Day: January 26, 2013

Of Lunches and Other Evils

The story goes as this: In our existence as foreign faculty, we get to enjoy a couple of blessings. One of these blessings is that we get our meals served for free, three times a day, buffet style. (Though others might consider it a curse, especially those who don’t like the food being served, which – generally speaking – are a lot of people.) Well, the thing is that during the winter break, things change quite a bit. For one, instead of three meals, we only get two meals at considerably odd hours (mid morning and late afternoon). What’s even more tricky is when evil forces try to interrupt this delicate cycle of meals. As it happened just this morning. A blackout was the evil force that tried to meddle with our meal times. A blackout which was caused by a villain called “broken-pipe-in-the-kitchen” who had caused serious damage and a river to run through one of the big kitchens (literally). So, with the intentions of repairing the damage, other forces had set out to …

P2D: Winter Wish

One website that comes with awesome inspiration for traditional scrapbook layouts is scrapbookgeneration.com. It’s kind of more like a club thing, but if you check out their site, you’ll find lots of really great pages that allow for your papers and photos to shine! Just check out this post, for example. They usually show off double pages, but who says you can’t turn double pages into single pages? Take a look at this winter themed page for example: I simply took the general composition of this page, turned it into a single page layout, added a couple more embellishing clusters, and this is what came out: I used my new winter kit “A Cup Full of Winter” for this (the first part is available for you for download as a freebie since yesterday), plus a couple of Cindy Schneiders layered labels she just released this weekend. I simply replaced two of the photo spots with the labels, and if you look hard enough you can see how my layout still resembles parts of the original …