Nichol Krupp Photography

And instead stay in bed allllll day with your daughter who just had surgery and not leave her side? Me either but I did today. Part of me feels guilty because I know I have a million other things to do. The other part of me says, hey Niki, practice what you preach. Take time to STOP and ENJOY those moments before they pass you by. Besides…she is in a ton of pain and if I am not in here with her, I will miss the moments when she tears up at the drop of a hat because it hurts to EAT, it hurts to COUGH, and it hurts to SWALLOW. I will miss those moments when she endlessly crawls onto my lap for some cuddles with her tiny little self.

Sure I should be planting my vegetable garden but that can wait. I got my flowers done. So, I chose to be lazy with her and get some much needed clutter cleared from my head and my heart. I did some planning, writing, and dreaming. Then, we got bored. She wanted to do something but needs to stay down for two weeks of little to no activity. Thus we got out the artist palette of colored pencils, drawing paper, and oil pastel colors and we let the creating begin. WOW! She is really good. I mean good. Perhaps I am quite biased. She just went to town and ended up with some pretty incredible artwork which I must say is very worthy of framing. WHY? Because she CREATED it.

Then there is me, I do not hardly ever draw. It is definitely a weakness but I am always up for a good challenge and I always remember loving it when I was a little girl.

I was inspired myself by some drawings I saw in a blogging magazine and found one in particular that reminded me of Mother’s Day morning when I walked into a wall and broke my nose. DON’T ASK! It was so fun to do something different…something that is definitely not my STRONG SUIT…something that did not entail manual labor and working outside when that has pretty much been all I have done in recent weeks with the little bit of FREE TIME I do get.

Thanks for looking at our creations. No need for Critique. They are ours and we are proud of them. Plain and Simple. We were inspired and it was a GOOD THING! It was COOL to think out of the BOX and do something I never do and it was cool watching her do it so effortlessly. Hopefully she will be recovered and back to herself very very soon. Until then, I will give her all the drawing paper and oil pastels that she needs.

~Niki

Here is mine. As I said very much inspired from a blogging magazine and the artist was Diane Duda. I just love what I interpreted to be a band aide for a nose.

This is Claire. She is an unbelievable dancer and I always LOVE photographing her! I just watched Benjamin Button and could not help but jot this down. I loved this movie beyond words! Incredible messages all the way through, but this message fits perfect with Claire and the person/dancer that she is.

Some people were born to sit by a river. Some get struck by lightning. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people….Dance.
~From the motion picture “Benjamin Button”

This is Baby Will. He is an amazing blessing to his parents who had to wait very patiently for his arrival. I told Mom he would be worth the wait and he CERTAINLY was. I think he is too pretty to be a boy if you ask me. See for yourself…

And isn’t his Mommy BEAUTIFUL!!!

This is mom’s knitting basket(she is an amazing knitter) and she loved this blanket at the studio because of all of the yarn, so we captured some of him in that.

Last one for now. Dad brought some of his favorite old fishing gear and this is what we came up with. It took a little bit of patience but we got the shots. So cool!

Jill and Ed, Thank you for sharing Will with Cassie and I today at the studio. We loved hanging out with you and getting to work with your incredible new family.

P.S. Ed, I am so bummed I did not get that little out take today. It is still making me snicker as I sit here and work.

P.S.S. To check out Jill’s work please go to Knitterella
Take care!

~Niki

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