Journalling the acrostic way...

Everyone has subjects that feature in layouts again and again. With me it's my children - it might be your pet or a particular place you have lots of photos of... When all you can think of is to put their name on the LO - think again!

Firstly, don't forget the where, when and who.

And here's an idea - use an acrostic of their name to describe them or the situation.

Adventurous
Intelligent
Demanding -
A typical teen!
Not a quiet moment...

If you have a difficult letter in there (if you have a Max or a Zak!), it can be easier to try a mesostic version - that means the letter can be anywhere in the line.

 A mAture
fun-Loving
   sEnsible
   eXceptional young lady

Wedding quotes

I was making a card for a silver anniversary, so I thought I would look out some sayings suitable for such a card.

Here are some of my favourites:

“There are three things that last:
faith, hope and love,
and the greatest of these is love.”
- 1 Corinthians 13:13

"Together you shall be for evermore...
but let there be spaces in your togetherness.
And let the winds of the heavens
dance between you." - Kahlil Gibran

Two human loves make one divine. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To keep your marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash

Love is the silent link
between heart and mind,
and the silver thread that
ties two souls together. - Flavia

Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
- June Master Bacher

Sayings and poems for couples

Suitable sayings and poems for weddings, anniversaries, engagements and civil partnership ceremonies

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - Mignon McLaughlin

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments: love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds.

- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed. - Carl Jung

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping.
For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.
- Khalil Gibran

My true love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one for another given:
I hold his dear, and mine he can not miss,
There never was a better bargain driven:
- Philip Sydney

i carry your heart with me
by e. e. cummings
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
i fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

We must not sever, you and I,
The world is cruel, friends are few;
Let us be steadfast faithfully,
I and you. - JJW

May you have laughter to cheer you
And those you love near you,
And all that your heart may desire
May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings.
May you know nothing but happiness
From this day forward

A thousand welcomes to you two today, may you be healthy all your days. May you be blessed with long life and peace, may you grow old with goodness, and with riches.

Some quotes and sayings about aging

I'm often looking for quotes and verses to put inside cards for the older generation. Or indeed, to put on a scrapbook LO about older relatives. Here are some I've found recently:

Some people, no matter how old they get,
never lose their beauty - they merely move
it from their faces into their hearts.

So Life's year begins and closes;
Days, though short'ning, still can shine;
Though youth gave us love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes age just shows up
all by itself.

Like a beautiful rose unfolding
as the summer day begins...
may your special day unfold into happiness.

A birthday is a time to plan ahead and to dream
of all the beautiful things that life has to offer.

Anyone can count the years... it's much more fun to count the joys along the way.

Birthdays are Like Bumper Stickers
You enjoy other people's, but you don't really want one for yourself.
Happy Birthday!

The great thing about getting older is that
You don't lose all the other ages you've been. -Madeleine L'Engle