Jones’ Blog

Published

We finally did it! The girl and I have been talking about creating a magazine for basically an entire year but somehow we only managed…

Appled

So for Labor Day, which seems like forever ago, the girl and I went on a road trip to see her friend in Wisconsin. We…

Scented

Would you believe I am actually five blogs behind? Five! At the end of August I went to a place called Calyx Creek Lavender &…

Abridged

Yesterday I had the coolest adventure, but before I can tell you about it I have to backtrack to last week. After I went to…

Marketed

Yesterday I went somewhere really neat: the farmers market! The girl wanted me to experience a really big one so we went to Cedar Rapids.…

Completed

Today I finished the marble cake I made on Sunday and I have to tell you the results were very unexpected. We started by making…

Incompleted

It’s been so long since my last blog post! It’s not that I haven’t been doing things, I just haven’t had time to blog about…

Heritaged

So this story ends with me and my friends looking at my baking book and thinking about what I should bake next, but it begins…

Squeezed

Yesterday my goal in life was to make the Lemon Tart with Almond Crust from my Bakeshop Classics cookbook, page 101. The girl got me…

Discovered

Yesterday was the 4th of July or Independence Day as some people call it, and I had a completely wild adventure after the girl got…

Traveled

Last week the girl and I took a road trip to Michigan to see her family. I packed my suitcase with outfits and accessories for…

Mitted

This weekend was kind of crazy because the girl had to work again, taking pictures of people winning pie contests and stuff at a festival,…

Sweetened

So last week I was looking over the girl’s shoulder while she was reading her email, and she got this message from Amazon saying she…

Recognized

This weekend was another super exciting one. Instead of waiting for Saturday to go on an adventure, the girl took me to work with her…

Caught

So in my last post I was telling you about my beach trip to Milwaukee and I ended it by going back to the hotel.…

Transported

The girl’s birthday was this weekend, and she said there were two things she needed to do to celebrate: go to Lake Michigan and eat…

Quad Citied

Now I’ve turned an Iowa destination into a verb, how do you like that? Yesterday was absolutely wild. I visited two of the Quad Cities…

Gifted

Yesterday was Memorial Day. After the girl got done taking pictures of flags and honor guards for her job, her friend picked us up and…

Celebrated

This is me when I first wake up in the morning. Isn’t that funny? Here’s something else funny: the girl has hardly been home this…

Wowed

This weekend I saw the second-longest river in North America — the Mississippi! I walked along it with the girl and her friend for about…

Doughed

What do donuts and soft pretzels have in common? Dough, I think. So I titled this post ‘doughed’ like it’s a verb, because yesterday I…

Beached

After a week of not doing much more than taking long walks and perusing cookbooks with Munch Munch, my weekend was off-the-charts exciting. I visited…

Delighted

Yesterday the girl said it was time to expand my wardrobe, so we pretended her home office was an atelier and got out the fabrics…

Dazzled

It’s Tulip Time in Pella, and the girl said this was a sight I needed to behold. So yesterday we drove there and experienced the…

Amused

For three days this week I’ve been left home alone while the girl went to work. I thought she might take me along one day,…

Doubled

This morning there was a wonderful breeze coming in from the window when the girl got out of bed, and I thought, there’s no way…

Named

After two days of being called Fluffy and Furry and things like that, the girl decided that my real name should be Jones. She calls…

Outfitted

My second day of sunshine. The girl said today’s mission was to find me something to wear, so she took me to Hobby Lobby so…

Chosen

My story began before this moment, of course. I was manufactured in China and quickly stuffed into this box. Within minutes I was stacked into…