Emily Jones

Pumpkin Patch Fun!

Every year we take the kiddos to the same pumpkin patch and get our pumpkins and take pictures, this year I decided to have the kids wear their costumes!

This is Picha's Pumpkin Patch, and even though it was raining the whole time we were there, I still ended up getting some really cute pics of the kids!

Here are my crazy babes...

Joey as Harry Potter: He was soooooo into it!

This is his SERIOUS Harry Potter face, lol!

This is Joey casting a spell on his pumpkin! LOL

Here is Jake as a Rhino, this pic cracks me up!  He was not havin' the picture taking thing!

This is what the top of his costume looks like, such a cute little Rhino!

This is Jake's impression of a scary Rhino face!  HA!

And Jakey finding his "perfect pumpkin"

 

Here is my little Cinderella!  She was so cute!  She is the perfect little princess!

She kept shivering so bad, so we ended up putting on her raincoat, isn't this a cute coat?  Goodwill find for $7!

 

And here is my lovely family, Jake was still not into getting his pic taken, he was kinda pissed, lol...
 

Jake ended up wandering out of the frame, so here is a smiley one of Joey and Lily with Daddy.

We are carving our pumpkins tonight!

We can't wait to trick or treat tomorrow!

And maybe, just maybe I will be in costume too!

Happy Friday!

Em

I started an etsy store!

If you are interested in buying premade layouts, cards or mins made by moi, then check out my etsy store!

Tiger Lily Design 

Here are a sample of some of the items I've sold and are selling:

 

 

I am also taking custom orders, so if you are interested shoot me an email or convo me on etsy! 

I would love to see your etsy page if you have one, link me in the comments section!

Hugs,

Em

what do you think?

I changed it up a bit, added my fave happy yellow color....does it look boring? 

Be back in a bit with a longer post...also...how cute were the Emmy's last night?  NPH did an awesome job hosting, I <3 him so much!

and just for fun, here's a layout I never posted...this one I did a while back, probably in may??

journaling:

Jake, you love to take photos!  You steal mommy's camera whenever you can and I find your pictures on my memory card when I upload to my computer!  Sometimes you ask mommy to pose for you, and if I don't say cheese, you say "Mommmm!  You fo'got to say chhhhhhheeeeeeeeseee!"  I love that you are interested in photography!  My hope for you is that you will find a hobby that you love and stick with it into adulthood, it's so important to have a creative outlet!

If you get a chance, take a peek on Page 48. of Scrapbook Trends September 2009 issue!  My layout is in there!!!

Happy Monday!

-E

Under Construction!

So, my blog is under much needed construction!

I am trying to make it look extra purdy so bear with me while it looks funky for the next few days!

I will be back with an epic length post about my crazy summer and all the changes around Casa Jones!

Happy Friday!
-Em

My Little Shoebox CHA Projects!

Hey Guys!

CHA is upon us again, and My Little Shoebox has some seriously cute stuff for you to see!  I got a chance to work with the line "Robot's Unplugged" here is what it looks like:

Here's what I made!

My 3 Little Nuts:

A layout about my feelings and anxiety about having three kiddos...

4th Of July Kisses!

Love how this line is totally perfect for Fourth of July layouts too!

Hi! card

Oh The Places We Go:
places we love to visit in '09

This mini was so fun to make!  I used the dividers to showcase the different places we visit, and inside each envelope is a little poem I wrote about each special place...

Check out the My Little Shoebox blog for other projects with the new lines!

-Em

Take Me Out To The Ball Game!

Happy Monday Y'all!

Yesterday we took the kiddos and the grandparents to a Tacoma Rainiers game!  It was so fun!  Minor league games are great because it's not such a big scale...you know,  we love to see the Mariners, but Safeco Field is so huge and you have to have expensive seats to see well, but luckily we live about 20 minutes from Cheney Stadium, home to the Rainiers, and there really isn't a bad seat in the place!

The game was awesome, we won 14-9!   The only hiccup in the game though, during the 6th? inning, one of the Las Vegas 51's hit a ball straight into pitcher Steven Shell's face.  It was so scary!  He went down hard and laid there for about 10 minutes until the strecher was brought in...he lifted a weary hand as he was wheeled out with a towel over his face.  The stadium gave him a Standing Ovation...it was just so sad!  Poor guy, I hope he's recovering comfortably, I can't imagnie how much that must have hurt!

It was a great day though, it was about 90 degrees yesterday, can you believe it?!  What was nice though, as we sat in the blistering heat, the breeze off the water swirled around us in the stadium all day long, which made it completely comfortable to be sitting without the shade.

Here are some pics I took...

Joey staring out into the field:

Jake watching the action...

Lily LOVED the game, she clapped her hands every time there was a cheer in the crowd and shouted "Go! Go!" to the players! LOL!

Joey with his autograph from player 22, Pitcher Andy Baldwin...who was super cute!  LOL!

My mom and Dad at the game, love the look on my mom's face, she is way hardcore into baseball, specifically the Mariners, she has Mariners liscense plates even!  LOL!  Papa was trying to get Lily to wear her hat all day, she finally put it on toward the end of the day...

Jake kept stealing all our hats and wearing all of them at once!  LOL! 

Here's Lily doing some sort of dance, haha, either that or she has ants in her pants!

Here's me and J!  Love this pic of us, I always get good pics of us by holding out the camera, my mom swears all her favorite pics I take of her and me or me and J are all the ones I take just holding out the camera..haha!

Here are the Rainiers high fiving each other, the 51's just ran off the field after they lost, but whatev, the Rainers formed two lines and high fived each other anyway.

After the game kids got to line up and run the bases, so J took the boys down to the field!  You can spot J in his orange shirt!So funny, both boys had to hold up their shorts as they ran, my little skinny minnies!

Hope your weekend was a great one too!  I will be back later with a layout update, and then I'm taking off on wednesday with J for a little R&R, while my mom takes the kids for two days!

Hugs!
Em

Camel Ride!

Popped in to share this super cute pic of the boys'!

We took the brood to the zoo today, and were surprised to see they had added a new exhibit!  Camel Rides!

I was SO proud of Jake for getting on the camel, he is usually scared of things like this (this is the kid who wouldn't  sit on Santa's lap, I figured a camel was out of the question!) Joey was practically jumping up and down in line he was so excited!

I forgot my camera, so this is the 6 dollar picture you can buy, but next week we're going back, camera in tow and I'm getting tons of pics, plus J wants to ride one with Lily.  So fun!

I love weekends like this...today the weather was awesome, sunny, 75 and warm....Friday was close to 100 though..yuck!  Hope you all are having a great weekend too!

-E

i <3 Cosmo!

So, Cosmo Cricket (one of my favoritest manufacturers ever!) is having a DT call, and I thought I'd give it a shot!  We are supposed to show our projects on our blog, so here are some of my favorite Cosmo Cricket projects!

The Jones Family 1st Annual Memorial Day Camping Trip!
(AkA, the longest title for a mini ever! LOL!)

I used the Mr. Campy and Snorkel lines on this one!  Don't you love how they coordinated so well together even though they are two completely different lines?!

I used stickles to create the stars on this one...

Goofy In Goggles

I made this layout using the Snorkel line!  Isn't it perfect for this picture of Joey with his new swimming goggles?!

Lily Banner

Here is a super fun banner I made for Lily's room!  I'm thinking I'm either going to hang it above her dresser or above her changing table...isn't the Girl Friday perfect for a baby girls' room?!

If you look closely, you can see that the bloom of the flower is actually made up of a bunch of tiny butterfly punches! 

Meeting Auntie Sarah

This layout is all Girl Friday!  I love this line with it's whimsical butterflies and polka dots!  SO cute!

For added dimension, I stickled the title!

Play Time

This layout is also all Girl Friday, but I wanted to show how easy it is to turn it into a boy layout!  By using all the non-pink papers in the line, I was able to scrap these pics of baby Jake without it looking too feminine...

Hello?

This one features some of the Girl Friday line!

Little Swimmer

This one features more Snorkel, I just love this line!

Play

This layout is pretty much all Get Happy from Cosmo, I swear I used this one so many layouts last year and I'm still holding onto the scraps!

Girly Girl

Love love love the soft and sweet colors in Girl Friday and even though I didn't have the chipboard set for the line, I was still able to create a title by cutting out the letters from the patterned paper!

Yum!

This one is also Get Happy, love these newsprint letters, they are so fun to ink and play with!  I used a black ink first and then outlined them with yellow marker, then pop dotted them to pop off the page.

A Typical Joey Look

Cogsmo is still one of my favorite lines ever!  I love robots and the colors and characters here are adorable! I love how easy it is to cut out the cogs and by pop dotting them, they actually look like they could start turning any minute!

Hi Card

This is a fun little card and envelope set featuring the Get Happy line...such a fun and easy way to use up your scraps!

Bus Rider

This layout is so fun!  I used mostly the Snorkel line, but the background paper is from the Jack's World collection...I also used some of the blackboard shapes and used watercolor pencils to color the stop sign...watercolor pencils actually work wonderfully on the blackboard!

Happy Campers

This layout is all Mr. Campy...I think this is probably my most favorite paper collection ever!  The s'mores totally melt my heart! (No pun intended! ;-)

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

This little mini is actually a little photo album that I altered...I think I got it at Michaels for $1.99 on sale, and I just fell in love with the bright yellow color!  I cut out the Popsicle from the Snorkel paper and decided this would be a fun little summer keepsake for Joey to show his friends when he goes back to school in the fall!

 

So there you have it!  My latest and greatest Cosmo projects!  Cross your fingers for me!  I love Cosmo Cricket and would be HONORED to have a spot on their team!  I tried out last year, but didn't make it, so here's hoping for 2nd chances!!!

I'm off to scrapbook some more!  I'm on a roll this week!

Hugs!

-Em

Busy, Busy!

Things have been so crazy the last couple weeks!

On the moving front, we are officially out of the old house and into the new!  We have about 60% of the boxes unpacked, but because of the schedule this last week and this week, it may take us until july to get all the way unpacked!

The birthday party for the boys on Sunday was so fun!  Unfortunately it wasn't hot enough to go swimming in the lake, but the kids all ran crazy on the playground!  There were about twelve kids total and their parents, we had a big cook out with burgers and dogs, and played pin the tail on the donkey and did a pinata.  Overall it was a big ole fun BBQ!
The boys made out like bandits in the gift department for sure!  Remote control cars, hot wheels galore, books, cute summer outfits, movies, a scooter for Joey and a talking construction hat for Jake, super soakers, and the biggest gift of all, the wii!  I think part of the lack of unpacking may be due in part to the wii!  LOL!  We've been playing like crazy!  The boys got a Ben1o game and a Bolt game, and of course it comes with the 5 sports games, so they've had plenty to play with! 
Joey picked up on how to use the controllers within minutes and is already on level three of Ben10 which is a 10+ game!  Jake LOVES the bolt game and likes to play with mommy.  I will hold the controller and he holds the nunchuck so we work as a  team!
After the kids go to bed J and I have been battling it out with the Wii sports!  I rock at bowling and boxing, he's better at golf and baseball...we're pretty evenly matched at tennis though...so funny...after playing for hours one night I woke up the next morning and my shoulder was sooooo sore!  It's the tennis game!  You slam the controller like a tennis racket, and J says my shoulder hurts because my "technique is lacking" HA!  I beat him a lot on tennis, so my technique can't be THAT lacking!  LOL!  We have now coined my sore shoulder as my "Wiinjury" hahaha!

Yesterday I hopped down to Ikea to pick up another expedit because the one I currently have for my scrap stuff won't fit up the stairs!  We are too afraid to take it apart because of how hard it was (and totally drilled incorrectly IKEA!) to get to fit together, so we just bought a new one to put together upstairs in the loft which is where my new scrap space is going to be.  That's on the to-do list for this weekend!

Oh, and tonight is election night at James' local!  He is nonminated for Vice-President!  Wish him luck and cross everything!  We will find out tonight at the meeting if he was elected!  I'm heading down there at about five tonight and will update tomorrow with the news!

This weekend we are going to our friend Michelle and Jorge's house for their kids bday parties...Isaac is turninig 9 and Bella is turning 5!  Hopefully Michelle and I can get in some scrapping time this weekend because we both have MLS projects to work on!

Okay, I'm off to get Lily dressed!  She is being such a stinker lately!  She is definitely a toddler these days, randomly undressing and running around in her diaper, tantrums galore when I won't let her have a drink of my diet coke or coffe (I know, I'm such a MEAN mommy! LOL!) and talking up a storm!  She has so many words these days!   Some new ones include:

Up!
Banana (not just nana, she now says bananananananana!)
Pew!!! (said while smelling her toes! LOL!
Mommy, Daddy (not just mama and dada, she now said Mommmmyyy and Daddddyy!)
Bo-Bo (her nickname for Joey, he loves it)
Kuh (what she calls Jake, I think she's making the K osund at the end of his name)
Car
Vroom!
All Done!
Mine! (this one we're not too excited about! ha!)
Puppy
Baby (this girl loves her some babies!)
Yum Yum!

And those are just a few!  She's quite the chatterbox!

Anyway, I'm gonna go get her dressed, go grab some coffe and maybe unpack a little before Joey heads off to school!  I'm gonna try to find my usb cord for my camera so I can take pics of the house and upload soon!

Hugs!
E

My Little Shoebox June Projects!

As promised!  Here are my June Projects for My Little Shoebox!

Playin' Out Back

Lolipop
 

Goofy Faces

This month we partnered with Clear Scraps Acrylic Albums to create some super fun cuteness!   I got the mini deco book which I made into a purse sized album to showcase my sweet family!

I also received the 8x8 tabbed mini.  I inked the edges with alcohol inks and then made a super fun mini about our Easter this year!  I love how it turned out!  Thanks Clear Scraps!

Be sure to check out the rest of the DT's projects on the MLS blog!

Hugs!
Em