General Ideas

Before you louse it up - THINK. After you've loused it up - SMILE.

Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.

Blessed are they who run around in circles for they shall be called WHEELS.

Books that have helped me - My mother's cook book and my father's check book.

Correct your own mistakes before criticizing others.

Criticism is something you can avoid easily - by saying nothing, doing nothing and being nothing.

Do not be afraid to serve humanity and wait for your rewards - Naismith

Do a good deed and throw it into the sea; it won't sink.

Even if great thoughts come from the heart, it is better that they would emerge through the head.

Everything turns upon a trifle, for the want of a nail the shoe was lost, for the want of a shoe the horses was lost, and for the want of a horses the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want or care about a horse shoe nail.

For age and want, save while you may; no morning sun lasts a whole day.

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name - He writes, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game!

Genius! One who shoots at something no one else can see, and hits it.

Give me this day my daily opinion and forgive me the one I had yesterday.

Gossip - the art of saying nothing in a way the leaves nothing unsaid.

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it.

If only I may grow firmer, simpler - quieter, warmer. Dag Hammarskjold

The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass

Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.

Scatter Joy - Emily Dickinson

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and the all the sweet serenity of books. - Longfellow

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. - Emerson

As we grow old the beauty steals inward. - Emerson

Be courageous . . . it is the only place left uncrowded. - Anita Roddick

Begin . . . the rest is easy.

Book lovers never go to bed alone. Anon

Character is what you are when no one is watching.

Dwell in possibility. - Dickinson

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. - May West

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. - Marcel Proust

There is more to life than increasing it's speed. - Ghandi

When nothing is sure, everything is possible. - Margaret Drabble

If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

A normal person is just someone you don't know very well.

A retired husband is a wife's full time job.

Behind every successful woman is herself.

If you don't think women are explosive, drop one. - Gerald F. Lieberman

Hitch yer wagon to a star. - Emerson

Lasso the moon.

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

Keep in mind . . . to a dog you are family, to a cat you are staff.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, I am my mother after all.

My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. Rudyard Kipling

From my world to your world (travel)

Around the lake in seven days (travel)

On the road again (travel)

All dolled up (babydolls)

A Star is born! (Star punches, stickers, star paper)

A Super Dee Dooper Birthday (Barney Birthday Party)

Ahoy Maties! (pirate/Captain Hook pictures)

Bowl me Over (bowling layout)

Cute as a Button! (Button and Bow stickers)

Dishin' Up the Perfect Picture (Satellite Dish Installation)

Don't bug me...I'm busy! (insect stickers all over the page)

Do the Mashed Potato! (for pictures of kids eating potatoes)

Escape to privacy (new home, honeymoon)

Everything in your reach (giraffe diecut)

Just Horsin' Around (trip to ranch or stables) (could use banana paper or horse stickers or diecuts)

Just 'plane' fun (use airplane diecuts!)

I can spot a friend when I see one. (Dalmatian stickers)

I love the colors of the rainbow! (Misc. pics and multi color confetti or rainbow stickers)

Looking this beautiful is hard work. (picture of a little girls w/make-up all over)

Look Out Bob Villa (home improvements)

My heart leaps for you! (frog and heart stickers)

One in a melon (watermelon theme)

Places we've hung our hats! (photos of places you've lived with hat stickers or die cuts)

Puppy Love (puppies inspecting new baby)

She's a keeper (fishing)

Small steps made for big adventures! (Footprint punches or stickers or paper)

Slide into a day of fun (park theme, water slide)

Stars in our eyes...(star die cuts and slide die cuts like photos on film)

Swinging her way into our hearts (pictures in swing)

Take time to "paws" and enjoy the simple pleasures of life--(child and puppy page)

The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round! (School Bus stickers, die cuts, or school bus paper)

The Skies the Limit! (model rocket building)

The Great Binky Heist (baby stealing pacifier)

Train a Child up in the way he should go and he will not depart from it. (use with train die cuts)

When I grow up I wanna be just like...DADDY!! (child has tie on, a briefcase, and daddy's shoes on)

Where the road leads us, we will go! (traveling)

With a face like this life will be smooth sailing (sea theme)

You're tops! (Bowtie and Tophat stickers)

You are so Tweet! (Birdhouse art arranged on a torn paper branch and bird house stickers)