Laundry Room Quotes

When I was looking for a cute quote to put up in my laundry room, I found a bunch of them but it took some searching on Pinterest to find some and they all were the same ones. So, to help out in your search for some different quotes, here are four different ones that you could use!  

They were all created using a Silhouette machine (but a Cricut would work just as well) and cut out with different  colors of vinyl.  Hope you like them.  Thank you to our cousin Janelle for creating them and sharing your projects with us!

Someone We Love is in Heaven

Do you know someone who has lost a loved one and you want to give them a special gift but don't want to send flowers?  Here is a lovely quote that someone gave to us when we lost our son.  I love reading it and knowing that we have a little angel looking over us.

Recently, some friends lost a baby and knowing how much I loved this quote, I made them a frame with the quote in it.  I was able to find the quote in the Silhouette store for only $0.99 and that dollar was worth my time of trying to create it myself.  Since I was mailing this gift, I didn't want to put it on a tile because I was worried that it would break.  So, I sized it to a 5x7 and printed it off on some print scrapbook paper and in about five minutes I was done.

"Because someone we love is in Heaven, there is a little bit of Heaven in our home."

Adjust your Sails: New Year's Quote Friday

Story time:  I have a friend who loves to sail, who once shared a profound insight about this passion of his.  He said, in essence, when you get into a boat you pick a point on the horizon and then you move towards it, adjusting the sails and using the currents and your knowledge of the ship and sailing to get you there.  You don't step into the boat without any goal, and then just sit there in the harbor and see where the wind and waves will take you.  They may take you no where.  They may thrash you against the shore or rocks, or they may move you far out to sea and get you lost or too far from resources.  If you don't adjust your sails, steer your rudder, and step out with purpose, you are missing the entire point of the sailing.  Also, these things that without purpose and a goal can be destructive, can actually be the forces that help get you to your destination if you let them be, and if you harness them as you are meant to, to get you where you want to go.

With it being a bright new year, I thought I'd share a quote that encompasses a small portion of this sentiment, that serves as a good reminder for a goal I hope to have this coming year, whatever comes (and let's hope all good things).  This is also a great quote for an office wall, or framed somewhere in your home as a reminder to keep attitudes adjusted to whatever comes.

We can't direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.  We can't control everything that will go on around us or in the world, but we can choose our attitude, and how we allow that "wind" to move us--either to a directed goal, or further from it, or to no-where in particular at all.  I can harness the winds and waves, or let them move me at their will.  I don't know about you, but I'd rather act that be acted upon.  I'd rather be in control of what I can.  And my attitude it something that I can control.  And my desire to learn from experiences.  Here's to great ones this year!

Quote Friday: Live with Gratitude

This quote comes as one more on gratitude, after having spent a wonderful Thanksgiving among friends and family yesterday.  It comes from a speech, and right before this quote Thomas S. Monson shares a wonderful story of one Gordon Green, found in a Reader's Digest in 1956.  Thomas S. Monson paraphrases and quotes from that story, and I thought I'd share it with you all, in the spirit of Thanksgiving. :)  Enjoy:

Friday Quote: Gratitude

:) Good reminder.  Happy almost Thanksgiving.  What are you grateful for?

Quote Friday: Giving Service

"Do for others with no desire of returned favors. 

We all should plant some trees we'll never sit under."

Oh how I love this quote--for so many reasons.  Beyond the wisdom of these words, and for an application fitting this blog's purposes, I can see this quote being placed on some scrapbook pages of service, of a grandfather or grandmother teaching a child a skill, of a Boy Scouts leader teaching something, etc.  Hope you can find a good use for it in your scrapbooking or home.

Quote Friday: Whittier's Autumn

"The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.” 
― John Greenleaf Whittier"

What a beautiful sentiment.  Perfect for a scrapbook page filled with your beautiful Fall photos.  

In the mountains back West we'd take a drive through the canyon to see all the beautiful Fall colors. Now, living out East, I can see them just stepping out my front door.  (However, I still love to take drives now and then to see them uninterrupted by houses and telephone poles.)  

What a gorgeous earth on which we live.

Friday Quote- Beautiful Fall

I love this time of year and all the beautiful fall colors.   So, when I saw this quote I knew it was perfect for our Friday quote today.  This quote would be cute on a sign in your house, on a picture of fall leaves (with or without family in it) that you have, or even on a card you are making for someone.

Friday Quote-Day: All Time Favorite

So Friday came and went, and I completely let the day slide without posting our quote for the day.  Seeing as how I was at my sister's wedding reception, I decided a quote about "love"  would be appropriate to share.  Smile. :)

Yeah.  Pretty much. :)

Friday Quote-Day: Watching the Clock

I can see this on a sign posted by a clock in the office (or made with vinyl on the clock itself). ;)  (Except, we all love our jobs, so it wouldn't be true, right?) :)

Friday, Quote Day: Charged with opportunity

So very true, though often can be so very hard to see.

This message/quote would be great to send to a friend or co-worker, to put on a card to a recent grad at a new job, etc.

Quote Friday: Today is a great day for laughing

Guess I just put the whole quote in the title of this post, huh?  :)  Well, easier for you to find, my friends.

Here it is, one more time, just because:

"Today is a great day for laughing."

This is a great quote to have up somewhere in your house as a reminder to enjoy life and to laugh at the small things--to keep a smile on your face!  

(For instance, when my sisters and I were taking the above picture and I was somehow the only one who missed the fact that something funny had happened.  When we saw the picture later, we were all laughing.)

Quote Friday

Being in the scrapbooking, card-making, and crafting business, I am often looking for the perfect quote or tag line to add to my page, card, sign, etc.  I think we can all relate in some degree. Sometimes, a simple word or phrase will do to capture the sentiment I want to get across,

or to tag the feeling or event.

Other times, I want a fun phrase to serve as label or decoration,

or a quote that fits perfectly to a room or friend. 

Often, this entails a lot of searching for inspiration, for that thing that fits "just right" with what I'm feeling for that craft.  For instance, when I was making a Father's Day card for my Dad this year, I wanted something a little silly but that also expressed gratitude.  I came across a card that read: "Well done, Dad!  I'm awesome."  I went with that :) (and then went on to tell him all the ways his example had helped shape me into being so, of course).  

In the spirit of that search, we thought we'd start sharing some sort of quotation/phrase with you each week.  I'm doing a similar thing on my personal blog as a means of just keepin' up that inspiration, or that smile.  These will be great things to pin to pinterest for that time when you just may need them. So, here's hopin' they inspire you and your crafting, or help you with that perfect tag-line for a card or scrapbook page.  They'll be quick, but we hope you like them and keep checking back each week.  Have a favorite of your own that you've seen or used?  Please share it with our readers as a comment on this post!  We all thank you now. :)

So, to get us going with an auspicious start, I stopped by a local diner today and saw this saying on the wall:  

Love supporting small businesses, and the fact that they usually have such personality. Thanks for the quote idea, HoneyDip Donuts & Diner! Crafters--have fun with that one. Now go each a donut cheeseburger. (Actually on the menu there.)

*Note:  If you are interested, each of the images above, minus the last sign, are from previous posts we've shared on this blog, which give descriptions of how-to's and font styles.