Free Valentines Day Printable!

I am very exited to introduce a guest with you today.  For quite a few reasons actually.  For one, they are very talented, amazing women.  Secondly, one's my mom and the other one is pretty much my second mom.  So needless to say there is a little bit of an attachment there.  Thirdly, and probably most fun, they have created something beautiful to share with you all today.  Something beautiful and something free!!

First of all, let me introduce them.  Tammi (my mommy) and Rachelle make up the dynamic duo of The Pomegranate Basket!  They create custom invitations for a multitude of celebrations from your baby's first birthday to your grandparents 50th wedding anniversary!  They really are a unique and beautiful talent, if you want to see more of their work, you can check out their website.

Today they are here to give you something.  Just because Valentine's Day is coming up and you should have pretty things to give to others!  So below you will find a free Valentine's Day printable just for you.  All you have to do is print them, cut them, write cute little love notes on them, and give them away!

Click the picture or here for your free Valentine's Day Printable!

Aaaaannnnnddddd because the beautiful ladies at The Pomegranate Basket are so lovely, they are going to give away a beautiful set of note cards to one winner!  All you have to do is go 'like' their Facebook Page and share a status about them!

Aren't they darling?  Head on over and try and win some!

Hope this is a great start to a wonderful week.  

Bises - Natalia

I am linking up to all the fun parties in my linky page and some other great ones here.

Acute Designs Giveaway!!!

Happy Black Friday!!

If you have taken a breather from shopping all day, online or otherwise, you could have a chance to win something!!!

Acute Designs is one of my favorite Etsy stores.  Not to mention Gina, who is the owner and creator, is super nice.  I have loved getting to know her more and am so pleased to have her as a sponsor on my site!

 {Acute Designs} consists of handmade accessories - hair, jewelry, and bridal.

If you haven't checked out her shop, you should.  She has so many things to choose from.  That is my favorite part, there is something for everyone!  Here are some examples of her work:

 Simple yet beautiful bow headband

 Beautiful satin bow headbands

 Cascading petals headbands

Beautiful ruffled headband

Guess what?  Gina is giving one reader their choice of one of the above!  In their choice of color as well!!

I totally wish I could enter this one...

But you can!  And here's how...

Must be a follower here - mandatory - and tell me which one you would choose if you won

Follow Gina's blog over at {Acute Designs}

Tweet, Facebook, or blog about this giveaway  Feel free to use this tweet:

"Just entered to win a beautiful headband by @AcuteDesigns over at @natalialsimmons blog! Hope I win! http://bit.ly/tdI8Iu"

If you just can't wait to see who the winner is, Gina is having a great Black Friday sale going on all day today!  Just head to her shop {Acute Designs} and make sure you use the code FRIDAY25 at checkout to get, you guessed it, 25% off anything in her shop!

Aaaaannnd to top it off, all sale items are free shipping anywhere in the US!

Have fun with this one, ladies! 

{or husbands doing some Christmas shopping... :)}

The winner to the Avery's Loft giveaway can be found here. :)

Jewelry, Ornaments & a Giveaway!

Are you one of those people that has started decorating for Christmas?  Like you just can't stand it, some things go up before Thanksgiving.  The stores are starting to do it, that makes it okay, right?

At the very least I know most of you are planning for it.  Unless you fall into the category my husband and I do which is wait until the week of to get the presents.  Yep, we're awesome like that.

Well, I have something that is going to brighten up your Christmas planning.  I don't know about you all, but I love personalized items.  I'm not talking every.little.thing personalized, I don't need my initials on my underpants, but you know, the items that mean something.  For example, I recently got my Lisa Leonard necklace and I adore it.  It has be boys names engraved on it and somehow it feels like they are closer to my heart that way.  I absolutely love it.
 If you don't know about Lisa Leonard Designs, you must go check her out.  She creates beautiful hand-crafted pieces such as my necklace here.

This holiday season she has also created quite a few ornament designs that can be personalized as well!  These are particularly special to me because growing up my parents would buy us our own ornament each year.  It was such a special tradition because the ornament would kinda represent what we were into each year.  What a great idea to have a personal or family ornament to remember each year!

Find it here

Find it here

Find it here

Lisa has so kindly offered to give one lovely reader {that's you guys!!} $50 credit to her store.  JUST IN TIME for the holidays!  Could this be any more perfect?  Here is how you need to enter.

1.) Follow my little blog here & tell me what you would buy with you credit {mandatory}

2.) 'Like' Lisa Leaonard Designs on Facebook

3.) Tweet, Facebook, or blog about this giveaway{2 extra entries for each!}

You can use this tweet "I entered to win $50 to @LisaLeonard beautiful store @natalialsimmons place! Check it out: http://bit.ly/v8JuSV "

Bonne chance!!

1 Item 2 Ways ~ & a Giveaway!!

We all wish our closets were fuller than they are.  But when we get creative and learn to wear the things we DO have, it's like we have a Mary Poppins closet -- it just keeps giving!
As you have probably already noticed, I like to come up with challenges that help me work with the items that I already have in my closet.  Take this cowl, for instance...   You have already seen it here and I just can't seem to get enough of it lately.  I thought I would show you a couple ways it can be worn and how I chose to pair it.

First we have classy-Devil-Wears-Prada-ish chic work outfit.  Like, I run my own fashion magazine kinda outfit.  I look like that, don't I?  Ya, Thanks. :)  Please excuse the cell phone pics, I just got home from over 24 hours of traveling and straight from the airport to the salon for my new haircut. Hey, a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. 

Then I went with a more casual feeling.  Throwing some torn jeans and boots with a cute sweater I'm ready for a shopping trip downtown.  I love the casual feel of this one and I LOVE how this cowl works both ways.  Oh and did I mention that it's a hooded cowl?  Just throw that baby over your head and you gotta... hooded cowl. You get the idea.  {we're keeping in mind lack of sleep when reading this, right? Thank you.}

All warm and fuzzy waiting for my first Starbucks since leaving for France.  Cowl and a Starbucks?  That sounds like the perfect fall combination to me!

Want one yet?  I thought so!  And Alysha of The Sunshine Stitch wants one of you lucky readers to have $25 to her shop!!  Can't wait to see who wins?  Well, she is also offering my readers 20% off anything in the shop using coupon code MANOUVELLEMODE.  All you have to do is:

1.) Be a follower of Ma Nouvelle Mode {mandatory}

2.) 'Like' The Sunshine Stitch on Facebook

3.) Share this giveaway via Twitter, Facebook, or blog!

Feel free to use this tweet:

"I would love to win @thetarrpit giveaway over @natalialsimmons blog! $25 to her shop! http://bit.ly/uZEDBu"

Good Luck! 
Oh and I am choosing a winner for Smokey Eye kit in the morning, last chance to enter!

Giveaway!! Tutus and Bows!!

Guess what everyone!!  I have something special for ya!  One of my lovely sponsors is here today to tell you about her beautiful shop!  Her kids are adorable (mixed kids are the cutest, hehe) and I am so lucky I don't have a girl because I would be broke buying up all these bows and tutus!!  You have got to read on and check out her stuff.  It is beautiful and really well made.  I guess I could get some for my niece...

Hello Everyone,

My name is Suze from Time Well Spent, and I am originally from Haiti. In an interesting turn of events, I found myself living in the Mountain West of the United States. Being in a different environment took a little time for adapting, but I'm loving it here. I have two beautiful children(a 3 years old boy and an 18 months old sassy & bossy girl) who keep me busy most of the time and married to the most amazing man (November 2006). I love making bows, photography, sewing ( just started) and scrapbooks.

Actually, let me tell you when I started making bows. It all began when our family had a bit of a shock! Our second child was supposed to be another boy, but lo and behold, the doctor pulled out a girl! From that moment I have enjoyed the process of raising a little princess. In anticipation of when she would have a head of hair... (She is getting there)... I started to make hair bows and all things girly. 

So now, I am a total bows and tutus addict, but wouldn't have any other way! My daughter has about three hair bows holders full with hair accessories   ( in the process of making her a four one, need more room) and about 5...6...ok 12 tutus and I even have one too, it was for Halloween,[don't judge me]or was it...?!

Recently, I decided to open a Etsy shop and share my passion with everyone...In the hope that they will pay for themselves and I can always continue making them knowing that some little one is enjoying having them. Hope, I haven't bored you guys to death, so here are some stuff you will find in the shop

Tutus

Headbands 

 Belts and Matching bows

 Flower Bows and much more.

She has graciously offered to give one lucky reader 15% off her shop.  Don't worry, the giveaway is only a week long, so then you can get to shopping!  Here's how you enter...

Mandatory:

~ Follow me here at Ma Nouvelle Mode

Extra Entries

~ Follow Time Well Spent

~ Like me on Facebook

~ Tweet about the giveaway. You can use this tweet: Just entered the Time Well Spent Giveaway at @natalialsimmons blog. Check it out

Hope you win! I am telling my sister-in-law to enter. So cute!

200 Celebration and {French} Giveaway!!

Today is the day!!  I have hit over 10,000 views, I have over 200 followers, and I am right at 100 posts!  Today I am getting to say thank you to all my readers.  Today (and the rest of the week, of course) you have a chance to win some really cute items from France!!  Why today, you might ask?  Well first, I wanted to make sure I actually stayed at 200 followers.  I posted a pretty risque strawberry pie recipe that might have offended a few people.  And second, I am super lazy and slow with getting everything together!  Alas, I have prepared and am ready to present my French items I lugged all the way home from little l'Etrat to give to one of you lovely readers!  Check 'em out!

First up, chocolate!  A French giveaway wouldn't be complete without chocolate.  Need I say more?

 

I have these beautiful vintage coasters from Paris.  Gotta love it, typical Parisian! 

 French coffee.  My favorite brand.  Yes, I know it says Colombia on it, but hey, it is a French brand.

 Beautiful French scarf!  It is actually lightweight, so depending on your weather, you might be able to wear it for a bit before it gets too hot. 

Don't you want to know how to enter?  Okay, settle down, I will tell you!  :)

Mandatory:

 {1} Entry: Be a follower of me and leave a comment letting me know you are.  If you already are, you know how awesome you are, and leave a comment letting me know!

Extras:

{1} Entry: Follow me on Twitter

{1} Entry: Follow me on Facebook

{1} Entry each: Tweet, Facebook, or blog about this giveaway!  I am even going to supply you with a simple little tweet to use, if you so desire!  (making it easy for ya!)

I have entered to win a French themed giveaway at @NataliaLSimmons blog, Ma Nouvelle Mode Check it out! http://bit.ly/ifKgf7

I hope you win!  :)  And feel free to spread the word!

Have I told you lately, that I love you?  Have I told you lately, that I care??  I don't think I have.  So today, I am telling you!  Je t'aime mes peeps!  (that is called franglais, French & English together. I'm fluent.)  I hit 200 followers yesterday!  I was so excited to come back from LA to see that I was there!  A little merci to my girl Rebecca over at My Girlish Whims for giving me a shout out on Facebook.  Whoop whoop!

So you know that this means for you all?  Besides the pure enjoyment you get from reading my blog, of course.  A giveaway!!!!  I brought back some fun stuff from Le Francais and I want to give it to one of you!!  So next week, we're doing it!  Stay tuned and tell your peeps! 

Oh and today my husband is playing his first playoff game. Yikes, I am nervous for him.  I will let you all know!

Have a great Saturday and weekend!!!

I'm over here! {Giveaway}

Let me please apologize for the lack of posting this morning!!  I am in Aix Les Bains visiting some awesome friends before we leave for the states.  Check out this place, it is incredible.  At the base of the Alps, close to Annecy, another beautiful French city.

Other than that, I wanted to update you all and let you know that I am hosting a giveaway over at Craft Couture!!  Go check it out if you would like another chance at winning a beautiful French necklace!!  Not the same necklace, but French all the same.  So head over and enter!

I have some great posts set up for you guys next week because I will be outta here!  But stay tuned, there is a freebie involved! :)

Have a great weekend!!!!

Meet Rebecca ~ & my first {GIVEAWAY!!}

Hi everyone!  I would love for you to meet my friend Rebecca.  You might already know her because she is so awesome and because she hosted my first giveaway last week!  Well if you didn't get a chance to meet her, here's your chance!

First off, she lived in France last semester in college, how awesome is that?? 

She just got engaged three days ago!!!  Congratulations!!

She has an awesome etsy shop, Your Girlish Whims, full of beautiful handmade jewelry.  This is one of my favorites she just made:

She shows the tutorial here

She has an awesome linky party she just started three weeks ago and already she has over 150 link ups each week!  You go girl!

Ain't she puuuurty!?  Oh and do you like her earrings??  Yep, she made them!  {so talented!}  And because she is so super nice, she wants to give them to one of you!

Check 'em out!

*love*

I love them because they are so creative and I haven't seen anything like them! 

So if you would like to win these one-of-a-kind earrings here's whacha do:

{Required}

~ Be a follower of Ma Nouvelle Mode and My Girlis Whims (separate comment for each)

{Additional}

~Heart her Etsy shop, Your Girlish Whims, and leave a comment telling us your favorite item (separate comment for each)

~ 'Like' My Girlish Whims on Facebook

~ Link up to her par-tay, yesterday or next wednesday (separate comment for each link up)

Alright, so you have a ton of ways to win these beauties!  So get busy ladies!

Winner announced next Thursday!

Where I live in France

I am so excited about today.  I think you will be too!  Remember the other day when I showed you a sneak peek of something???  Well today I can tell you what it is!  I am hosting my first giveaway over at My Girlish Whims!!  And what will I be giving away, might you ask??  I beautiful French necklace.  It is so pretty, I want to keep it.  But I won't.  One of you will. :)

And to get you extra motivated to win something straight from France, I am linking up today with Little Miss Momma and showing off our 'hoods.'  Neighborhoods, that is.  So grab your coffee and have a little French visit.

Annecy. OK, I don't live here, but it was so pretty I couldn't resist

View from our town

another view

I have always loved this pretty old building

Our city, L'Etrat (pronounced lay-tra)

When you are leaving L'Etrat

On the way to our house

You have seen this door before

Our bakery, yuuummmmmy

This church is from the 1800's

monument infront of it

Another

It's really a pretty church, although I don't really see anyone go in it...

Little grocery store, called Petit Casino. Good for me when I forget items at the cheap grocery store!

Playground. I think it is weak sauce, but my son likes it. I guess kids are easily amused.

My son's school.  I will have to post a vlog of him speaking French. It is awesome.

On our walk to school

Where he plays

So that is my 'hood.  I can't wait to check out some others!  Now that you are all Frenchied up, go enter the giveaway!! 

Bonne Journee!