Today was about

working on the family room to get ready for the remodel, work on some ornaments for a girlfriend party coming up at the end of the month.

I have a group of friends that decided a couple years back to celebrate our Christmas together in January when we were through with the hustle and bustle of the holidays and could enjoy each others company.  In that same group another one of the gals does a Valentine's party every year.  For both these occasions we all make an ornament, do a gift exchange and bring some type of Valentine for all the girls.  In previous years I've made these things...

These I made after getting the idea from one of Trish's sweet treats classes.

another year I made boxes similar to these that I made the kids and filled them with candies.

This year for my ornament (which I just started today) I'm making a glittered star and for my Valentine I'm filling a bag with candies and going to either add word fetti or rub ons.

Otherwise today was the start of removing the wallpaper and even with all the tips, it still wasn't so easy.  I have a feeling this is going to be a long process!

Tonight Joel and I finally watched the movie The Departed... very good movie.  I knew it won the Oscar last year and have been wanting to watch it since it came out in 2006!  Isn't that crazy it took this long to watch it!