christmas snow - pencil lines sketch 265

My sis and mom and brother were together last week doing some baking for the holidays and it started to snow! They know how excited the boys get just to even see pictures, so they sent a few over! ^_^

{And I so rarely have this kind of photo to scrapbook that I had to grab it right away! lol}

Stop over at the pencil lines site and see what the rest of the ladies did with this week's sketch as well!!

pencil lines sketch 263

Here's my take on this week's sketch! Stop by the blog to see what the other girls made and play along! {mine's made with this month's Jenni Bowlin kit}

And as you can tell, I'm desperately trying to play catch-up after missing a week of blog posts! lol I'll have plenty to share this week. Life just sort of caught up with me last week, and I was running double time to try to stay upright. Then, the boys decided to have troubles with sleeping, so I had several night where I was up every few hours. Geez. It's like having an infant in the house again...

featured designer - pencil lines

{gallery posting with supply list}

If you'd like to get to know a little more about me, I'm the featured design team member over at Pencil Lines this week! I came up with the sketch, and I must say - the girls ROCKED it! 

Have a wonderful Monday!

pencil lines sketch 259 - grateful heart

This week's sketch for pencil lines is up! Be sure to check it out and play along!! This is my take:

Also wanted to take a minute to welcome the girls who are joining the team! You can get to know Camilla, Carole, Kerryn, Sam, and Solange a bit more by checking out this announcement post! ^_^

pencil lines sketch 255 - together

Hubby had a couple of days off this past week, and we chose to keep to home, just take care of a few things, relax and plan a few fun activities like fishing. Hubby ended up reading the book The Captain and really enjoying it. I loved that it promoted reading to our boys by his awesome example. Here they all are curled up with a book on one of the afternoons...

Don't forget to stop by the pencil lines blog to see the sketch, the other dt girls' takes, and of course, PLAY ALONG! ^_^

pencil lines sketch 253 and a design team call

{click here for my gallery posting, and supply list}

Here's my take for the Pencil Lines sketch for this week! With the boys + me being sick all last week, I didn't get my take in on time to make the blog post, but I still wanted to post here!

Be sure to check out the post - they're having a design team call, since they've lost a couple of team members! There's lots of fun stuff on the horizon for this little sketch blog! And the requirements aren't tough. Just 2 layouts per month based on the sketched provided...

Have a wonderful Tuesday!

pencil lines sketch 251 - assistant

Here's my take for pencil lines 251! The title was inspired by Amy Tan's too cute "assistant" t-shirt!

Have a wonderful Monday!

I feel pretty

my take for pencil lines sketch 249! Hope you get a chance to play along this week... hubby and I had the chance for a date night on Friday and we had fun! And for some reason, I'm really loving that stamp at the moment... it's on my latest layout as well! It's a part of this set from American Crafts... and the navy blue ink is their "denim" pigment ink...

American Crafts and Pencil Lines Sketch 247

Pop over to the Pencil Lines blog to see what the other girls have done!

pencil lines sketch 245

I say, run like a boy. It was so cool to see him work hard for the presidential physical fitness certificate! Pop over to the pencil lines blog to see the latest sketch and play along!! ^_^

noel mignon kits and pencil lines sketch 243

and a little challenge! I think I'm in love with Noel's latest kit, The Bee's Knees! It definitely includes some of the hottest stuff out there right now from Cosmo, Sassafras, Basic Grey, My Mind's Eye and Glitz Designs. Whoa.

Anyway, it's also my turn to offer up a little challenge for the boards at Noel Mignon - and I thought I'd challenge you to put down a simple goal. Right around June is when I start thinking about what goals I've set for the year and how I'm doing on them. Sometimes I'm ahead, other times I'm behind. It's just a little personal eval to see where I'm at. Anyway - one of the things I've been thinking about lately is how the details start to get fuzzy on things - or certain stuff tends to get lost in the shuffle of everyday life... and I want to start writing more. Whether that means keeping a simple journal, or just journaling more on my scrapbook layouts... I don't think I have the time at the moment to commit to art journaling more than just for fun. :) I'll let you know what I come up with when I settle on a solution.

brand new fancypants and pencil lines sketch 241

Fancy Pants Designs has an adorable new product line out called Baby Mine. If you liked their It's the little things release, this is another line that has a really similar {but different}feel to it! I couldn't resist using it for my take on this week's pencil lines sketch! You can totally see that it's great for way more than scrapbooking your baby! ^_^

Have a wonderful Monday! We're in the final throws of school. This week is portfolio evals and testing, then we're done, done, DONE!! WooHoo!

pencil lines sketch 237

Happy Monday!

This is my take for this week's sketch up at  pencil lines! Come join us and make a layout!

a beach photo shoot

We had a bit of fun playing around with this a couple of weeks ago!

Pop over to pencil lines to see this week's sketch and play along!

pencil lines and noel mignon

I had so much fun using my Jump and Jive kit for my take on Pencil Lines Sketch 233!