Somewhere in your home is a special chair, desk or sitting area that you use at least once a day.  To prepare for your regular practice of sending good cheer to others on a regular basis, you first need to organize your Greeting Card Box.

Greeting Card Box

1. Different colored pens
2. Special postage stamps – keep a variety for different occasions
3. Stickers and envelope seals
4. Healthy array of special greeting cards
5. Your special lists, i.e., Christmas card, office directory, etc.
6. Your top 10 List of favorite quotes, phrases, jokes, stories to share.

Get in the habit of at least once a week, pulling out your Greeting Card Box and sending at least one person a special note.  Check back for Part II Your Top 10 Lists of Things to Say.  Sending someone a card will raise their spirits and yours too.

From your friends at Easton Publishing.  Make it a great day!!

So you’ve chosen that special birthday card and now it’s time to write something profound, clever, heartfelt, etc.

Did you know, the average person takes up to 20 minutes to decide what to pen in that special card?

You want it to be memorable, convey how you feel about them and above all, make them smile.

Here are some helpful phrases from the famous.

1. And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. - Abraham Lincoln
2. Looking fifty is great–if you’re sixty.- Joan Rivers
3. Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.-Helen Hayes
4. A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday. - Erma Bombeck
5. May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine. - Frank Sinatra
6. At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgement. -Benjamin Franklin
7. We turn not older with years, but newer every day. - Emily Dickinson
8. Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.- Pope John XXIII
9. People ask me what I’d most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. - George Burns
10. All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. - George Harrison
11. Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo
12. Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. – Mary Schmich
13. May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift
14. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have because the older she gets the more interested he becomes.- Agatha Christie
15. The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey
16. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball
17. Live not one’s life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. – Marcus Aurelius
18. Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Jack Benny
19. You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’ - Jerry Seinfeld
20. We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. - Lauren Hutton

Keep plenty of special birthday cards on hand order them here.  Then remember to add one of the quotes above among your personal sentiments.  They’ll keep it forever…

Have a wonderful day and make it count!

Shelly Reeves Smith is an award winning watercolor artist from southern Missouri, and currently lives in Branson. Her illustrations of home and garden can be found on calendars, books, greeting cards and gifts.  The artwork on Easton Publishings cards was produced by Shelly and are a wonderful reflection of her beautiful spirit. Shelly has a blog and shares more about her and her art there.  She says, “I have a wonderful husband and son, and we make our home in the Ozarks in Southern Missouri along with our beloved setters. We prefer life in the country, where I can find plenty of inspiration for my work – among God’s beautiful creation or in homey objects that remind me of family or friends.” 

Her creative vein doesn’t stop with her watercolor paintings though, Shelly is also an accomplished musician.  She says when she isn’t spending time with her family or painting, she can be found playing with her blue grass band, “Lonesome Road.”  

Easton Publishing felt there was no one better that could express what they wanted to provide on their collection of special cards for life’s extraordinary moments…check them out here.  www.eastonpublishing.com.