Day: February 2, 2011

Inspire Me: GSO Blog

Every first Wednesday of the month I’m trying to show you something that may help your mojo or will inspire you in your scrapping routine; and what better inspiration can you get than from layouts that already inspired others? I’m talking about the Gallery Standouts blog. To be honest with you, I need constant inspiration to make my pages worth looking at, and the GSO blog recently has become a welcome and useful resource for me. Basically, it’s a group of ladies who scour the galleries in search of some amazing, outstanding scrapbook pages. Admitted, not everything there is to my liking, as there are different tastes, but it is a great source of inspiration to look at all those awesome layouts, all concentrated in one place. The blog gets updated daily and you can search the archives for even more inspiration. Sadly, though, they recently updated their website, and while on their old blog they had previews to the selected standouts all collected in one place for an easy overview, I haven’t found that …

Special: New Year’s Eve

It’s here! The last day of the year. At least in these parts of the world. I can tell, because when I wanted to go for breakfast this morning, I found the door to my building locked – did I ever tell you that for Spring Festival everything shuts down in this country? Well, it happens. I mean, literally! Of course, I’m glad for the people, because for a large percentage of the Chinese the New Year’s holidays are the only time of the year they ever get off work for a couple of days. Some are not even that fortunate – as I discovered on my search for someone with a key this morning so I could go get my breakfast. Anyways, today is the big day, marking the official beginning of the New Year’s festivities. They will last about two weeks and will end at the 15th (Lunar calendar) with the Lantern festival. This means: more than two weeks of hearing fire crackers and fireworks going off all day long while someone out …

Spring Festival

February 2: Eve of the Chinese New Year February 3: First day of the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival begins); most stores will be closed for two days. February 3-17: Chinese New Year’s festivities February 17: Lantern Festival (Spring Festival ends with great fireworks)