It's that time of year again! Time for me to let each and everyone one of you know how grateful I am for all your support this past year. So I'll be giving away 1 Fanciful Le Rosy Paper Fleur and 1 Handmade Petite Paper Shoe just for you!
* To Enter: Leave a comment sharing one of your favorite Christmas memories. *Become a new follower to be entered 2x, Post the giveaway to be entered 3x!
The winner will be announced on December 20th and it might just be you who receives one of these little packages at your door!~Wishing you all an extra bright holiday season~
xo,
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My favorite Christmas memory is Christmas 1960 when I received a Chatty Cathy doll. I remember pulling her string until she would say "I love you". I carried her with me everywhere!
Happy holidays to you!
My favorite memory of Christmases past is leaving carrots on the porch for Santa's reindeer. Hee!
Awesome giveaway! Thanks for having this.
Oh my goodness Noel....what a wonderful giveaway....so, so beautiful.
I have a favourite memory each and every Christmas as I LOVE Christmas SO much.....but, my absolute favourite memory was, as a child....my sister, cousins and I would put an empty pillow case at the bottom of our beds and, I can remember waking up, sleepy eyed and shouts of 'He's been', and that pillowcase was filled to the brim with different shaped boxes peeping out of the top and bulging at the sides. Nothing was expensive but each present was worth it's weight in gold. Father Christmas still visits us all.....I still don't know how he manages to visit everyone in one night !!
I shall put your giveaway on my sidebar.
Thank you so much for the chance to win one of your beautiful creations. XXXX
Hi Noel,
It's so good to have you back in blogland, you've been sorely missed!!!
Happy Birthday month to you too :)
OK, I'm pretty sure my favorite Christmas memory will be a new one. It's going to be having him home for his first Christmas!! I've never been so excited and filled with the spirit. It's going to be the best Christmas yet!!!
From the day he was born I've been saying... each day feels like Christmas when I'd see him each morning, so you can imagine how happy I will be when I lay eyes on him on the 14th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lots of Love,
Terri
Oh Noel, how lovely!! Please count me in! I would love to become a follower too, so I will go do that also and get my two entries and if I have time I will post your giveaway too. How sweet of you!
My favorite Christmas memory - so many but probably coming downstairs as a little girl and taking things out of my giant stocking with my Mum and Dad. I loved that stocking!
xo Terri
Help! I have so many wonderful memories of Christmas, but I would say that holding my newborn son under the tree, surrounded by my husband, my parents and my beloved dog, listening to the wind, watching the sow fall was a moment of pure joy and bliss
My favorite Christmas memory was when I was grown and living in Minnesota visiting my parents every Christmas in warm sunny Florida.
Carol
I have fancied your fanciful designs for a while now and this is a great giveaway! My favorite Christmas memory is decorating the tree with my family and recounting the memories that I have of each ornament. I always remember how it felt to hold the same ornament when I was a child and feel its intricacies. Magical!
I have also created a sidebar for your giveaway.
Hello,beautiful talented lady Noel:-)))*
Oh,my...your Give away tooks my breatht away!!!
I wish I could be a lucky winner of one of your enchanted,fantastic creations,Noel!
My Christmas mamories...
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Snowflakes spill from heaven's hand
Lovely and chaste like smooth white sand.
A veil of wonder laced in light
Falling Gently on a winters night.
Graceful beauty raining down
Giving magic to the lifeless ground.
Each snowflake like a falling star
Smiling beauty that's spun afar.
Till earth is dressed in a robe of white
Unspoken poem the hush of night.
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Cheers and wonderful decemer to you,
***Violetta***
Hi Noel,
Your designs are just so lovely and inspiring........
My favorite Christmas memories involve all 3 of my young children. The look on their faces when they saw the Christmas lights twinkling for the first time--a look that is so precious and captures the magic of the holiday season.
Happy Holidays to you,
Debra
Baton Rouge, LA
What a beautiful giveaway!
Favorite Christmas memory....the butterflies in my stomach when I was so sure Santa was on the roof :)
Noel,
It's good to visit your blog again. I hope all is well in your beautiful world.
I've had many precious Christmas memories, but the sweetest one that seems to overshadow the rest is watching Amelia play with the wrapping and tissue paper on the floor of my parent's living room when she was about 7 months old. It's amazing how fast time goes by. I am so thankful for the ability to remember...
Have a Merry Christmas, my friend.
Mandy
Dear Noel,
I wish all your friends good luck winning this special Christmas giveaway!!
My favorite Christmas memory was the year you were born. My Christmas present that grows more Beautiful every year. I love you forever.
Mom
Oh my! What an opportunity! I truly admire your work.
My favourite Christmas memories are walking out the door of our farmhouse and strapping on skis after opening presents with the grandparents.
We have done this every year since I got my first pair of skis at three. I now have a little girl and I intend to start with her on my back really soon.
My favorite Christmas memory was in 2008 when my then-boyfriend (now husband) and I flew from Dallas to NYC. It was my first time in NYC and everything was so new, so festive and bright! I enjoyed being in such a great city on the best day of the year with someone so special to me! XO
Carly
My favorite memory was the anticipation of trying to go to sleep. I remember just being so excited, and wanting to get to sleep as soon as possible, but the time would drag until I'd finally pass out. I wish I could bottle that feelling!
Hello Noel!
What a beautiful giveaway! I hope you have been well!
I have to say that my most cherished and special Christmas memory was the night my son was born. The moment I saw his precious little face and held his tiny little hand, I knew that there is no other miracle as amazing as he is. I will never forget that Christmas night. I feel as though all of my hopes, dreams, and wishes were born that night too!
Xoxo
Judith~
Paris Atelier
Dearest Noel,
Most all of my Christmas memories are magical and special. I still get so excited, like a child! More than anything, I love to find that perfect gift for my loved ones.
Since I won your giveaway last year, am the owner, I feel sure, of more of your handmade flowers than anyone (but really who can have TOO many!) and as an owner of 5 your fabulous shoes ~ I want to give someone else the chance to be blessed with your amazing art! Ooh, how lucky they will be!!
I will be watching and excited for the lucky winner!
Kiss kiss,
Dana
Dear Noel, what a maginificent Give Away! So very generous of you and, needless to say, just in time for white Christmas! And my favorite Christmas memorie is the first Christmas with my daughter in the USA. We have been separated for 3 years before she was able to come live with me. That Christmas was so very special, was so full of joy! Will never forget er tiny figure going through the gifts under the tree....
Absolutely Awesome giveaway! I truly admire your work! What a great talent you have and thank you for sharing!
For a memory, each Christmas has been so different. But one reccuring theme has been enjoying family and food! My parents tried their best every Christmas to give us a nice Holiday filled with magic and awe! My hope is to do the same for my children.
JP
Wow, what beautiful things! One Christmas when we were little, my father had gone out on the roof and put reindeer prints in the snow. Then he had a neighbor jingle some bells so we would run upstairs to the bathroom window and look out at the hoof prints ... it was pretty magical!
Noel, Merry Christmas to YOU, it is so good to see you up and running. I love your work as I have told you before and I am already a follower!!
My best Christmas memory, well I actually wrote a post on it so I will give you the link:
http://goodlifeofdesign.blogspot.com/2010/12/best-childhood-christmas-memory.html
Christmas for me is alllll about the special moments with my family and I am a big sap and cry every single year I open up the box with the little hand made ornaments, first pair of glasses, first pair of shoes. Their sweet faces on the soccer buttons and baseball buttons. The broken ornament because it was played with all through the month of December. Oh yes sweet sweet memories, How I love my tree that represents each member of my family. Okay I need to stop before I cry again!!! kathysue
Noel how wonderful of you! Memories of a sleighride my uncle arranged, it was truly a winter wonderland!
Do come and enter my Giveaway from Fifi Flowers!
xoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
Hello,dear Noel:-)*
Thank you SO very much for you kindnest visit by me and you beyond touching me words...
You creations are adorable,full of you talented mind and SO talented hands!!!
Wish you fabulous weekend,
My hugs and Love to you,
***Violetta***
My favorite Christmas was the year my first grandchild was due. He arrived on the 29th and I will never forget the moment he was born. The excitement that Christmas was amazing! Love the rose, absolutely breathtaking!
Getting a new bike from my husband at the age of 48.
Oh how I love your roses & all your paper fleurs! I'm thrilled about your giveaway.
My favorite Christmas memory was in 2007. I had my baby boy on the 7th & spent the Holiday as a new mom. Each Christmas gets more fun by creating new traditions & keeping the old ones with my precious boy.
My favourite Christmas memory was when my kids were little. We were so broke, so I made all the ornaments, decorations, cookies etc. The boys little faces were lit up, in wonder, looking at the tree. I'll never forget that.
I'm a new follower via GFC.
pippirose59 at gmail dot com
My most vivid memory of a Christmas surprise was my first pair of skis. I can see them now, standing against the wall by the tree.
kshannoka@yahoo.com
Your sweet mom send me over...and I am so glad she did....your creations are beautiful in everyway. oxxo
Favourite memory...My grandma coming to surprise us at Christmas and jumping out of a Christmas box...my Grandma always made everyday special. xoxoox
My favorite Christmas memory was the birth of one of my sons. Sweetness was in the air!
Oh Noel, I have loved your work since reading in Romantic Homes. What a lovely talent you have. So very pretty.
I have just found you and am now a follower. All I can say is you have a gentle spirit..your art is so fragile, pure, and beautiful. Congrats on the Christian Dior work.
What a lovely giveaway gift.
I would have to say a favorite Christmas memory is when my daughter Holly Noel was born...she was actually born the day after Christmas but I was in the hospital in labor on Christmas...
and then two years later her sister Grace Elisabeth was born on Christmas. She came early and fast...so fast that I gave birth to her on the way to the hospital on the side of the road in the cold fog...my hubby delivered her and the embilical cord was wrapped around her neck twice which he has to unwrap...it was scary and tears began flowing when she breathed and cried. I held her tiny body against mine to keep her warm while we drove the rest of the way to the hospital. We felt a bit like Mary and Joseph with our little miracle.
Love the fleur; blog friend of dear Janet....fav Christmas moment is my parents coming to visit my as SCH; their descriptions of their reactions to my newborn self...
What a gorgeous flower!
My favorite memory of Christmas is the one to be. Each holiday brings so many different flavors, but the one with family is the most important. Happy Holidays.
Beautiful giveaway! I am so happy to join!
My favorite Christmas memory is from my childhood, waking up at 4 in the morning, pulling my brothers out of bed and tearing into the living room to see what Santa brought for us! We were so excited and joyful! I remember those Christmases EVERY year!
I am also a follower, via GFC. Merry Christmas to you and yours!
My favorite memory is when we went as a family looking for the perfect tree to chop down outside of town where we had a plot of land. My Dad was still alive then, and we would go in the family station wagon into the knee deep snow and look at tree after tree until we finally found the 'perfect' one, or one with holes in the branches or was too large, it didn't matter. We went back and put it up, listening to my sister's favorite LP, 'I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.' It was lovely
Oops, forgot to include my email in that, jrs112@gmail.com, in the favorite cutting down of Christmas trees. Can you include that?
Hi, What a beautiful giveaway, I am your newest follower. *hugs*
My favorite Christmas story is when my then three year old secretly opened the fireplace metal curtain on Christmas Eve. I thought my husband did it and said "Great touch dear". He said "I did not do that". I asked my son, he said he did it to make it easier for Santa to come in. Love it!
I found you via Fifi's Flowers. Another follower has been found. I love your site and am thrilled to enter the giveaway.
Christmas is always packed with memories for me. I'm from a big family and I remember the year my mother shopped at all the local thrift stores, finding items made from the finest fabric. Having no idea what she would do with them, since they obviously wouldn't fit or go with what we already had,I was so delighted when I opened my gift from her on Christmas morning and it was a beautiful raspberry colored dress fashioned from some gorgeous satin curtains she'd found the day we shopped. I was 10 years old and each of us received something Mom knew would be just perfect for each of us.
My favorite xmas memory is when I was about 8 my mom could not be with me for xmas but asked my aunt to buy me the gifts. I got everything I asked for and more.. for the first time ever, so I had the best after xmas day playing with my friends on the street.
I just became a follower, I love your flowers!
My favorite Christmas memory is when I was pregnant with my first son. I was so young and excited. He will be 14 just after Christmas this year.
Kristen
searchforgod@yahoo.com
I'm a follower.
Kristen
searchforgod@yahoo.com
One of my favorite memories is when I was five. A huge paper tube arrived in the mail from Reynolds Aluminum. Inside were the most beautiful embossed foiled papers I've ever seen in my life! My French grandmother, brothers, & sister & I made incredible birds of paradise, a Christmas chain, & angels from this glorious paper that lasted for decades. I think it's why I love paper so much. Finished with our artistic efforts we all had hot steaming cocoa together!
Your lovely creations remind of our artistic pursuits as children in papercrafting! What fun we had! I forgot to leave my email in the comment above.
Thanks for a chance to win these beautiful items!
Best wishes,
Chanticlear1atgmaildotcom
hi, my favorite memories is taking my kids to cut our christmas tree. we would pack a lunch, hot cocoa and the sleds. after we picked the perfect tree, we would spend the day sledding, have lunch and warm up w/hot cocoa. i really miss those days.
Merry Christmas Noel, I have enjoyed following your blog this year and I love your art. Thank you for hosting such a wonderful give away.
My very favorite Christmas memories are of all the decorating my Mother always did. She went all out! Even as adults my friends would ask if my Mom had done her decorating yet so that they could go over and see them.
Have a pretty week, Gail
Going to the Nutcracker Ballet with my friend Becky is one of my favorite memories.
Thanks for the magical giveaway! Happy Holidays!
~Pamela
pswelter@chaska.net
One of my favorite Christmas memories is my eldest daughter, now eleven, auditioning for The Nutcracker seven years ago. We were beyond thrilled when she was given the role of a Baby Mouse. The beloved ballet has become an annual tradition for our family now with Holland moving up in the ranks and performing as a Party Girl this year. My middle daughter, Dulcie, followed in her sister's ballet shoes and resumed the role of Baby Mouse three years ago. It's a joy for my husband and me to watch our daughters perform on stage every year and we look forward to our youngest daughter, now nearing the age of two, slipping on her own chaussures de ballet, donning her own mouse ears and stepping out onto stage. Each year, this story of magic, love and dreams, reminds me of the childhood I wish to give to my daughters.
Joyeux Noel, Noel!
One of my favorite Christmas memories is my eldest daughter, now eleven, auditioning for The Nutcracker seven years ago. We were beyond thrilled when she was given the role of a baby mouse. The beloved ballet has become an annual tradition for our family now with Holland moving up in the ranks and performing as a Party Girl this year. My middle daughter, Dulcie, followed in her sister's ballet shoes and resumed the role of Baby Mouse three years ago. It's a joy for my husband and me to watch our daughters perform on stage every year and we look forward to our youngest daughter, now nearing the age of two, slipping on her own chaussures de ballet, donning her own mouse ears and stepping out onto stage. Each year, this story of magic, love and dreams, reminds me of the childhood I wish to give to my daughters.
Joyeux Noel, Noel!
Everyone is grown up now but when they were little the excitement of Santa and presents being kept on the beds (there were no stockings when they were little), stockings came later.
mystica123athotmaildotcom
Thank you for the opportunity!
My most cherished Christmas memory is the first Christmas I spent with my first foster family. I was seven. My siblings and I were abandoned by our parents and became orphans...wards of the State. A kind family took all four of us in and gave us the Christmas we had only known in our imaginations!
My birthday is on the 20th and until then, I had never celebrated it!
My favorite Christmas memory... I think when I got the Barbie Camper when I was a little girl. That's where Barbie and Ken lived for years. Apparently they were the outdoorsy type.
thanks for the chance to win!
I just became a follower, and I would love to win anything you make. I love paper! Thanks for the chance. My favorite memory is driving up to my grandparent's farm when I was young going through all the little towns lit up for Christmas, then arriving at their farm and enjoying Christmas Eve with my family.
I forgot to leave my email address...thebee52@frontier.com
Deb Plapp
Your paper art is breath-taking!
My favorite Christmas memory is when our daughter had just turned 2-- she was so awed with all the wonder of the season! She loved going to the part to see the Nativity Scene and Baby Jesus.
Merry Christmas!
Ton blog est magnifique,quelle joie pour moi de me voir dans tes liens.
Je vais faire de même.
Belle journée
Manon
What a perfect name you have for this time of year!
Please enter me into this yummy giveaway.... Fingers crossed.
Warm blessings,
Spencer
My favorite Christmas memory is when my husband and I were stationed in Germany and we attended several Christmas markets. They were magical and we relive the moments with the mugs we brought that commemorated the occasions.
When I was 5 years old I found myself in the living room alone with the Christmas tree. It didn't take me long to open every single present under that tree before I was caught! What joy!
Your white paper flower looks so delicate - like a snowflake.
Hope I am not too late. I bet those are your sweet little hands holding that flower too Noel. Hope you and your mom are enjoying the loveliest of seasons this year.
xoxo,
Lisa & Alfie
Your art is lovely, I saw it in Karina Gentinetta's shop in New Orleans, Noel.
My favorite holiday memory was a quiet moment looking at my family gathered in the living room of my first house, the year of my daughter's first Christmas.
Bisous,
Sandy @ My Shabby Streamside Studio
http://myshabbystreamsidestudio.blogspot.com/
♥
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