All Racing Blog Hop!

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Welcome to the All Racing Blog Hop!  Today we are celebrating the start of the 2013 NASCAR season and the Daytona 500.  I love racing in any form, and I found some wonderful crafty ladies who share that love with me.  We have all created a project having something to do with any form of racing.  

If you've raced over from Carla's blog, you are in the right place.  If you just happened on this post, race over to Carla's blog to start from the beginning.

Our wonderful sponsor for this hop is Nikki at Paper Piecings by Nikki.

She has graciously offered a $25 gift certificate to her store.  To be eligible to win this, you must leave a comment on all of the blog posts.

Here's my project for today's hop:

I made this 8x8 layout as part of an ABC book about myself.  It commemorates the first NASCAR race my husband and I ever went to together at Talladega.  It was AWESOME!!!!  This was back in 2005; we've been back once since then and had a great time.  My favorite driver is Mark Martin (We're from the same hometown.), and my husband's favorite driver is Jeff Gordon, so I did half of the photo collage about each driver.

Here's the full lineup in case you get lost:

Carla

Ashley <= YOU ARE HERE!

Toni <= GO HERE NEXT

Michele

Sarah

Connie

Thanks for racing by!  Be sure you speed over to Toni's blog next!  

Lasting Memories weekly layout challenge--SKETCH TIME!

Happy Sunday, everyone!  Today is going to be a great day int he Walker house.  My husband and are FINALLY getting a new bedroom suit!!!  We've wanted one for quite a while, so we used our tax refund this year and bought one, along with a new mattress.  It's being delivered TODAY!!!!  We were also lucky enough to purchase at a GREAT time!  Ashley Furniture was running a promotion.  If you spent a certain amount of money, you got a new TV for FREE.  Yep!  You read that right.  F-R-E-E!!!!!  We're ending up with a 42" LG, flat screen, plasma, HDTV, which is supposed to be delivered along with our new bedroom furniture.  NASCAR races and Dallas Cowboys games are going to be SOOOOOO much better!!!!

On to the challenge!  This week's challenge at Lasting Memories is a sketch challenge.  Here's the sketch we were asked to follow:

And here's what I came up with:

I LOVE this sketch!!!  It was SOOO easy to work with!  I picked up a stack of pictures yesterday and knew as soon as I came across this one that it was the one I wanted to use.  This is one of my favorite pictures of me and Joseph right after his birth.  Adrian was still deployed to Iraq, and I always think of me and Joseph "Dreaming About Daddy" when I see this picture.

Let's see what you've got!  I know there are lots of GREAT entries out there, ladies!  Hop on over to the Lasting Memories Layout Challenges blog to see all the details, and get your layouts linked up.  Can't wait to see what you've got!