Layouts, radio interviews, classes and of course SHIPPING...

I had to share this layout with everyone, Kat Glossop, one of my International design team girls made it using my Henry Brilliance paper line!! (I love seeing what everyone does with these lines, she totally made this "dog" layout using my "back to school" papers!!) I love that!! Great Job Kat!! As you know I'm a huge fan of DOGS!!
This was created by Deana Boston another one of DT girls (a local MO girl to me) and it was featured on the "catwalk" over at Scrap in Style!! You just rocked it out Deana!! I just love that tree, and bird, and flag and and and.... all of it!!!!!

Today, Wednesday, I'm going to be featured on the Diva Craft Lounge!! For those of you that don't know it's a great radio show that's broadcast's in 107 countries. Danielle and Rayme are the host and are so fun to listen too!! I met Dainelle at my booth at CHA and I knew who she was immediately!! Once we got back home she asked if I'd come on her show and soooo tomorrow at 2pm central time I'll be on!!!!! EEK!!!!! Wish me luck, I've never done anything like this before!!!

Next a sweet lady by the name of Michelle Vocke, that met my dh at CHA, wrote a very nice article about me teaching at the GASC in TN!! You can read about it here: Examiner. This was a big surprise, I had know idea anyone even knew I was going to be teaching at that convention!!

Last but not least...... we are shipping fools around here!! We are working day and night getting shipments out after CHA and trying to keep up with the new orders that are coming in everyday!! We worked all weekend and all day everyday until late in the night trying to keep up!!
(The open boxes are the shipments that have to be double checked and closed up, the stacked closed boxes are waiting for Fed Ex to arrive and be picked up!!)
This was today's 2nd round of boxes, we shipped 34 boxes just today!! So please understand we are doing our very best to get all our products out and shipped to the retail stores as soon as possible!! Until next time... goodnight!! -Nikki

Sorry I've been MIA, but....

I needed to spend some time with my two families and Dan & I needed to spend some down time together away from the business. So Wednesday night we went to the FAIR!!! The Ozark Empire Fair comes to town every summer and we always eat too much, but we have so much fun!! We found these "Fried Oreo's", that's right Fried Oreo's!!! And let me tell you they were great!! Each Oreo was dipped in funnel cake batter and sprinkled with powdered sugar... ummmm so yummy!!
Here they are along with Dan's corn dog!! Dan and I went and had dinner at Rudy's, it's this great BBQ stand at the fair that comes every year and it's run by Rudy his wife, kids and grand- kids. Their food so good and I get a "slaw-dog" it's a chili dog with homemade cold slaw on it!! Sorry no pic of it, it went straight to my tummy!! Here is a picture of my mom, Trish, and step-dad, Denny, they met up with us later in the evening at the fair.

Me kissing a huge frog at the fair!!!
Dan just being silly!! (Isn't that what you're suppose to do at the fair.... be silly!?!)
Okay this is great, my girlfriend, Marla, told me that her 9 year old daughter won the first place ribbon in her age group for drawing, and she won the "grand champion" ribbon for all of the drawing entries!! She drew this picture of her grandma, again she is only 9 years old, and a very talented artist!!
The last picture was taken as we where leaving the fair!!

Thursday night was my sister-in-law Tessa's birthday, she turned 27!! Awe... to be 27 again, I can't believe I'm 10 years older than her!! Anyway we all had a great time visiting and catching up!!
(Tessa and my brother,Ryan)
Then Saturday night was my step-mom, Donna's birthday and we all went to this really old historic restaurant in Ozark, called Riverside. (They have the best fried chicken ever!!) So I got to spend last night with my other family, my sisters and their kiddo's.... This pic is of Donna and some of the kids singing Happy Birthday to her. The next picture is of my dad, Ron.

My nephew Cade.
Miss Ellie and I!!
I had to show you all this picture b/c I caught Ellie going around the table and drinking the rest of everyones melted ice cream!! This girl loves ice cream more than anyone I know!! Seriously!!

And this is little Max, one of my sister Emily's twins. Max is getting so big!! I wasn't able to get a good picture of Molly b/c the twins are teething and she was a little fussy and not really up to getting her picture taken. The twins will be 6 months old the end of this month!! My sister is doing such a great job with them and her other two kids, Cade and Ellie.... she's a great mom and I don't know how she does it all!! Well, I guess that's it for now, have a great rest of the weekend!! -Nikki

My "Henry's Brilliance" paper line and another cute kit of the month...

Well I don't know about all of you but our public schools start up in two weeks!! Where did our summer go... it seems that school was just out for the summer yesterday! Henry my step-son feels the same way!! I designed my back to school line for those of us that want a school paper line to fit both our little ones and our older ones too!! Henry will be 14 next month... I remember when he use to crawl up on my lap to snuggle! Now I can hardly get him to give me a "real" hug!! For CHA I had to get my owl mini album sampled so I decided to do an album about Henry's 7th grade year. (A kind of quick look back of the school year.) I wanted to share it with all of you. Also I wanted to share this great card, up above, that one of my Design Team ladies sent me. Thanks Mimi Leinbach!!




Guess what!?! My papers are in a kit along with Jenni Bowlin's embellishments! Of course I had to blog about that!! (We all know how much I like Jenni and her designs!!)
So to have our products in one kit together... WOW, very exciting for me!! You can see it here: http://www.scrapattackscrapbooking.com/
Goodnight!! -Nikki'

On the road again....

Hello from the road. We are driving home from CHA, we stayed and did the CHA Consumer Super Show! We had two stores carrying our products at the consumer show, so we were able to direct people to those retailers that wanted to buy my products!!! Each of the two stores sold out of several of the papers from the three released lines, and sold out of all the "Victoria's Street" house chipboard mini albums and Mini Paddies! (That was nice to hear.) Both retail stores also reordered products!!
As you can see from the picture above I've set up an "office" in the car... my cell phone, inhaler (b/c my asthma has been a little more active), chap-stick (a must have for me), a pen, and credit cards (b/c I had to reorder more products this morning due to the amount of orders we got at CHA). When the roads are good I work, when the roads are bad I'm sick to my stomach!! FUN FUN!!
Dan driving and listening to his I-Pod. The weather yesterday through FL and GA was awful!! The rain came down so hard you couldn't talk or hear each other!! And we had to drive sooooo very slow...
Me in the car yesterday, resting after such a long and exciting week!!
I had to share this picture with all of you, this man and his son came by one of the retail stores that where selling my products at the Super Show and they did my make-n-take, a little owl book mark!! They were so sweet and isn't that little boy just aadorable!!!

Okay this is so cool, I just got this email about this adorable kit that is being sold here: http://scrapinkits.blogspot.com/ using my papers along with other great products!! It is such a sweet little kit with such fun things in it, I had to share it with everyone!!!
We should be home in a few hours and we can't wait to see Henry and our fur-babies!! -Nikki

Instructions for the Paper Cupcakes...

CUPCAKE INSTRUCTIONS...
My make-n-take the little "paper cupcake" was a huge success!!! Many people wanted the instructions, so here is the link to the video I used to make them!! I've never met Leah Fung with Scrapbook Etc Magazine, but her VBlog is wonderful and filled with many great ideas!! Here is the link to Leah Fung's VBlog: PAPER CUPCAKES
Enjoy! -Nikki

CHA is over...

I'm talking with someone just outside my booth when my husband taps my shoulder and says "Um... Nik, Jenni Bowlin just walked in our booth" I turn around and see this adorable petite lady, OMG JENNI BOWLIN IS IN MY BOOTH!!! OMG SHE IS LOOKING AT PRODUCTS!!! So I calmly (NOT) walk over to her and introduce myself and then start crying!!! Yes, that's right I started crying, WOW I have this lady who has been such an inspiration to me for so long here in my booth, it is amazing to me!! In that moment I realized just how far I had come in pursuing my dream!! Jenni Bowlin had always been a designer I admired (still do) and I was thrilled to meet her. (She is soooooo sweet too!!) Jenni told me that she had heard my name more than once and wanted to check it out her self. (She placed an order too, so keep an eye out on website, www.jennibowlin.com) Thanks Jenni!!
Here is another GREAT lady, Jill, from Jillibean Soup!! Jill is as sweet as her papers are! She had three ladies working in her booth with her that were wonderful to me, they fed me and gave me water too. Jill also gave me some of her paper!!! Thanks so much Jill, and thanks everyone who worked in her booth!! You all rock!!
Nancy Nally from Scrapbook Update came by to get all the info on why we started this business and about all my products. My husband thanked her because he has been reading her Scrapbook Updates to learn as much as he can about the scrapbook world. We had a great time chatting about everything CHA!!
Julie McGuffee was recording a segment near our booth then stopped by to say Hi and again I was so honored that she stopped by my booth!! I love her and Beth Madlands show on PBS called Scrapbook Memories!!
This pic is with Susan Dupre, Chartiy Hassel (two of my DT ladies), Jenni Bowlin and me!! CHA has been great for all of us at Nikki Sivils, Scarpbooker LLC, we've had soooo many orders and the feedback was crazy good!! Dan and I are very happy with debuting at CHA and can't wait for the Winter CHA in January 2010!!!

CUPCAKE INSTRUCTIONS...
One more thing my make-n-take the little "paper cupcake" was a huge success!!! Many people wanted the instruction so here is the link to the video I used to make them!! I've never met Leah Fung with Scrapbook Etc Magazine, but her VBlog is wonderful and filled with many great ideas!! Here is the link to Leah Fung's VBlog: PAPER CUPCAKES

WOW... CHA ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

So here it is, our booth!! (This pic it from Monday night the last night to set up before the show started, on Tuesday.) I was so tired last night I couldn't even do a post here. I'm as tired tonight, but still a little pumped from all the momentum of the day!! We had a steady stream of buyers in our booth literaly all say long!! YAY!! We took many orders today and talked with many people and gave out a ton of catalogs. The feedback was fabulous!! I meet some great people, and 'The Scrap Review" ladies came by and were so very nice and funny too, they took many pictures and even made a little video in my booth!! (Emilie, don't forget to edit that video!!LOL) Thanks Scrap Review!!!

This is the make-n-take that was going on all day at my booth. Two of my design team girls, Susan Dupre & Charity Hassel took turns all day demonstrating the make-n-take!! They rocked it!!! Dan and I heard ladies, and even a couple of men too, laughing and having a great time with them!! Thanks Charity and Susan, you both were great!!!
I GOT TO MEET DONNA DOWNEY!!! So I turn around and who is checking out my paper line, "My Sweet Cherry Pie", no other than Donna Downey!! I ran up to her and introduced myself and she said my papers were cute!! What a great compliment and honor!!! Thanks Donna!!
One of my orders today came from Sheri, the owner of The Scrap Nook in my hometown!!YAY!! We only have two scrapbook stores in Springfield so it's so nice to be in both!! Sheri was a sweetheart and loved my papers, and it was soooo nice to see a local person in such a sea of strangers!! Thanks, Sheri!!! Well that pretty much sums up my day... wild and crazy!! It's so great to get such awesome feedback and orders too of course!! Until next time... -Nikki