10 Things I Love (favorite: food, movie, actor, meal, holiday/event, TV show, pet, color, toy, activity, restaurant.) - do this yearly for your kids things change fast in their lives

Accidentally on purpose

Against all Odds

All is calm all is bright.

...and a good time was had by all.

All that glitters

And I think to myself ... what a wonderful world

And now for something completely different!

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Attitude is everything!

Attitude of gratitude

Back to basics

The balance of power

A Basket Case (picture of someone up to their limit in kids, fun, animals, craziness)

BE
AMAZ
ING

Be yourself: everyone else is taken.

Because Nice Matters

Behind the clouds the sun is still shining - Longfellow

Behind the eight ball

Been there - done that

Blue Jeans and Barefoot

Born to be a half hour late! (clock die cut)

Born to be Wild! -Steppenwolf -1968 release

Born to Play (any instrument/game/sport)!

Born to Shop!

Born to (any craft or hobby)!

Born to (any sport move IE kick, run, rebound, score, volly)!

The Bottom Line

Brave Heart

Bright Idea!

Brighten Up My Day and Fill My Nights - Debbie Boone

By the time I could talk I was ordered to listen. --Cat Stevens

By the Numbers

Caught in the Middle

Celebrate

A change of Heart

Come on over and see me sometime. - Mae West

Coffee break

Cool It! / Chill out!

Creative Arts/ Endeavors

Dare to dream

Day Dream Believer (kids being creative or a beautiful day to dream)

Defy the Ordinary

Destination Imagination - Get ready... here we go!

A diamond in the rough

A diamond is forever

Don't rely on your memory - put it in a scrapbook.

Don't Worry. Be Happy.
Don't Worry, Be Happy Now! -Bobby McFarran

A drop in the bucket (car washscrubbing floors)

Earmarked

Enjoy Life - This is not a rehearsal

Enjoy the view

Escape to paradise/ heaven/ your dreams

Everyone Smiles in the Same Language

Everyone's entitled to a hissy-fit now and then.

Expect the Unexpected

EXTRA! EXTRA!! READ ALL ABOUT IT!

An eye for detail

The Eyes have it! (glasses/glowing eyes in the dark)

Eyes like a hawk!

Faith, Hope, Courage, Life, Love, Courage

Fall seven times; stand up eight - Japanese proverb

Find those quiet, out-of-the-way places to go and think.

Fo' Shizzle ma Nizzle! (also "fo' sheezy mah neezy" "I concur with you whole heartedly my African American brother -Snoop Dogg)

Fun-believable!!

Fun you can Flip over

Getting down to the Nitty Gritty

Glisten, Glimmer, Glitter and Gleam

Go with the flow

Going in circles

Good Clean Fun

Good Golly Miss Molly - Written by Robert Blackwell/John Marascalco

Good Things come in small packages

The Great Indoors

Hail Hail the gang's all here!

Hanging Out (monkeys)

Heads will turn

The Heat is ON

Hidden Agenda

Homemade Memories

Hope your day is filled with Love, smiles, and song!

Hot Diggity Dog (Ziggity Boom)

I am the pink flamingo on the great lawn of life.

I have a nose for news.

I heard it through the grape vine.

I was always early 'til I had kids.

I'm in shape. Round is a shape!!!

I'm in no shape to exercise.

I'm not a pack rat, I'm a collector.

I'm not busy I'm just multitasking.

I'm so far behind, I won't be able to die for another 100 years.

If at first you don't succeed try try again.

If at first you don't succeed get new batteries.

If you obey all the rules, you'll miss all the fun. - Katherine Hepburn

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.

Imagination (n.) 1. a creative ability 2.The act or power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality. The ability to confront and deal with a problem creatively.
Synonyms: creation, fantasy.

In the spot light

It's all muscle!

Jump for Joy

Laugh It Up!

Laughter is an instant vacation.

Laughter is the best medicine

Lego Construction Zone

Let the good times roll

Lickety Split (really fast) – I love old phrases, my family had a million of them.

Life in the fast lane

Life is a Journey

Life's little luxuries/pleasures.

Little acts of kindness - little acts of love - bring us just a bit of heaven from above

The Little Things Mean So Much

Live Long and Prosper -Spock (Star Trek)

Live well, Laugh often, Love much

Living Life on the Edge

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. - Albert Einstein

Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can adjust his sails.

May I have your attention please!

May your day be filled with sunshine

May your day bubble over with fun.

Memories and love tie our hearts together.

Moments to remember.

Monday Morning Motivating

Monday Morning Quarterbacks

Money Talks:
  USA and Canada -dollar, bucks, ching, moola, dough, green, greenbacks
  Britain - Pounds or Qid
  China - Yuan Renminbi
  Japan - Yen
  South Africa - Rand
  India - Rupees
  Israel - New Shekets
  Turkey - Liras
  Brazil - Reals
  Mexico and Argentina - Pasos
Europe - Euro

Mug Shots (friends at work or bad pictures of people)

National Treasures

Nose to the grind stone

Now you see it, Now you don't

Oh Piffle! (my grandmother)

Oh what a night -Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons

Old Stomping Grounds

Old time rock and roll -Bob Seager

Only dreamers can make dreams come true!!

On top of the World

Out of the box (moving - kids making things out of boxes.)

Out of this world

(person's name) and his/her magic bag of tricks

Picture Perfect

Picture this...

Piles of Smiles (a pile of leaves and/or kids laughing)

Play as you go plan

A pocket full of possibilities/memories

Pursuit of Happiness

Pushing the envelope

Put your best foot forward

Puzzling

Raise your expectations!

Razzmatazz

Razzle Dazzle!

Red Alert!!!

Rest and Relax It doesn't get much better than this!

Relax - Kick off your shoes - Put your feet up - Unwind

Relax, refresh, recharge, renew, revive, and rediscover yourself!

Scenic escape /view/getaway/journey

Scout It Out (boy or girl scouts / searching)

Scrapin' Happens / Having a Scrap Happening

Shenanigans (getting into trouble- my grandmother)

Share the moments - Share the life

Shuffle Up and Deal

Simple pleasures are life's greatest treasures.

Simplify

Sit and ponder, rest and dream, visit with me in between ...

Smiles to share/spare

Smiling hearts, Beautiful faces, Good times, Happy places!!

Sneak a Peek

Somewhere over the rainbow - Judy Garland

Streetwise

Stuck in the middle

Stuff and nonsense

STYLE

S'up ?

Superstar

Taking the same path

Thank you can be said so many different ways
   Afrikaans (Africa) - Dankie
   Arabic - Sukran
   Arabic - Shukran Gazillan (Thank you very much)
   Armenian - shur-nur-ah-gah-lem
   Australian - Thoinks, Moite!
   Bengali - Dhannyabad
   Bulgarian - Blagodaria
   Bosnia - Hvala
   Burma(Myanmar) - Jae Zu Din Pa De (Thank you)
   Cameroon (Duala) - Na som (thanks)
   Cameroon (Duala) - Na som djita (Thank you very much)
   Canada – Thanks ah!
   Cantonese - Do jey (sp? -- thank you for the gift) M'goy (sp? -- thank you for the service)
   Catalonia (catalan) - gràcies [grah'-si-es] estandard - moltes gràcies [many thanks]
   Catalonia (catalan) - merci [mer'-si] very colloquial
   Cherokee Nation - Wado (Thank you)
   Chinese (Mandarin) - Xie_Xie (shieh shieh)
   Chinese (Cantonese) Mh goi (m-ghoh-ee) (informal: thanks)
   Chinese (Cantonese) Do jeh (tou yeh) (formal: thanks)
   Cook Islander - Kia Manuia
   Croatia - Hvala
   Czech Dekuji (deh'-ku-yih)
   Danish - tak (tahg)
   Dutch - dank U wel (dahnk you well) (formal: thank you very much)
   English - Thanks awfully, old boy
   Estonia - Aitåh
   Ewe Togo (Africa) - Akpé (Appé) - Apké na wo (Thanks to you)
   Fijian - Vinaka
   Finnish - kiitos (kee'-toas)
   Fon Benin (Africa) - Kpè nu wé
   French - merci (mehr-see')
   French - Merci Madame/Mademoiselle/ Monsieur - Thanks (to a woman/young girl/ man)
   F.Y.R.O.M. (Macedonia) - Hvala
   Gambia (Mandinka) - Abarka
   German - Danke (dahn'-kuh)
   Greek - Efharisto (ef-har-ris-tou')
   Guarani - Aguije (ah-we-JAY) native indian language of Paraguay and Western Brazil
   Guinea (Mandinka) - Abarka
   Gujarathi (India) - Aabar
   Hawaiian - Mahalo
   Hebrew - Toda (toh-dah') - Toda raba (thank you very much)
   Hindi (India National Language) - Dhan-ya-vaad
   Hindi - Syukriya
   Hungarian - Köszönöm (kuh'-suh-nuhm)
   Indonesian - Terima kasih (teh-ri-mah kah-sih)
   Indonesian - Terima Kasih Banjak/Banyak (Both pronounced bunyuk - Thank you very much)
   Irish - Go Raibh Maith Agat (Pronounced Go - Rev - Meela - Maw - Agut)
   Irish (Northern) - Nice one bro'r, or Cheers mucker!
   Italian - Grazie (grahts'-yeh) Grazie tanto (many thanks - cordial version) Mille Grazie (a thousand thanks)
   Japanese - Arigato (ah-ree-gah'-toh) or A_Lea_Ga_Tou_Go_Zai_Ma_Su
   Japanese - Domo arrigato
   Javanese - Matur nuwun
   Jive - Thanks mon - Appropriate only if directed to a male
   Kannada (India) - Dhan-ya-vaadaa (spoken in S India, in Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India.)
   Korean - Kamsa hamaida (kam'-sah hum-nee-dah' )
   Latvian - Paldies
   Lithuanian - Achu
   Luganda (Uganda) - Waybale (Thank you) - Waybale Nyo (Thank you very much)
   Malayalam (South Indian Language) - Nandi
   Malayalam (India) - Nani
   Malaysian - Terima Kasih ("Tay ree ma Kaa seh")
   Mali (Mandinka) - Abarka
   Mandinka - Abarka (language of West Africa; The Gambia, Senegal, Guinea and Mali)
   Maori - Kia Manuia
   Nepali -- (Nepal National Language) - Dhan-ya-vaad
   New Zealand - Cheers - LOL
   New Zealand - Kiaora Koe - Kiaora Korua - Kiaora Koto - Kiaora Tatou - Maori
   Norwegian - Takk (tahkk)
   Oman - Shakkran
   Palauan - soolong (Republic of Palau)
   Paraguay (Guarani) - Aguije (ah-we-JAY)
   Persian/Farsi - Mam'noon or Mo'teshake'ram (Spoken in Iran, Afghanistan and other Central Asian countries)
   Philippines Tagalog - Salamat
   Philippines - Maraming Salamat (thank you very much)
   Polish - Dziekuje (dsyehn-koo-yeh)
   Portuguese - Obrigada (Female) - Obrigado (Male) (oh-bree-gah'-doh)
   Portuguese - Muito Obrigado (Thank you very much) - Muito Obrigado com Voce (have my personal thanks)
   Punjabi [ Pakistan and India] - Bhala Hove
   Qatar - Shakkran
   Romanian - Multumesc (phonetic: mooltzoomeask)
   Romanian - Va multumim frumos (great thanks)
   Russian - Spasiba (spah-see'-boh) - Blagodaryu (a little official)
   Russian - Premnogo blagodaren (my greater thanks - words said to bosses by workers)
   Russian - Spasibo balshoye (big thanks)
   Samoan - Fa'afetai (fah-ah-feh-ta-e - thank you) - Fa'afetai tele lava (Thank you very much)
- Talofa
   Saulteaux Indians (Manitoba, Canada) - Miigwech (meegweech) -- there are similar spellings in other native languages such as Cree, etc.
   Scottish - Cheers
   Scot's Gaelic (Informal) - Tapadh Leat (tah-puh let) (Formal) - Tapadh Leibh (tah-puh lave)
   Scot's Gaelic (Many Thanks) - Moran Taing
   Senegal (Mandinka) - Abarka
   Serbo - Croat -Hvala
   Slovakia Dakujem (deh'-ku-yem)
   South Africa - Dankie - Baie Dankie (thanks very much)
   Spanish - Gracias (grah'-syas) - Muchas gracias (thank you very much)
   Sundanese - Nuhun
   Sunda - Hatur Nuhun
   Swahili - Ahsante (ah-sahn'-teh)- Ahsante Sana (Thank you very much)
   Swedish - Tack (tahkk) - Tack så mycket
   Tahitian - Maururu
   Tamil (India) - Nandri ("Nun-dry" spoken in South India, Singapore, Malaysia)
   Teenager – (you're kidding right)
   Telungu (South Indian Language)- Manjuthe
   Thai - Khob Khun Kha (Feminine) - Khob Khun Krab (Masculine)
   Tibetan - Thuk Ji Chhe
   Turkish - Tesekkurler ( teh-sheh-keur eh-deh-rim) (thanks) - Çok tesekkur ederim (big thanks)
   Turkish - Saðol (thank you) - Saðolun (thank you - "saol")
   United States - Thank You, Thank you so much (South) - Thanks y'all
   Ukranian - Dyakuyu
   Urudu (India) - Shukria
   Urdu (Pakistan) - Shukria
   Urdu [Pakistan, India and Bangla Desh] - Maherbani
   Uzbekistan (Uzbek) - Rahmat (Thanks)
   Uzbekistan (Uzbek) - Katta Rahmat (Thanks a lot)
   Vietnamese - Kam ouen
   Wales/Cymru - Diloch yn fawr (thank you very much)
   Wales/Cymru - Diolch (thanks)
   Xhosa (Africa) - Nkosi
   Yemen - Shakkran
   Yoruba - Modupe
   Yugoslavia Hvala
   Zulu - Ngiyabonga
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... this is the day of good tidings ... -II Kings

This is the moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for what is right. - Bono (b.1960 rock singer in U2, peace and feed the world activist)

Thoughts of you make me smile.

Tickled Pink

'Til the end of time

To everything there is a season

Trivia is not trivial

Turbo Charged

Two wild and crazy guys/girls/boys/animals (Steve Martain, Dan Akroid - Saturday Night Live)

Two thumbs up

Unforgettable

Uptown Saturday night

Wake up call

Walk on the wild side

Warning! Warning! / Danger! Danger!

Waste Not, Want Not

We are always the same age inside.

We should do this more often.

We will place flowers at your feet

We're in this together.

What part of Y'all Don't you Understand??

What's fun got to do with it?

What's on your mind?

Where no one has gone before.

Where there's a will there's a why!

Whimsical / Whimsy

Window shopping

Write you sorrows in the sand and your blessings in stone.

You make my day my week and my year.

You can't scare me, ... I'm a teacher
... I'm a nurse. (any occupation)
... I have a two year old.
... I have a teenager. (I have 3 teenagers.)

You make my day my week and my year.

You're as young as you feel, and today I feel 110 1/2.

Your kindness has touched my heart.

Tips
--If you use any of the puzzle or collage layouts, cute sayings could be typed or written in the blank areas.
--My family has thousands of "cute"/"dumb" sayings that have been passed down over the years. We sat with a tape recorder running last Thanksgiving and tried to recall as many as possible. In fact my family e-mailed me for weeks later when other sayings popped into their heads. These silly sayings have crept into our daily lives and put the color into our conversation. They need to be preserved. (e.g. My aunt used to call a purse her "pot-i-boot" that she kept her "cent-es" in.)
--If you have any more ideas please pass them on. suggest@scrapsayings.com