Showing posts with label new years resolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label new years resolution. Show all posts

Monday, January 2, 2012

Note to 2012

love
dear 2012,
i'm really excited for everything you might bring to my little family. i feel like this year could really be our most exciting and adventurous yet! 2011 was a little rude to me but i know you won't be like that. i know you'll be the year for growing and building self esteem and confidence and basically really becoming the person i've always wanted to be. i also know you'll be full of creativity and hopefully some good health thrown in there too, that would be nice. but mostly i want you to be a year full of love and fun! 
let's see if we can make that happen.
love, Nikki

Friday, March 26, 2010

monster madness


so remember way back to the new year when i said that i was going to be more crafty?
well, as always, i haven't been doing a very good job with my resolution.
back then i wanted to make that monster stuffed animal right?
well in january i bought the pattern, i bought the fabric, i planned it all out , cut the fabric, pinned him together and he was basically ready to be sewn and stuffed.
but then i got scared of my new cool sewing machine and told myself i couldn't do it and that poor little monster had to sit in our office for months hoping for me to someday be a man, use my sewing machine and give him the life a little monster stuffed animal always wanted!
so...i did just that!
that's right, i finished him!

isn't he the cutest little thing you ever did see?
he's definitely not perfect but not too shabby for my first stuffed animal!
his eyes were a stroke of genius because i couldn't find just one button that i liked the best so i thought to myself "why can't i use two different ones and put them together?"
as it turns out, you can do that!
so i did.
his mouth was a last minute decision that i had to hand sew but i think it's my favoritest part about him!

go me!!
now i just need to make a little friend for him!

(ps. i just realized i'm wearing the same shirt as in my last pictures. what can i say? i really love flannel and i really love that shirt!)