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I found this game idea from Stacy. The first image is google search results, the second is flickr results. It’s fun, try it.

The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr/Google Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Nichole
2. What is your favorite food? Taco Salad
3. What high school did you go to? Dirks Prairie Academy
4. What is your favorite color? Blue
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Christian Bale
6. Favorite drink? Cherry Coke
7. Dream vacation? Europe
8. Favorite dessert? Teramisu
9. What you want to be when you grow up? Teacher
10. What do you love most in life? Bible
11. One Word to describe you. Creative
12. Your flickr name. daisykit

I’m back to quilting again. I have been working on this quilt for quite a few hours today. The quilt top is done and now I am just working on the backing. I realized that I didn’t have enough of one fabric to do a solid back, but that I do have a bunch of scrap pieces and leftover pieces from the front of the quilt. So I am doing some random piecing on the back. It will look very interesting when I’m done. Basically the quilt will be reversible. I would love to have it done soon so that my room will be completely finished. Everything else is done. In fact, I am sleeping in our new house for the first time tonight. It is just me and my brother out here at the moment. Our family will be living between two houses until our other house sells, hopefully soon. I will probably be back and forth between the two houses over the next few days. On Monday I am heading out for a week long camping trip with soon youth from our church, and then from there to Montana on a 2-3 day road trip. Life is going to be crazy as soon as June starts. Crazy is good though. I love summer.

I finally got my camera back. My brother Jonny keeps using it and when I need it he’s never around. Plus, it seems like I am never in the right house for the thing I am looking for. Since we got back from our trip to San Diego we have spent all of our time painting and then moving. We have much more stuff at the camp house now then we do at home. All of my stuff is moved except my mattress. Above you can see the before and after pictures of my bedroom. Quite the makeover I would say.

My computer and sewing machine have a new home. I got the butterfly mobile in Old Town San Diego.

The paper lanterns above my bed I got last fall when I went on a road trip down to Carbondale, IL. Also, you see my one lone cat picture. I used to have cat pictures from calendars posted all over my wall. I’ve toned down my love for cats just a bit.

My bulletin board was one of my creative projects for my room. I took my old big bulletin board, cut the frame off, and then cut it in half. Then I put a layer of batting and a layer of fabric on it. It’s held together by duct tape in the back and nailed to the wall. Love it!

My other creative venture for my room was this pictures. I bought some old picture frames at the thrift store, spray painted them black, and then printed off some pictures I took on our San Diego trip. I love how it turned out.

It is hard for me to believe how fast summer is approaching. April flew by and I know that May will be the same way. Lot’s of things have been going on since my last post and tons more happening this month. One of things I decided that I will not cheat by posting “catch-up” posts. So no more posts for the days I skipped. It should help keep me from procrastinating or at least honest about not having time to post a certain day. I’ve also decided to take each day as they come and not beat myself up over things I was not able to accomplish during a day. If I forgot to post on my blog yesterday is it really a huge deal?

Last weekend I went on a trip with our youth group to the E. Free Youth North-Central Districts Conference in Rochester, MN. It was lots of fun and very challenging. Myself and the three other girl’s and my room decided to challenge ourselves to get up in the morning, 6:30 am on weekdays, and do half an hour of prayer, Bible reading, and memorization before our days got started. This has been something that I have felt God calling me to do for a while, but I have not wanted to surrender those extra minutes of sleep to Him. Finally surrendering and spending that time with Him first thing in the morning has been such a blessing and really helps me to focus my day on my Savior.

We are moving! It’s official. We will be moving out to Lost Timber Bible Camp as on-site managers. We have gotten the house pretty much ready to be moved in. I think we have painted every inch of that house. We will start taking things out there and have a big move sometime later in the month. You can pray that this house sells soon. So if I’m not blogging you know what I’m doing. We are moving.

Lastly, I did get my blog mostly switched over to Wordpress. It’s great. I still have some posts to edit and pictures to move but that can happen later on. I’m also looking for my camera, I think one of my siblings has it. When I find it I’ll have pictures for my blog posts.

Lot’s of fun pictures I took while everyone was having a good time in the pool. LOL. It’s really hard to believe we were swimming a week ago. This weekend we had another snow storm up here in Minnesota.