Month: October 2011

Fun with Chinglish: Deep Water, Steep Bank

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It’s not the chinglish that makes me sigh with pleasure at the sight of this sign. But it’s the pure “kindliness,” the loving care that is pouring out towards any poor tourist who might be in danger to fall into whatever dangerous waters that might be awaiting him … Note: When posting anything in the Fun with Chinglish section, I don’t mean to show disrespect towards anything or anyone in any way. I’m simply sharing the fun we get to have with all those great signs & documents!

Freebie Friday: Tower

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Got you a new template to play with this weekend. It’s based on one of my older layouts “Iron Tower,” and so far has been one of my more elaborate templates. I hope you’ll find some time playing with it this weekend, and don’t forget: the download link will only be up temporarily. As always: Happy Friday scrappers! Note: Please do not re-distribute this template in any way (you may share the link to this post), and when you use this template, please make sure to credit it to Misty Hilltops Designs.

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Hybrid Hub: Card No. 17

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Let’s take a look at another thank-you card that I created a while back. This one was put together with a mini kit by Kristin Cronin-Barrow, which was part of a Quarterly Assortment last year, and still available at SSD. I also used Darcy Baldwin’s Stamp Pad Alpha for this. It comes with a pretty simple design, but adding the right kind of papers, it’ll make anyone happy to receive this little handcrafted token of gratitude.

Enable Me: Color Palette Generator

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Have you ever heard about color palette generators? They break up images into their various shades of color and create matching color palettes. A pretty neat tool that can come in handy sometimes when you need to decide which kit to use for a photo, or want to create something with a certain color palette. There are tons of color palette generators out there on the www, when you just google them. But I found one that I discovered, which is pretty neat. I rather like it, because It allows you to use images from a URL as well as uploading one from your computer, It creates various shades of color palettes – light, medium, dark, It gives you the number for the color, which is perfect for web use, as well as, in Photoshop when you want to make sure you use the exact same color again. So, if you ever need a color palette generator, here you have one that I found works pretty well!

Food Corner: Lotus Pods

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I’d known them as decorative accents before, but ever since coming to China, I’ve learned that parts of the lotus are considered a side dish here, and actually can be pretty delicious. They have a crunchy bite, have a sweet flavor, and usually are prepared in the wok, frying them in oil – sometimes with, sometimes without any other additions. Oh, and here’s the latest photo for the challenge this month: Photo Challenge Day 19: Something Orange

Time for Socks

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The weather has been quite glorious recently, so the other day I decided to take a walk and enjoy some sunshine on my nose. And it was only then – when I was feeling a little chill come through the holes of my crocs – that it dawned on me that maybe it’s time to start wearing socks again. After all, it’s full blown autumn here (though most trees, I’d say, are in need of some good counseling because they definitely live in denial of that fact), so starting to wear socks again would do no harm, indeed! Time to say the summer good-bye! And since we’ve been talking about my crocs already, here’s the latest photo for the photo challenge: Photo Challenge Day 18: Your Shoes