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100 Happy Days – Day 62

Today’s happiness is brought to you by a joyful wave of phone calls, cards, gifts, and good wishes from family and friends as Peter and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary. That’s a pretty fabulous milestone to reach, I’d say, and most definitely happy-making! [continue reading…]

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100 Happy Days – Day 61

Today has been rather blah. Oh, it wasn’t bad or anything – just dull and boring and uneventful. What I’m really happy about at this moment is the fact that we’re meeting up with our trivia team later this evening – but since I can’t exactly take a photo of [continue reading…]

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Tangled Tuesday No. 28 + 100 Happy Days – Day 60

Today’s happiness is brought to you by a long-awaited, tangling-related, makes-me-elated milestone: Ten Thousand Tangles now – finally – includes a Zenletter Collection featuring my tangled alphabet series!
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Today’s happiness is brought to you by an afternoon date with myself: a leisurely walk through newly-streetscaped Old Walkerville (a nice way to take advantage of the good weather while it lasts!), followed by some time with my current read while [continue reading…]

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Today’s happiness is brought to you by a “getting organized for 2015” session with my Filofax, some personally-customized weekly checklists printed on full-sheet labels, and the little $3.00 paper cutter I picked up a few months ago at the dollar store [continue reading…]

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100 Happy Days – Day 57

You might think that it’s a blogging challenge (or nightmare, depending on who you are!) to commit to writing and posting something every single day – and yes, some days it certainly can be. But truthfully, I find that it’s a far bigger struggle – to me, anyway – [continue reading…]

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Photo Friday: Blissful + 100 Happy Days – Day 56

Photo Friday

Well, I’m afraid that today’s post is going to be overwhelmingly Oscar-centric (are you sick and tired of seeing photos of my cats yet?!). Thing is, when I read this week’s Photo Friday prompt word – blissful – I immediately thought of our fluffy boy, who is [continue reading…]

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100 Happy Days – Day 55

As a bit of background to today’s post, the company I work for in Victoria recently did a major upgrade of their phone system – and in doing so they were given a bunch of added capabilities, one of which was the option of connecting [continue reading…]

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100 Happy Days – Day 54

Today’s happiness is brought to you by several delightful little things: waking up to adorable “nose boops” from Felix… finding out that my photo of the day from yesterday was highlighted in the “Extraordinary Eight” on the FMS Photo A Day Facebook Group[continue reading…]

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Tangled Tuesday No. 27 + 100 Happy Days – Day 53

Today’s happiness is brought to you by a childhood breakfast favourite: crisp, buttered toast sprinkled with a blend of cinnamon and sugar – while the toast is still hot, of course, so that the mixture melts into the butter and saturates everything with [continue reading…]

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Today’s happiness is brought to you by my tangling supplies, specifically a brand new pad of Strathmore 6″ x 6″ Artist Tiles which I picked up last week and am finding incredibly inspirational. They’re so nice to work with – a little bigger than the standard [continue reading…]

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Today’s happiness is brought to you by a slow, winding drive along Riverside and a quiet walk in the park on a gorgeous autumn afternoon. The trees are unspeakably lovely at this time of year, ranging in colour from crimson to copper to gold to bronze, [continue reading…]

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Well, I’m now exactly halfway through my own personal 100 Happy Days challenge – can you believe it?! The time is simply flying by!

Today’s happiness is brought to you by Inbox Zero. It’s been one of those weeks [continue reading…]

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Photo Friday: Brightly Lit + 100 Happy Days – Day 49

Photo Friday

My response to today’s Photo Friday “Brightly Lit” prompt is actually a two-fer. Initially I had one photo in mind, then as I was searching for it I came across another that I thought seemed particularly appropriate, so in the end when I couldn’t choose [continue reading…]

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100 Happy Days – Day 48

Today there is cause for a milestone celebration in my little corner of the blogosphere, as this is – wait for it – the 1,000th post I’ve shared with you, my readers, since opening Alphabet Salad in August, 2009! I’m pretty lousy at math, but [continue reading…]

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100 Happy Days – Day 47

Today? I’ve got nothing to offer. NOTHING. In fact, I think I’m in a deficit when it comes to cheerfulness and positivity, because things just aren’t so very much fun around here these days (and are unlikely to improve in any meaningful way until after [continue reading…]

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Tangled Tuesday No. 26 + 100 Happy Days – Day 46

As a sort of continuation of yesterday’s post, today’s happiness is brought to you by the satisfaction of a fun job completed – in this case, dividing all the goodies I bought and distributing them among 80 little treat bags, ready to be handed out [continue reading…]

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