I’m a self-taught calligrapher, proud mama of 2, business owner and full-time University employee trying my best to juggle work and life. I love burgers 🍔 , old school R&B, doing deadlifts at the gym and Muay Thai boxing. 

Welcome to Nikki Design Co. - thank you so much for dropping by and getting to know us. It's nice to meet you x

Nikki Design Co. started when my now hubby Ryan asked me to marry him (we had been together for 9 years), I felt so excited to start wedding planning and was on Pinterest ALL. THE. DAMN. TIME 😂  I was inspired by all the amazing DIY projects and was drawn in particular to hand painted wedding signage. I felt inspired and on a whim,I decided that I’d make our welcome sign for our wedding. 

I looked for a calligraphy meet up, went along to try calligraphy and was horrible at it! 😂 I loved the calm calligraphy introduced into my busy life so I persisted and practiced whenever I could. 😍 Our wedding day got closer and we decided to have an intimate garden wedding - I really wanted to make elements for our wedding myself…this is pretty much what started Nikki Design Co. The first wedding sign I ever painted was for my own wedding in March 2016 at The Residences in Centennial Park.

A creative side hustle was born…

From then on, I worked full-time at my day job and also worked on Nikki Design Co. after hours, on week nights, and on the weekends (I didn’t have kids back then). I invested in a coffee machine (thank you caffeine) and eventually, Ryan (thanks babe!) started helping me paint signs in our living room while watching Masterchef when I started getting more people wanting me to make their wedding signs for them. First it was family, then it was friends, and then other people started hearing about my signs and before I knew it, Nikki Design Co. had kicked off. I remember thinking Damn! I think I've found something I really like to do! 😭

A few years later, I made the decision to leave my day job to pursue Nikki Design Co. full time. I had big dreams for my business. It was the best move I ever made back then, as it was what was right for me at the time and I managed to grow the business - from starting from selling hand painted signage on Gumtree and Facebook, I expanded to offering acrylic wedding signage packages from my own website, hosting calligraphy workshops for individuals and companies, to specialising in live calligraphy and luxury engraving for brands and businesses for brand activations. 🎉

The year 2020 rolled up and despite the pandemic, it was the best year of my life so far because I became a mother to my firstborn, Abbie. 😍 I was lucky to be able to have built a business who could support our small, growing family as I was able to work from home with baby Abbie after taking a few months of maternity leave, and with the help of my ErgoBaby (not a sponsored post lol), I was able to work while Abbie chilled in her baby carrier 🥰

Alex, my second born came in 2022 and our family was complete. ❤️ I made the hard decision to, apart from running the business, go back to full time work at the University in 2023 so we can buy a place of our own soon. It’s been tough juggling family, work, business and life, amid daycare drop offs, business demands, work deadlines, kid tantrums and running a household too! 🤪 But with loads of caffeine, I’m ready to tackle it all head on! haha

 Absolutely love what I do, and I’m thankful I can do work that is meaningful to me and helps me support my family and our dreams. Thank you for being here and for supporting Nikki Design Co. It means the world.

NIKKI