Ch. #98--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY ...Midway

 

Hey folks! Welcome back to the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog! It is the third Monday of the month and that means that it is time to present the midway for Challenge #98. 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 #98

Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of 

Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY

 This year's goal is to celebrate the positive around us. As such, this month we want you to design a creation that focuses on Celebrating Something Special about YOUR FAMILY. February is generally a month when we think about and reach out to the people who mean the most to us: our various family members. So, it is the perfect month to choose one or more family members that you love (or even someone that you love that is no longer with you) and then find something special about them that you want to celebrate. Think about your family member(s) and the many attributes that are part of their personality. What unique attributes draw you to each individual? For example, you could focus on how big someone's heart is, or how kind a relative is to others. You might look to celebrate a loved one's sense of humour and just how much you rely on them making you laugh. Maybe, one or more people in your family are an incredible support system for you in times of need. There are so many attributes that you can choose from. This month, it is time to reflect on a unique characteristic of one or more family members and share it with others. Show the world Something Special about YOUR FAMILY in your effort to celebrate the Positivity that already exists in your life.

In order to be considered eligible for this month's honours and prize, remember that general types of projects/posts will not qualify for the prizes 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 Prizes 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, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

To help inspire you further down the path of being Celebrating Something Special about YOUR FAMILY, 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Celebrating Something Special about YOUR FAMILY 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. Who are the important FAMILY members in your own life that you can celebrate something special about? This is the perfect month to share just what is so special about your own FAMILY. If you'd like to tell us something special about your FAMILY, 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.

 

GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY…

Please show your support to our wonderful sponsor, Scribbles Designs, by going over and checking out their work and saying hi if you have the chance. You may also just find an image or two to add your your collection!

Thank you so much to this awesome Canadian company for their
continued support of this challenge blog!

Don't Forget...

You have until 11:59 p.m., ET, tonight (Feb. 21), to vote on your favourite entry for Challenge #97. Voting is quick, easy and painless so I hope you will consider casting your vote if you haven't already. Winners for challenge #97 will be posted next week if everything goes according to plan. You can find the Top Picks post HERE.

 

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!

Ch. #97 Top Picks: Voting Open Feb. 14 to Feb. 21/22

WELCOME TO THE CHALLENGE #97 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. 

 

It is time to present the top picks from the last challenge. With only nine entries in Challenge #97 (click HERE to see the original challenge with the theme of GIVE AND/OR HELP), we don't have enough entries to have a Top Seven but we did have enough people participate that we can have a Top Three. As such, it is time to get on with showcasing the three projects and/or write-ups that touched the team the most.

Thus, without further ado, please let me introduce you to the Top Picks for Challenge #97…

 

 

 

Congrats Ladies... 

As a participant who has been chosen as a Top Pick in this challenge, 

you are entitled to a special Challenge #97 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 February 14th 
through February 21st

Path of Positivity--Challenge #97 Top Picks
Please click "like" to vote for your favourite entry for Challenge #97 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.

Vote Below:

 

Ch. #98--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY

 

Hello everyone and welcome to the Path of Positivity Challenge Blog! Now while I am running a couple hours late, it is still 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 in this crazy world of ours. While infection rates seem to be up, it appears that the current dominance of the omicron variant means that people aren't getting as sick as with previous strains. Hopefully the effects will continue to wane and we'll finally get control over this awful virus that has hurt so many people in our world.

 

Before we start, I just wanted to once again say thank you for the well wishes and prayers that several of you left or sent me regarding my parents' health. They continue on their path to healing from covid--now I just have to hope that their other health issues stay in check for a while. I realize that things will only become more challenging as they continue to age and I age as well. As life continues to unfold, I hope that positivity will seep into my pores and keep me from going down a darker path.

 

I also wanted to say thanks for understanding about the time I had to take off to deal with stress and scare related to my parents' illness, and also understanding about the changes I've needed to make in order to keep the challenge running (if you missed that post and would like to read about the changes for 2022, click HERE). I am hoping that with the changes we are implementing (here and on my other challenge blog), I will be able to free up some time and reduce the amount of stress I've been experiencing trying to juggle my online life with my offline one. 

 

Now back to the Link Up. 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'. I've just finished updating these pages with all the changes so hopefully I haven't missed anything.

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

 

 

Challenge #98

Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of 

Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY

 This year's goal is to celebrate the positive around us. As such, this month we want you to design a creation that focuses on Celebrating Something Special about YOUR FAMILY. February is generally a month when we think about and reach out to the people who mean the most to us: our various family members. So, it is the perfect month to choose one or more family members that you love (or even someone that you love that is no longer with you) and then find something special about them that you want to celebrate. Think about your family member(s) and the many attributes that are part of their personality. What unique attributes draw you to each individual? For example, you could focus on how big someone's heart is, or how kind a relative is to others. You might look to celebrate a loved one's sense of humour and just how much you rely on them making you laugh. Maybe, one or more people in your family are an incredible support system for you in times of need. There are so many attributes that you can choose from. This month, it is time to reflect on a unique characteristic of one or more family members and share it with others. Show the world Something Special about YOUR FAMILY in your effort to celebrate the Positivity that already exists in your life.

In order to be considered eligible for this month's honours and prize, remember that general types of projects/posts will not qualify for the prizes 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 Prizes 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, Voter's Choice, Most Inspirational, Random Winner, DT Delight.

Now check out what my amazing 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. Pat had some time and is joining us this month!

 

 

 

My wonderful design team continues to outdo themselves time and time again! They each have their own style and clever interpretation of the twist. Even after all this time, I continue to be astounded by the scope of greatness in their work! Each of these artful conceptions has showcased the notion of Celebrating Something Special about their FAMILY exceptionally and I hope we have inspired you. 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. Who are the important FAMILY members in your own life that you can celebrate something special about? This is the perfect month to share just what is so special about your own FAMILY. If you'd like to tell us something special about your FAMILY, 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. 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.

I hope to see you back next week when voting will [hopefully] begin on the Top Picks for Challenge #97. There will be a separate post detailing those picks where you will have the opportunity to vote on the creation or post that you have found to be the most positive, inspirational or encouraging of the chosen picks.

Then, be sure to join us again on February 21st when we'll be back with our midway featuring more great projects.

If you ever have any questions be sure to EMAIL ME or just leave me a comment.

We look forward to seeing you participate!

Link Up Below:
If you have any problems linking up, please be sure to let me know by leaving a comment on this post.

Ch. #98--Anything Goes POSITIVE with the Opt. Twist of Celebrate Something Special about YOUR FAMILY
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 Feb. 7th until 11:59 p.m. (ET) on March 6th, 2022. 

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.

 

Big Changes for 2022...

Hello everyone. I hope that you are all doing well. Thank you so much for all the well wishes and prayers that have been left in regards to my parents. I am pleased to say that both are home and have started their journey back to health. Now they just need the time to get their strength back and of course deal with their other ongoing health issues. I truly appreciate your patience waiting for the challenge to return.

And with that, there will be some changes this year. These last few years, my mom and dad have had more health issues crop up or current ones exasperated. I too have a number of health issues. Most I am able to keep in check and others flare from time to time which affects the time I have available. These last two years I've been noticing that I've had less and less time to work on the computer. I can't imagine that this next year is going to be any different. Trying to maintain the challenge blogs that I do with the same degree of proficiency that I have in the past has become more and more difficult, and as a result, a lot more stressful. When I started out, creating these challenge blogs was supposed to be about connecting with others, keeping my mind active, and of course, having fun along the way. Unfortunately, the more stressed I become, the less joy I experience and it all is becoming a chore. 

 

I spent a lot of time during the second half of last year debating what to do with this challenge blog. It was the first challenge I created and at the time, there wasn't anything out there with the same concept of promoting Positivity. It actually spent its first month of existence over on my own personal blog before I developed its new home here. I couldn't bring myself to shut it down yet; so instead, for this year at least, I have made the decision to pare things back somewhat.

For the sake of my sanity, it is time to simplify things and make changes in an effort to reduce some of the time needed to take care of this blog. So, here are the changes that will be taking place this year:

• We will no longer have any guest sponsors. It takes a LOT of time to find and make arrangements to line up sponsors for this link up. Then, it takes even more time to get the team organized with images to use each challenge. Given the time factor, and the fact that less than a third of people ever write in to request their prize, I have decided to simply cut out guest sponsors. 
  
• There will no longer be a prize for the person chosen as our Most Inspirational.
  
• One random winner will win $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs.
• There will no longer be a prize for those chosen as our DT Delights.
  
• For the time being, team members will continue to leave a comment on your blog but that may very well change. I currently only have three team members and that is a lot of work for each of them to keep up with. If I am unable to obtain new members or lose any of the current ones, we may have to cut out comments. If this happens, I hope that you will all understand.
  

 

So, in summary, our challenges for 2022 will be as such:

• Each month we will have a link up with an Anything Goes theme listing an optional twist for fun if participants want to challenge themselves. Players can continue to enter any type of project they would like AS LONG AS IT IS POSITIVE. If you need to refresh yourself, you can check out the Challenge Details tab at the top of the blog as to what counts as a positive project.
  
• We will continue to choose Top Picks each challenge as long as we get a minimum of four entries (the number of top picks will depend on how many entries are linked up).
• We will continue to offer a badge for the Voter's Choice project.
  
• A badge will be offered to the person chosen as our Most Inspirational.
• One Random Winner will win $6 worth of images from Scribbles Designs.
• A badge will be offered to anyone chosen as a DT Delight. 
  

 ***Note: the various Honours & Prize offered will be dependent on the # of entries linked to the challenge.***

I hope that you can understand my need for the changes. Hopefully, with these adjustments in place, it will free up a bit of time so that I don't have to give up The Path of Positivity completely. It is my fond hope that you will continue to join us each month linking up any Positive Creations you may make. It is always a pleasure to see the incredible design ideas you come up with!

 

If everything goes according to plan, we will return on February 7th with the first challenge of the year! We hope to see you then!