SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY: Fun with Borders!

Welcome to Scrapbook Sunday! Each week a couple gals and I show off our fave Scrapbook pages and tell a little something about them; such as the memory behind the pics or even how we created our pages! Feel free to jump on our scrappy band-wagon by leaving a comment letting me know that you'd like to join. I'll link you up on the next post:)
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The page above is a layout I did when we visited Kellogg's Cereal City in Battlecreek, MI a few years ago. What a FUN place! We got to tour the factory and watch how Cornflakes are made!! Gavin got his pic taken with Tony the Tiger and was able to sample some fresh Cornflakes right as they were made!

There was a wall of all the cereal box covers that Kellogg's has ever made! There also were a bunch of characters made from Lego's such as Tony the Tiger below and the Snap!Crackle!Pop! guys from Rice Krispie's shown below too:)

I made the border strip on the page above by punching out some of the little cereal boxes from the larger photo I took of the cereal box wall!

The border on the bottom of the page shown below was actually the little hat they gave Gavin to wear at the factory:)

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This page shows Gavin at 3 getting his picture taken by Nascar drivers car, Kurt Busch! We didn't get to meet Kurt or anything but daddy is a huge Nascar fan and they had the car here in town locally!

I used square punches for the corners of the page and some fun racing stickers to connect the squares. Gavin looks like he was ready to ride, huh?

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This page shows our youngest kitty Maxie when she was little! I punched out circles and layered them with two colors to create the border here. I also punched a circle out of Maxie's little face too, to add on the border. I had some fun cat themed stickers that I added to each circle punch as well. I got this layout tip from one of my Creative Memories idea books:)

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Thanks for visiting me today! Check out HOLLY's SS post too:)

We are off to the lake today to celebrate Father's Day with my future in-laws! Someone is a GRUMPY DAD on Father's Day today- NOT GOOD!!

Hope your daddies and hubbies are in a good mood today:)

Noelle ♥

Flowers, Finds and more!

Hi girls! Just got back a bit ago from some shopping with my friend/future sis-in-law Amie:) We hit up Old Navy because they had $2.00 tank tops today! We were in line outside the store at 9 am; till they opened at 9:30! LOL I got 3 new tanks, a pair of swim shorts for each of the boys, a v-neck tee for me, a pair of flip flops and a shirt for Brian for Father's Day! I also had a "take 25% off your purchase of $50.00 or more" coupon. I spent $40 and saved an extra $41.00 with the discounts and coupon! WAHOOOO!
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Above are my impatients that are still waiting to be planted in my hanging baskets; I am off to do that next today! We have a birthday party for a cutie little girl who's turning 1 today too:)

Holly, here are the Vanilla Marigolds I mentioned before.
They are a little bit yellow looking too; weird! All my flowers in pots are BLOOMING like CRAZY this year:) I love it ♥

This is a NOT so GREAT shot of my Tiger Lily's that opened this week! I got these pics taken yesterday evening just before it started to rain:(

Here are my planters in fill bloom; look at the Dahlia's!! They are so pretty!!

Here are some of the flowers I planted last week in my garden area, under my living room window. Now I am drawing a blank of the name of the tall purple flowers... MOM- help??

Found these cute patriotic yard signs at Dollar Tree yesterday too!

This area shown here is in front of my boring old concrete slab porch; can't wait to have a wrap around porch someday!! (Dreaming away here!!)
I love this little fence yard sign too:)

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The boys and I did some treasure huntin' yesterday at Goodwill. I found these pretty old plated already with a hanger on the back of them!! I am going to add some pretty ribbon and hang them in my living room! A bit of a GW splurge at $2 each.

A new pretty mug and a vase for $1 total!

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I mentioned awhile back that I had gotten a chance for some FREE old china pieces and linens from a family members home that was going up for sale... but I kept forgetting to show them!
I just love this black hankie!

Here are a couple mroe that I received too! The one with the purple flowers is my fave:)

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This week was a CHALLENGING one with my 2 little boys... WHEW!
Rainy days aren't much fun with these two; we are confined to the house
and they get bored and grumpy!

Last night they enjoyed some popcorn and watched half of Shrek 2 while I did some laundry!

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Here are my "CORN ON THE COB CUTIES"!!
Who would of thought eating corn could look so cute?

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I've been growing my hair out for our wedding so I can have a pretty Up-Do; its long enough for a pony-tail now! This is great for days that I don't feel like doing my hair!!

Here is a shot of the fluffy pony from the back; and my UGLY tattoo that I REGRET!!

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My mom, Lori from Pink Faded Roses tagged me to tell 6 Un-Important Things About Myself.

So, here they are:

1. I love Coke Zero, but refuse to drink any other DIET Pop- yuck!

2. I am petrified to death of water that is over my head and WILL NOT go in it! I have major fears of drowning!

3. I am addicted to the new reality show "Southern Belle's" that is on the SOAP channel on Thursday nights at 10 pm!

4. I now am scared to drive alone at night; because I rarely go anywhere now late since I've had kids!

5. I get my upper lip waxed! Thanks to age and the PCOS; I now get a "CHIC-STACHE"!! NOT COOL or CUTE!

6. My hubby to be weighs 35 lbs less than me and it PIS*ES me off!! I am EVEN more MOTIVATED now to lose weight!

Now its your turn...

I tag the following gals...

BRENDA

KATIE

HOLLY

STACY

and who ever else would like to do this!

Have a great weekend! See you back tomorrow for SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY!

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Wedding Inspiration ♥

Hi girls! Don't worry... the BUG is out of my A*S today; so you are safe to continue reading! LOL
We all have a CRAP day here and again and mine happened to be yesterday!
But today the sun is shining, I LOST ANOTHER POUND- thats 9 lbs lost in just under 6 weeks- yahoo! The boys are I are off to our favorite little pool here soon too:)

I came along some lovely Fall wedding photos that gave me some inspiration for OUR BIG DAY that is just 5 MONTHS AWAY now!!

Look at this cute ring bearer pillow! It is very simple with the solid color satin but its the leaves that make it so gorgeous!

Look at this cool old barn! I love how they lined the walkway with pumpkins!! I am thinking that I would like to have the front of the church lined with pumpkins as you walk in for our ceremony!

Look at these pretty fall floral centerpieces! I just LOVE the colors!
This is the color palette for our centerpieces and the bouquets; not as much yellow though!

I thought this idea was neat for the reception...
Instead of guests signing a guest book, they would fill out a post card with "best wishes" for the mr. and mrs. on it. Someone in the bridal party would mail them so when the newlyweds got home from their honeymoon; their mailbox would be full of the postcards from their guests:)

I STILL REALLY want to make caramel apples as favors for my bridal shower guests. My mom tried talking me out of it; because I'd have to make 35-50 of them but... thats not bad! I think its very cute, unique and FALL-ish!!

Mom is using pumpkins for the centerpiece bases at the shower; I know hers will come out prettier than this one but wanted to show it for my inspiration!

UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES:

Mid September: My Bachelorette Weekend Get-Away
Sat. October 3rd: BRIDAL SHOWER
Friday, November 13th: Rehearsal and Dinner
Saturday, November 14th: OUR WEDDING DAY!

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Time is a flying by!! I can't wait to show you all pics from the big day when it comes:)

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Mostly Wordless Wednesday #5

My Word for today is CRAP! I didn't show some of that 'cause its gross so my potty image represents it today!!

I look like CRAP!
I feel like CRAP!
The weather here is CRAPPY!
I did a CRAPPY job on my math exam which really makes me in a CRAPPY mood!
My youngest son who is 2 still sleeps for CRAP; waking me up 2-3 times a night lately; leaving me to get a CRAPPY night's sleep!
Our other car took a CRAP! So now we are down to sharing the SUV which means I get stuck at home, which makes me in a CRAPPY mood again!

Can ya tell I am not having a good day? I try REALLY hard to be positive but today I just can't pull it off! Sorry that you decided to read my CRAPPY post today:(
Check out this SITE to read some other MWW posts that aren't as CRAPPY as mine!!
Maybe tomorrow will be a better day!

Noelle ♥

Wishful Shopping!!

Well, I planned to do this post tomorrow but... I have to head to campus early tomorrow to complete an assignment for my online class because my stupid computer won't let me download the documents I need to help me- UGH!! So, I got bored and did one of my "secret" favorite things to do... browse a site and "pretend" to buy all the things you like!! LOL Pathetic, eh??
I ended up on The Lakeside Collection site tonite; its kinda like Ltd Commodities where there is tons of stuff that is CHEAP!!

So here are some of the things I'd "buy"!! The door mat above that says "Its 5 o'clock somewhere" is a fave of mine! LOL I think its so cute!! Some days I need it to be 5 o'clock in my house, with no kids and a margarita or 2!

What do you think of these French Country birdhouse solar lites? Too cute; they were I think $9.95 each; I'll take all 3!!

Have you seen these pull apart cake pans? I LOOOOVE them! I want the butterfly and the flower basket- these were $5.95 each!!

I'd like a couple of these for my porch and patio; I think they were like $14.95, maybe? Not bad!

I thought this bathroom stuff was TOO CUTE! I want to redo our bathroom AGAIN! I am tired of the nautical stuff we have in there now; I wanna go GIRLY again:)

I love these Candle Wall Sconces; but the FROSTED ones! Aren't they cool?

This is adorable with the white picket fence!!

These cute little condiment containers caught my eye too! I love fun summer bbq accessories! Look at the chip and dip!!! Eeeek!

This kitty yard sign is really cute too! I like these cats the best because I wouldn't have to take care of their litter boxes!!

Another site that I fill up my "shopping bag" is on Old Navy! Of course, I can't buy it all but I'll fill the shopping bag online with like $200 worth of stuff that I like for us:) Hehehe! Who knows, I could win some money somehow then I would know exactly what I'd buy!!

Geeeez... I know what you are thinking, "She's pathetic!!" Yea, I guess I kinda am!
That's what happens when your money tree stops growing for awhile;
you daydream about shopping!

Have you ever done this? Please tell me I'm not the only one, please??

Good night,
Noelle ♥

Scrapbook Sunday: Summer Fun!

Welcome to Scrapbook Sunday! I am waaaay tardy today in posting! My youngest decided to wake up at 6:30 am and thought he'd stay up for the day- yeah right!! He didn't go to bed till almost 11 pm last night; so I made him go back to sleep and WE didn't get up till 11:30 today!!! Thank goodness for SUMMER and sleeping in!!

Speaking of summer... I am showing 2 fun layouts today from my oldest son' album; that feature some of the FUN things we like to do in the summer here!

This first layout is a fave of mine! I love the blue paper and fun pool/beach stickers! We go to a nice little kiddie water park just a few minutes from our home every summer! Its perfect for the kids 'cause it goes from 6 inches of water at the edges to only 18 inches of water in in the middle; there is a water slide, all sorts of water spraying things too! The boys LOVE it!! It opens tomorrow for the summer and we plan to go on TUESDAY!

This next layout is from a couple years back when my son was playing T-Ball! I love the cute baseball themed paper that I used in the background. I then cut out a baseball to use as my journaling box! This page seems "busy" to me now; due to my lack of time to currently work on my boys albums' my pages have gotten to be kinda "dull" compared to how I used to do them. I feel like I need to "HURRY" in order to get them caught up. I am actually up to Easter of this past year in both boys books, so I probably should not worry about keeping up, and just take my time to create some wonderful pages!!

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Currently there are three other gals plus me who post on Scrapbook Sunday; we'd LOVE some new friends to join us!! If you'd like to join, just take my button and add it to your blog. Leave me a comment telling me that you'd like to join us and I'll add a link to you!! Its that easy:)

Check out these gals to see their SS Sunday posts too:

Holly and Katie and Vickie

I'm off to buy a couple flats of flowers to plant today; the weather is GORGEOUS so I must take advantage of it!!

Have a lovely day:)
Noelle ♥

Red, White and Blue on the BRAIN!

Isn't this the cutest cupcake? I have a major case of red, white and blue on the brain! I REALLY want to have a 4th of July party here at the house this year, but I know it won't happen. I think I am going to have a Patriotic Crop for my scrapbookin' gals though; then I can get all crafty!!

This weekend I need to finish my swap package for the Very Vintage Red, White and Blue swap. I am dabbling in a couple things that I HOPE and PRAY come out cute; I've not made many vintage things so this is taking quite a bit of tweaking on my part.

Tomorrow I am having a friend over with her 2 little girls for a Father's Day Gift Crop; we are putting little paper albums together with our kids as gifts for the daddies:) Then I have to go and waitress for Brian at the pizza place! Sunday may be a treasure-hunting day; so far no plans are made.

No strawberry picking today like I had hoped for:( It has rained a lot here the past 2 days so we'll pass. I only have the oldest boy home with me for a couple hours today so I am mopping floors and shampooing area rugs, along with laundry! I KNOW, so EXCITING!! LOL

Hope you find something fun to do this weekend!! I'll be back on Sunday to show my SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY post!

Love you all,
Noelle ♥