A unique challenge blog designed to inspire, nurture and provide support for the soul by creating a positive path to follow, one project or post at a time!
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Ch. #97--Opt. Twist: GIVE/HELP Others...Midway
Hey folks! Welcome back
to the Path of
Positivity Challenge Blog! Sorry to my team members and readers alike that I'm two days late in posting the midway for Challenge #97. This last week and a half continued to be a struggle at times waiting to hear whether my father would be okay and thankfully he is no longer considered critical. In fact, he is now back at home with my mom who was released just shortly after my last post. Both are extremely weak, exhausted and dealing with the lingering effects of covid (and for my dad, the after effects of having a bad pneumonia as well). Thankfully, for now they have a personal support worker or someone from the Covid Team, checking on them daily throughout the weekdays but it is definitely a challenge for the two of them to look after themselves properly when they are so weak. They have been told that it will take MONTHS before they are back to their normal selves. It is a challenging journey ahead but thanks for all your well wishes and prayers. They certainly helped. It is my fond hope that each of you and your own families
continue to stay
well wherever it is you live in this big wide world of ours.
As we are a unique kind of challenge blog, it is important for you to understand how things work. Please be sure to check out the START POST FOUND HERE for the specific details related to this month's challenge, and you can find out all the general details you need to know in order to participate, by clicking on the 'Challenge Details' tab (located at the top of the blog). For your convenience, a summary of the most important rules can now be found in the right sidebar under the heading 'General Rules'.
Right now, it is time to continue with our midway. Here is a refresher of the details for our current twist:
Challenge #97
Optional Twist:
GIVE/HELP Others
As we finish off this year's goal to encourage you to usher more positivity into your life, this month we want you to design a creation that focuses on GIVING TO or HELPING OTHERS. A giving heart is a joyful, Positive heart. With the holiday season upon us, it is the perfect time to reflect on things and see what we might be able to give to others, or perhaps look at ways we could provide assistance to others. This could include the obvious gift giving aspect or one might choose to go with a ‘thinking of you’ or charity sort of idea. This month, may you find ways to GIVE AND/OR HELP others in your effort to continue walking the Path of Positivity.
- TWO images from All Dressed Up Stamps, our guest sponsor for this month, for a person chosen in a random draw based on all qualifying entrants.
- ONE image (value of $5 or less) from Scribbles Designs, for the post or project that the team deems most inspiring of the bunch based on all qualifying entrants.
- One digital image from Creative Bug Digital SnapShots for each person chosen as a DT Delight.
Talking of our sponsors...
To learn more about All Dressed Up Stamps, this month's guest sponsor, be sure to check out the START post; and of course, also pay this generous company a visit.
During the midway, you will also be seeing projects from half of the team using images from Scribbles Designs, one of our on-going sponsors. Scribbles Designs will be providing the prize for the Most Inspirational choice during each challenge in 2021. Please be sure to pop over and check out the amazing images offered up by Sandy Sommerfeld, the designer behind Scribbles Designs.
To help inspire you further down the path of being GIVING TO or HELPING OTHERS, check out the wonderful projects my Design Team had the opportunity to create.
Clicking on each team member's name will take you to their blog where you can check out the details for their inspirational creations. If you are interested in purchasing the image featured in a particular creation, you can click on the link indicated below the project…
Thanks again to my fabulous design team! As always, each of them have
their own exceptional approaches and concepts which impress me to no end. Each of
these creations has demonstrated the theme of being GIVING TO or HELPING Others admirably
and I hope we have encouraged you throughout this challenge to come up
with your own piece of handiwork. Be sure to go and visit these talented
ladies so you can see just how their
projects tie in to the twist.
Why not join us, if you haven't entered already? 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. What do you do to GIVE to or HELP Others?
Do you volunteer your time? Do you donate to various organizations? The
holiday season is the perfect time to get into the habit of GIVING TO or HELPING Others. This month, think about how you can best do that with your own time and resources. If you'd like to
tell us how you GIVE/HELP Others, we'd
love to hear
it.
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.
Also, I know that the participants would love for you to go and pay them a visit. Remember we're creating a Path of Positivity to follow one project at a time and we'd love to see you somewhere on that route even if it is just by leaving a comment on an entry from someone who has touched you somehow with their project and/or post! You can find our list of participants and enter our latest challenge yourself by clicking HERE and scrolling down to the bottom of the post.
Also, I know that the participants would love for you to go and pay them a visit. Remember we're creating a Path of Positivity to follow one project at a time and we'd love to see you somewhere on that route even if it is just by leaving a comment on an entry from someone who has touched you somehow with their project and/or post! You can find our list of participants and enter our latest challenge yourself by clicking HERE and scrolling down to the bottom of the post.
Click HERE to head to the current challenge post & link up!
If you ever have any questions be sure to leave me a comment.
We look forward to seeing you participate!
Monday, December 13, 2021
Ch. #96 Top Picks: Voting Open Dec. 13 to Dec. 20/21
WELCOME TO THE CHALLENGE #96 POP TOP!
Hello folks! I
hope
that your Path this past week has included a number of positive moments
along
the route and that you and your families are all doing your best to stay
healthy and happy.
Sorry that I have yet to publish the winner announcement. I'm still working on it. As I mentioned during the
start post for this month, my father was in the hospital diagnosed with
covid. While my father was released this past Wed., my mother was
admitted. It was inevitable that she develop it as well. I spent the last few days desperately trying to convince my father to call an ambulance and head
back in as he has progressively gotten worse since his release. He finally relented last night and it was a good thing, as he was considered critical this morning. My mother has become worse as well. As a
result, most of my time is spent dealing with this
current crisis.
I did have some time yesterday to get this post ready but unfortunately, I just didn't have the time or energy to frame the top picks like I typically would. Other than that, it is time to present the top picks from the
last challenge. Just a reminder that we will not be having a winner announcement for Challenge #96 as it was simply for fun. We'll simply be having a Top Picks which we're posting today.
Thus, without further ado, please let me introduce you to the Top Picks for Challenge #96…
Congrats Ladies...
As a participant who has been chosen as a Top Pick in this challenge,
you are entitled to a
special Challenge #96 Top Pick Badge.
Please feel free to grab a copy for your blog...
HAVE YOUR SAY!
Now the really hard work starts. It is time for you, our readers, to
vote for your favourite entry. Which participant most inspires you?
Remember, you are not necessarily voting on a creation that was made.
You might simply find what the person had to say in their post to be
inspiring and optimistic. Please be sure to go and check out the entries
first and not just make your choices off of the thumbnails. Then, let
us know who your favourite choice is by placing your vote below using
the Linky Tools feature. Once you have made your decision, why not go
back and let that person know how she inspired you.
Good luck everyone!
Voting open December 13th
through December 20th
Path of Positivity--Challenge #96 Top Picks
Please click "like" to vote for your favourite entry for Challenge #96 out of the entries listed below. ONE vote per IP address please. Please note that you can get a better idea of what the project/post looks like by visiting each participant first. To do so, simply click the names below the thumbnails to be taken to the person's blog.
Please click "like" to vote for your favourite entry for Challenge #96 out of the entries listed below. ONE vote per IP address please. Please note that you can get a better idea of what the project/post looks like by visiting each participant first. To do so, simply click the names below the thumbnails to be taken to the person's blog.
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