Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label friends. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2008

Quotations - friends #7

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes.

Today - create your own friendship quote. What does friendship mean to you?

A friend is...
Friendship means...
A true friend...

Use it to prompt further writing, blogging, or journalling

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with your quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Sunday, July 20, 2008

Quotations -- friends #6

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes.

"To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon." - Chinese Proverb

Use it to prompt your writing, blogging, or journalling

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with today's quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Quotations - friends #5

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes.

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Just walk beside me and be my friend."

Use it to prompt your writing, blogging, or journalling

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with today's quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Friday, July 18, 2008

Quotations - friends #4

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."- Mother Teresa

Use it to prompt your writing, blogging, or journalling

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with today's quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Quotations - friends #3

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes.

Use them to prompt your writing, blogging, or journalling

"Make new friends and keep the old, one is silver and the other gold"

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with today's quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Quotations - friends #2

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes.

"I get by with a little help from my friends."- John Lennon

Use it to prompt your writing, blogging, or journalling.

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with today's quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Quotations - friends #1

This week's journalling prompts are based on some inspiring quotes about friends and friendship.
Use them to prompt your writing, blogging, or journalling

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."- Anais Nin

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with today's quotation on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Thursday, May 15, 2008

Finding your inspiration – random words

It sounds silly, but have you ever tried just opening the dictionary at a random page and picking a word? A completely random word may be too far from what you are hoping to write about - although try it if you're COMPLETELY stuck for something to write.
If you have a topic or subject or particular photo or event to write about, I guarantee every page of the dictionary will have at least one word that relates to your subject, even if you have to hunt through the page to find it.
If you want to be a little more focused try opening at random a book about your subject (e.g., a book about Italy, or scrapbooking, or organising your home...).
If you're scrapbooking - try a random photo as well!


I picked a random dictionary page - turns out to be the first two pages of the letter J.
Jolly japes on a jaunt in the forest?
Maybe not!
Jam-packed visit from Jenny? getting warmer...

Sometimes I'm jealous of the fact that my friend Jenny lives on a beautiful remote island off the Gold Coast, where bellbirds sing and exotic flowers fill the garden with scent - and the weather's better! But just maybe Jenny is sometimes jealous of the lovely part of England I live in - traditionally green and pleasant, and packed with history from William Morrise to the Romans. I think we often come away from our (chiefly virtual) visits and chats grateful for what we both have...