Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Summer 2016

Summer!

She still calls them flowers.

Melt. HEART. LOVE. 
Girls giggling and getting along.



 
My little backyard fairy.

Our new pool. 
Box said "30 min set up"
Took my husband and me 4 days.
And... we still can't figure out the skimmer. 

Nature is lovely.


Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Memoirs of a sweet homeless kitty

                                                                  Hi. I am Baby Messi. Sup. 

HI everyone! My name is Messi. 
I am the most loving, sweet, NICE and friendly cat Noelle has ever met. 

Last summer my owner (Noelle's neighbor) moved and they left me behind. Yeah, I know. grrrrrrrrrrr. 
Anyway, I adopted Noelle and family as my new owners, but they already have a cat and Meeka is old and cranky. 
hi. i am old and cranky

 
Noelle lets me sleep in a warm heated bed in the garage (and I have a space heater too) and sneak in the house as often as I can. 
Other hobbies I have are sitting on your lap and purring so loud you have to turn up the volume on the TV, drooling when I purr b/c I'm so happy, eating and being perfect about using the litter box. None of this spraying stuff for me. I AM GOOD! 

I am a BIG people person too and LOVE attention and sitting on your lap for hours!
I am currently living with Noelle's mom (and she is allergic to cats, sad face.)  I am looking for a new home. If any of you are lonely, I will be your new best friend! Let me know! 

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Batman.... OFF TO SAVE THE DAY!!!

BATMAN channeling his inner
Usain Bolt!
Run, run, as fast as you can!
You can't catch me, I'm BATMAN!

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Batman Channels his Inner Donald Trump

Batman channels his Inner
Donald Trump. (comb-over and everything)

"You're fired, Mom."

Thursday, May 2, 2013

Sunday, May 27, 2012

AHHH... hello there blog. It's been a while. And, well, sorry, I've been busy! 

I had so much FUN creating this picture. 
I would love to hear your thoughts.
I would love to hear your interpretation. 
Lorraine Culver was my beautiful model.
IF you like it, I posted in a challenge on the FRAMED NETWORK. (great photography resource)
Click on the little heart button at the bottom of the photo once you are one their website.
HUGS, Blessings, laughter and LOVE,
Noelle 

Monday, March 19, 2012

28 Days of Natural Beauty- Day 20 Boom Boom Broom Bangs

28 Days of Natural Beauty-
 Day 20 Boom Boom Broom Bangs 
OR 
Natural Beauty and Hair


Alright stop. 
Collaborate and listen.  (know where this is going?)

I'm back,
with a brand new invention. 
Something grabs a hold of me tightly
Fall like a harpoon daily and nightly.

Will I ever stop? 
YO, I don't know.
Turn off the lights and I'll glow. 
To the extreme I rock a mic like a vandal,
Light up the stage and watch me jump like a candle.... (um...I don't think those are the EXACT words. yeah, yeah... I know.)

DANCE.
And your speakers will boom, 
killing your brain like a poisonous mushroom.
Deadly. mumble, slur..slur.mumble
Slur..slur.. mumble mumble, occasionally hit a word,

LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT,

mumble, slur..slur.mumble
Slur..slur.. mumble mumble, occasionally hit another word,

mumble, slur..slur.mumble

IF there was a problem,
YO, I'll solve it,
Check out my hook while the dj revolves it. 
Ice Ice baby, vanilla.....
 



Ok, OK, OK... I'm done! 
WOW! Thank you for sticking me with me as long as you did. 
I know it's rough to hang out with someone while they attempt to sing a song.
Especially when they are butchering it because they don't know the words. 
And especially when that person is a white, female, in her 30's rapping a song from the 80's. 
Was it the 80's or early 90's?

google it.

I Googled it.  

Ok, wikipedia says it was released 1990. 
YIKES! Robert Matthew Van Winkle (Vanilla ICE) was stabbed 5 times and almost thrown off a balcony b/c people wanted him to sign with their record company?

CRAZY!

ok... sorry. Side note.
Back to OUR story.  
Or whatever it is. 

BUT,  I DO have to admit that I love rapping this classic Vanilla Ice song to my kids. (Ice, Ice Baby) 
I bust it out everyonceinawhile (yes, that is a word.) 
It's fun... they have no idea what I'm doing and just stare at me.
It's great to do when they all are fussy and whiny and "mommmeeeeee..eeeee...eee" this and "mommy" that....
Right when you are about whine and yell back...
That's when you bust out it out.  

Singing is good for the heart, body, mind and soul.
Well, in this case, rapping.

Alright. Let's get to the natural beauty part of this.....


Today's picture.
All Rights Reserved Elle Feb 2012 pg. 143

Interesting fashion shot.
The article is about red lipstick.
I think it should be about BROOM HAIR.

You know... when you have colored your hair way too many times AND it feels as course as a broom?
Or maybe it just feels like a broom?

In college, one may change their hair color monthly.
One, orrrrr do I mean, ME?
Yes, ok, you caught me.
 anyway...
Why did you color your hair all the time?
Cause I could.
BOOM!
Because I wanted to know what I would look like with purplish-red hair.
BOOM!
Because I was in college.
BOOM!
Because my mom couldn't tell me "not while you live under my roof."
 he-he, love ya mom.

Now... now... NOW...
Now, why do the ends of my hair feel like I could sweep my kitchen floor with them?
I don't color my hair just for the FUN of it any more.
I do it because I am hiding something from you and the rest of the world.
MY
Natural
Hair
color
and
that
color
is.....................
dark, very, very, dark,
ashy brown.
Oh and yeah, some super white blonde hairs popped up after I started having kids.
It looks weird with my dark browns, so I color my hair.
WHAT?
WHAT's THAT you say?
Those ARE NOT blonde hairs?
They are gray?
gray?
ME?
WHAT?
NO WAY!!

NOT ME!

NOT EVER.

ok.
 yeah.
     maybe
         you
            are
               correct.
                  ug.   

So, Since this is natural beauty blog, should I forget making an appointment at my hairdressers and just let me hair go?
no.
Well, it's up to you and what you think you like about yourself.
I personally am not into gray hairs, just yet.
When I'm older, I think I'll let it go, but not yet.
HECK, i'm still in my 30's!

My Version:

1. My Broom Hair is lovely. And a real broom.
A stinky outdoor broom.
A stinky outdoor broom that belongs to stay outdoors and should be
NOWHERE, nowhere,
NEAR
MY
FACE!
ICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. The weird lip thing was hard to do and LOOKS weird with out lipstick. Oh well!  

On ANOTHER SIDE NOTE...
I got the funniest MUG SHOT of myself while I was testing the light and trying to focus my lens..
Are

YOu 

Ready?

Ok,

Here you

GO....
OK!
WHAT THE HECK???
Seriously looks like a 
MUG SHOT!
Do I look like this when I'm listening to someone's story?
Hilarious!
I like how ONE of my eyebrows is slightly raised.
Just like John on Days of our Lives.
Is that still on? I haven't watched it in about 10 years, 
but I bet John and Marlena are still married and weird. 
Maybe you will want to turn it on and watch it now, JUST to watch his amazing Expressive Eyebrow skills.


Our Song of the day: ..........
of course you KNOW what it is!
YOU-ARE-A-GENIUS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=149jGeIlx3I



Peace, Love, Laughter, 
and Vanilla ICE, ICE, ICE Cream
 (with chocolate chips....mmmmmm)
~No-ice-L


Sunday, March 4, 2012

I heart faces Photo Challenge * Beautiful Black and White


I heart faces Photo Challenge 

* Beautiful Black and White


This picture was taken this weekend while practicing light.

I love this picture!



This photo was submitted to the I Heart Faces photo challenge – www.iheartfaces.com

Photo Challenge Submission

THANK YOU!

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

28 Days of Natural Beauty- Day 19 Shake That!

28 Days of Natural Beauty- Day 19 Shake That!  


All rights reserved Gucci Copyright: Elle February 12 No. 318

This picture confused me for a while. Is this some weird Yoga move where her leg is in front of her? Ohhhhhhhhhh.... I get it... it is a leg from another person!
duh...



My Version:

So, my son was my leg model.
He has cute chubby thighs, so I thought he would be the perfect leg model.
I had no idea he was holding a paint brush... I don't even know how he got it!
Where did it come from?
Kids are amazing like that.
The funny thing is, is that THIS IS the cropped photo.



Here is the UNcropped version:
Le original.


He is also wearing #1 child's Taekwondo safety sparring gear. 
He loves that helmet!  
He puts it on his head and walks around yelling, "Hi-ya!"

#2 child wanted in on the action.

#1 child wanted to take the pictures, so I set up the camera and let her go.

Here is the next few pictures she took as I was struggling trying to get another shot set up.


 Lost interest in the paint brush.


Had a flower in the other hand and wanted me to smell it.
"FLOW? FLOW?" as he shoved it toward my face. 


HOLD STILL WOULD YA? 
Great! Got him to drop his props. 



OH NO!!! Don't cry!! 
Ok, here, here is the flower back!! 
#2 still trying to get in the picture. 
Poor middle child. 
Love her so much. 


I did nighttime beauty again this time. Right before I put all the kids to bed. At the end of the day, when the makeup has all worn off, when you are shuffling your feet to walk you from the bathtub to kids rooms....
Yeah, End Of the DAY natural Beauty.
It rocks as much as 6am no makeup Beauty.


And for our song today... 2 parts...
1. Since #3 was the star of the blog today... Here he is dancing
My son's version of shuffling... he is Shaking It: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2L30yO_bHI

2. LMFAO shaking it and shuffling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ6zr6kCPj8&ob=av2e


PEACE, LOVE and Laughter,
and Cheerios and Goldfish (2 of #3's favorite foods!)
~No-Legs-L 

Friday, February 24, 2012

28 Days of Natural Beauty- Day 18 Come TO my PARTY!

28 Days of Natural Beauty- Day 18 COME TO MY PARTY

This ad is so random and funny.

COME

TO 

MY
PARTY!!!



Come to my fun, candy, sugar party!


WHO: YOU!
WHY: Because sugar is fun to eat!
WHAT TO WEAR: Oh, you must wear your craziest feather-doily-hat-clip thingy! :)
WHAT: Eat so much sugar, it will put you in a weird daze.WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WHEN: Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oh sorry, Um... date.. yeah. Next Leap Year.
WHERE: Your backyard!
All rights reserved: Juicy Couture Copyright: Glamour Dec 2010


HEY,
HEY,
 Mama! 
WHO 
invited 
the 
LLAMA?



My version.....

1. My HEALTHY/Whole Foods VERSION...


2. No llamas were embarrassed making my version.


3. Warning:
                 I didn't have any cool looking doily hats,
                                   so I did something equally cool....






Day 18


Hanger Head. 
The new Halloween Hit Costume! 
All you have to do is wear normal clothes and then just put a hanger on your head.
WOW! WHAT A COOL COSTUME? WHO ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE???
Hanger Head.
WOW! That is such a great idea, so creative!! You will probably win BEST COSTUME tonight!
Gee, thanks! 


Did you know that there are such things as Velvet Hangers?
True fact.
I just found out today.
Am I behind on this too?
Please tell me that there are others that don't know about these things.
Apparently they are awesome.
I wish I would have had one for these pictures. It would have been much softer on my head.

Notice MY FOOD?
Healthy stuff.
Eat healthy, makes you feel so much better.
Well, I don't know about you, but it does for ME! :)

p.s...
I took these pics RIGHT before bed this time, instead of early in the am.
This is NATURAL BEAUTY before bed.
Taking these before bed was nice b/c my husband actually helped me on one picture in today's blog. He helped by pressing the focus button for me while I was doing the spoon eating picture...  my camera wouldn't focus with low light.
I interrupted his movie STEEL JUSTICE....
He was very kind to walk away from such a great classic 80's B movie.
The main charater is the bad/mean Karate teacher from Karate Kid.
You love the movie already, don't you?

Ohh... how about a good Karate Kid movie montage for our song of the day!!!
classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBktYJsJq-E

YOU'RE THE BEST AROUND! 
'Nothing EVER is gonna keep you down! 

OR
Did you want the HEY HEY Mama song?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9qUMr6feOI&ob=av2e)






Peace, Love, Laughter 
and carrots, celery, potatoes and healthy stuff,
No-salad-L

p.s. you should go to YOU TUBE and type in "RUNNING LLAMA."
Now THAT is silly!