Note cards ready to view!

There is a new album on the Nicole's Visions page of Facebook. Clicking on the cute kitten card will take you right to the photo section of the fan page. I am very happy with how they turned out. Next step is getting them onto the website for sale.

I'm selling them in sets of 4 & 6. Both include domestic shipping. Anything sold in WA will have sales tax added.

A set of 4 will run $12.
A set of 6 will run $18.

If you just can't wait & wish to make you own set ... contact me now via email, a comment here, or a message on Facebook.

I'll be adding exactly how many I have of each card to their descriptions shortly. And once these are gone, I will be making more with new pictures. Most, or all, of these will be retired.

Welcome to the month of November ....

... the month we give thanks for all that we are grateful for. I am grateful that my business is still alive. It has been a hard & trying year. I am truly thankful for my fans & followers.

October brought an impromptu move for me & Nicole's Visions. In all the home hunting I have done I never dreamed we would just move to another unit within our current apartment complex. The opportunity arose & everything felt right so we did it. Bad part? Well, we had to have everything moved from one unit to the other & the old one cleaned ... in a week. Crazy! With the help of friends & lots of determination, we got it done.

My new work area is coming along nicely now. I am ready to be creative once again. And to think, just in time for the holidays.

Speaking of the quickly approaching holidays ....
I already have my bookmarks & tiles on the site. Next up will be my very popular blank photo note cards. Or, as some refer to them, small works of art! I will post when they are ready to view.

Next up after the cards will be all my prints that have those inspiring little words making them perfect for gift giving. There is something for almost every family member, partners & friends. The perfect small gift that speaks from the heart.

I have other projects in the works too so I will be super busy here. The other stuff is huge & has endless possibilities. You can get a sneak peak by checking out the fan page I made for it on Facebook. It's Green .. & surprisingly not photo related!

And speaking of fan pages ... be sure to find Nicole's Visions on Facebook too!

Here's hoping you all have something to be thankful for this holiday season!

Welcome to October!

I've been trying to think of something fun to do for this month. I had a good time posting all my book marks in September that I want to do something else this month.

For the month of October ... anyone who plays will get to see more of my website & have chances to be entered in free drawings.

I have compiled a list of 22 questions. A new one will be posted each weekday (beginning a bit later today) on my fan page on Facebook. A drawing will be held each Weekend with winners (submitting the correct answer(s)) receiving something special of mine. Since we only have 2 days this week, the first drawing will be next weekend. That gives you 7 chances to enter!

You can enter once each day. Winners are eligible for no more than 2 prizes during the month. Multiple winners (minimum of 2) will be drawn each week depending on number of entries. All non-winning entrants will be added to the following weeks drawing. So the more you answer, the more chances you have to win!

Questions will cover all aspects of the website. Answers can be submitted 2 ways.
1. email me directly at NicolesVisions@Gmail.com
2. send me a msg on Facebook.
Whichever way you choose, the title "Hide & Seek answer" must be used. Your full name must be included with your entry answer. Do not submit answers where others can see them!

September Promotion

IF you are a fan on my Facebook page, you already know about the book mark promotion I've been having all month long.



If you are not a fan over there ... well why not? LOL ... just kidding! But if you were a fan, you'd be among the first to know when I offer specials, do promotions or post new pictures. You'd also have gotten a chance to order bookmarks at a buy one get one price!



Not fair huh? Well ... let's change that then. From now thru Wednesday night at midnight (PDT) you can order any book mark from Nicole's Visions & get one of equal or lesser value ... for free. Buy one, buy 10, for each one paid for, you can choose a free one. And ... there is no shipping charge within the US.



Be sure to keep up .. I'm planning another promotion for October too!

Practice photo shoot & the real deal

So I had a senior photo shoot coming up in a location I've been many times, but never to photograph a person. After all, my thing is landscapes. It doesn't matter too much if it's windy, cloudy, sunny, or a certain time of the year. Well, with a person, one must give some consideration to lighting. And to wind. Cloudy or sunny we can mostly work around.

I asked my daughter if she would mind playing model for me to get some practice in. We made the trip up to the Halfpipe Bridge in Tumwater Canyon on Friday, with the paid senior shoot happening the following day. Our day was perfect. Nice & calm with barely any wind & sunny skies.

I enjoy photographing my daughter as she has become nicely relaxed in front of the camera. It makes my job that much easier. I am very happy with how several of the pictures came out from our shoot. They have been posted on the Nicole's Visions Facebook page.

After the success with my daughter, doing Daralyn's shoot was something I felt good about & looked forward to. As Saturday came around, I was excited. Well, until it was about time to get started. Mother Nature decided to give us some wind to deal with. The sun was a bit brighter & the wind would not really let up.

Still, I have 9 that I like from that shoot. My only concern is if they'd like a close up shot cropped form any of the images. I dont feel they are sharp enough in the face to be an acceptable close up. When I shot, I shot to include the bridge, as she had wanted. With the wind, we took many less than expected, so no closeups were taken.

They are not yet posted anywhere, as we have to get approval from the model on them. If she wants, we'll also go do another shoot either back up there or anywhere else she'd like. I want my clients to be happy.

People Gallery & book marks ready to view !!

Wow .. I have to hand it to my daughter, who is my website go to person ... She did a great job today getting a few things accomplished on the web site. Fantastic!! I'm so excited to have the creative juices flowing again.

So what's new?

Check out the People section of the gallery ... it now has ... people!! in it. From a model portfolio shoot to seniors to weddings & a few other events, check out a sampling of my work. Clicking on any of the images will take you to a page to see the full versions & see them bigger.

She also was able to get the first of my products listed in the new product section. Soon, they will have buttons enabling you all to purchase them!! If you browse thru the book marks & see some you just can't wait to have, contact me & I'll get ya taken care of !! Be sure to notice the price of the book marks includes free shipping within the US.

I'm really excited about my work again. With all the goings on in this economy, I was in a slump. I think I'm out of it now, just in time for the holidays which will be here before ya know it.

I have several more changes planned for the site, most of them just making it easier for you, the viewer to see everything with less clicking. Some images will be removed while new ones will be added. And of course, we'll add more products for all your holiday shopping needs!!!

changes, people & book marks

Well, the shopping cart changes I had hoped to have in place by now ... are still in the planning stages. Deciding between PayPal or my merchant full service account.

I have just today sent information to my trusty web developer lady, new information for the website. Soon there will be several sets of images of people for all to view. A small showcase of the portrait type work I have done over the last 3 years.

The next thing you'll notice is a new section for shopping. Not sure the exact word we'll use but it will be it's own section & the button will be along the top navigation.

First thing to be added to shop for ... my 2008 full line of book marks! All 30 of them. If you just can't wait to see them ... I have them uploaded on my business page on Facebook. So if you are on Facebook, check it out, become a fan ... keep up a little better with Nicole's Visions.

I've slacked off this year, thanks to a slumping economy. It's been tough going. But enough is enough & I'm getting back into the swing of things full force before the holidays are again upon us.

First Event of the year & website changes

Nicole's Visions will be a part of Creative Impressions for a mall wide Earth Day event this Saturday. We're pretty excited about this. This time, instead of being in a store, we'll be out in the middle of the mall. We'll be located in a well traveled area so hopefully exposure will be at a max!

If this one day event goes well, we'll be signing up to do about 6 more from now thru October. I'll be sure to post here before each one.

The beautiful Nicole's Visions website will see a few changes over the next month. We'll be working hard to get a whole shopping section built right into the site. No more having to remember more than one address to find & purchase the many items I offer. It's time for me to make the most of the merchant services I'm paying for. I'll be able to offer sales, coupon codes & virtual gift cards. I'm very excited about all this.

I'm also going to add a nice link section to the website. If you would like to exchange links, contact me with your site & info soon.

Featured on a blog

Being a part of a team on Etsy has it's perks. From time to time, members will grab treasuries & feature teammates & others will blog about their teammates. Today, a fellow Etsyian & Eastern Washington Etsy Team member has included me in their blog post.
She chose an old style bookmark (which are currently on sale!!!) and a newer print featuring some beautiful grapes. Be sure to check it out & leave a comment!

I've been in a few treasuries too, but I keep forgetting to grab the screen capture so people can see.

Creative Impressions has opened !!

The big day finally came & went. The brainchild of my daughter & me opened on Saturday. We have all as a group worked to bring this together & make it happen. I'm happy with the look & feel of the store. I love how all of our things mesh so nicely in the space we have.

Going from being all about the bras, to trying to enjoy a week's vacation to finishing up everything with the store has been a feat for sure. The bras were a big success. The vacation was a nice needed break before the holidays. Now I can better focus not only on my work but on the store.

I finally got some more tile coasters prepared on Saturday afternoon. Big thanks to Mother Nature for giving me a fairly warm sun-shiny afternoon to spray them. Now they sit to dry completely before I stack them in sets & bring them to the mall.

There is a new post over on the stores blog too...
Creative Impressions

I'll work on sharing photos soon. Just need a bit of time to adjust to us being open.

Bridge to a Cure photos

Alrighty ... I got some photos cropped & edited to put up online. Whew! My hubby sure got shutter happy!! But that's exactly what I wanted him to do since I was participating & not able to be behind the camera myself. He did really well too. Thanks honey!

So these photos are from the big day. You'll see some pictures of the film crew mixed in with all of us. If you live in the Wenatchee Area & are reading this, I encourage you to go see these. Trying to convey what all those bras look like in pictures is nothing to going & experiencing them for yourself. They will be up until Sunday. Sunday at 1pm we will begin to take them all down. Not sure exactly what will happen to them yet. We were not able to get them all strung up to begin with tho ... the bridge was too small!!

Enjoy the photos!! Click on the photo below, it will take you to the album on my Nicole's Visions MySpace page. I'll be adding some captions later. I just wanted to at least get all the pix up there.

Wenatchee World Bra event article

After a long day. the newspaper guys, the film makers & all us women had a fulfilling & fun time. Here is the article The World put out. It will appear in print in the Monday edition.

Bra Display Highlights Breast Cancer Awareness

I've gotten the photos onto the computer, but have not sorted thru them to post any yet. Today is a day off where the man & I are going to chase some fall color. I'll work on editing the photos & getting them online early next week.

Bras by the numbers ... again

This count is not accurate as I know Drop Dead Fabulous has ALOT more than listed here.
I updated so the count is now much more accurate. Final count will be Saturday sometime. Should be fantastic!

Drop Dead Fabulous at last count ... 966

At my home ... 252

Total so far ... 1218

I spent some time recounting the ones at home just to be sure I had not messed up along the way. Then I began the process of separating them by the amount of hooks they have. This will help to make things a bit easier come hooking day. I have 14 that have been written on & are not included in the separated count below.


(click on them to see them bigger)

There were 23 bras with 1 hook. 126 with 2 hooks. 43 with 3 hooks. 16 with 4 hooks. And 1 with 5 hooks. Now all these close in the back. Then we have 29 that are a combination of front close, training with no hooks, & of course the one corset. Interesting. I can't wait to see them all strung together.

Picking up the boxes today from the East Wenatchee locations also brought some donations of money! I collected $65 in cash & checks!! A big thank you to all of you!!


(click to see bigger)

Wenatchee World Article

Well, we made the paper again... How cool is that?
Much better coverage this time too. It's the second article in The Worm section.
Check out the article >HERE<

There were 2 errors, which I have contacted them about correcting.
The first is who to make checks out to for local donations.
It should be Wellness Place not the Good Grief Center. Although they are connected in the space they share, they are 2 separate entities.
The second is the business Laura has. I had to giggle. She does not do hair!!!
Drop Dead Fabulous is a specialty shop for women.

Happy Monday!!

Good Morning Everyone!!
The sun is shining & fall is definitely in the air here in Central Washington. I had hoped to get out & photograph some of that beautiful Autumn color, but it will have to wait until this Sunday. Wait for me color!!!! I can only hope it wont be too late.

This weekend I spent alot of time at the mall. We ended up having the table there all weekend long. I was there most of the evening Friday, on & off on Saturday, & again on Sunday. We had a great response to the cause. A few people couldn't believe we have the nerve to string bras in public, but the majority thought it was a fantastic idea. The promise of many donated bras was there all weekend. I personally went 7 emptied the box at Style Masters on Friday evening. I had another donation on Saturday from the Harry Richie Jewelers Ladies. Thanks to you all. The deadline is fast approaching too, this wednesday.

We were set up with Coffee Mecca & Wellness Place. Coffee Mecca did a great job with their bake sale. Wellness Place did great getting the word out about the center & breast cancer. They started with a stack of pink bracelets & thanks to the generous donations of many people over the weekend, the bracelets were gone by mid afternoon Sunday!

Oh I have to tell you all ... I splurged & got a mango fruit smoothie from coffee Mecca on Sunday. Oh Yum!! Nothing but a fruit puree & ice. It was awesome!

I'll check on the drop boxes today & bring a bra count update tonite.
Have a fantastic day !!!

Etsy Treasury & print sale!

How fantastic!! I awoke this morning to not only the first sale of my bra print ...


But to be featured in a treasury on Etsy.

Treasury Link!

Meet me at the mall !!

The Wenatchee Valley Mall is having a fair this weekend. Among the festivities will be informational tables such as ours. Near the main entrance (see photo above) are a few tables featuring the Bridge to a Cure, Bras for a Cause information & the Wellness Place table promoting breast cancer awareness.

Coffee Mecca will have a bake sale with proceeds going to Wellness Place. Their table for the sale is right there with us! Yum!

All American Ice Cream is donating .50 from every pink item sold over the fair weekend.

If you happen to read this & live in the area, I'd love to meet you. I will be there at the table on Saturday from 11 to 1. I hope to make it back in the evening for a little while too.

If they are in a bag, you can drop off your bras with me! Or, you can still bring them to any of the drop off locations listed in this post.
The deadline is fast approaching. It's Wednesday the 15th.

*mall photos are from the Wenatchee Valley Mall's MySpace.

A film? About Bras?

How cool would that be right? Well, taking pictures of the event is the best we thought we would get. Funny how things in your world can change in a day. Let me explain ....

I got a letter yesterday from a filmmaker who had heard about the bra project. I was so excited! She wants to make a film about what we are doing. Did ya have to read that twice? I did!! I was beside myself thinking we were doing something so big that warranted a film. Woah!!

Her name is Kathy Kiefer. She owns JACOL filmworks. And even better... she lives in fairly nearby Soap Lake, WA. She wants to make a mini documentary about the whole project. The finished product will be available on DVD. A portion of the proceeds from each sale will go to a breast cancer place of our choosing. She plans for the tape to be about 30 minutes long. And we'll be involved in the editing of it and have final approval of the final product. Too cool.

I am so excited to meet her next week. She is excited too. I think this will lend a whole other aspect to the whole thing. She'll be interviewing both myself & Laura as well as any other folks involved that we think she should speak to.

I'll keep you all updated on the whole thing!!

Until then, if you'd like to get to know a little about her, & her work ...

click on the image to go to her boobalogues website.

Another Bra Count Update

It's that time again everyone!! I love watching these numbers grow. And I'll be stopping by the drop off places this weekend too. So let's hope this number is way bigger by Monday!!

Bras at Drop Dead Fabulous - 368

At my Home - 168

Total so far .......... 536 !!!

Fantastic!! I know we can do better tho ... come on!!
We still have until Wednesday so there is time to collect many more.

I took a picture the other day of the pile at the Drop Dead Fabulous Shop. You all saw it in the blog post. Well, today, the pile looked so much bigger!! Laura had to find a better way to continue the pile! So, a super cute chest was added. I'll have to swing by & snap a shot of that!

I want to say a huge thank you to all the wonderful people who have taken the time to send bras in the mail. That means so much to me, & this cause!!! You all ROCK!!

Bra Print

This is the first bra image I've made to promote Breast Cancer Awareness. I'll be printing this & offering it for sale. 50% of the October profits will be donated to Wellness Place.