Wordplay Challenge 12: You Had to Be There

This week's challenge is to gather up all of the inside jokes, nicknames, memorable events, and the miscellany that define one of the special relationships in your life. I used this approach on a layout that I made about my friend Angie back in 2007. Here' s a close-up of the journaling on this page. I'm planning to put this approach to good use in one of my upcoming layouts.

Wordplay Challenge 11: What You See

This week's challenge is to document your surroundings -- no place too big or small, too neat or messy, too cramped or comfortable. Take it all in and jot down what you see. Capture the details that stand out to you.

Sorry about the delay...

It's been crazy around here lately. I'll try to update this weekend.

Wordplay Challenge 10: Top Ten

Today I've been thinking a lot about lists, as you can see in this post. This week's challenge is to journal in list form -- but not just any list. This list should build to a point. Whether you count down or count up, use your list to say what you want or need to say.

Wordplay Challenge 9: Old Business

It's March, which means that spring will soon be here, as will the whole spirit of spring cleaning. Before we look ahead to the new, though, it's time to acknowledge the old. This week, take care of some "old business":

something unresolved
something for which you are still seeking closure
something that revisits you in dreams
something that comes back to bite you in the butt every so often
something that needs to be put back into its box
some story left unfinished

You get the idea. The challenge this week isn't necessarily to resolve the unresolved or to give up the ghost, but to put the old business back on the table and address it directly. It's time.

Catching Up

I've been swamped lately, but I haven't forgotten these challenges! Although I plan to go back and make full-scale layouts later for the last two prompts, I touched on both in a mini-album that I made with the March Bad Girls kit.

I talked about my page-tapping habit (Wordplay 7, "That Thing You Do") and...

I actually photographed my foot (ugh) and wrote about why it is that I never paint my toenails (Wordplay 8, "Body Bio").

I've still got more ideas mulling around inside my head for these two challenges, so I know I'll be revisiting them soon!

Wordplay Challenge 8: Body Part Bio

This week, choose one of your body parts -- the more interesting the relationship, the better -- and tell its story. What have your eyes seen? Why do your ears hang low? Does your belly button enjoy being an outie? Why do your legs feel loved only when they're wearing jeans?

This one should be interesting...