One Word

like photos? yeah? ....like taking photos? yeah? woo hooooo!

you should check out The One Word Project at Shutter Sisters. each month One Word is chosen & open for visual interpretation by readers of Shutter Sisters.

march's word was Beautiful, and the photos in this stream are so very lovely. i can't wait to see what april's Word will be!

here's how to play:

take a photo that you feel embodies the Word of the month, then add it to the new Shutter Sisters One Word Project Flickr pool. Be sure to tag your photo with the word of the month, the name of the month and OWP. each day, one photo is featured on the One Word Project page.

a peaceful day to you. ♥ Pin It

Take Courage

Sarah Gardner on Etsy



Sara Gardner on Flickr

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Printable Peace Blocks

Download & Print:
Kind Over Matter Printable Peace Blocks



Give them, keep them, stack them, enjoy them! Pin It

Let's Spend the Day in Bed

Under the Apple Tree Bed by AITO DESIGN


We'll Get Stoned on Love




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It's Easy

Pablo Marx on Flickr

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Earth laughs in flowers

Make these. Give them to someone you love, a friend, lover, co-worker, leave them on a neighbor's door step w/ note or not or make them for yourself, because you deserve them.

1. Paper Flower Tutorial

2. Pom Pom Flower Tutorial

3. Simple White Paper Flower Tutorial

4. Origami Cherry/Sakura Blossoms Tutorial




I made a half-dozen of the first tutorial in yellow a few weeks ago, enjoyed them & then gave them to my aunt because I know she adores yellow roses. It felt nice to do. Try it

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mend & make do

by Paula Mills


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Giveaway Thursday #2

So!! We are hoping this will become a trend:

Giveaway Thursday!

This is our second giveaway & we are so pleased. We would love to continue to give away these amazing reminders to be positive, be kind, calm, believe in yourself, do good & most importantly love one another. I'll admit, I remind myself several times a day to breathe, to open myself up to peacefulness, patience & passion. Through my life, different phases of it, those things came easily, naturally, there was very little work involved, it was almost zen-like. Right now, as I'm sure many people feel the same way with the economy crisis, the shape mother earth is in on top of your daily struggles as a human being, it's hard to stay positive, to be a light. Sometimes you need to remind yourself to practice peace. Sometimes you just need to be reminded.

Michelle from My Zoetrope was so kind to agree to give away one of her prints from her Love & Peace Series to one of our readers. Anyone that knows me well knows I am silly & love being a total goof, Michelle's work is just that, silly, in the good way of course! I just love it! Thank you Michelle!

Find Michelle here:

Etsy
Site
Blog
Twitter

How to Enter:

COMMENTS ARE CLOSED!!!

Visit My Zoetrope, come back & comment here telling us which print from her Love & Peace Series you'd like to have if you win. Please Leave your Email Address too!

The Winner will be drawn randomly on Thursday 4.02.09.

Bonus Entries:

If you do any of the following let us know by leaving a separate comment for each one you do. If you do any of the following already, let us know in an extra comment. Remember to make a 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc comment if you do any of the following or your entries won't count! I know it's a bit confusing but it's the only way to stay organized when I count the entries after the a random is picked! If you have any questions please email us!

For Bonus Entries you can:

1. Follow our blog.
2. Follow me on Twitter & Tweet about this giveaway.
3. Join our Flickr Pool.
4. Join our Facebook Group.
5. Purchase something from My Zoetrope & make THREE extra comments.

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Sparkle Power Print Winner

Heidi Jo from Crooked Shmooked!

CONGRATULATIONS!





The above print from Sparkle Power will be living in her home soon!

Thank you, to Candace for being so kind to donate her lovely work & to all of you that entered!

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NYC: peace to you

"Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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DIY Be Kind Banner!

Download: Kind Over Matter Be Kind Banner - PDF

Just print, cut, punch & string!!!

All you need is:

A color printer
Cardstock or regular paper (I prefer cardstock!)
Scissors
A hole punch
Ribbon, lace or string

Click here for a tutorial!



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thank you, you are lovely!

We'd like to thank the above people for believing & posting about our project! Their banners are clickable, go visit them!

If we forgot you please, please send us your link, along with your banner, we'd love to give you some love in our next gratitude post.

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NYC: a little kindness can go a long way

hi, everyone! sorry for being so quiet as of late -- i went up to NYC for a few days, and am just getting back into the swing of things. i did a few card drops while i was away and will be posting the last of those photos over the next couple of days.

i have SO much fun leaving the cards in random places for people to find, i hope that a card is found, it brightens that person's day.

have you left any cards for someone to find? take pictures and
e-mail them to us! we would LOVE to share your acts of kindness with everyone.

a beautiful weekend to each of you.

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The Bright Side Project

THE BRIGHT SIDE PROJECT

In case you've been living under blog rock... I kid. :) BUT if you haven't seen what Tristan has done over there, you better skip on over, it's so beautiful. There is a giveaway EVERYDAY! I was lucky enough to be part The Bright Side Project I, chock-full of amazing art. The Bright Side Project II has been all about the accessories & III will be "Eco-Luxurious offerings."

I was also lucky enough to win this print from the fabulous Fieryeyed Photography, every time I look at it, it brightens my day knowing all the good that is going on over there, all the giving going on even through these turbulent times.

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Giveaway Thursday!

We are excited to announce Kind Over Matter's first giveaway!

Candace from Sparkle Power kindly agreed to give away one of her Daily Affirmation Prints to one of our Kind readers. I've admired her shop for some time, so this is a real treat! Thank you Candace!

Candace says this about her LET'S GO ON THIS WAY Print, Sometimes you have to take a look around you and say to yourself, "If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."

& about her EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT Print she says, "The way they talk on the news, it's a wonder the sky doesn't start falling the minute you open your eyes. This print will remind you that in the end, it will all be okay."

I couldn't agree more.

Make sure to visit her lovely blog & her husband's shop as well.


How to Enter:

Comments are now closed, winner to be announced soon! Thanks Candace & everyone for participating!

Visit Sparkle Power, come back here & comment on this entry telling us which Daily Affirmation Print you'd like to have if you win.

The Winner will be drawn randomly on Thursday 3.26.09, enter by midnight to qualify.

Good Luck!
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NYC: action -- love

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
-- Mother Teresa

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Affirmations

by Sparkle Power

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by S. Tudyk

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by Lot Nine Press

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by Suspect Shoppe

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The HumanKind Project

From The HumanKind Project:

Imagine a kindness movement that grows. Local. National. Global. A ripple effect of good old-fashioned decency. A culture of pay-it-forward goodwill to all people. It's simple. It's fast. It costs nothing. You get
to feel good. Everyone wins. And it's what makes us human.

The HumanKind Project, where one unprovoked act of kindness inspires the next. Pin It

Meet Me There

r.e.e.m on flickr


THERE IS A RIVER | S.A. Griffin

there is a cheerful ignorance
a chance meeting and
luck like gold that cannot be
mined or
stolen

a common atom

a dance

and stars that trick the
water with their
certain
magic

do not wash your wars in it
take your holy rituals to the
precious fountains built by your
agencies of fear

press your
wine from the fallout
and drink your
bitter victory

for yes

there is a river
a giving river that will
sing you safely

a river of
light

final
fast
and
free

where you can
disrobe
and leave your casual sadness
walking sideways at the
shore

meet me there
whoever you are
and we will agree to
swim it
together




S.A. says: "many people are losing their jobs and wondering what they are going to do with their lives and families, these are unique and rough times; a reflection of the tremendous national and global flux that has been driving all. we're taking direct hits too, nobody is really safe. however, the earth, and we too, shall abide. kindness matters."

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Kind Over Matter Books

DOWNLOAD:

Click & Save, instructions are below:
Kind Over Matter Mini-Book One PDF



Julie from Your Secret Admiral was kind enough to let us use her lovely bookmaking technique.
Please check out her shop, she makes beautiful books!

Below is a video that was used in the Etsy's Storque for How-Tuesday. After you Download the above PDF you will have to watch the video to learn how to fold your book, it's so neat!



After you make your book, you can carry one with you as a reminder to yourself, you can make a bunch & spread them around, or give one to a friend. Do whatever you wish!

We hope to put together more of these little lights in the future!

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let the sun shine in

Slide Sideways on Etsy


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Operation Nice

Operation Nice on Etsy

Operation Nice

Don't you love it when people go out of their way to be nice? Like when someone waits to hold the door for you. Or when a stranger waves you into a line a traffic. Or even when a coworker shoots you a friendly smile along with a "have a nice day." If everyone was a little bit nicer to the folks they encountered each day, perhaps the world would be a more pleasant place. Operation NICE was initiated to remind you that a little NICE goes a long way.

Visit Melissa from Operation Nice today! Pin It

Feed Your Soul: the free art project

Feed Your Soul : the free art project

Feed Your Soul is a free art project. Each month artists are invited to participate and to contribute a print which is totally free and available for download.

This project is coordinated by Jen Wallace of Indie Fixx to help art lovers feed their souls with art in these recessionary times and to help artists promote their work. Pin It

The Free Encouragement Project

Booooooom x Design for Mankind's Free Encouragement Project

Visit their Etsy Shop to purchase one of their a postcard packs

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because somebody somewhere loves you

you are remarkable

from the mission:

plain and simple, the mission is: to spread big or small bits of love and things that make you smile and laugh, little bits of unexpected happiness and affirmation. we believe in feeling good and spreading it; we want everyone everywhere to know that somebody somewhere loves you. because you are amazing in all your strange and wonderful ways.

this blog always brings a smile to my lips&heart, i hope that it gives you that as well.

also, i made my first batch of cards! please check 'em out, download, and spread the latest bunch of Kind Over Matter cards all around -- click here to download&save.

...or make your own, hide them for people to find, and be sure to e-mail us the pictures so we can put them up.

get crazy. get creative. write what you'd love someone to say to you. be outrageous. spread joy. open your heart. know that you will bring light to someone's life. trust your Self. believe in your beauty and strength. share that. and above all -- be kind.

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inspiration

Chris Zahner on Flickr

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pecannoot & things we forget

jess gonacha on etsy

i've been lovin' on jess gonacha's work for a while, soo bright, colorful, positive, i just adore it! she recently started up a new blog called, pecannoot : make every day abundant where she says:

"we think in pictures. we all have desires and dreams. we all feel discouraged sometimes. what better way to lift our spirits and bring our dreams into being than through pictures? this blog is for that. it's for me and for you, so we can paint and draw and photograph and collage our abundant reality! i want your images to be on this blog-- create something special, or send something that you've already made-- if it's aligned with the theme of abundance, i want to see it and help you share it with the world!"

The art that has been submitted there rocks my socks. I just love her work & this blog, please visit it!

In one of her most recent posts she shares with us a project find of hers called: Things We Forget. Someone in Singapore is leaving illustrated Post-It notes in public places, you MUST check this out!



Things We Forget

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the seagull tells a story

jennaflee

"I don't understand how you manage to love a mob of birds that just tried to kill you."

"Oh, Fletch, you don't love that! You don't love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That's what I mean by love. It's fun, when you get the knack of it.

-- from richard bach's jonathan livingston seagull

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i love cards (dot) org

I received my I Love You Cards today in the mail!

They are gorgeous, I can't wait to start placing them places. The first one is going to be slipped into my love's lunch tote this afternoon. I have to make a run into town for printer ink tomorrow morning, I will be stickin' them everywhere! You can too, by visiting the site!



The first batch she sent out was made up of 25,000 cards.
Isn't that wonderful?!



Please help her by donating, even if it's only a dollar! Pin It

leave your mark

Download our Kind Over Matter Fortune Cookies & leave them places for strangers to find.

Our lovely friend Amanda from modern Acorn says, "If I ever found a little paper cookie like that in a store, I'd die."
Check out her beautiful shop & blog, she is VERY kind to mother earth!

You don't even have to make these or any one of our downloads, write out your own!
Leave an inspirational note, quote or one kind word like, "Smile!" behind for someone to find.

If you happen to catch a photo of one of your drops Email them to us!

Brighten someone's day... today! Pin It