The Creation of Noelle's Pillows
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Noelle's Pillows was created by Noelle, a stay-at-home mom. It started as a simple eBay business & became a booming, unique, enterprising corporation that's trend setting in Hollywood.

All I wanted was a baby, but I got much more than that...


I had hopes and dreams of one day becoming a mother. Success came finally. I was going to be a mom, but not without a price.

The price paid would be with my health. Upon labor and delivery of our son in the hospital, I contracted a bacterial infection unbeknownst to everyone (doctors included). It changed my life and almost ended it.

For 3.5 years I went undiagnosed with a phantom illness with symptoms ranging from acute environmental allergies (even my home made me sick) to ovarian tumors and MVP: mitral valve prolapse. I was sentenced to bed rest with a few "good days" to be had health wise. 

NOTE: Some may have MVP all their lives and never know or feel its symptoms. Others may have a severe case and feel quite fatigued and require surgery. I fell somewhere in between the two pointing more to the surgery side. It has been known to correct itself in some instances.

Years of physical and financial burden were draining our family dry. I needed to figure out how to ease my husband's sole financial burden even though I was still sick. I'd tried to work outside our home only having to quit jobs because I would get ill. Distraught and discouraged, I sat in my son's room and snuggled up with him and one of his favorite pillows. It was his alphabet letter pillows: "Name Sculpties" (R) TM. (view here to purchase Name Sculpties (R) TM like "jared" shown right)

Just as tears threatened to overwhelm, a "light-bulb moment" came upon me. I was surrounded by wonderful pillow décor and other creations that I had made for his nursery. I thought perhaps other moms would enjoy my pillow creations for their own children and then I remembered that my mother and I had a swap meet business years ago: "Pillow Talk". I revived it for the new tech age- thus an eBay business ensued.

My son's sweet face gave me the will to fight my illness while I had started my own business. It quickly became successful and soon after that, my own on-line business developed and grew. (Not that there weren't any bumps in the road, sometimes they were of mountainous proportions.)

Currently, my illness is cured. I was diagnosed with an acute bacterial infection: klebsiella ozanae that had ravaged my internal organs and caused many other diseases and symptoms to develop (including a battle with breast cancer later on). After undergoing intensive rehabilitation to build back my body, I found meaning to perseverance in every aspect of my life.

All I wanted was a baby, but I got much more than that...I got my wings. Never give up, because when you least expect it, you can get your wings and fly too. What colors will yours be? How far will you spread them? Live your dreams and inspire others.