Month: January 2013

Tough Times for Little Heater

Published by Sula H.

Did your parents ever put you in time-out when you did something bad as a child? I know my parents did. Time-out for us was standing in the corner of a room for a while and think about what we’ve done and how that was bad. Well, guess what. Little Heater has returned. And after serving me an hour or two after I got back from the wedding last week (because my apartment was really cold then), it decided to stand in the corner voluntarily. So, there it is now, probably brooding over the fact how it has abandoned me over the last couple of months. I do pity it, a little, watching it standing there so forlorn. But what can I do? With big heater friend AC around, life’s gotten really tough for little guys like Little Heater.

The Flood

Published by Sula H.

I mentioned it last Saturday already. The flood. You see, floods, when they occur outside in nature, are evil enough. Floods in kitchens, however, are another story altogether! And so it happened, that I was walking to lunch Saturday noon, and as soon as I approached the door to the dining hall, I knew something was odd. The door stood open. And that door never stands open voluntarily, mark my words! So, as I walked through that door into the dining hall, I observed other oddities. Like the damp mist wafting through the dining hall. And that sound. The distinct sound of rushing water coming from one of the kitchens. Of course, inside the kitchen it was pitch-black, save the flashlight that was flickering and illuminated a couple of dark heads. And those heads were looking at what was causing the mist, and the sound, and the door to stand open: a broken pipe. And the water coming from it, wasn’t just a little trickle. It sounded like a white-water river was rushing through our …

Of Lunches and Other Evils

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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

Published by Sula H.

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 …

scrapbook layout, winter, snow, misty hilltops designs

Winter Wish

Published by Sula H.

Credits: A Cupful of Winter by Misty Hilltops Designs (me, upcoming freebie on my blog) Layered Cards: Winter by Cindy Schneider Layered Weekly Labels & Journaling Cards by Cindy Schneider Font: DJB Celeste by Darcy Baldwin

A Bag Full of Hearts

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It is a fact well-known that wedding guests are expected to bring gifts for the bride and bridegroom. What is less well-known is the fact that here in these parts of the world, it’s also expected of the bride and bridegroom to give gifts to their guests. Much like a birthday party for kids in the West. I, for one, didn’t know that part of a wedding yet, and found myself surprised at the bag full of hearts (filled with treats) I was given when I was taking leave from our hosts (the bride and bridegroom) the other day. And surprised at the huge box filled with even more expensive healthy snacks they expected me to take home with me. So, I ended up going home with a lot more than I had come (though, of course, money – the expected gift for weddings – is much easier to carry than a whole lot of snacks and a bag full of hearts)! Now, I’ve learned a new thing about weddings, and about a bunch of …