Pietsch Family Photo

This is the last photo, I believe, of the Pietsch family in NY before they came west to California. My grandmother is the second on the left.

I used the sketch from Frosted Designs:

Foggy Foggy Days

These are some photos from last winter. My commute to school in Robbins, across the levy and rice fields, where I was subbing last fall semester was greatly lengthened each morning by the fog. I do love it though -- as my journaling shows. I included some quotes about fog that I liked.

Sounds of the Season

So I'm finally getting around to scrapping Christmas '10. Here's one of Scott and I -- don't remember who was taking the pics. But he is so hard to get to smile and I'm not often caught laughing that hard -- so I love these. The sketch is from Sassy Lil Sketches.

But wait -- there's more

More Christmas photos and more sketch challenges -- I tweaked this sketch from SassyLilSketches into one 2 page layout and one side of another layout:

The second page of this layout comes from a PageMap sketch from Paper Secrets:

Finally -- Christmas scrapping

Well, we're moved and I'm finally scrapping again. I've gotten 7 pages done in the last few days and it feels GOOD. I'm scrapping some Christmas pics from 2010, along with some other things -- so here's a two page layout based on a Sketchy Thursdays sketch that I tweaked and turned into a 2 pager:

the sketch

my layout.

First Best Friend

For this layout (probably the last until we move! Less than a week now!), I borrowed this sketch from a Scrap-a-Little Sketches:

and used some old photos of my boys

and the theme of Friendship from Friday's Challenge at Frosted Designs:

But -- I was too late to add it there. :-( Can't get used to noon Central Time LOL.

Studio Tour

This is another Frosted Designs sketch. And I used the colors for Erika's Issue Challenge over at Club Creating Keepsakes. The colors for this week's challenge were navy, yellow and lime green. And here's the sketch from Frosted Designs:

I used this for the right hand page then tweaked it a bit for the companion page -- here's my full layout:

Here are the individual pages:

I used DCWV's Designer Jeans stack for the base paper. I think it's Bazzil yellow, but I'm not positive. And the green pp is from a K & Company stack. And the buttons are from my button jar. I may end up adding one more strip of journaling to the top left (a date) and one button or small circle to the bottom left. Still thinking on that...

These are from our Spring Break trip to Los Angeles. We went on the NBC Tour. It's not all that exciting. Although we did get to see Fritz Coleman (weather man) getting out of his car. We had a fun time down there and I've enjoyed scrapping the photos.