Mostly Wordless Wednesday #11

Welcome!!
For MWW today, I am showing ME... as a cute and chubby baby!!
Awww!!!

P.S. MY list of BLOGS I FOLLOW still hasn't come up and its TICKING ME OFF!!!
I reported it so lets hope I get it back ASAP!

So apologies if I get behind visiting you all:(

Noelle ♥

WTH? Blogger!!

Hi girls,

I don't know what is going on by I LOST all the blogs I follow and NO ONES posts are showing up on my blog roll tonite!!

Blogger seems to be taking forever to load also!

Is anyone dealing with it???

I need to add all of you girls again... waaaaaah!!!

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Thanks KATIE!

Hey girls!

I asked my dear friend Katie to help add a pic and a title to this new blog header and she HOOKED me up! I LOVE my new blog header, THANKS Katie!

I really need to get Photo Shop too so I can do all these cool things!

Oh, Katie... is there a way to make it fit better in the header box?

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Almost time to REGISTER!

Its almost time for Brian and I to complete a Gift Registry for my Bridal Shower/Our Wedding!
I have eagerly awaiting this till NOW!
I CANNOT decide on certain things that I'd like to add; such as:
NEW bedding (we SOOO need it)
Curtains for our room and the living room
NEW dishes (?)
and so on...

I wanted to register at Target cause its one of my fave stores, but am not crazy about their bedding. All the bedding sets from Kohl's that I ♥ are like $300-$400- yikes!!
Do I just leave the bedding OFF the registry and use $$ that we receive as gifts to purchase what we'd really want from somewhere else?
I found a GREAT site online that a fellow blogger shared...
that has GORGEOUS bedding! (of course, its PRICEY!!)

We have lived here for over 8 years and a lot of out things are wearing out (towels) or need to be replaced, such as a broken Blender and coffee maker, crappy iron, and my 2 slot junky toaster, lol!

My mom suggested Wal-Mart because they have good prices and a BIG assortment of all household things; I though maybe Bed Bath and Beyond cause they have cool stuff, but that store is SO crammed that it overwhelms me!!

Did you register for gifts?
Any advice, insight you can share with me??

Whew!! I am looking forward to the wedding AND the day after when I can kick up my heels and say "Ahhhh, now I can relax! The wedding is over! No more plans to make!!"

Hugs,
Noelle ♥

Blog Makeover Give-Away!

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Head on over to Once Upon a Blog and sign up for their giveaway...
you have a chance to win 3 different prizes!!
Check it out!!

Noelle ♥

SCRAPBOOK SUNDAY: Tools & More!

Welcome back to Scrapbook Sunday!
Sorry I haven't posted the past 2 weeks; too much going on this summer!!!

As promised a few posts back, I have showed off a few of the tools I play around with when I scrapbook! Yaaaay:)

First, here are a couple new pages I added to my 8 year old son's album...

His school does photos in the Fall and Spring... I feel SUPER guilty if I don't order both times!
We get pics taken of the boys for Christmas, sometimes at Halloween and for their birthdays too!
My walls are not long enough for all the 8x10 photos I have, SOOOOO...
I have decided to start adding some of them to their scrapbooks!

This was his 1st grade Spring photo that I added in his 7 year album!
See the lil tag I made in the right corner of this layout?
I'll show that tag maker to you below!

I like how this layout came out!
It was one of the first "nicer" days of Spring this year and he got out to shoot some hoops; his fave sport!!

I created my journal box to look like a basket ball too!
The yellow border strip along the top was made with my Decorative Trimmer shown under this picture...

Onto the TOOLS!!

Here is my Decorative Trimmer (note: most of my tools are from Creative Memories, in which I am a consultant for=DISCOUNT!!)

You can use this trimmer to create 2 styles of decorative "borders" or paper strips: wavy and swirl. You can also choose the width of the strips with the measurements on the trimmer.

Here is my tag punch!
I was SO thrilled when CM came out with one of these; they are SO fun!

There is a seperate slot for you to add your tag in, to punch the little hole through it as well.

This is a Petal Punch that makes a very cute Flower shape in your paper.
I don't use this one much because I scrap for 2 lil boys! Not much girliness going on there!! lol:)

I do love this Fancy Square Punch that I earned FREE as a GOOD CUSTOMER before I started selling CM products! (That means I spent TOO much money on this stuff then!!)
It punches out 2 sizes of squares with a decorative fancy edge.

Love this Leaf maker that punches out an Oak and a Maple Leaf!
I use this one often on my Fall pages:)

Thanks for visiting me today!
If you have posted for SS; please leave me a comment on this post and I'll link you up!!

Noelle ♥

Fall Finds/Pretties/Baking Cookies/Swaps/Goodies... WOW!!

Hi girls! I feel like I am SO out of the loop the past week! My lil Gage came down with a fever and thank God it was only a viral infection! Now my oldest is feverish today with the chills! Strep throat is going around here in our city:( Bad timing, with back to school right around the corner! 12 more days till my Gavin goes back... YES, I am COUNTING down the days till I get a bit of a break from the mouth and attitude that the handsome lil' 8 year old son of mine has this summer- sheesh!! Anyone else feelin' my pain?

I got out today for a bit and hit up Michael's... ahhhhh, love! They had several aisles of 70% off decor so I snagged me this adorable tea cup planter; I think I may fill it with faux florals for each season! It was like $4.00!! CUTE!!

This cute beach sign for my bathroom was just under $3.00!
Wish I would have had one of these for my Beachy Giveaway too!

Some Martha Stewart chipboard letters for HALF price- yahoo!

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I went to a new BIG Dolllar Tree this week and got these pretty fall flowers for my yellow kitchen crock...

Cute lil scarecrow!
I hate calling them that, cause they're not scary!

Also snagged this lil Welcome sign for the front door for a buck:)

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One night this week, I was at my wits end with these lil turkeys!
So I pulled out some colored cookie dough in tubs that Brian has purchases from a fundraiser a couple months back.

They/I had so much fun cutting out different cookie shapes and decorating them with other colored dough, then some frosting and sprinkles!

Gage loved the RAW cookie dough a bit too much...
and help decorate by putting blobs of other colored dough onto our cutouts!

Lil Gagie sprinkling away on his cookie!

The BIG bro Gavin eating his creation!
Yes, despite those big brown eyes, HE IS A TURD!!

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Awhile back I won a giveaway with my friend Holly, from Priscilla @ Casa Bella Chic...

She send me an envelope FULL of goodies to paper craft, or scrapbook with...
here is the bounty...

An old pattern from McCalls...

Love this darling card of the mother (Mary) holding her baby (Jesus)...

this precious lil chubby-wubby in the bath came on a piece of fabric- love him!!

fun things like flash cards, tags, characters from the Lil Engine that Could...

an old music sheet...

old coloring book pages... LOOOOVE these!

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Ok... FINALLY pics of what my sweet bud Tina from Mommy Scraps a Lot, sent me for the Sweets of Summer Swap!!

See the little jar in the middle with the adorable little girl inside? Tina made that for me, she also sent me this cute cupcake photo holder...

she made this sweet lil glittered sign for me too!! ♥

She loaded me up with a small journal with my N initial on it, scrapbook stickers, love the argyle ribbon tape too, stamps, stickers...

more ribbon, a cardboard album, some vintage valentine cards with CUTE envelopes...

Ooops, this pic is upside-down! lol:)
Some pretty paper flowers, a cupcake mini album, and more scrappin' goods!

Paper flowers, which are my #1 FAVE thing to use now... some pretty ribbon wrapped on clothes pins, love those lil bingo cards and doo-dads!
What a fun swap! Thanks Tina for being my partner and hookin' me up!! ♥

Thanks for visiting me today!!
Hope you enjoyed all the eye candy!
I WILL be doing a Scrapbook Sunday post for tomorrow..
after being M.I.A. for 2 weeks now, yikes!!

Have a GREAT and RELAXING weekend!
We are heading to the lake cottage tomorrow!!

Hugs,
Noelle ♥