Month: May 2011

Behind the Scenes: It’s On My List

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Admitted – I love lists! My desk is strewn with them. Always! At the moment, I have about seven lists of various shapes and sizes cluttering my desk, in addition to all the other little notes and reminders I keep collecting. I have book lists (work/study related), lists with activities/games I’m planning to do with my students at some point, lists for grading, lists with scrapbook titles and page topics; there is even one list of my last sweet rewards purchase at the Sweetshoppe (I think I can discard that one now!), and the “list” goes on and on. Then there is my calender/notebook/timer that is brimming with lists. Now, if you want to know the content of my lists in my notebook, I won’t even go there, because then there’d be no end to this post! Basically, anything from future scrapbook projects (sorted by topic/year/event), to title ideas, to topics for blog posts, to interesting quotes I find, to … you name it. It’s there! Yes, I’m a list lover, and that must reflect …

Monday Highlight: Sweet Escape

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One digital scrapbook kit that I’ve seen being used for beautiful layouts in the galleries over and over again is … Sweet Escape by Kristin Cronin-Barrow Sorry, if I keep coming back to Kristin’s products, but I simply can’t help it! She constantly whips up such beautiful kits that it’s nearly impossible for me to resist! Actually, recently it dawned on me that in fact it would be quite worth it for me to try to get on her CT, lol! After all, I really love almost every single one of her kits! Too bad, I don’t have enough time for scrapping, and – more importantly – she doesn’t have a CT call going on! 😉 Ok, back on track here. I chose “Sweet Escape” partly, because I have a layout of a picture that was taken almost exactly one year ago – May 1, to be precise! Being someone who likes all things nature, “Sweet Escape” of course was a must for me. But I love that it is also so very versatile, too! …

Chinese Corner: Careful

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Officially, we are still on vacation today, but that doesn’t mean I can’t bring you the next installment of our Chinese Corner. Lesson 3: Careful   小心 – xiǎo xīn   xiao = small xin = heart xiao xin = little heart – careful (If you can’t see the Chinese characters, because you don’t have any Asian languages installed on your computer, don’t worry about it.)

May Holiday

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May 1. (Labor Day)  is one of the more important holidays in China. Students get an extra day off school, so many students return home for a short vacation, and generally, many people use the extra holiday to travel.