Blog Award...Me??? Yay!

Shells over at Pixie Kisses Blog and owner of Bella Donna Beads
has given me this blog award. Isn't that so sweet!?! I am so honored to even
be considered by a fellow blogger and a fabulous one at that! If you
have a chance you should stop over at Shells blog. I can guarantee you'll
be inspired by her lovely quotes she includes in her posts.~Thanks Shells! :)

Now it's my turn to nominate SEVEN of my favorite blogs!!! All
of these blogs are maintained by very creative and talented people
of whom I absolutely adore and I hope you do too!
Red Otter
Elegant Snobbery
Katelyn Jane
Heart Handmade
The Chic & Green Blog
OLIVELOAF DESIGN
Artistically Speaking
Faded Plains

{{Of course there are a few rules for the nominees}}

1) Add the logo of the award to your blog
2) Add a link to the person who gave it to you
3) Nominate 7 other blogs
4) Add their links in your post
5) Send them a message letting them know

I hope y'all check out these fabulous blogs that I've nominated...
They really are fabulous you know! ;)

A wedding kind of weekend!

One of my very dearest friend just got married! Jono and I traveled nine hours back up to our hometown in Maryland to watch as she tied the knot!

Here's a quick photo of us before we left. Jono looks snazzy!
Doesn't it remind you of a prom picture??? Haha...

Well, my camera was acting all kooky and most of my pictures are a blur so I'll have to order some from their fabulous photographer.

Even though it's blurry ---I have to show off some of the wedding because it was gorgeous. First, my very drear friend....isn't she beautiful??!!!
The ceremony took place at sunset overlooking the Chesapeake Bay. So romantic! Here's a picture Jono took from the outside looking into the reception hall.
It looks so dreamy in there..
We had a blast and we are so just happy for the newlyweds!!!

I hope y'all had a great weekend too! :)

My earrings have been featured!!!

So much has been going on lately with the shop...New orders almost daily, giveaways (I have another one coming up next week!) another fabulous boutique order (that I'm so excited for and will post about later in the week) ...Lots and lots of good things happening for Lula Boutique...and I couldn't be any happier about it!

Something that made me especially happy this week...


My Delicate Drops have been featured on this fabulous site called Heart Handmade!!! If you love handmade goodness as much as I do then this is the site for you!

Heart Handmade has a weekly post called "Shop & Tell" where buyers are interviewed about their handmade purchases. Well, one of my customers (in the photo) ordered my Delicate Drops and then submitted a "Shop& Tell" to the Heart Handmade which you can read about here. Don't you just love the Heart handmade banner too? Love it!!!:)
I hope you all had a lovely holiday weekend! :)

Lula Boutique GIVEAWAY!!!

I am having my first ever GIVEAWAY contest over at MommieDaze.
Anyone can enter to win and I would LOVE for it to be one of you! xo

All you have to do is go here and leave a comment
telling your favorite item in my shop for a

 chance to win this "Lily & Swallow" necklace!

{Also, I wanted to thank MommieDaze for putting this giveaway
together for my shop and everyone who participates in the fun...Just fabulous!}

Apples for Jam

One of our wedding gifts was a gift card to Williams-Sonoma which was fabulous because I just love that place! While I was checking out I saw this BEAUTIFUL book from the corner of my eye and so I quickly stepped out of line to grab it. It only took me 2 seconds to flip through the pages to realize that this was a cookbook I had to have!

Apples for Jam "A Colorful Cookbook" by Tessa Kiros. Something funny and ironic though---the cake I baked was purely inspirational (and based on ingredients I had on hand) from her beautiful photographs and her recipe for "Lemon Sandwiches with Raspberries & Cream." I baked this delicious lemon cake with raspberry preserves filling and then of course topped it off with sugar coated raspberries...So incredibly sweet and delicious!