I wanted to impress you

I have been making and hording layouts to get back into the layout a day challenge on one of my scrapbook message boards. I was pretty faithful with the group from January to April, but when I took a week off for Easter I kind of lost my momentum.
So, I decided to take the month off and just make layouts, projects, cards as the mood hit. Oddly enough, I’ve been in a rather creative place since I took the pressure off myself.
I have put together a folder of about eight works to kick start May. Good thing, too, since the month is shaping up to be all baseball all the time.
Today I made a layout I absolutely love. I am so in love with it I’m struggling not to post it on the board so I can see how much (or, sadly little) everyone else loves it. You, dear reader, are the lucky one to get to preview the design.

I used the photo of Djin in the flowers. When I took it, the photo reminded me of the family ranch, and I had comments from family members saying the photo gave them the same association. So I wrote the journaling accordingly.

When I dream of home

I am always on
the ranch
in the two bedroom house
where our
family of seven
spent the summers
of my childhood.
I dream
of long golden days,
Dad haying from dawn to dusk,
dragging
home exhausted.
Mom cooking huge meals every
day to feed the
hay men.
I remember playing with the grape hyacinths and
our Siamese cat, Ming. Who usually gave birth to
a batch of kittens each summer.
With no television, we gathered
In the living room at night to read.
Just family. It was enough.

I spent some time in the local scrapbook store until I found an absolutely perfect paper combo {Crate Paper, of course. Right now I'm all about the Crate or the Cosmo Cricket} for the page and I used a sketch from the “Little Book of Sketches” to jump start the design. http://littlebookofsketches.blogspot.com/