Emily Jones

How we spent our Valentine's Day...

This year we didn't plan anything too crazy for the big V-day....in fact I was quite content with just hanging out at home watching a movie, but Mr. Jones had other plans. ;)

We decided to celebrate on Sunday the 13th, because we were going to be busy on the 14th volunteering in Jake's class for his V-day party.  Unbeknown to me Jim got me a present (which we had already agreed NOT to do!  Bad boy!)  He cooked us a fabulous dinner of Mushroom and Garlic Steak with Spinach and Portabella mushroom Risotto.  It was DIVINE.

Then, when dinner was over he presneted me with this gift!

He got me the first 2 volumes of  Glee: Season 1, a cute card, a little candy, and a fun Valentine's scrabble game!

 

We decided to play "Dirt-Word Scrabble" after dinner, which was fun...and it was probably a little sad how proud we were of all the dirty words we were able to spell. ;)

Afterwards we retreated to bed and watched the Time Traveler's Wife, we both thought it was a pretty good movie, interesting concept..

 

The next morning we went to Jakey's Kindergarten class and helped out.  I had baked a few dozen sugar cookies with my friend Nicole for the kids in the class to decorate, so that was fun, albeit messy!  And Jim operated the bean bag toss game while Nicole and I did the cookie decorating.  The kids had a blast.  <3

Hope you Valentine's Day was lovely.

XOXO,

Em

 

 

Cards Galore!

I've been on a card making kick lately...it started out last week when I was making my friend Michelle a Birthday card...now let me tell you..I've always hated making cards.  I've always thought I was no good at it, and that it was not as fun as making scrapbook layouts...but I have been having so much fun! 

I think it probably has to do with having a cuttlebug and playing with all the different textures of the embossing folders. :)

So here's the first one I made, the card for Michelle:

 

Then I made this little cutie...

 

...and I was hooked...and I've been making cards all week!

 

 

 

 

 

Some of these are already on their way to some family/friends, but the majority will go up in my etsy store later this week.

Hope you are all enjoying your Holiday!  We are having a lazy 4 day weekend hanging out at home, working on the boys' Pinewood Derby Cars for Cub Scouts, they have turned out so cute and I will share pics of them very soon!

XOXO,

Em

Apparently It's Superbowl Sunday...

Yes, I didn't know that it was Superbowl Sunday until yesterday.  Lame, I know!

You see, we decided in August that we wanted to shut off our cable and TV.  I'm not fundamentally opposed to TV or anything, in fact I LOVE TV.  It's just that we never watched it anymore!  Once we got the Netflix for Wii DVD, we never turned the cable on!  We have been enjoying full seasons of shows and movies on the Wii, so we decided, why keep paying $200 a month for something you don't watch!

Of course, once the new seasons of all my favorite shows started in September I was a tad regretful, but I have been keeping up on Hulu, so it's all good. :)

 

Anyway, I am rambling...but I thought since we are not watching the Superbowl, and I have nothing too exciting to share, I thought I'd post a layout I did the other day. 

It was inspired by this sketch: The Sketch from 10/17/2010

The journaling was inspired from one of Liz Kartchner's challenges in her book (remember my vow to do all 52 challenges in a year?  I've got less than ten left, although I'm a little late on my one year deadline.)  The challenge was to make your journaling a mad lib.

And I just love this picture of Lily, her face cracks me up!

 

That's all I've got for today folks!

Hope you are enjoying your Superbowl Sunday!

 

XO,

Em