Day: August 16, 2011

New Teachers Arrived

The summer break is quickly moving to its end – the new teachers for the school year of 2011/2012 have arrived. And they bring some fresh air into our routine. After all, their excitement about being in China hasn’t worn off yet, so they pretty much like everything, get excited about everything, and have not yet learned what it means to struggle with the differences of the culture. In any case, for me it means there’s new people to meet, new colleagues to work with, new friends to be made.

Behind the Scenes: Creating Word Strips

Most digiscrap kits come with little word strips and pieces of word art. I don’t know about you, but I rarely find myself using those word bits, because either they don’t say what I’d like to say, or they just don’t match with the topic of the page. For me, being somewhat international ( 😉 ), living in a somewhat tri-lingual world of English, Chinese, and German, I run into another problem with these ready-made word strips – they usually all come in English, and if I’m creating a page in German (which happens a lot for photo book projects etc.) then it’s just not right to use English word strips. Having said that, I have to admit, I like to use bits and pieces of word art on my pages. And the solution to the language/topic dilemma is: Creating my own word bits. Of course, the best thing is, if the designers are considerate enough to add blank versions of their word strip pieces to the kit (I end up using those a lot). …