Ch. #128--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of: Share a Valentine's Day Card with Someone Who Won't Expect It

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog! It is the first Monday of the month and it is time for our latest challenge to begin! We hope that you and your families continue to stay healthy and safe out there. 

 

Since we are not your typical challenge blog, it is important for you to understand how things work in order to be sure you are eligible to win any of the prizes offered. If you are new to this unique challenge, you can find out the impetus behind why I started it under the 'Introductions' tab and you can find out all the details you need to know in order to participate, in the 'Challenge Details' tab (both tabs located at the top of the blog). For your convenience, a summary of the most important rules can also be found in the right sidebar under the heading 'General Rules'.

 
Right now, it is time to get down to the business of our latest challenge. Here is what you need to know...

 

Challenge #128

Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of 

Embracing The Unexpected:

Sharing a Valentine's Day Card with Someone Who Won't Expect It

 

This year's goal is to Embrace the Unexpected in our lives (click here if you'd like to read more in depth about our overall theme for 2025). No matter how much planning we do throughout our years on this earth, we're going to come across circumstances that we can't plan for. These unexpected things may be small or they may be huge and life altering. The only thing that we can control is how we react to these events. So this year, instead of BRACING for the unexpected, we are going to flip that and get in the habit of EMBRACING the unexpected. This will help us to train ourselves to look at these types of events in a different light.

To help inspire you on this journey, each month we will be doing things such as creating fun unexpected projects, working with items we might not typically work with, taking approaches that are different from what we normally do, offering up the unexpected to someone in our life, etc. So, let's get to the details for this month's challenge.  

February is generally a time when the concept of love is explored and celebrated. Traditionally, Valentine's Day has offered people the chance to cherish and celebrate their romantic partners. However, these days it isn't just about romantic relationships. Familial relationships, friendships and other types of bonds are now celebrated as well. For the past 15 years, Galentine's Day has explored the opportunity for females to celebrate their friendships with the other ladies in their lives. While I believe that love should be celebrated every month (every day actually), Feb. allows us unique opportunities to proclaim our love for others.

Have you ever received a Valentine's Day card from someone totally unexpected (though welcomed)? If you did, you know the joy that receiving a card like that can bring. For your optional project this month, send your own homemade Valentine's Day card to someone who won't expect it. You have the power to brighten up someone's day. Here are some examples to get you thinking:

• Do you still have your mail delivered to your home? If you do, then a Valentine's Day card to your mail person might just add an extra spark to their step.
  
• Do you have a favourite pet sitter or a person that comes into your home to clean? Think of the smile you might put on their face if they were to receive a friendly Valentine's day card from you.
• If you don't send Valentine's cards to your parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews or nieces, then this year, choose one of them to surprise.

Remember, the twist is completely optional and you don't need to follow it in order to win. However, in order to be considered eligible for this month's goodies, remember that general types of projects/posts will not qualify for the honours and prize UNLESS they are also positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. Additionally, even if a project may qualify as positive, if your post promotes negativity, hatred or anything of an abhorrent nature, your project will be disqualified. Honours and Prize include:

• $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
• A badge for the following honours: Top Pick, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

 

Now check out what my awesome design team came up with to inspire you. Clicking on each team member's name will take you to their blog where you can check out the details for their inspirational creations.

 

 

My wonderful design team continues to astound me each and every month! They all have their own approach and deft insight into the twist. Even after all this time, I continue to be astonished by the purview of greatness in their work! Each of these artful conceptions has showcased the notion of Embracing the Unexpected by Sharing a Valentine's Day Card with Someone Who Won't Expect It admirably and I hope we have inspired you to commence on your own exploration of creativity. Be sure to go and visit each team member so you can see how her project further connects to the twist.

So what are you waiting for? Create a project and/or post that is positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature and join our link up. How about stretching yourself by also opting to follow the twist?! While it isn't mandatory, we'd also love to find out how this month's twist affects your own life. How do you typically deal with the unexpected in your life? Do you view it with trepidation or take it on as a challenge? This month it is time to send a Valentine's Day card to someone you wouldn't typically send one to. There are so many extraneous people in our lives whose days could do with a little brightening. Who do you know that would benefit from some uplifting? You can write a sentence or two in the body of your post, write a sentence at the bottom of your post next to the link up for this challenge, or simply leave a comment on this post if you'd like. Finally, remember that we're trying to create a Path of Positivity so if you have some time, please visit other people participating throughout the month.

Please join us again next week when we will [hopefully] post the Top Picks for Challenge #127. Then, be sure to join us again on February 17th when we'll be back with our midway featuring more great projects. 

 
If you ever have any questions be sure to send an email to decossesdynamitedoodles {at} yahoo {dot} ca (don't forget to replace {at} and {dot} with the appropriate symbols), or just leave me a comment.

We look forward to seeing you participate!

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Ch. #128--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of Embracing the Unexpected: Sharing a Valentine's Day Card with Someone Who Won't Expect It
This is the place to link up something that you have created during the month that you consider positive, inspirational, motivational or encouraging in some nature. Entries for this challenge will be accepted from February 3rd until 11:59 p.m. (ET) on March 2nd, 2025. 

SEVEN entries MAX. Please click on the 'Challenge Details' tab located at the top of the blog to see all the rules. A summary of the most important rules can also be found in the right sidebar under the heading 'General Rules'. If you would like to be a Guest Designer in a future challenge, please add the letters GDT after your name.