The Love List- Free Printable

I’m so happy you’re here. Today I wanted to share a fun printable for Valentine’s Day (or any day, really!). And a little bonus is that you could totally add this straight into a memory keeping album after it’s filled out, or transfer some of the answers to the 4×6 card in my newest “The Love List” journaling card release.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling extra short on time lately, so any opportunity I have to create a fun moment of connection with my girls, while also having something that I can add straight into my memory keeping album is a big win! That’s where this printable comes in :)

If you have an older child you could totally have them fill this in on their own, but I personally love having a question/answer “interview”. I think somehow me writing down my daughter’s answers just makes it feel extra special and important to her, plus it almost always leads to some fun conversation. I always think I’m going to know all of her responses, and yet she never ceases to surprise me with some of her answers, ha!

So, whether you’re using this printable during your Valentine’s Day breakfast, or just on a random Wednesday, I really hope this printable brings a little light and fun to your day (and maybe some sweet journaling to your memory keeping album as well!)

Enjoy your FREE printable below! Before you go, can I ask you for a favor? If you know a Mama who might enjoy using this printable as well, can you please share this post with her?

Wishing you a very happy Valentine’s Day . . . even if that means just enjoying a fancy cookie that you bought for yourself- which totally describes some of my favorite Valentine’s Days before having kids :)

XO,

Sarah

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Happy New Year! Looking Ahead (+ Free Download)

Happy New Year!

I hope your year is off to a great start. My wish for all of us at the start of this year is that we can give ourselves grace to let go of any unrealistic expectations, permission to modify goals that aren’t working, and room to choose any date (not just January 1st) to dream big and set goals. Sometimes I have to remind myself that January 1st is just a date on the calendar.

I wanted to start this year off with something fun and celebratory so today I’m sharing a free download! (You can download the cards pictured above by clicking the button below). I hope these journaling cards help you document New Year’s eve, the new year, or just about anything you might be celebrating :) Enjoy! Thank you so much for being here and for all of the support here, in my shop, and/or on social media. Truly, every like, share, purchase, video view, means the world to me. If you’re reading this I’m sending you a big virtual hug!

I can’t wait to share about what’s coming to the shop this year, but today I wanted to briefly look back at 2022. There were a lot of personal highlights from 2022 (like welcoming our sweet baby girl, Amada Amelia, in July!). I mean, nothing can top that, but I still thought I’d share a a couple of creative/business highlights from this year.

• In July I opened my shop!! I released my first digital collection in The Paper Lane Shop in October and then released my first Holiday collection with releases in November and December. I can’t tell you how exciting those releases were and how good it felt to open my shop! I’ve been memory keeping since Middle School and even though I earned a degree in graphic design I truly never thought it would lead me to designing memory keeping products. It has been so rewarding and I’m so glad that so many of you have been enjoying the releases as well!
• I released two classes with Big Picture Classes: Travel Journaling on the Go, and Holiday Album Simplified Both classes were a labor of love. In “Travel Journaling on the Go” I actually shared my process while we were on vacation in Yellowstone. It was a really fun way to capture my process. And in Holiday Album Simplified I was trying something new when I started my holiday album from the previous year with very little to go on. I shared how I simplified the process so I could create an entire holiday album in a short amount of time.

I’ll admit, the list looks short, but wow was there a lot that went into what could be summed up in two short bullet points :) If you’ve been here for any/all of it, again I just want to say thank you!!

I’m looking forward to the year ahead and I hope you are too!

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Setting Up Our 2023-24 Homeschool Planner

Hello, hello! Today I’m stepping outside of my comfort zone and sharing how I set up my 2023-24 Homeschool Planner in a bullet journal. I’m pretty new to bullet journaling, and we’re also pretty new to homeschooling (we were really relaxed with what we did for preschool, so this is my first year doing any sort of planning for school). I decided to go ahead and film my process and I hope that it may help someone out, even if it’s just learning from my mistakes! :).

Another reason why I decided to share this video is because I’m hoping that this form of planning will help me with my memory keeping (when I’m trying to remember what books we read or trips we took) and that it will also be a creative outlet in itself when I do some “month in review” pages- I think the style of those pages will be similar to what I used to do in my daily journals.

After a couple of weeks of using this system (I filmed this video in very early July) I’m feeling really good about it! We shall see how it goes!