sweetness….

my friend pam and i share a love for jane austen. she belongs to a real jane austen book club…so i feel free to talk about jane austenish things any time i’m with her. i told her that i had forgotten about the new “emma” series until about an hour into it. i was so sad. a couple of sundays ago, she brought “emma” dvds to me. i just finished watching and i wasn’t disappointed. after seeing a couple different adaptations, i was prepared for it to go either way. i thought romola garai was a fitting emma. i just realized that she starred in “i capture the castle” (which i read a year or so ago and enjoyed). now i want to find it and watch the movie! i also liked dan fredenburgh as mr knightley. yes, indeed.

now a confession. if someone asked me what types of movies i like, i would definitely answer with movie titles that you would expect. however, i have a dark side too, when it comes to movies. i enjoy super sophmoric humor. movies that are basically against everything i believe in and yet the humor sucks me in. really bad movies.  in fact our family has a sort of twisted sense of humor.

we all quote these movies….

“i think i’m missing a tooth?”

 ”i look like a nerd hillbilly” (my personal favorite),

“what’s a liger? it’s pretty much my favorite animal, it’s like a tiger and a lion mixed….bred for it’s skills in magic”

“build her a cake or something”

“why are you so sweaty? i was watching COPS”

okay, so now you know. i’m FAR from perfect!

as i watched the last segment of emma, i made a super simple scrapbook page. i’ve already done a lovebird page of jared and beth, but when i saw the adorable chipboard birds on a limb from KI, i knew that i wanted to make another lovebird page. i think i’ll put the two pages on a spread together. i do love when a simple single product inspires a page. simple as it is. 

 i just rented disc 4 (the last one) of season one of glee. sooo, i’m sure that i will be motivated to do some crafting assignments soon.

i’ve been saving my birthday and Christmas gift cards and cash for something special. i know how easy it is to blow through cash. usually my tendency is to use it for books or camera equipment….but this year i had another thing in mind.

i was planning to buy a smaller one, but i knew that i would probably regret it, so i splurged. no regrets. unfortunately, when i was looking at it again last night, i noticed a slight crack…so i have to take it back and exchange it. i can’t wait to make something in it!

i have some sweet images to share today. i met up with sarah and travis (our niece and her husband) and their two adorable kiddos last saturday for gavin’s 9 month photos. 9 months is one of my favorite ages for photos. my all-time favorite photo of molly is one from her 9 month shoot. it still hangs on our wall. tom calls it “the photo”. i hope that sarah and trav look at these of gavin and see one that will be “the photo”. both gavin and ella are soooo precious!

he is scrumpcious, no?

as is his sister.

i’m lucky that i get to photograph them. yes, i am.

tonight, is girl’s night out. i’m looking forward to a night of good food, great conversation and lots of laughs. the birthday girl is kathy (my friend with endless funny stories….the unicycle date, the target bathroom mistake, annie’s resurrection….), so it’s sure to be fun!

have a great day and God bless!