Day: November 16, 2012

Freebie Friday: A Grateful Heart, Part 1

I’m absolutely stoked, because today I have something special to share with you – my first ever full digital scrapbook kit! I recently got my fingers very itchy to create a layout based on a certain color scheme, but since I didn’t have anything of the likes in my scrap stash, I decided, to just make my own kit. And now, with Thanksgiving and such coming up, I thought, why not turn it into a full kit that I could share with others as well? So, voila! Instead of my usual template freebie, I have this, and hope you won’t be too disappointed, if you’ve waited for a new template. Anyhow, I’ll be sharing this kit over the next couple of weeks, so be sure to come back to pick up the remaining parts. But for now, here’s part 1 of “A Grateful Heart”. Happy scrapping, and happy Friday, scrappers! Note: Please do not re-distribute this product in any way (you may share the link to this post), and when you use items from this …

Christmas … Almost!

To go to the flower market, we set out today. Because, along with me, almost all of my foreign friends had decided that they needed to get new plants for their apartments. (Remember, we just had a big move into the new foreign faculty residence, and most of my friends were among those privileged enough to move into the new building.) So, we organized several vans and off we went … to turn our vans into literal jungles. And to realize that it’s Christmas. Or almost Christmas. Christmas season. For the big mall where we went first to have our lunch gave it away all too clearly. And since the Christmas season is my favorite time of the year, and because nowhere else you can see any signs of Christmas (which is usually generally the case around here), seeing all those fancy Christmas trees hanging from the ceiling and some other actually really pretty decorations was a welcome sight to me, and once again I thought what a happy thing it is that Christmas is …