One little word.

Ali, i have enjoyed your blog for over a year now and want to thank you for sharing your life and art with us. i enjoy your message of capturing the life we live today and both perserving and learning through our scrappn' art. i also wanted to point out someone to you that i find tremdously talented at life art. i've met her through a scrappn' website and have been folowing her story and her art. here is her blog..
http://retrospection.typepad.com/my_weblog/
at this moment she is losing her husband, and has shared the journey she's been on with us via her blog... her story as well as her art is just amazing and i'd like to share it with you... since i think it just falls perfectly in line with your idea of life art...
regards,
Veronica

I wanted to thank you Ali for your christmas album idea. I am currently attending grad school to become a physician assistant and have been trying to find a quick and efficient way to document this crazy adventure. I don't have a lot of time to scrapbook, learning medicine gets in the way of that, but this album is the perfect solution. Just spent a little time yesterday putting a little bit of it together. Excited about printing off photos and placing them. Thanks for such a new and fresh approach. Your work is appreciated! :)

i'm thinking about writing my one little word "play" on my forehead in marker for a day -- just to see what people say/do. hilarious or crazy? maybe a little bit of both.
seems like a play-full thing to do though., :]

I am still considering my word for the year and am always amused by the list you make with everyones word. I agree with Veronica when she pointed our Christine. She is such a strong life artist!

Hmmmm, I think after last year, my word this year needs to be HOPE. It is where I am at....for the first time in a long time. So, hope.
I don't know what I will do with it quite yet. But I am pondering.

I've already scrapped my word. I put chipboard letters together and altered them. Now my word is stuck on a cupboard door right above where I sit everyday when I am on my computer.

thank you for your challenge, ali. i have been wanting to start a scrapping journal...and have put it off...this time, i will start it and have my word BEHOLD as its theme...i am sure that there are a lot of things and people who can be a subject for my little word...
again, thanks so much for being such an inspiration... :) mwah to simon...

I ordered a bracelet from wordworksjewelry.com with my word printed on it. I did the same thing last year. I wear them every single day and have found it to be a great visual reminder for me. I've also started blogging about it on my livejournal and even found a book called "Living Artfully" that discusses it. I'm currently trying to come up with other creative ways to honor it and look forward to hearing what others are doing!

I've altered the Shabby Princess desktop fo my laptop for January to include my word..CREATE. Plan to do the same each month when I update my desktop.

i have not documented this thought yet, but looking at your thoughts on your word has caused me to pause and get this down: love.
a very, very simple word, but one that can be hard for me to live out. the challenge of purposefully showing love to my family to my friends daily continues to surface in my mind. but mostly this is goaled towards my husband. i get tired with four little ones running around and schooling them daily. i get grumpy cause he is gone so long in the day working. i can get bitter cause he is so tired and has little left to give at the end of a day. but he has given it all during the day so we can have a great life in an unstable world. and i want to show him that daily, on purpose, somehow. this means even when i am grumpy...so...i think that is it: love.
thanks ali! i needed to focus on this, and again, you have inspired.
God bless...hope you are feeling well today.

I already have mine all made and hanging in my office!!
Here is a link to my reminder:
http://www.myscrapbookart.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22809&ppuser=176

I guess I was a little over-anxious when I posted a link to my project on the last posting. I'll re-post here so they're all together.
http://www.paperclipping.com/2008/01/03/minibook-my-2008-focus-journal/
I love all your other ideas, Ali! So cool that you found a necklace with your word on it. I doubt I'd find one with my word, lol.

Thanks for all the inspiration! Question: What are your plans for your daily pics? I've started taking mine (it's harder than I thought) but don't know yet what I'm going to do with them. Would love to hear what you have planned. Thanks!

I started a blog devoted to my one little word. Thanks for the continued inspiration Ali.

Happy New Year All! I feel kind of silly as I was thinking about a necklace as I have chosen the word PURGE for 2008!!! LOL LOL!!! I can't really picture a way to do that one. Any help out there guys???? I don't want to change the plan but can anyone toss a little gentler "prettier" word to what I want to accomplish in my home this year Help! Help and thanks in advance

Okay, the only word I can come up with is
LIVE.
I am telling myself to live every moment -
- it means enjoying my children (stop being so tired all the time!)
- create what I want and stop being scared about whether it is any good or not
- stop feeling bad/guilty for taking some me time and having Artist's Dates (in the end, that will help me enjoy my kids more because I will have some down time!)
- start being more energetic (being 3 months pregnant with third child + working full time outside the home does sap my energy levels - gotta do something about that!)
- JUST LIVE. Stop feeling as though I am only going through the motions to make it through another day.
Have some ideas about how to visualize that .... will work on it.

I made a little NOW sign for my craft room... and I have NOW on my computer background. I want to start a special journal to honor my word as well... but I have started two other journals already this year. But I think I will still do it. :)

Love these ideas and I'll be adopting one or two of them. Now I just have to pick my word! That's for this weekend when I have time to really think about it...
And I've loved reading about everyone else's words...very cool!

Ali ~ I just wanted to say "THANK YOU" for consistently being a place of inspiration I can come to - ANY day. :-) I don't think I've ever commented before, so I just want to take a moment to thank you!! Your positivity and generosity of spirit has been such a blessing!! :-) VITALITY. May you be blessed with the meaning of that wonderful word each and every day.

JOURNEY: one little word is going to be made into a book with quotes and pictures that inspire me, plus a desktop for my computer/screen for my pda and phone. And I'm also thinking of making a canvas for my craft room. It is making me happy to think about my word; it energizes me.