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Holy Cow! I'm coming up on 300 posts!!
I love the beautiful beach; waves crashing, blue skies!
I've been to the ocean once in my life- so sad!
I want to go back again very soon... so for now, I'll be bringing the BEACH to you:)

I am having a BIG, Beach themed give-away in early July!! Stay tuned:)

(I was gonna add this button to my sidebar but it was TOO BIG! Don't you hate that??)

Noelle ♥

I'm Ga-Ga for GINGHAM!

I made it here today after all! Today was a busy day! We missed our play date today cause we all slept in-yahoo! I had class, then a friend came to visit, we played outside and I cleaned off the patio and dumped poor old Mr. Turtle sandbox that was cracked and now here I am!

I have been seeing so much cute gingham checked things around lately that its making me go GA-GA!! Look at those cute gardening gloves above- floral and checked!

What about this picnic basket? The plates are ADORABLE with roses on them:)

OMG! I could have 2 of these lamps in my living room and I'll take one for my kitchen too:) Mom, if you are reading this... HINT!! HINT!! (My mom desperately wants to buy me some table lamps, I REALLY need some!)

Ugh, and these shoes!!!! Too flippin' cute!!

I have some green and white gingham in my Country Apple kitchen; mostly on the curtains!
My living room has plaid couches with reds, greens, tans and some pinks! Its just SO cute and country looking! I am loving more and more WHITE as accents too but it freaks me out cause I have 2 MESSY boys! So, one day I WILL have the house of my dreams and it WILL be clean... it might take oh, 15 years or so!!

Have a great Thursday! We have a playdate tomorrow and the boys are getting haircuts. Then if the weather is nice Friday, we are doing something NEW... STRAWBERRY PICKING!!! Eeeeeeeeekkkkkkk, I cannot wait!!!! I'll take lots of pics, ok??

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Mostly Wordless Wednesday #4

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What can I say? I was guilty of one too many cocktails!! LOL
At least I had some fun!!

Noelle ♥

Flowering frenzy and more...

Hi there! My "gardening" goal for this summer was to get some flower boxes put in my front window ledges. Honey said he would drill them in for me, so I have been looking for some inspiration while I wait for my "leftover" aid money from summer classes to arrive in my POOR mailbox! LOL

I loooove the mosaic tiles that they used on the yellow box above, very cheery looking isn't it?

I am madly in love with flowers pots for the past couple years! Look at how cute this idea is! I wish I was able to do thing with wood like, oh say... build this adorable shelf and cut the holes out to put flower pots in.

My grandfather who past away when I was a junior in high school in '96 was so handy! My mom and I always talk about "If Poppy was still here... you'd have this and this done in your house!"

Oh, Lord have Mercy! Look at how cute this is! I don't usually like a lot of blue but I want this house, the wall, the pots, the window looking door... I want it all!! My honey always jokes that he can't afford me because I love so many things!! LOL

If this was my home, I'd eat breakfast every day in the summer outside this adorable area ♥

Well, I have NO choice but I need to go craft store shopping today to get some needed items for my Pay It Forward winners from back in the day and some items for my swap partner; so I HAVE to take the boys with me to Michael's and maybe Jo-Ann's! UGH, that is NOT a fun experience usually- maybe I'll have to bribe them with some candy this time so I can focus on what I need to get! That is NOT something I do very often, well maybe sometimes at home!!

Have a great day! No post for me tomorrow so see ya soon:)
Noelle ♥

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• Decorative envelopes from etsy seller Adnagam
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• Purple Rain Amethyst Earrings from etsy seller Sew*Cool Design
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• 2 Vera Bradley cloth napkins
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• Fleur de Lis Necklace from etsy seller Bumble Beadz
• Marc Jacobs key fob
• Stationery and small letter-pressed notebook from etsy seller Sarah Drake
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Good Day at Goodwill!

Hi there! Hope you all had a great weekend:) Ours was a busy one! We had 2 graduation parties to go to then the boys and I stopped off at one of our Goodwill's yesterday where we did some "treasure hunting"! I think I have my oldest son loving Goodwill, lol! He likes to see all the cool things you can find for SUPER CHEAP!

Above is a pic of a cute basket I found with strawberries painted on the front:)

Here are 2 of the tea cups I found. The one on the left looks "old" to me. I want to do some research online to see if any of the tea cups I have found are of any value. Its nice to know if you have a piece or two that is worth a good amount of money!

I just loved this little cute one:)

This one is very pretty too; it has yellow and pink flowers on it. Do you ever wonder the "story" behind the treasures that you find? Like, was this tea cup maybe used by a great-grandma having a little tea party with her great-granddaughter?? Kinda sweet!

Here is another cute cup and saucer with red, blue and green!

This was my #1 find... a lovely pitcher! It was marked $3.00 but I don't think the girl saw the tag and charged me $0.25!!! WOW! It has a small crack on the backside and it looks old to me, now I am drawing a blank on what it says on the bottom... I'll have to do a search on this one too!

I just thought the kids on this plate were too cute! I was only almost 12 years old in 1990 when this plate came out; I knew then that I always wanted to be a mommy and here I am one today:)

This cross had NO price on it so the gal gave it to me for a quarter also!! I am going to spray paint it white and hang it in our living room!
I have wanted one of these crosses for a long time too!

I also picked up this patriotic scarf with '76 on it! That was 2 years BEFORE I was born! It MAY go in one of my lucky girls swap packages:)

I arranged for my future mother in law to watch our boys tonite for us so we could have a DATE night; which rarely ever happens! We went to dinner at a Mexican restaurant where I had a yummmmmy black bean and cheese quesadilla and was naughty and had a raspberry margarita too! We went to see The Hangover after that, which was a FUNNY movie but very dirty, so if you are INNOCENT of mind... do not watch it! It made my hunny laugh which I think he needed so that was worth it to me:)

Not much is going on this week other than my classes, we have a playdate with some friends Wednesday at a place with a bunch of giant inflatables for the kids to bounce in!! The boys will love this! I want to get some flowers planted in my hanging baskets too.

What are your plans???

Noelle ♥

Scrapbook Sunday: Red, White and Blue!!

Welcome to Scrapbook Sunday! I will share my love for scrappin' with you every Sunday along with a few of my blogging buddies too and their creations!

I am feeling very PATRIOTIC lately!! So I decided to show off a 4th of July page from 2007!

I had so much fun making the borders, the journal box and
punching out various stars for this layout!

For the top border I used a red and white gingham paper for the large border strip; I used the Decorative Trimmer from Creative Memories to make the wavy lines! I punched out small starts in blue then added letter stickers for the title.

Close up of the stars...

For the journal box, I used a teeny-tiny star punch that I picked up at Dollar Tree then added a red dot in each star with a red pen from CM, then did the wavy lines to connect the stars! I LOVE how it turned out:)

Here is my ALL-AMERICAN CHUNKER!! He was only 3 months old in this pick; he was the happiest and CHUBBIEST baby!! LOL

Here is my Mr. GQ stud-muffin!! He is so photogenic:)

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope you enjoyed this layout:)

Please join us by sharing your pages each Sunday; just grab my button and leave a comment if you'd like to do a post. I'll add your name and a link to your post!!

Check out these gals to see their SS Sunday posts!

HOLLY

Noelle ♥