My oldest is sooooo smart, she really needs to keep busy or she gets herself into things she shouldn't be in, including my scrapbook stuff! Too cute though some of the things she comes up with!

Summer for me includes, lots of days at the pool, lots of cookouts and lots of playing outside in the yard! Looking forward to a fun summer, just so glad it's warm outside!!!

Scrap lots & according to my wall art "Scrap your heart out"!

Til next time...
Nicki