Emily Jones

My Little Shoebox May Projects!

Hey there!

Thought I'd share my MLS projects for May....this month we were lucky enough to partner with Hambly Studios and use some of their products in conjunction with our MLS product!  I LOVE Hambly, so this was extra fun for me!

Also, this month at My Little Shoebox, we are focusing on showing different techniques with our transparencies and chipboard, so I have added those techniques in my descriptions.  You can find the rest of the MLS DT's techniques and projects here starting May 1st!

Playing Ponies

Journaling:

This was the best $2.99 I ever spent!  I found this My Little Pony house at the goodwill and you fell in love!  You now have4 ponies and love to bounce them around their house!

Technique: I used a nail file on the chipboard letters to create a cross-hatched pattern.

Love Birds

Journaling:

We are totally snuggly lovebirds!  Even after all these years, you still make me weak in the knees!  I am so lucky to have  found you and made a life with you.  I love our beautiful family and I love you! April 2009

Happy Lily

Journaling:

You are always smiling!

Technique: One of my favorite things to do with chipboard titles is to layer the letter for extra depth.  I also ran out of the letter "P" and used letter "a" turned upside down with the tails cut off!

Another technique here is creating personalized embellishments with the transparencies.  I used the "Who's There" flowers and stickled them so they popped right off the page! 

Beach Baby (MLS and Hambly)

J0urnaling:

Lily, I think your fave part of our beach vacation was sitting on the beach in your baby bikini!  Although I don't think you liked the sand too much after you figured out what it tasted like!

Expecting You (MLS and Hambly)

I used my square punch to punch out the MLS patterned paper and the Hambly Overlays!  I didn't know if you could punch through an overlay, but surprise! You can!  I then stitched the squares with my sewing machine and embellished!

Budding Artist (MLS and Hambly)

Journaling:

Lily you loved painting at the Children's Museum!  You were very excited to try it by yourself, and even though you got it EVERYWHERE it was great fun!  You painted such a pretty picture!

I created this paintbrush my free hand drawing the base and stem and used a die cut heart turned upside down for the brush!  I then flicked pink paint on the top and bottom of the overlay for added texture.

Congrats Card (MLS and Hambly)

So there they are!

Also, if you get a chance stop on over to Bella Blvd, where I am featured!

And oh yeah.....It's my birthday! ;-) Happy 25 to me!

-Em

Update

Hey!  I've fallen off the face of the earth!  Sorry!

My laptop is once again (DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THAT AGAIN) is in the shop.  Possibly from me throwing it off a 14 story building.  Okay, so maybe only in my fantasies. hehee...I hate that thing!
I am writing from J's computer, which is hard to get onto between him and the boys fighting over it! 

Not much to share today, lots of stuff going on at Joey's school, a couple projects and oh yea!  Joey's teacher finally got him tested for the gifted program and surprised us all by placing out of Kindergarten and into Second Grade!  How cool is that?!  He is such a smart cookie and we are so proud of him.  He is going to get some special work in the classroom and more one on one time with his teacher until the end of the school year and then next year will be a part of the gifted program that starts in first grade.  We made a decision a couple years back when we realized that he was very smart that we wouldn't want him to skip a grade.  I have known and heard people say that it did more damage than good to their child emotionally and socially to have them skip.  Do you have any experience in this?

What else have we been up to?  Hmmmm....well Sunday we went to the zoo with our friends John, Jana and baby Burton and had a great time!  Then Monday I babysat little Burton for John while he worked.  It was so fun (and exhausting!) to have another little baby in the house!  It was like a glimpse of what life would be like if Lily had been a twin!  Burton was great though, and ended up really clicking with Jake!  It was so cute, he kept climbing on Jake's back and hugging him.  At one point they snuggled up together under Jake's blankey and Burton almost fell asleep!  So cute!

Oh!  I also forgot to share that I got two layouts picked up for Scrapbook Trends!  One is for the September Issue and the other is for their Holiday Idea Book!  I'm so psyched! 

So, Monday is my birthday, the big 25!  LOL!  We are planning on celebrating on Friday at weekly poker night with my friend Jana, who's birthday is the day before mine, so we'll have a double celebration....then Sunday we're heading over to my parents house for my bday dinner.  I feel old this year.  LOL....I always feel older than my birthday though.  I feel like this year should be 35 not 25!  I think it's just because a lot has happened in the last 7 years! 

So that's what's up with me!  I am knee deep in my May projects for My Little Shoebox, and they are turning out CUTE!  I can't wait to share them! 

Oh!  And I hope you are voting for my boyfriend on American Idol!  He's gonna win!! I just know it!

Have a great day!
-Em

Just a quick one....

So, tomorrow we start the big move!
My parents took the kids for the weekend so we could get in some quality packing time, and I think we did pretty well! 
We sign the papers tomorrow night and get the keys, so as soon as we are done I'm gonna take pics of the new place and post them here!

I'm so excited for tomorrow I may not be able to sleep!!

I'm BAAAAAACKKK!!

Sorry, I have been a badddd blogger...but I promise to do better!!!

Things have been all kinds of crazy up in here...we've been showing our house constantly, and FINALLY got an offer!!! WOOOT!  Hopefully their financing will work out and we'll get this baby sold!

ALSO, this past weekend was National Scrapbooking Day, and I participated in a bunch of challenges over at AMM...

Here are a couple of my fav Lo's from the weekend...

Diggin' the bright colors lately!  Can you tell?!

AlSO, in some ridiculously fantastic news;

Making Memories has asked me to design a LO for their blog!  Ahh!! I am so beyond stoked about this I may faint! 
AND, Rusty Pickle requested one of my layots for their newsletter! 

WOO HOO!!!

ALSO:  Challenge 8 is up at TDX!  LOVE all the layouts this week, soooo fabulous!!  We are still having our DT call, and you have until May 16th to get your submission in!

And last but most def. NOT least, Lily got her first Exersaucer!!!  She is totally in love with it!  It's a Pink Princess Tea Party Saucer...LOVE!

Okay, worlds most random post is done!  Hope everyone had an awesome NSD Weekend!!!

I'm Rich Biatch!!!

So we signed our tax return papers this morning, and HOLLLLEEEEEEEEE SHIT!  We're getting almost $5,000!!!!  After processing fees and such it will be about $4,500, but STILL!  We needed this money like no one's business.  It is such a relief to know this is coming right now. 

Also, $800 of that is going to my new scrap room remodel!  I can't wait!  I have soooooooo many ideas that I can't wait to implement in my new room!  It will be soooo nice to have a functional and PURDY room to work in!  I'm going to share the plans for it in the next post.  Right now I am typing this upstairs in my office, waiting for some Stickles to dry (which means I could be up here for awhile..LOL) and Lily is sleeping beside me in her bouncy seat. 

Lily has been such a good girl lately.  She is sleeping more often for longer periods of time, last night she slept from 1am to 7:30am!  She was sleeping in my arms though, so I don't know if that really counts, but I was sleeping too, and sleep is sleep, right?!  She has become more aware of surroundings, and definitely does NOT like to be alone.  Even if I walk out of the room to grab a glass of water, she will start to cry when I'm out of eyesight.  She is LOVING the bar of toys that hangs over the bouncy seat!  The crinkly one and the rattle are totally her favorite, and she will stop and stare into the mirror in one of them. 

I still can't get over how FUN having a little girl is!  I still get up every morning and eagerly await dressing her!  She has the cutest clothes and shoes!  It really is reminiscent of dressing up my dollies when I was a little girl, only my dollies never tried to pull my nipples off.

Our 2 month checkup is on February 1st, and I cannot wait to find out how big she is!  I am guessing she is probably pretty close to 12lbs.  She is wearing 3 month size clothes now, and has pretty much grown out of every newborn outfit.  This is fine though, because my good friend Libby is expecting a little girl (Lauren) any day now, and I have promised her all of Lily's 0-3 month size clothes.  As of today Libby is dilated to three cm, and is spotting, soooo I think we're almost there!!  I am going to be up in her area on Friday, and I have told her she MUST be pushing by the time I get there! 

I hope everyone has a great Wednesday, tomorrow is going to be a good day, we are going to pick up our refund check, and I'm going to start planning my dream room!!!

Stay tuned next week for some projects I will post.  I am currently working on SEI, Autumn Leaves, Pageframes, and A2Z manufacturer kits from AMM....so I will be sharing all the lovely goodies as they become finished! 

I'll leave you with a couple pictures of my little (read: BIG) girl from yesterday!

P.S: That gorgeous quilt in the first two pictures, is a GORGEOUS quilt my grandma made for Lily!! I have the bestest gram!!!