Swap Goodies ♥

Happy Spring! We are supposed to have a GORGEOUS day here in northern Indiana today:) almost 70 today!! 

These pics today are goodies I received from my sweet friend Brenda, from Welcome to Country Romance from the Heart. She and I recently did a lil' Spring swap with each other.

She sent me this pretty doily, a pearl necklace with a gold brooch on it and 2 votives for something cool you will see later in this post!

I thought this birds nest was so cute! Brenda loves to use birds/nests in her decor for spring so I am glad she decided to share one with me too ♥

Aren't the eggs so pretty? They are wrapped in a very pretty feminine paper.

The glass bottle on the bottom left holds the votive candles and gives off the prettiest purple glow when lit in the dark. She also added a sweet lil IMAGINE sign, a spring towel and some napkins!

My #1 FAVE item is the ADORABLE Happy Spring sign on the bottom left; I love the pink and brown on it:) She also sent me this cute lil garden angel too!

I know I took pics of what I sent Brenda but am still trying to locate them :-/ 

I don't think Brenda has posted any pics yet.

Hope you have a great day!

I'm off to grocery shop today, continue cleaning of the house, esp. our basement!

I sent 3 huge bags of stuff off to GW yesterday, what a great feeling!

My DOVE Chocolate Discoveries Open House is tomorrow night so I need to get the basement more organized and dusted... that is where I do all my entertaining!

Thank goodness we have a finished basement; or I'd go crazy!

Hugs,

Noelle ♥

Crafty Cuteness/My Dress

Good morning girls! 

I'm so sleepy today; had a horrible nights sleep last night:(

But today is going to be a lovely sunny day; almost 60 here!

I'm thinking a trip to the park is in order!

See the cute letter S for Spring above?

Its a new creation of mine; from my obsession for Modge Podge and decoupaging paper!!

I love love love to use cute prima flowers and buttons too; it must be my signature style?

I simply used a wooden letter S purchased from Michael's, cut and glued some fun spring paper on it, the used Modge Podge over the top of the paper, once that dried I spread a layer of craft glue then some Martha Stewart glitter, let it dry again... then hot glued on the chipboard letters, the prima flowers, buttons and added a ribbon to the back...easy as pie!

Here is another craft I've been working on...

Found this wooden egg at the Dollar Tree; and did the same process to it as I did the letter S.

I still feel like it needs something?

Maybe something around the edges, ideas please?

Here's the dress I was telling you about for my son's communion...

It needs to be ironed BADLY; and the color of pics in our bedroom don't come out too good either.

Our room is pretty dark, even when the sun is out:(

Hope you have a great day...

I hear a lil boy calling me from the upstairs "Moooooommmmmmy!"

Noelle ♥

yipppppeeeee!

Hey friends:)

How's your weekend?

I've been B-U-S-Y!

My friend Becky who I work for at the home daycare asked me awhile back to do a Creative Memories party for her, so I asked if I could bring along some of the NEW Dove Chocolate Discoveries items that I'm now selling too. She said YES so last night I did her CM/Dove party! We had a great time; got some CM orders, 1 Dove order and a gal booked a DOVE party with me too for May!

Then I checked emails on my phone and found out I won this...

The CUTEST Longaberger TOTE from Sweet Jeanette whose cute button I have on my side bar!

I hoped and hoped I'd win this cause I loooove the cute spring colors and the ribbon tie:)

Plus I've NEVER owned anything Longaberger either!

Eeek, I CANNOT wait to get this cute bag!

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I also found a dress for me to wear for my son's 1st Communion, and maybe for Easter too if it isn't FREEZING here!

I got it at Dress Barn and I got a 14!!

Thats 2 sizes SMALLER... I was THRILLED!
I NEVER since I've had kids have found a dress that I have felt good in, other than my wedding dress!
This dress slims my tummy problem area, shows that I have a waist line now too:)
I couldn't find a pic of it online to show, so I may have to model it for ya!
Its yellow and white and so so cute!

I found these adorable yellow heels to go with my dress at Payless today for $12.99!

They actually are a brighter yellow in person too.

Also found my son's communion suit at JC Penny's...

He's gonna be SO HANDSOME!

His big day is coming quick... May 2nd!

Now I just need to get my hubby to go out and get a new shirt and tie; he's NOT the shopping type!!
Gage will most likely sport his Easter outfit for Communion day; but will still be cute!

Hope you've had a great weekend...
what did YOU do?

Noelle ♥

Cute Easter Ideas!

Hello! I am SO glad tomorrow is FRIDAY!

What a week!

On a good note...

Gage SLEPT ALL NIGHT last night!!

I am SOO excited that Easter is a week away!

Gonna go to Church on Easter Sunday, give the boys their Easter baskets then head to the in laws for an egg hunt and lunch; not sure if my mom is having Easter dinner? (Mom are you?)

Here are a couple REALLY cute Easter layouts I found from Scrapbooks Etc. magazine...

I'd have to ditch the pink for my boys albums but I loooove this layout!

Cute! I found some new chipboard letters at Target for 99 cents that I can use on this layout title!!

Looove the large shot of the boy on the left; I always want to use bigger pics in my albums but forgot to order the larger size :(

Check out this CUTE Martha Stewart CRAFT idea...

Looove it!

Here are the directions:

No special flower-arranging skills are needed to make these brunch-table centerpieces -- just a few hallmarks of spring: blades of grass, muscari blooms, and a cache of pretty eggs.
Tools and MaterialsSmall glass or plastic container
Slightly larger flowerpot
Potting soil
Small flat of wheatgrass
Muscari (or other small flowers)
Wire mesh (or any other material to prop up eggs)
Quail eggs or ostrich eggshell (Quail eggs are available at specialty-food stores and localharvest.org; ostrich eggshells, at uniquelyemu.com.)
Centerpiece How-To
1. Place the small container inside the larger flowerpot. Fill in the gap between the two with potting soil, and water lightly.
2. Tear off small clumps of wheatgrass (gently, keeping soil and roots intact), and arrange them on top of the potting soil. Fill in with muscari.
3. Place a small ball of wire mesh in the small container, and pile quail eggs on top. (If using an ostrich eggshell, no mesh is needed.)

Quail eggs?
I'm gonna use the candy Robin's Eggs on mine!!
Where can you find wheatgrass at? 
Or can you buy wheatgrass seed?
INTERESTING!

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I've been working on 2 cutie crafts I can't wait to share with you!!!

Gotta get to work here soon, I have an essay due to do for class tomorrow... sighhh, essays SUCK!!

Love,

Noelle ♥

WHY ME?? Wednesday!!!

Geez, I'm on a roll this week...

First Manic Monday now WHY ME? Wednesday!!

My lil soon to be 3 year old NAUGHTY NON SLEEPING THROUGH THE NIGHT son was up TWICE last night... yep thats right TWICE!!

At 1 am and then again at 6:20 am!!!

Why?

Who knows?

He's not acting sick!

He wanted MILK!

Does he think that cause I call him my "baby" that he needs to still NOT sleep through the night like a baby does?

UGHHHHHHH!!!

So here ya go...

this is me all ugly and tired this morning...

I was sooo NOT happy!!

So, dear chubby son.. it is IMPERATIVE that you STOP waking me UP at night and do more of this...

If you do more of the above...

then MOMMY will be well rested, happy and showered like here...

Thanks for laughing at my early morning ugliness , I mean JOINING me on this WHY ME/WACKY Wednesday!!!!

Love,

Noelle ♥

P.S. Thanks to ALL of you WHO DoN't WAKE ME UP AT NIGHT!!!! (LOL)

Manic Monday!

What a Monday!! 

Yesterday our basement was half flooded... today we had to have a plumber come out to clean out our basement sewer pipe, or something like that?

This lil boy Gage has been a HANDFUL, he's lucky he's CUTE!

Slept all night last night FINALLY but has been very CRANKY today; its 5:23 pm and about a half hour ago I HAD To put him down for a short nap! 

I couldn't take the whining anymore!!!

So needless to say he will be up late...

my hubby could have put him for a nap when the plumbers left/when I was at the store but he took him outside instead... Men!! Sheesh!

I am a wee bit grumpy opinionated today!

But one of the cuter more comical things the lil stinker did this morning was...

I was in the living room and Gage went in the kitchen... he was REALLY quiet...

I said "What are you doing?" at least a couple time- no response!

I walked into the kitchen and he is standing in the corner by the cupboards with the carton of sugar free mint chip ice cream... eating out of the carton with a spoon!

I said "What are YOU doing?" and he just GRINS!!

Here is lil stinker building a "great big mounting" (mountain in his terms, lol!)

When he plays good, life is less chaotic!

Well just wanted to pop in today and say HI!

I'm having some gals over tonite for snacks and a SCENSY party...

my sister in law Jen is selling this now so I booked a show to help her out :)

Whats in it for me... FREE stuff!!

Hope your Monday hasn't been a MANIC one :>/

Noelle ♥

Spring Around My Home

Here's a sweet lil' slideshow to show my Easter/Spring decor and

 some of the things we've been up to ♥

Personalize a slideshow design Ohhh and don't forget to check out Suzie Buttons blog and enter this adorable GIVEAWAY! She's picking a winner tomorrow nite! And I sure hope its me, hehe:)