It’s a #BringBackPaper day! A day to think about all thing papery, oh, and just a quick reminder that the book swap is running for all of this month, too, so still time to get involved with that one. Today I’m sharing with you a guest post from Julie Slater and Son, encouraging you to get happy with your scribblings and there’s a rather lovely give-away, too….
#EmbraceHappy is a concept you might have seen floating about on social media (started by blogger Karin Joyce – www.embracehappy.com ). Basically it consists of taking 3 things from your day which have made you happy and well embracing them. We have such a tendency to concentrate on the negative aspects of our day and these thoughts can be all consuming effecting our moods and personality. Taking the positives from each day no matter how small is proven to change your mood and pure out look on life.
Start a happy notebook
Writing these things down can be very therapeutic and a good outlet. It also gives you a lovely memory to flick through on those days when finding a happy place can be a bit more difficult. The size of the notebook is really up to you, Julie Slater and Son provide a wide range of notebooks sure to suit everyone’s taste. They come in 4 sizes with either plain pages, for the artistic among us, and feint ruled, for those of us a bit more OCD! These notebooks also boast their own pencil held on with elastic strap so you can jot your happy thoughts on the go!
Use it like a scrapbook
Don’t just use words, add photographs, doodles, newspaper clipping, cinema tickets. Be creative it’s your happy space!
Involve the children
This is a great activity to do as a family too. You could sit down once a week and list, doodle, stick in treasures from all the happy moments you have shared.
Keeping a happy notebook is scientifically proven to have huge positive impacts upon your life. It’s also free (bar the initial notebook outlay of £12.95) so what is stopping you from embracing a happier life?
Julie Slater and Son is a family run business in Hertfordshire. Specialising in quirky bags & fashion accessories all designed by Julie and her team. Julie’s favourite pastime is dog agility classes with her mischievous lurcher. She says they both need plenty of practice! You can find them over on Facebook and Twitter, too.
And now one of my lucky readers will win one of these pretty notebooks, too, and can start their very own ‘happy notebook’…
To be in with a chance of winning a medium notebook with plain pages, simply enter using the rafflecopter below. Competition closes at 12am 9th April 2015, open to UK entrants only. Good luck!
Do you keep a happy notebook?
Purple for me because in the words of that poem, “I shall grow old disgracefully and I will wear purple”..Me to a tee.!!
Purple please
The bright blue! Love this idea, I do something similar but just with words so would be good to use it more as a scrap book 🙂
I’d have to go for the bright green one please, it might make it easier to spot when I inevitably out it down somewhere and forget it!
Pink! I love pink!
I’m loving the purple. Very useful x
pink
love the purple
So many beautiful colours to choose from!. I think I would pick the light blue xxx
What a lovely idea. Too often we forget the little things that make us smile during the day. I also love the pink notebook … or the purple … what about the blue? Too much choice!
I would go for grey or green
How lovely!! Thank you so much for the Embrace Happy mention. I will be sure to share this in our Facebook group! I’m currently working on an #embracehappy journal format which I’m really excited about! Yay, #returntopaper!
Karin xx
I could go for any of these colours – even the grey which could be my ‘grown up’ happy book!
I love the idea of a happy notebook – what a great way to focus on the positives. I love the orange notebook.
Fantastic colours…I love the orange x
I would love Purple please x
Would love a purple notebook x
purple please xx
orange one please
love them all but would go for blue as am always told colour blue suits me ‘
Love the purple 🙂
Love the purple…one of my favourite colours
the baby blue x
Blue is my favourite
lime green
Id love the purple
What an amazing idea, I would go for pink, my favourite colour =)
Lime green
blue or purple cant decide
It would have to be pink for me!
lime green please
Purple 🙂
I like the purple
blue
Pink!
It would have to be purple for me but they’re all lovely & vibrant
I like the red
Pink of course!! <3
Lovely bright colours. My daughter would love the pink.
Nice and bright sun shiney yellow. The perfect colour to keep happy 🙂
Red so i can find it in my handbag.
purple
the green one! 🙂
pink one please xx
Love the purple one
I would particularly like the purple one
Bright blue or orange! I love the idea of a happy notebook, you can never have too many notebooks either! 🙂 x
I love the turquoise.
Pink I think! Stop my fiancee from writing in it too..
Purple please
Purple
Pale blue
What a lovely idea!
I didn’t even realise there was a comp’ untill I finished reading the post 🙂 I’d be happy with anything xxx
It would be purple to match my new purple shoes!
Purple
I would love the purple notebook
purple xx
Purple
Pink!
Always going to choose purple 🙂
The gorgeous purple 🙂
I’d love the purple x
Blue or green, they’re defo my colours!
Love the purple and the lime green! Fab colour choices ?
I am going with Blue my favourite colour.
Purple please.
Love that lime green!
Purple
purple please
hello fab giveaway if i won id love the grey or green notebook xx 🙂
I would really like the pink if i win! thank you for the giveaway x
Definatly pink.
Purple 🙂
I really like the bright blue one.
I would really like the Blue Curaco, it’s a lovely colour 🙂
Green
Lime Green
Charcol – I would feel super academic and serious and restrained chic in a very good way working within a smart grey-bound notebook.
Pink one
I’d go for the purple one
purple
Blue always been my fav colour
Blue please
I used to but it would be great to start again
I would pick green 🙂
i like the purple one x
I like red
Purple please
I’d go for the orange
the dark blue for me please
Lovely colours, the purple is my favourite
Pink please
I adore the pink
I like the purple
Lime green.
Red please – my favourite colour!
girlie pink
Love the light blue notebook.
The purple one looks lovely x
Pink please.
The blue
Any shade of green!
I would choose the Grey one.
Dark Blue please
lime/green
I’d love the blue one!
Purple because I’m a big Prince fan
pink please! xx
That blue is so vibrant and cheery 🙂 shame there isnt a yellow.
Pink, please
The purple one’s lovely!
Blue would be my chosen happy colour
It has to be light blue. Its my favourite colour at the moment
Purple
Purple
Pink 🙂
the pink one for me 🙂
Grey
Pink
I would choose Hot Pink ~ my favourite colour!
purple
Pink please. Gorgeous xx
MAYBE LIGHT BLUE
i like blue
The beautiful royal blue looks very sumptuous.
Definitiely purple!!
I’d love the pink one!!!
Purple for the wife.
purple 🙂
Lime green
The sky blue one.
Pink
Red
ooh would have to be hot pink 🙂
I’d choose the purple one as it’s my favourite colour.
PURPLE
Purple