My Guys: Post 1 of 2

The current challenge at Once Upon a ... Sketch is to create a layout about a beloved male.  Since there are two important guys in my life, I've created two layouts.  In this post you will find a layout about my husband, Scott.  I'll also be creating a separate post with a layout about my son.

Supplies: patterned paper (Cosmo Cricket), journaling card (Bella Blvd), stickers (Basic Grey), pen (Creative Memories).

I pared Nadia's sketch down to its main components to create this CAS layout about my husband, who is an embedded systems engineer.  What that means, basically, is that he programs microchips that are components of larger electrical devices.  The photo on this page shows a power meter with a circuit board (the green bit at the bottom of the meter face) that Scott helped design.  But the centerpiece of the layout is a poem that I wrote about Scott.

I could have simply written that Scott is supportive, a great father, a breadwinner, a martial arts teacher, and a romantic guy.  But instead, I wrote this poem:

My Embedded Systems Engineer

He supports me,

by sanitizing my HTML

when my blog formatting 

gets wonky.

He amuses our son,

by showing him that circuit boards

are miniature metropolises

with skyscrapers of 

capacitors and heat sinks.

He earns money,

by designing sensors

that turn temperature readings

into on-screen

kaleidoscopic pie charts.

He earns a little more on the side,

by teaching martial arts students

to let their chi flow

like electrons through

copper wire.

On movie nights,

if the DVD player breaks down,

he fixes it with ease,

keeping one arm around my shoulders

the whole time.

I hope the poem is just the right combination of sweetness and silliness.  :)

Thanks for checking out my layout about Scott.  Please also check out the post above this one, as it will have the layout about my son.