25 Places to say Happy Birthday

1. Write a birthday message on a driveway or sidewalk using chalks

2. Say it on a post-it-note

3. Send birthday wishes by e-mail or fax

4. Write it with icing on a cake or a big cookie

5. Put it on a note inside someone's lunch or in their pocket

6. Write it on a steamed up bathroom mirror using your finger

7. On a frosty window using your fingernail

8. Record it on an answering machine

9. Sneak birthday wishes inside a fortune cookie

10. Call your local radio station with a special birthday song dedication

11. Tape your birthday message on a cassette with an invitation to dinner or…? Leave it in a car tape deck as a surprise.

12. Send a heartfelt letter by snail mail with a handmade or bought gift certificate.

13. Create an enormous jumbo sized birthday card. Add photos, funny keepsakes and jazz it up with our Birthday, Girls Rule, Boy Stuff, or Over the Hill Stickers!

14. Say it on a Starbucks Memory Tumbler. My daughter Katie bought me one of these insulated mugs one Christmas and inserted a scrapbook page she made with copies of photos from my childhood. The mug comes with a template, so you can make and insert new memorabilia to suit the season or occasion. I've also seen kid's mugs you can decorate this way at craft stores.

15. Print a birthday message with a photo on a T-shirt, mouse pad, pillowcase or other blank surface. You likely have a local place that offers this service, or you can buy printable supplies and do it yourself. See ideas here: http://store.yahoo.com/thecraftypc/products.html

16. Say it in an ad in a local paper that your loved one reads.

17. Write a birthday message with 'glow in the dark' pens or paints on a pillowcase or somewhere (ceiling) your loved one will see it. Little kids will love reading these glowing words. You could write: Happy Birthday, You light up our life!

18. Tape a happy birthday note to the bottom of a clear glass. Fill it with a favorite beverage for a loved one to find and read later.

19. Write birthday messages on balloons with permanent markers, or simply decorate some balloons with our Heartwarming Expressions Stickers and create a birthday bouquet.

20. Make a keepsake bookmark, listing the date and their age, along with your birthday wishes. Tuck it inside a new book by their favorite author.

21. Buy a journal and record a birthday message with a special memory of the birthday person. A child would love a story about the day they were born.

22. Buy a scrapbook album and include a promise to make a scrapbook layout of the birthday. Bring your camera and take fun birthday photos.

23. Go extravagant. Put it on a local billboard, on the side of a sky blimp, or written by a sky writer to read while having a picnic.

24. Go simple. Write happy birthday on a beach in the sand with a stick, or spell it out in small shells or rocks.

25. Do a documentary on the life of someone you love honoring them. You can have old videos, favorite photographs and even scrapbook pages edited and put on a video cassette. You can gather a group of people to sing Happy Birthday and record their own personal birthday wishes and messages. This can be especially thoughtful if you are miles away from someone you love during their birthday. The sight and sound of loved ones is irreplaceable. Decorate the video cassette box with birthday stickers and photocopies of favorite photographs.