Meeting Melissa

This week's sketch at Scrapbook Steals featured a beautiful sunburst pattern and a single photo.  Sunburst designs are the perfect way to showcase lots of patterned paper and I immediately knew I wanted to use the Pebbles Seen & Noted collection I "stole" from ScrapbookSteals.com a few weeks ago.  These papers are flowery and girly and nothing I can imagine using on my boy layouts, so I was thrilled to come across a photo of myself and my sweet friend Melissa that would work perfectly.

 

On this cold dreary day, after a weekend of feeling under the weather, this project was exactly what  I needed to pull me out of my funk.  Because the papers coordinated so nicely, I didn't have to "think" too hard to put this together, which is a bonus since I'm full of cold medicine and still a bit woozy.  I added a few doilies from my collection and was so happy with how it turned out.  Honestly, I wasn't a big fan of this photo, given my unflattering resemblance to a water buffalo, but with the beautiful patterns and papers, I hardly even notice how ridiculous I look.  Not only do I love the layout, but I love the memories this photo brings back.   We were lucky enough to travel with Nate to Milwaukee last summer when he went for a work training, allowing me to meet up with an on-line scrappy pal who I had never before met in person.   After over a year of being on-line friends, I finally met my dear sweet friend Melissa as we spent the day with our kiddos at the zoo.  We had a wonderful day together and I can't wait for another chance to meet up with Melissa and her delightful family!  Now I'm inspired to dig out the rest of the photos from this day and do a zoo page featuring all of the kiddos.