My Inspiration

I am putting my Lasting Memories blog post up early as we are being hit by Hurricane Irene. I want to make sure it posts before we loose power. I hope everyone on the east coast is safe and dry.

I am very sad to be typing my last post as a design team member at Lasting Memories. This is the last challenge of my 2nd term and it's time to move on. Karen will be announcing the new team shortly and I cannot wait to participate in her wonderful challenges. She has been so great to work for and this was the most wonderful first experience being on a design team. Thanks so much Karen for giving me a chance. You are such a sweet and caring person.

Karen's challenge this week is to create a layout about what inspires you. Is it your parents, a song, a quote? She also included a sketch that you can follow if you choose. It's a very versatile sketch, and of course I chose to use it. Here's the sketch....


Such a wonderful sketch to go along with the challenge. Lots of space for journaling about your inspiration.

So my inspiration really has always been my children. As my journaling explains, it was just my boys and me for about 6 years. This was when they were small, and I had to work a lot. I always felt bad that they had to be in daycare, but they have told me that they think I did well, and they enjoyed their childhood.


I hand wrote the journaling on a piece of notebook paper that I inked to make it match the paper better. I am going to also enter this page into this week's challenge at Frosted Design, which is to use notebook paper, book pages or ledger paper on your project.

Check out what inspires the rest of the design team. Their pages look amazing. I hope you will share with us what inspires you.

Be safe and I hope everyone has a great, uneventful week.