A New Blog

I decided to set up a separate blog for my moms and mine scrabble tile jewelry. Please check it out at:

www.ScrabbleManiaArt.blogspot.com

We're really getting the ball rolling with our jewelry and are excited to share it with our friends and family! There will be a give away on hiphandmandes.blogspot.com for one of our cute charms so make sure to keep an eye out for that!

New Scrabble Tiles

Front and Back of Art Work tiles.

The shiny finish made these pictures kinda hard to take because there a little darker but the pictures are very clear in person.

First on the left: Bella and Edward, Middle: the "wolf pack," and the right picture is Bella Between Jacob and Edward.

Here are a few more Twilight/New Moon and some Art Work Scrabble tiles. Twilight tiles are $7 and Famous Art tiles are $14. (New Moon comes out it just over 2 weeks!!!) My email address is ellenkjohnson@yahoo.com if your interested. I will be listing them on ebay but wanted to give my friends first dibs!

Tell me what you think....

Front and Back of the Same tile.

New Moon/Twilight tiles
(sorry my camera is not the best and the red background probably didn't help!)

With all the creative/trendy jewelery out there I thought I would try my own hand at some hand made scrabble tile and beaded jewelery and it turns out I LOVE it! Its such a fun hobby that lets me use my creative side! I started wondering if my hobby would be liked enough by other people that they would consider purchasing them. These are just a few of the many many that I have done over the past few weeks and each one gets cuter and more fun! There are tons and tons of cute and creative images out there that can make a tile personal or whimsical. I'm just wanting to get some opinions on weather this would be something you could see yourself liking if you saw them in a boutique? The tiles that are just one sided with a jewelry bale would be 7$ and the double sided tiles with a dangle or a few dangles would be 14$. I'm thinking about posting the tiles I've come up with myself once a week and adding new ones every week. I can also do personalized tiles with an initial (the initials are SUPER cute! I'll post some later) or specific images that fits what you want as well as specific bead colors. Thanks guys!

Halloween!

He waited ALL night for that sucker and he didn't let me forget about it when we got back from trick or treating!

Picking through his stash

What a cute C-ba (Zebra)

Saturday was such a fun day for us not just because it was Halloween but because we had Cameron all to ourselves! We spent the whole day together running errands and getting ready for trick or treating! If it hadn't been so cold up here Jake could have trick or treated all night! As soon as someone would answer the door he would practically yell "Treat Please!" Forget about the trick I just want a treat! It was so cute to watch his big blue eyes as his pumpkin filled with candy! He was very particular about putting the candy in his pumpkin himself, if someone went to put the candy in for him he would nicely take it out of their hand and put it in himself! So Cute. We had such a fun time watching Jake get what Halloween was all about!

18 Months!

Showing his "stubborn" side by refusing to look at the Camera!

Getting so grown up!

Trying to give himself a haircut!

Mesmerized by the pumpkin!

I've carved pumpkins before but never like this!

I know it could be better but for my first time doing something like this
I was pretty happy with how it turned out!

I can't believe Jacob is already 1 and 1/2! I remember so well this time last year and enjoying how much he was growing and now another year has already passed. It really is amamzing how quickly he has changed, every where we go everyone is amazed at how well Jake is talking. He repeats EVERYTHING we say!! Its made me realize how much I shouldn't say. The other day in the car I forgot something and said "oh fetch!" and next thing I know Jake is saying it all day!! He's getting really good at putting several words together in a sentence and its so cute, sometimes it takes a while to get it all out while he pieces it all together but its still impressive! At his appt on Tuesday he weighed 22lbs! I can't remember what his height was but he's in the 50th %. He's kinda become a picky eater or maybe I should say a stubborn eater. There are things I know he likes but sometimes he just wont eat! He still has just as much if not more energy, yesterday we all ran errands for several hours and he ran everywhere we went and still had plenty of energy to spare when we got home! Since Halloween is nearing Jake's favorite word is Pumkin and he can say it really well! He will see the smallest picture of a pumpkin or a pumpkin on a porch a ways a way and still be able to point it out! He amazes me everyday and I feel so proud of him even at this young age!

The Fireflies of Florida!!!

We made it!! Wahoo!! I'll tell you right now, I was really awful at taking pictures, I was too busy having fun!

Thurday night, first time to the Ocean

It was so nice to have a kitchen, we ate "at home" most of the time!

Collin and Grandpa. Our resort in the back groud!

Jake loved looking for sea shells and got really good at saying sea shells too!

Cam and boys built some AMAZING sand castles but I never had my camera around when they were finished! Luckily Jessie took some good ones (I'll post those later)

Saturday night watching Conference!

On our way to Orlando! Jake and Jessie snoozing in the back!

Sunday dinner at Red Lobster!

Jake kept us laughing with his sour lemon faces!!

Being goofy after walking around the mall!

Me and Ty!

Good times at the pool!

Cam and Tyler entered the "Frozen T shirt" Contest! They soaked a tshirt and folded it up and froze it for 3 days! whoever got in open and on first won.... and who do you think won...

Cam was the winner! The hat was his prize and he was pretty excited about it!

Last day at the beach and pool!

Oh how sad I was to leave West Palm Beach, Florida!! We had such a great time. It was so good to spend quality time with my whole family!! I always knew Jacob was a lot like his dad but I learned just how much! He, like Cam, was born to be a beach bum! They both loved everything about the beach. The sand, water, sea shells, fish, boats... everything!! Thursday was kind of a long anxious day but we got there with plenty of day light! We got grocery shopping done and then headed to the beach for our first dip in the atlantic! Friday and Saturday were spent doing whatever we wanted!! Going back and forth to beach and the pool, eating WAY too much and just lounging! Jake did great at wearing him self out and taking good naps! Saturday night we sat around the lap top and listened to Conference and then Sunday after breakfast we headed to Orlando for a few days. The kids and Cam went to universal studios on monday while me, Jake and Grandma and Grandpa went to the very very large outlet mall. We found lots of good buys and then headed back to the hotel to go swimming. After the kids got back we went to the local mall for dinner so we could all get what we wanted and then walked around the mall to burn off the many many calories we'd eaten! Tuesday we headed back to west palm beach and went back to be beach/pool bums! Thursday morning we went for one last walk on the beach and then sadly said goodbye! I don't know that the details of what we did we're my favorite part of this vacation but I really did love just spending time with my family. My brothers make me laugh so hard!! They had us laughing the whole trip! Tyler was always listening to music and the song Fireflies will always remind me of this trip together!!Collin is just goofy, he was rarely serious, he can make anything seem funny! Jake woke me and Cam up early every morning and I loved those early morning strolls on the beach! I loved spending some time with my mom and dad and I alway love hanging out with Jessie. I don't have any complaints!

vacation!

I just wanted to rub it your face that I'm enjoying the gorgeous west palm beaches and enjoying the sunshine!! We're having a blast together and soaking it all in. I'll post pictures when we get back!!