Simple prompts - dream house

Today's writing prompt follows this week's theme of simplicity.

What woul your dream house be like?

Simplicity...

This week's blog prompt themes and journal topics for your creative writing and scrapbooking are very simple, as it's holiday time here.

Check out today's news stories and take one of the headlines as a prompt for writing or journalling.

Simple prompts

This week's prompts are very simple:

What did you dream about last night?

OR

Write about a dream you would like to have.

Time - relive a moment #2

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about time.

If you could relive ONE HOUR of your life - AND if you could change it - what hour would it be?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about something you regret.
Use hidden journalling

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Time - Relive your life

This week's writing and journalling prompts are about time.

If you could relive ONE HOUR of your life - but without changing anything - what hour would it be?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a special time in your life.
Often such times don't have photographs, so use journalling as your centrepiece rather than a photograph.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Time - the past is another country

This week's writing ideas and blog prompts are based on concepts and issues around TIME.

If you had a TARDIS and could travel anywhere in the past - to any era - when would it be and why?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a heritage layout.

Use the word "time" somewhere on it.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Time - making a date

This week's journalling and blog prompts are based on concepts and issues around TIME.

Today you are going to make a date with yourself. Set aside an hour tomorrow or the nest day when you are going to write and/or be creative. If you have to, arrange to get up an hour earlier!

When you've made a date, write it at the top of your page in your jorunal or new Word document and then write down all the reasons why you should make time for your creative self.

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Tidy up your space in preparation for a big scrapping session tomorrow...
If you're already tidy - create a small project, e.g., 6x6 LO or maze book, about your scrapping spacxe.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Time - timewasters

This week's blogging and writing prompts are based on concepts and issues around TIME.

Answer the question (and think carefully about it):

What are your biggest timewasters?

~~~Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout about the ways you LIKE to waste time.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Time #2

This week's journalling and writing prompts are based on concepts and issues around TIME.

Yesterday you did some freewriting.

Today, take the writing and look at it. Is there any word or phrase that jumps out at you or that you think you could contiinue to write from? Use that as a starting point for a more leisurely ten minutes' writing, developing that theme.

Alternatively if you have no freewriting to look at, start with

If I only had time ...

What would you do?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with the title "Just in time".
Use a clock or watch face somewhere on the page.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Time #1

This week's journalling prompts are based on concepts and issues around TIME.

Today - give yourself a time limit and freewrite.

Freewriting is a great way to "loosen the writing muscles" especially when you're sitting down to start a writing session, or trying to get over a writing block.

Give yourself a time, say ten minutes, and just keep writing. The rules are:

1. Don't stop moving the pen (or typing)
2. Start with a word or phrase (one from any previous day on this blog would do!)
3. Keep writing even if it's just repetition or rubbish
4. Don't worry about punctuation or spelling, untidiness or typos!

When you've finished put the writing away for today.

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Find some photographs that reflect to you some aspect of the word "time"
Jot down a few details about the photos in preparation for layouts.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

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 ~~~

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 ~~~

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 ~~~

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 ~~~

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 ~~~

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 ~~~

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 ~~~

The Seven Ages - Ageing

This week's journal prompts are based on the Seven Ages
Use them as daily writing prompts, blog prompts or to help you with your journalling

Today's topic: ageing

What's the worst thing about growing older?
What's the BEST thing about growing older

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout about the passing of the years. Use a birthday photo. How do you feel as you approach another birthday?

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

The Seven Ages - Parenthood

This week's journal prompts are based on the Seven Ages
Use them as daily writing prompts, blog prompts or as inspiration for your scrapbook journaling

Today's topic: Parenthood

Is parenthood necessary for everyone or can you have a fuilfilled life without children?
This can be a controversial and emotive topic - but you don't have to let anyone else see it!

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about parenthood and how you feel about it. Your journalling should be hidden.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

The Seven Ages - Young adult

This week's daily journal prompts are based on the Seven AgesUse them as creative writing prompts. blog prompts or for scrapbook journalling

Today's topic: Young adult

When did you first start to feel "grown-up"?
Was it a particular incident or rite of passge that prompted it, or a gradual realisation?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a significant occasion or rite of passage in a young adult's life, such as 21st birthday, graduation, leaving home, engagement.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

The Seven Ages - Adolescence/teens

This week's journalling prompts are based on the Seven AgesUse them as writing prompts, blog prompts or scrapbooking inspiration.

Today's topic: Adolescence/teens

What advice would you give someone just turning 13 on how to get through this turbulent part of their life?
~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a LO about a teenager (your child, yourself, a relative, a friend). In what way are they a typical teenager and in what way are they not?

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

The Seven Ages - Schooldays

This week's journal prompts are based on the Seven AgesUse them as journaling prompts, blog prompts or to help you with your scrapping

Today's topic: schooldays

Were schooldays the best days of your life?
How? If not, why not?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about a schoolchild - use a school photo. Include journalling about the joys or not of schooldays.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

The Seven Ages - Childhood

This week's journaling prompts are based on the Seven Ages
Use them as journal prompts, blog prompts or to help you with your writing

Today's topic: childhood

What is your earliest memory?
Write about a place you remember from childhood.

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~
Create a LO about yourself as a child. Include journalling about the place where the picture was taken.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

The Seven Ages - Birth

This week's journal prompts are based on the Seven Ages

Use them as writing prompts. blog prompts or to help you with your journalling

Today's topic: birth

Where were you born?
Does your place of birth impact on your life?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a LO about where you were born. Include a photo either taken by you or found on the Internet.
Journal about whether you feel you "belong" to this place?

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play - cards and boardgames

Do you play cards – or boardgames?

What was the last game you played?
Do you like to win or do you play just for the fun of it?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with playing cards on - either real ones or scanned.

Be inspired by the names of the suits: hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play - an instrument

Have you ever played an instrument?
If so, try to describe what it felt / feels like.

If not – what instrument would you play if you could learn now – painlessly – and why?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

If you were a musical instrument which would you be?
Create a LO inspired by playing an instrument (the singing voice could count as an instrument).

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play - music

Writing doesn’t have to be perfect first time – and if it’s just for a journal or scrapbook, it is important to include the everyday – what might seem mundane but in a few years’ time will be part of the big picture of your and your family’s past.

Do you play music?
What kind of music do you like to play when you are writing – or do you prefer silence?What kind of music makes you feel playful?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

What music did you listen to most recently? Did you like it? Why? Or why not?

Create an "everyday" layout and use a reference to music to help you start journalling.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play - insight?

The writing prompts this week are about play:

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” Joseph Chilton Pearce

Has playing or experimenting ever given you an insight?

e.g., Have you learned to use a camera or software by playing?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

 

You probably have pictures of yourself "letting your hair down".

Use one (or more) of these to create a LO or mini-book about how you have fun...

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play - playthings

This journal prompt is particularly for parents and those with small children in their families.

If you have a child – watch their play. What do they say? How do they play? What’s their favourite plaything of the moment?

If you haven’t a child to watch, think about yourself as a child – what did you enjoy playing with? What was your favourite plaything?

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Find a picture with a plaything on (or take one!) and create a LO with an account of why that plaything was liked and how it was used. If you haven't one of yourself with a plaything, find a picture on the Internet of one you remember.

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play - how do you play?

It’s important to write honestly and truthfully about how you feel about things. You may shy away from a word or topic “I don’t play – I’m too old for that” but play is essential in our lives – for relaxation and for creativity.

“Play is the beginning of knowledge.”

How do you play?

I play by....

I like to play...

My play is ...

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Is scrapping play for you? Take a pic of your stash or yourself or friends scrapping.,

What's fun about it? How do you play?

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~

Play

This week our daily journalling prompts are all about play.

What does play mean to you? Is it something you still do?

Creativity is all about play, whether you are playing with words, or playing with paper and glue as a scrapbooker. I do both!

~~~ Scrapbooker’s journalling challenge ~~~

Create a layout with the subject "Play with abandon"

~~~ Scrapper’s journaling challenge ~~~