Make like a frog....

....and hop!

Or, to put it another way, anyone up for a blog hop?

This idea has been gradually evolving for a while now, but I think it might be ready at last :-) As many of you know, I love numbers; however, I also love words and letters. I'd love to host a blog hop with an alphabet theme. Anyone in?


Images from Spell with flickr. Not sure why 'n' isn't showing...

Here's how I see it working:

It would be lovely if we had 26 people, because there are (of course) 26 letters in the alphabet. Well, there are for me, 'cos I'm English. If anyone from overseas who uses a different alphabet is interested in joining in, we can discuss how that would work (and I'm happy to make it work!) Fewer than 26 people would be fine, we'd just use fewer letters :-) (I also have a back-up idea just in case more than 26 people sign up!) I figured that we would each take on a particular letter, and base a blog post around that letter. I'd probably have to allocate letters randomly so we didn't end up with lots of one particular letter and everyone fighting shy of Q, X and Z.... But you see, even with a 'tricky' letter you could build a blog post! I have a few ideas to get you started, and you'd be most welcome to take it in a new direction if you wanted, too!

Possible ideas:

• Write a blog post where you use your given letter as many times as possible
• Write a blog post where you use every other letter of the alphabet, but completely avoid your given letter!
• Create a scrapbook layout or other project where you make use of your given letter, possibly by using a title which begins with that letter, or incorporating it in some other way
• Find an example of your given letter on a road sign, street name, poster, book cover, piece of graffiti, magazine, advert, map, car licence plate, etc, etc, and photograph it
• Find as many examples as possible of your given letter as above, and photograph them all
• Make your given letter in an interesting way (eg out of sticks, stones and leaves, or kitchen utensils, or clothes, or children, etc, etc) and photograph it
• Make a card or other project in the shape of your given letter
• Write a blog post which is in some way inspired by your given letter, however tenuous that link may seem!

So yes, there are lots of possibilities with this, and I don't want to be prescriptive at all. If you can make a link between the letter of the alphabet you've been allocated and the post you share on your blog, that's fine by me!

The blog hop would run on Sunday 17th April, at 2pm BST (that's GMT+1). If you're in a different time zone, you can visit this site to find out what time that will be with you. That should give you a bit of time to organise the contents of your post :-) You'd need to set up an autopost so all the posts go live at the same time, but if you haven't done this before and you're not sure how to go about it, just let me know and I'll talk you through the process. It's easy, I promise!

Anyone in? Please email me: ispeakmelsh {at} hotmail {dot} com with your blog address and I'll get in touch with further details. Let me know by this Sunday (10th April) please, so I'll know if this will work and can put the list together! Hoping to hear from you soon xx

**Edited to add: The list is pretty much full now - please see my note towards the end of the comments below! Sorry to anyone who missed out and is disappointed, but I do hope you'll come along and visit us on the day**