Weekend Creative : Naming Your Petals
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Last week this little gem made it home from school safe and sound in Simon's backpack.
What a very cool peek into some of his current favorite things and a little bit about how he's seeing himself (or how his teachers helped him identify some of his traits). My favorite petals include "reader," "kind," and "chicken burger."
I've done a variety of layouts over the years documenting our right now: things that are important to us, favorites, what we are into, etc. This is the first one in Simon's own words; in his own handwriting. Definitely a treasure to me.
This weekend consider documenting your own petals or those of someone you love. Maybe involve your family members by having them identify what are the important things in their lives right now. Ask simple questions like "what's your favorite food" or "what are you really good at?" and have them write their own words if they are able.
This is definitely not a complicated exercise. It's a silly little way to document a bit of your life right now. Grab a piece of scratch paper and draw a simple flower or download and print the one below. Simon's flower has 10 petals but don't worry about the number, just write. Don't forget to add the date.
These flowers would make a sweet little family minibook, a nice accent on a layout of each person, or you could gather a bunch together and create a "bouquet" of all your family member's flowers.
To get you started here's a simple flower download (the same one I used for my flower above) that is ready and waiting to be printed and decorated by you and your loved ones.
[ weekend creative is a semi-regular feature appearing on Fridays : past projects can be located in the here. ]
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"Chicken burger" is too cute! :)
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Beautiful idea! and thanks so much for the template!
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Thanks for the flower!
Zuzu would be so happy!
It is a wonderful life!
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Isn't that brill? I work as a writer (technical) and love cute little ideas like this (might even work as an afternoon distraction for my kids!). TFS!
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FABULOUS! TFS!
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Ali, this is off-topic, but I am in LOVE with the scarf you are wearing in your profile pic! I took up knitting a couple of months ago and would love to make something like that. Did you make it? Could you direct me to a pattern? LOVE. IT.
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What a great idea! I love this & thanks for the flower download.
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I got it at the Gap a few years back - it has a great ruffle along the edges.
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I love this! After a rough week, this brings me back to what is simply good about life. Thanks!
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Thank you for the freebie!!! It will be a great excercize to do while sitting out in our wonderful weather! Have a great weekend!
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Such a sweet prompt. I love it and plan to bug my entire family to take part in it!
Enjoy the weekend!
tammy t
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Awesome, thanks, Ali!
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Oh I *love* this idea! And how very, very simple too! I love that it adds each person's favorite things in their handwriting (if possible). I've downloaded mine and printed out 5 of them (one for each of our family members). Can't wait to get started and see how they all turn out....thanks again Ali for yet another fabulous idea!! :)
Jessica Woodford
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Love this idea, thanks for the download too!
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How sweet that he's got big brother AND loves sister on there! :D
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Ali
Thanks so much for the download...love the flower and the thought behind it to "fill it"! I will love doing this with my girls!
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What a great idea!
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Thanks for the download ,GREAT idea.I will use the flower for a family favorites mini album or great kids project for a weekend.Love it.
Have a awesome weekend
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I've done this with my daughter before but we've used a pic of her in the middle and wrote words as petals around the picture. Simon's is way cute! Thnaks so much for the sweet flower .png. Have a lovely weekend.
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Love this Ali!!!! I just printed out 5 copies to do about my family. Great idea to take stock of now!!! And, I intend to display my family bouquet in my scrap area and also use it for a point of inspiration for future scrap projects! Thanks a bunch to Simon for bringing home such a sweet, neat project. Have a super fantastic weekend!!!!
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