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Plastic Bottle Mailgrams. Originally posted on March 10, 2004.

Plastic Bottle Mailgrams

Revised on August 20, 2008. In many online groups, mailings to test the post office are quite popular. People will mail all manner of unwrapped items to each other, just to see if the post office will send them through. In my first naked mail experience, I sent these plastic bottle mailgrams filled with altered art goodies to some folks on Alterations. I’m sorry to say that the clerk at my post office didn’t even blink when I started placing these bottles on the counter—a week earlier, a lady had come in with an armload of baby bottles she was mailing out as birth announcements. Here’s how I put them together: Start with a clean, dry plastic bottle. Since I was mailing to other artsy types, I filled mine with collage goodies.

The roll expanded inside the bottle. I wanted to include one piece of finished artwork—in this case, a domino pendant on a cord. I used the stick to move the plastic bag around to the center of the bottle. 119 Journal Prompts for Your Journal Jar. There are a myriad of benefits to journaling, and everyone should consider keeping a journal.

119 Journal Prompts for Your Journal Jar

However, one of the obstacles that people face when they want to pick up the practice of journaling is that they don’t know what to write about. In this post you’ll discover 119 journal prompts to help you get started in keeping a journal, or as additional inspiration for dedicated journalers. I recommend that you do the following: Get a beautiful jar–it can be a canning jar, a mason jar, or any other jar you have in the house.Print out the prompts below on slips of paper.Place the slips of paper in the jar.Reach into your jar each day as you prepare to write in your journal and take out one of the prompts.Set your timer anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes, depending on how much time you have available for journaling.Write anything that comes to mind as you read each prompt and elaborate on each point as much as you can. Below you’ll find 119 journal prompts for your journal jar. Sunday Scribblings.

Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100. The List of 100 is a powerful technique you can use to generate ideas, clarify your thoughts, uncover hidden problems or get solutions to any specific questions you’re interested in.

Tackle Any Issue With a List of 100

The technique is very simple in principle: state your issue or question in the top of a blank sheet of paper and come up with a list of one hundred answers or solutions about it. “100 Ways to Generate Income”, “100 Ways to be More Creative” or “100 Ways to Improve my Relationships” are some examples. “One hundred entries?

Isn’t that way too many?” Bear with me: it’s exactly this exaggeration that makes the technique powerful. When starting your list you may believe that there’s no way to get it done. Unlike the related Idea Quota tool — whose primary goal is to acquire the habit of coming up with ideas — the goal of a List of 100 is to take your mind by surprise. Ground Rules There are only two simple principles to keep in mind when making Lists of 100: 1. 80 Fun Questions to Ask Friends - Random, Funny Question List. I offer the following fun questions to ask friends to anyone who’s looking for something to talk about.

I’ve categorized them into 8 different categories. Pick and choose the questions you like, and avoid the questions which might be too intimate or uncomfortable for you. Fun Questions About Movies to Ask Friends Everyone watches movies these days, so here are some fun questions to ask you friends about the movies. What’s your favorite movie of all time and why? What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen? Fun Questions to Ask Friends About TV Even more people watch tv than go to the movies. A Goldmine of Journal Writing Prompts. The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World represent great works of ancient times that embody the best of mythology, religion, art, power, science and beauty.

A Goldmine of Journal Writing Prompts

They are, in chronological order: The Great Pyramid of GizaThe Hanging Gardens of BabylonThe Statue of Zeus at OlympiaThe Temple of Artemis at EphesusThe Mausoleum of Maussollos at HalicarnassusThe Colossus of RhodesThe Lighthouse of Alexandria Sadly only the Pyramid at Giza is still standing today, the others all having been destroyed by natural disaster. You can read more about the Seven Wonders at Wikipedia. What are the seven wonders of your life? List them out and write about what makes them a wonder for you. [Image courtesy of the stock.xchng]