trash the dress

Some pictures as we trashed Jenna's wedding dress. Lots of fun, but I felt so bad for her cause it was over 100 degrees and that dress weighed a ton once it was full of water. She was however a great sport, as was Paul her new husband.

i totally forgot to post before i left town but we are in mexico right now. about 1 hour outside of cancun in a cute town called Playa del Carmen. lots of charm and amazing beaches.

my sister Jenna got married here on saturday and the entire family has been here all week swimming, drinking, laughing and making some great memories. we head home tomorrow and while i will be a bit relieved to say goodbye to the extreme humidity, i can't say i will miss my lazy afternoons at the pool, unlimited margaritas and seeing my family every morning. it has been a wonderful trip... despite the fact that i somewhat accidentily hit my brother in the face yesterday and cut his eyebrow open with my wedding ring... ooops, long story....

i will post pictures when i am home, but so far my favorite part was helping out at a trash the dress photo shoot the day after the wedding. i told my sister about this back when she got engaged but i never thought she would be up for it... but she loved the idea and i can't wait to see the results... she is beautiful and her new husband is a charming fire fighter so everyone at the beach thought we were doing a high fashion shoot... it was quite funny.

i also found this amazing shop downtown that has tons of wonderful dia de los muertos stuff. i love it all and think i may be coming home with a handful of skeletons.

in other news, i just bought this lovely kit. i am so excited for my friend KL and wish her only the best. she truely has a wonderful eye for this kind of thing. Congrats Kerry. I am so proud of you and can't wait to play with the kit.

hasta luego amigos!

it was 1970 something...

i have a new addiction.
yearbook yourself
i have always thought i was meant to have been born in another generation...
but after looking at these i'm pretty sure i'm best where i am.
have fun playing.

1958


1960


1964


1966


1976

5 things for today

Happy monday.

1. Weren't the closing ceramonies AMAZING?
2. I am really considering going to London in 2012 for the next summer games. (by which i of course mean as a spectator... unless they make scrapbooking an olympic sport... and even then, I don't think i would make the team. smiles.)
3. I am sooooo ready for the fall.
4. I had the best dinner ever with Ron, my Grandma and my Dad. yummy steak!
5. There is a new collection releasing today at SIStv. The Urban Prep. I just love the colors in this one. lots of yummy green.
here's what I did with it so far.




and also some other recent creations.

lovely littles

i am addicted to making these little pouches. they were all inspired by Rhi and her webisode from a few weeks ago.
The first few have been a little wonky, but each one gets a bit better... and i have already had a bunch of girls at work offer me money to make them custom ones...

the very last one is made from a vintage table cloth circa 1950's... it had some wine stains on it so it didn't break my heart to cut it up... i love vintage linens by the way.

thanks for looking.
love nikki

27 trips around the sun

today was a fabulous birthday.
breakfast in bed.
lazy days in pjs creating stuff.
a signing balloon.
flowers from my angie baby.


and some from my lovely mom.



a special creation from digi master cathy.



lots of calls and texts from my favorite people.
and even a singing message from this girl and her cute kiddos.

thank you to everyone who made my day special.

peace

this makes me so happy.
the end.


(or maybe it was the 2 margaritas that are making me happy... either way.....)

an unlikely encounter

I spent yesterday morning browsing the rows and rows of dealers at the Alameda Antique Fair, by far one of my favorite places to spend a Sunday.



I scored with some charming antique linens, some ribbon and paper and also this tacky, kitschy little piggy bank. Ron hates it and i simply adore it... oh, and the piano stool he is sitting on... yup, got that little baby too.... and it even has metal claw feet. I'm pretty much a happy girl.




And, guess who I ran into.....



yup, Tim Holtz. So I'm sitting there cramming my face with a sausage on a soft roll covered in sour kraut and i see this face that i recognize. So i am thinking to myself for a split second, "how do i know this face? Do they work for Starbucks? Are the a customer?" and then it dawns on me and i blurt out (with a mouthfull of sausage mind you) "TIM HOLTZ!"
anyhow, i am a dork but i couldn't let him escape without a pic for the blog. turns out he had been in the bay area teaching a class.

None the less, not the person i expected to run into.

who doesn't love fair food?

The summer wouldn't be complete without a trip to the county fair... and we pretty much just go for the food... and it was goooood.



Ron actually took the camera from me and took some pictures which is totally rare. We make it a tradition to always stop by the photo booths for our annual strip of silly (usually ugly) pics... and this year it was especially ugly... really, it was bad.





And I wanted these glasses so bad but Ron said no way would he be seen with me if i wore them... i totally love 'em... so 80's... oh well.

rafting and weddings

This weekend was a blast. It was one of the best weekends I've had since my trip to Tennessee. We were on the river for most of the day on Saturday, camped out over night on the bank of the river and then rafted for 1/2 the day on Sunday before heading home. There was about 300 people on our trip and about 50 or so in our group... mostly friends of my Mom's from the hospital. We had tons of food and drinks and plenty of laughs. We really enjoyed it... now I want to plan a trip for next summer for all of mine and Ron's friends.

Kacy and I were partners and even though I came pretty close to pushing her outta the raft or hitting her on the head with the paddle, we survived the experience. Once we got our rhythm we were cruising down that river.



A quick photo after we packed up all the gear to head back to the river.



The craziest thing was there was a wedding in our group on Saturday night. We saw these two ladies on the river with veils on so I yelled congrats to them and they told us the wedding was that night back at camp and everyone was invited.
I did end up bringing my canon so I went over to their camp site and took pictures for them. They were so thrilled to have someone with a nice camera there to document the event. I got some email addresses so I will get the photos out to them today. It was a really cute ceremony and I was so happy I could help with the photos.



I have a few water cameras I will develop this week so hopefully we have some more pics of us actually rafting.

hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

heading to the great outdoors...
we're going rafting and camping this weekend.
pretty excited to get outside and in the water.
i'll share pics when i get home... if i take my camera... i'm a little nervous to bring it... obviosly not on the water, but i might bring it to the campground.
we'll see.

on another note...
is it sad that the main reason i want to bring my camera is so i can use this line of products with the pictures?




happy weekend!

the classic

The newest collection goes on sale today at SIStv. The Classic.
It comes with the coolest set of alphabet stamps from October Afternoon, lots of American Crafts and a bunch of other elements that definitely bring out the classic in everyone. Here is what I have made so far with my collection.





oh, also, I signed up for this online class taught by the uber talented Ashley Wren. This girl rocks and I am super excited for the class.

happy monday.

Celebrating 5 years

of marriage to my cute husband.
We are spending our anniversary relaxing at home and either going out to brunch or dinner. I just am looking forward to hanging out home together, watching movies and cuddling on the couch. my kind of a perfect day.

Hoping you have a wonderful weekend.
love nikki

eta: we had a great brunch this afternoon and then took a nap on the couch watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. We just got home from an awesome dinner at one of our favorite restaurants out in Marin.... bacon wrapped filet minot medallions, scalloped potatoes, wine, creme brulee and a latter for the drive home. perfect day.

RAK winner

monica v said...
loving that paper.....i shopped too...scored a beach bum kit.

Congrats Monica. email me your addy so we can get it in the mail for you!
nikkigreenpeterson@yahoo.com

tgif, RAKs, and Sales.

my life feels crazy.
but good crazy.
but still crazy.
my to do list never gets shorter.
my bank account never gets larger.
but, i have been having fun.
lots of it.
i don't think i would be happy with a calm life,
even though i always complain about the hecticness of my current one.

okay,
and
breathe.....

so i do have things to share from my trip to Tennessee (which was a blast) but i will save that for later.
cause it is 4:23am and I must go to bed.

but, because all the other girls are doing it :)
i'm doing an RAK today!

okay, so SIS is having a 20% off sale till 12 noon CST today 6/27. Just use the coupon code ONEDAY and your entire order will be 20% off, and there is some yummy new thickers and making memories and heidi swapp and more.

So, here's where the RAK comes in... if you shop the sale and then leave a comment here I will send you a pack of not-yet-released Orange Milk Lab paper from SIStv..... and it is super cute...
in fact, here is a LO Jo-Anne made with some of the paper...


so happy shopping!

bye for now.

i'm heading out the door for the airport in about 5 minutes for SISiversary in Tennessee. I hope everyone has a great week. I'll be home next monday.

Oh, be sure to check out the Fashionista Blog on Thursday cause I am posting a fun tutorial.

Love Nikki

sneakie peakie!

a few more for my upcoming class on July 5th at PMP. I love this little album so much. I can't wait to share it with you all! And I think my final count was 28 total pages.... i'm telling you it is jam packed!

to sign up call the store or sign up online. I hope to see you there!

off to finish all my packing for tennessee.

loves!

goodness gracious!

I have become a bad blogger... like for reals! I have been a bad blog reader too... i think my reader must have 1000 posts to catch up on. Sorry ladies, I will catch up soon. I think i got so outta the habit when I realized I was slipping I didn't know where to jump back in... so, I figured I would start with some recent creations.

this was obviously for the lovely Gigi. Can't wait to meet her IRL in two days!!!


this was for the current Scrapjacked. Check it out. This one was sponsered by SIStv so a bunch of us joined in the fun. I used to be a loyal jacker and then fell off that wagon so this was a great boost to start doing them again.


and this little baby is part of my new creative regimen. I am a pretty fast scrapper most of the time, but last week I didn't have much time at all but I totally wanted to create so I gave myself 15 minutes. It is so fun to create an LO that quickly cause you don't think at all, just go!



I am off to Tennessee on Weds for SISiversary and so this is pretty much all I have been thinking about. I can't wait to meet all the other SISters IRL. My list of to-do's is a mile long so I am off to finish a few projects I am taking with me... oh, and to make some goodie bags to share with the girls.

Love nikki