Archives for 2007

Christmas Projects

November 22, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment

Just over a week until December!! How did it creep up on us so fast? I have been getting into the Christmas spirit though lately and managed to get a couple Christmas projects done this week.

The first one is an Advent Calendar using the Noel line from Love, Elsie. There is a tag in each pocket, and each day we will take turns pulling a tag out. Each tag has some sort of activity on it that we have to do that day, such as “bake Christmas cookies and decorate together” “Movie night – you pick the DVD”, “Game night – You pick the Game”, “Do a Random Act of Kindness today”, etc. Something different on every 25 tags, and I tailored them all towards us (as in a couples thing) since we don’t have kids. This was a really fun project to make.

A new milestone…

November 19, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment

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A new milestone…..yep, I turned the big 3 0 yesterday. I still can’t believe I am 30 already. The weekend was good, Brent, the dogs and I went back to the island for a couple days. We went out with a couple of my friends Saturday night for some drinks but we ended up going home early as I was feeling quite miserable with the cold I had just come down with. What fun I was – we went home and I was asleep in bed by 11:30!! Sunday was perfect though, we got to hang around my parents house all day not having to go anywhere and then we had a family dinner that night which was fun. My dad cooked an awesome meal for everyone and we had ice cream cake for dessert (my favorite!).

Thankfully my mom did not put all 30 candles on the cake! lol

Love this photo I got of my parents. We were joking around and laughing once everyone left after dinner. My parents are so much fun! xoxo

Houston, here I come!

November 14, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment

I just found out that I’ll be making a trip to Houston, Texas in January! Woohoo!!! I’m teaching 2 classes at CKC Houston – January 18 & 19. I’m so excited to be going! It will be my first time in Houston!

Here is the class project: A Pet themed accordion album

Wild Weather

November 13, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment

We had some crazy weather here on the west coast yesterday! Power was out all over the place and the wind was out of control! So what did we decide to do? We bundled up, and ventured out to do some close up storm watching! It was so wet, so cold, but a lot of fun believe it or not. We drove to White Rock Beach (and got detoured along the way due to a fallen tree), then we walked all the way to the end of the pier (despite the warnings of “enter at your own risk” and having to duck under the yellow caution tape that roped off the pier) – there was actually many others who were doing the same thing. It was even hard to walk at times cause the wind was so strong. Brent and I both had our cameras and I managed to get a few pictures, but he got way better ones!

Zoey loved the weather – she loves to be out in the rain and wind, Angus on the other hand was less than thrilled at having to be out there (and I ended up carrying him all the way back down the pier and to the car)

Home Sweet Home

November 9, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment

Back home once again, it’s been a long day of traveling. I had to fly first to Dallas, then hung out there at the airport for a couple hours while I waited for my flight to Vancouver. It was hot! There I was dressed for winter wearing 4 tops including a big down filled puffy vest. I felt like I was going to melt just walking from the plane into the airport. After peeling a couple layers off I got to know half of the airport really well in my quest to find a Starbucks, which there weren’t any of in my terminal, believe it or not. In my travels I came across an Ipod Vending machine! I guess vending machines aren’t just for drinks and chips anymore. Now you can buy accessories for your traveling companion (your Ipod of course) or a new Digital Camera, if that happens to be what you’re in the market for while waiting for your flight. Ok, am I the only person who has not seen these yet?? My 3 trusty traveling companions include my Ipod, laptop, and Nintendo DS, all of whom could have benefited from some sort of purchase from the high tech vending machine. I did try to take a picture of it, without being too obvious. Sorry for the blurry pic, but I had to take it quick between groups of people walking by.

Anyway, the flight was good, and arrived early which is always a bonus. I had the entire row of seats all to myself – Fabulous! There were TV’s on the plane – which means in flight movies! – Fabulous! In flight movie: Hairspray. Um, not so fabulous. I was kind of disappointed as it had a great cast (although it was weird to see John Travolta playing a woman…). Maybe it was the fact that I was squinting at the small movie screen, or the other distractions of being on a plane, but I could just not focus on the movie at all & all the constant singing and dancing was driving me crazy. Perhaps I will give it another chance one day, I should know better then to watch them on planes, this always happens – I just have such a hard time focusing.

The good news is I finally finished a book! I’ve been reading this book since I bought it in Las Vegas back in September. I absolutely love reading but hardly get a chance to anymore. All I seem to read now are scrapbooking magazines or those celebrity news/ People type magazines while I’m on the elliptical at the gym.

I’ve been in 5 different airports in the last week and I have to say that I think Vancouver is the nicest 🙂

Overall I had a great time with my family in Indy, I can’t wait to go visit them again in March.

New Stores I discovered and love: (and a huge THANK YOU to my sister who took me around and introduced me to all these fabulous places!)

Hobby Lobby: Fantastic! And they had an awesome sale on ribbon which made me very happy!

Cost Cutter: Some cool stuff here

DSW Shoes: Self explanatory

Archivers: Totally awesome

Panera Bread: their Harvest Salad is AMAZING!!!

Wild Oats: LOVE this store! Wish we had one here.

Some of my other fave’s that we don’t have at home:

Petco: Had to go pick up some goodies for the furries!

Trader Joes: No Pudge Brownies, Dried Mango fruit sticks, and think thin protein bars – YUM!

Crate & Barrel: Always a favorite

Borders: I could spend all day here

Bath and Body Works: mmmmmmm…..

Target Superstore: Huge! So much stuff here!

Still in Indy

November 7, 2007 by Jess Leave a Comment

Just a quick post for today – I’ve got only 2 and a half days left here in Indianapolis. I am really enjoying this city and I can’t wait to come back (only a few more months as I’ll be back in March – yay!). Having lots of fun with my sister – she introduced me to DSW shoes yesterday! Wow!!! Got some FABULOUS shoes though, I’m so happy about that! We also went to 2 different malls, Crate and Barrel (LOVE LOVE LOVE this store!), Restoration Hardware (another first for me), oh – and we found a Wetzels Pretzels!!!! Brent and I discovered this place in Downtown Disney when we went to the Anaheim CHA last January. Hands down the BEST pretzels I’ve ever had. Last night my sister took me out for a birthday dinner to this great authentic Mexican restaurant – SO yummy!! Yesterday was a great day 🙂

So, this morning, I’m trying to catch up on my emails. Here are some more blogs to check out!

Kathie Davis

Trace’s Creative Pieces

Emine Pala

Nili Elburg

A Sweet Smackerel

And one more: this is the Tilano Fresco Blog: you can read Nicole’s rendition of our CK trip here 🙂 Tilano Fresco Blog