The Happy Book: February 26

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Hey, everyone! I'm sharing with you a little bit of happy from my corner of the world today. Meet my cat, Jinx!

Goodies in the Happy Book!

Now, I got a great question last week about The Happy Book. It seems that everyone's adding a whole lot of happy, including all kinds of treats. Yay! What a generous group! And so the question came in: do I get to keep any of these goodies?

Let's do this:

• If the person before you added edible treats, eat them.
• If you're sending something you specifically want the next adventurer to have, label it.
  
• And if there are extra items like bookmarks or ATCs in the book, you can pick one to keep for yourself in exchange for you adding a little goodie (or two) to the package yourself. That way the beautiful flow keeps going. You get to keep a little treat. And you get to give a little treat.
  

Sound good?

The Magical Trail of The Happy Book:

Here's where we are on The Happy Adventure. If anyone has an update, be sure to leave a comment and let us know:

Bliss: Meg in Australia - The Happy Book has arrived at Meg's!

Giggle: Amber Jean in Montana - The Happy Book has arrived Amber Jean.

Mirth: Lani in the Nova Scotia - The Happy Book has arrived at Lani's!

Glee: Tammy in Oregon - The Happy Book has left Tammy's and is on the way to Suzy G's in California!

Let's keep sharing our happy:

• Everyone's welcome to write a post about what made them happy this week and share it in the Mr. Linky below.
  
• Come on by our Vimeo group to share a video of what makes you happy! It doesn't have to be perfect or edited or even have sound! Whatever makes you happy is just right. A moment of home video? Perfect. Your cat purring? Purrfect.
  
• Or if photography's more your thing, catch a moment of happy and share it at our Flickr group called Share Your Happy. Come see what people are sharing! There's family and inspiration boards and rainbows and stars and pie!
• And remember, you can absolutely get yourself your own copy to work through while waiting for the mail-around book to arrive!
  

What made you Happy this week?

The Happy Book: February 19

1. Stars, 2. The Lorax Van!!, 3. IMG_3279.jpg, 4. SHAPE "Scarlett's undressing" 018, 5. Untitled, 6. {echo} melody, 7. Oscar, 8. Untitled

I love seeing the Happy grow in our Flickr group! I've pulled together some of the photos that make us smile! (If you don't see yours here, it may be because you have a setting that didn't allow me to access it.)

I'm also excited to share that we have a new prize! Added to the pile are two copies of the wonderful new book by Summer Pierre, The Artist in the Office: How to Creatively Survive and Thrive Seven Days a Week. I interviewed Summer about what it's like to be an artist with a day job. You can have a listen here. Thank you, Summer!

Here's where we are on The Happy Adventure. If anyone has an update, be sure to leave a comment and let us know:

Bliss: Meg in Australia - The Happy Book has arrived at Meg's!

Giggle: Amber Jean in Montana - The Happy Book is on its way to Amber Jean.

Mirth: Lani in the Nova Scotia - The Happy Book has arrived at Lani's!

Glee: Tammy in Oregon - The Book has arrived at Tammy's!

Reminder: And just a quick reminder. In January I sent each of you an email adventurer's kit, including the address of the next person in your circle. Please make sure you have that tucked away somewhere safe so that you're ready when it's your turn.

And let's keep sharing our happy:

• Everyone's welcome to write a post about what made them happy this week and share it in the Mr. Linky below.
  
• Come on by our Vimeo group to share a video of what makes you happy! It doesn't have to be perfect or edited or even have sound! Whatever makes you happy is just right. A moment of home video? Perfect. Your cat purring? Purrfect.
  
• Or if photography's more your thing, catch a moment of happy and share it at our Flickr group called Share Your Happy. Come see what people are sharing! There's family and inspiration boards and rainbows and stars and pie!
• And remember, you can absolutely get yourself your own copy to work through while waiting for the mail-around book to arrive!
  

What made you Happy this week?

The Happy Book: Feb 12

I did take off this week's video because the song is on autoplay and I know we've heard it many times by now :) If you missed the video, you can see it here.

Thank you, Nadia, for this wonderful Slide Show of your time with The Happy Book! I'm sure it will inspire everyone to want to play!

Which made me really think that there's no reason that each of us has to wait for the mail-around copy to play! Absolutely go out and buy yourself a book and start collecting your joy! I'm sure you'll still have happy to add when the traveling book arrives in your mailbox. Happiness is abundant! Happiness grows when shared! We don't have to save up or hold on or wait. Happy is available now! So, if you're so inspired, please go on out or order yourself a copy and start to play.

Here's where we are on The Happy Adventure. If anyone has an update, be sure to leave a comment and let us know:

Bliss: Meg in Australia - The Happy Book is on its way to Meg's!

Giggle: Amber Jean in Montana - The Happy Book is on its way to Amber Jean.

Mirth: Lani in the Nova Scotia - The Happy Book is on its way to Lani!

Glee: Olwyn in British Columbia - The Book has arrived at Olwyn's!

And let's keep sharing our happy:

• Everyone's welcome to write a post about what made them happy this week and share it in the Mr. Linky below.
  
• Come on by our Vimeo group to share a video of what makes you happy! It doesn't have to be perfect or edited or even have sound! Whatever makes you happy is just right. A moment of home video? Perfect. Your cat purring? Purrfect.
  
• Or if photography's more your thing, catch a moment of happy and share it at our Flickr group called Share Your Happy. Come see what people are sharing! There's family and inspiration boards and rainbows and stars and pie!
  

What made you Happy this week?

The Happy Book: February 5

Knowing Friday is Happy Day is certainly making me look forward to the end of the week! I know there are going to be precious moments, tales of adventure and likely more than a few giggles!

This week Gina shared some of her home town with us in this video. What a great idea to share a taste of where you live. That way we'll get to travel the world, just like the Happy Book!

Gina, Pamela, Fiona and Nadia, we're all looking forward to reading what your experience was like with the book! Here's who's next on The Happy Adventure:

Bliss: Meg in Australia - The Happy Book is on its way to Meg's!

Giggle: Amber Jean in Montana - The Happy Book is going to Amber Jean next!

Mirth: Lani in the Nova Scotia - The Happy Book is on its way to Lani!

Glee: Olwyn in British Columbia - The Book has arrived at Olwyn's!

And let's keep sharing our happy:

• Everyone's welcome to write a post about what made them happy this week and share it in the Mr. Linky below.
  
• Come on by our Vimeo group to share a video of what makes you happy! It doesn't have to be perfect or edited or even have sound! Whatever makes you happy is just right. A moment of home video? Perfect. Your cat purring? Purrfect.
  
• Or if photography's more your thing, catch a moment of happy and share it at our Flickr group called Share Your Happy. Let's see some photos of your smiling faces!
  

What made you Happy this week?