Let's Get Sketchy! Challenge #8

I fear that for the next couple months my posts will be quite brief. We finally went into escrow last week, which means we now have 45 days from that date to finsh packing and get moved out of our house. I often become fearful that I will never get everything into boxes when I'm only able to get a few packed each day. And even more frightening is the fact that we still haven't found a place to live. It's the moments in our lives such as this that make me grateful that I have a sovereign Lord to trust in. His timing is always perfect and as it is written in Scripture, "^''For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the LORD, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" I keep that passage from Jeremiah very close to my heart each time I become anxious about our housing situation.

But enough about my crazy & chaotic life! It's Monday which means it's time for another challenge at Let's Get Sketchy! Here's my take on this week's sketch:

Please swing by Let's Get Sketchy! and take a look at the sketch on which I based my layout as well as the samples done by our talented design team!

Let's Get Sketchy! Challenge #7

I did a lot of moving around after graduating high school...I lived somewhere new every year of college, I lived three different places before getting married, and my husband and I lived in two different apartments before we bought the house we now live in. I think I've packed my belongings about ten times in the last fifteen years?  And I've never really minded...it was a good opportunity to purge my belongings and it was fun to unpack and find new places to put them. This was of course before children. We are currently in the process of selling our house and packing to move, and I'm realizing that doing that with two small children is just not fun.  And we all keep getting sick too. First some bad colds and then a really nasty flu. We're finally all healthy again, but still surrounded by moving boxes, some already filled with non-essential items and others empty, waiting until the last possible moment to be filled with everything else. Of course I would normally consider my scrappy supplies to be on the "essential, need to use now" list, but I have had absolutely zero time to scrap for the last month. So sadly I think I must make the painful decision to leave out my most basic tools and just enough paper & embellishments to complete my required design team work and simply pack away all the rest.  Maybe it will be a good time to purge...and I can focus on how fun & exciting it will be to unpack it all again!

Enough about that! Here is my take on this week's sketch at Let's Get Sketchy!

Here I scrapped photos from my husband's annual company dinner party in 2009. Santiago was almost a year old and it was our first over-night date. I remember how simply divine it was to just sleep in until we woke up the following morning!  There is no title or journaling because this layout is actually a companion page to a layout I had already completed some time ago, but using another photos from the same night...so I thought I would also post that layout.

For the sketch on which I based the first layout, please head over to the Let's Get Sketchy! blog.

Let's Get Sketchy! Challenge #6

This will have to be a quick (and late!) post. I'm still recovering from sickness, tending to the rest of my household who has now fallen ill and trying to play catch up on the mountain of housework that accumulated while I was in bed for most of last week.  Seems so unfair that SAHM's don't get sick days...

Anyhow here is my sample of this week's challenge over at Let's Get Sketchy! Hope you will take a time to head over and see the sketch for yourself as well as the sample from the rest of our talented design team!

Let's Get Sketchy! Challenge #4

If anyone has been following my blog for the entire month, then perhaps you have noticed a theme with my Let's Get Sketchy! layouts. For all three of the challenges thus far I have used pictures from our family photo shoot at Crystal Cove Beach last August. I just haven't been able to resist scrapping them! Because even though we live in Southern California, it still has been "winter" for us. In fact, despite the fact that it's officially spring now, yesterday was a cold & rainy day. So basically I have really enjoyed reminiscing our time on the beach last summer while we experienced wet & somewhat chilly weather off & on these last couple of months.  And therefore, it should not come as a huge surprise that for our fourth and final sketch for the month of March, I scrapped another of these photos!

Also, I just want to toot my own horn a bit by saying that this week's sketch was created by yours truly :)

I encourage you to stop by the Let's Get Sketchy! blog and check out what the rest of our talented design team came up with this week!  And maybe you'll be inspired enough to play along!

Let's Get Sketchy! Challenge #3

It's time for another new sketch at Let's Get Sketchy! I can't believe how many submissions we had the first two weeks...I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up this time around!  Since this is the third week of the month my team was not required to create a sample, but I'm really just having so much fun with the different sketches that I could not resist yet again making one myself.  So here is my take on this week's sketch:

I feel like I've been on a real roll with the photos from our family photo shoot this past August.  I just might get a whole album completed!!

To see the sketch that my layout is based on, check out what our amazing design team has come up with and to submit your own layout please go check out the Let's Get Sketchy! blog.

Let's Get Sketchy! Challenge #2

There is a new sketch challenge up at Let's Get Sketchy! There will be a new sketch posted every Monday of the month, and if you participate in at least two challenges per month, you will be eligible for the monthly prize.  Here is my take on the sketch:

This is another one of my favorite photos from our family photo shoot at Crystal Cove Beach last August. Well I actually have lots of favorites from that shoot...but that's because we were blessed with not only an awesome location but with an absolutely amazing photographer who has done both of our family photo shoots, as well as Santiago's and Paolina's newborn photo sessions.

To see the sketch I based my layout on, as well as all the fabulous layouts created by our design team, please head over to the Let's Get Sketchy! blog.

Louisville Slugger

So I am absolutely loving serving on the design team for Let's Get Sketchy!  I have been having a blast getting to know all the amazing girls on the team, playing with great sketches, and checking out all the amazing entries the blog members are submitting. But then I realized the other day that with all the fun I'm having,  I've barely had time to just do challenges for other sites I usually visit.  Well we can't have that, now can we?  So here is an entry for the Go Green! Challenge over at Colorful Creations.

So I totally lifted this layout from Debbi Tehrani.  I absolutely adore her work!!  And I used pictures of Santiago when he was about 5 weeks old (I can't believe he'll be 4 years old next month!), posed with the miniature Louisville Slugger from his Opa (who loved that his grandson wasn't much bigger than the bat).