03 Sep 2010
by adminin Friends, Raleigh Tags: art, bernie, downtown, first friday, tom
On the first Friday of every month downtown Raleigh has an event called First Friday where art galleries stay open late, restaurants have specials, and there is live entertainment for people to enjoy. I’d been meaning to go for the first 3 months after I moved here and finally made it out this month with Tom.
There are so many places participating and I didn’t get to go everywhere I wanted, but we still had a great time. We had dinner at Woody’s at City Market and then stopped by Benelux, a new cafe, to visit my friend Rose.
Somebody was grumpy that I dragged him out of the house… but he felt better once he saw they served fried cheddar at Woody’s.
We also got to check out some art galleries around City Market, I’m still trying to talk Tom into submitting some of his photography to a gallery. He’s very talented.
Bernie met up with us at Artspace, neither her nor Tom had been there before so I enjoyed showing them around. They had some great exhibits today, I’m glad we got to see them. I also picked up a couple of decorative magnets from artist Amy Yeager from the LoPop Shop while we were there.
Gillespie, Float and Scamper
After seeing all the art we ended up back at Benelux and sat down for a bit before heading home.
Next time I think I’m going to plan my trip and try to go to more places before they close, but we had a great night and I’m looking forward to next month.
03 Sep 2010
by adminin Self Portrait Thursday Tags: KISS, Self Portrait Thursday, spt
I took this at the KISS concert last week. So glad I got to go.
25 Jul 2010
by Nicolein Friends, Raleigh Tags: Friends, NC Museum of Art, picnic
Yesterday I met some friends for a picnic lunch outside the NC Art Museum.
Rihanna, Courtney, Brianne, Carlee, Nathania and me.
And we had cupcakes!
The Rodin exhibit was great.
The Kiss is one of my favorite sculptures, I wanted to get  a few different angles.
So beautiful.
There was also a really pretty lily pond with sculptures all around it.
Lots of beautiful paintings of course.
Brianne wanted to play Jenga, lol!
We had a great time. Everyone brought goodies and  we ate at a picnic table under a tree, we had cheese and crackers and fruit… and of course dessert.  :)  Thank goodness for the shade, it was so hot! After eating we went to the new building at the NCAM, it was beautiful and now they allow photography of the art.
Hopefully we can meet up like this again on a regular basis, it’s great to get together, eat, and laugh with just us girls.
21 Jul 2010
by Nicolein Heartfelt Promo, Me, Raleigh Tags: business, changes, family, Heartfelt Promo
It’s hard to believe it’s been three months since I moved to Raleigh.
A lot has happened in the month and half since I last posted, and I’ve been getting used to my new life and to Raleigh.  I started a new job here that unfortunately hasn’t turned out to be as good as it seemed. Thankfully it turned out to be a blessing in disguise since it prompted me to take another big step; to start my own business.
I had been thinking about it for some time now but never really felt brave enough to do it. After discussing it with Tom and praying about it, I decided to take the plunge, I went downtown, registered the business name, paid for my license and I was in business! 
 I’m now the proud owner of Heartfelt Promotions, a social media marketing and event planning business designed to help local businesses. I use Twitter, Facebook, email, and promotional events to market local businesses, products, and brands.
Now I’m in the process of building a website, getting business cards and networking to meet new clients. I was actually fortunate enough to have 2 clients lined up before I even “officially” started and have been getting more since then. My goal is to get enough clients that I can quit my current job and work on Heartfelt Promotions full time, hopefully that will happen soon.
While this has been the biggest (and most exciting) thing to happen since my move to Raleigh I’ve got other things that I’ve been enjoying too. Â I recently got to see a local production of RENT with my new friends from work, and was able to visit the coast with Tom to see our parents for the 4th of July.
We went down to Camp Lejeune to watch fireworks with Mom and Michael, who snapped this pic of us, we had a great time.
My first big business purchase, an iPad! This is the pink (of course!) case I got for it, it also props it up for easy typing and showing presentations.
I also got to see Ingrid Michaelson last month, she was a lot of fun to see live.
So overall things have really been coming together lately; I’ve met people and made friends, and Raleigh is starting to feel like “home”. I find myself using my navigation system less and less as I get more familiar with how to get around. Â I’ve been pretty busy getting Heartfelt Promotions started but I still make time to sit on the balcony once in a while and enjoy a cup of coffee. Isabelle usually joins me and “people watches” while I work from my laptop.
So my life is changing again, and I’m very excited/nervous/thrilled/terrified about it. That’s a good thing though, right? 
06 Jun 2010
by Nicolein Tom and I, tweetup Tags: bronto, durham, triangle tweetup, tweetup
This past Thursday T0m came with me to my first Triangle Tweetup, it was held at Bronto Software office. And yes, Bronto like a brontosaurus, they were everywhere! They had inflatable dinosaurs lining the walkways and this giant one by the door.
The night started off with free food and drinks, and a comedian. Then there were some presentations of new twitter apps.
photo by John Rees (@jreesnc)
Here’s Chad (@jazzychad) speaking about Notifo
And Lawrence (@lawpower) speaking about TrioutNC and the new moble site (which works great on my HTC Incredible, yay!)
photo by John Rees (@jreesnc)
I got to meet Wayne (@waynesutton) too.
This guy followed me home…
But Isabelle thought he’d make a nice snack, lol.
Overall a very well put together event. I got to meet a few people and learn a lot from the presentations. I’m already looking forward to the next one.
02 Jun 2010
by Nicolein Cute, mobile post Tags: bird, jewelry, shopping, southpoint, wallet
I picked up a few goodies over the last couple days. Saturday I went to the flea market and got some necklace charms and Tom’s mother bought me a ring. Then Monday I went to Southpoint Mall and found the cutest little bird accessories, a wallet and necklace. I love getting little treasures like these at a bargin.
30 May 2010
by Nicolein Cute, mobile post Tags: Isabelle
The other day I took pids out before going out to dinner with Tom and realized I’d locked Isabelle out on the balcony. Thank goodness I saw her there on my way back in.
29 May 2010
by Nicolein Famiy, Food Tags: farmers market restaurant, Mr and Mrs Taylor
Tom’s parents came to visit us for the weekend so we decided to eat brunch at the Farmers Market Restaurant today. Michael had eaten there before and recommended it, I’m so glad he did because we really enjoyed it. They’ve got some antique farm equipment and tractors, and murals on the walls. I even got to take a picture of Mr. Taylor by one.
28 May 2010
by Nicolein Friends, mobile post Tags: erin, Friends, kelly, southpoint
This post is a little belated but I wanted didn’t want to skip it. A couple weeks ago I got to meet up with my friends Kelly and Erin at Southpoint Mall. Kelly also brought her son Nigel along, I couldn’t believe how big he’s gotten since I last saw him.
We had lunch at Cheesecake factory and then did a little shopping. It was so good to have see them again, I’ve been missing my Wilmington friends more than I thought. Hopefully we can get together again soon.
24 May 2010
by Nicolein Tom and I, Trips Tags: asheboro, Me, tom, zoo
This past Friday Tom and I went to the NC Zoo in Asheboro, the last time I’d gone was when I was in elementary school.
We had a great time, it was so nice to get away and spend the whole day together since I’ve been so busy with work and getting settled into my new life here in Raleigh.
I had forgotten how HUGE the zoo is! It took us 4 hours to go from one end to the other and we still didn’t have time to see everything.
This polar bear was so cute, he looked so sleepy. He kept nodding off watching all the people through the glass.
Tom the buffalo whisperer.
This bear was so funny, he was chilling out near a cave, then decided he was hot and sauntered over to the pond and just plopped down in there. He stayed in this spot for a while cooling off.
Seeing the gorillas was pretty exciting, there were a couple females sitting on a rock near us and then all of a sudden the big male ran over and confronted them for some reason. At first it looked like he was going to run right into glass separating us and their habitat. He was MASSIVE.
The elephants were pretty cute too.
We had a great day, and took some great pictures. Tom’s are really great, hopefully he’ll post some on his blog soon.
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