Month: February 2013

Hybrid Hub: Stampin’ Up

So, my sister got herself hooked up lately with this awesome stuff from Stampin Up, and it makes me wish that I had a way of getting that stuff to my part of the world … so I could get my hands dirty with all this fun actual paper stuff she’s been doing. Here are just a few of the projects she’s been working on lately.

That Age Old Struggle

They’re back. The students that is. How I can tell? Because of the internet. You see, we’ve just had a good long winter holiday. And during this good long winter holiday, all the students are gone. Gone home. Gone to visit family and friends. Gone traveling. Etc. Just gone. A whole lot of “gones” in fact. The kind of “gones” I like, because for the few of us staying behind on campus that finally means, we get to do the fun stuff online. We get to open a webpage, and it will actually open. Or we get to watch a video clip, and we can actually see the picture moving. Or, like me, you sit down to blog, and you can actually access your blog – how fun is that?! Now, however, things have suddenly changed again, and we’re back to the same old struggle. It makes me kind of wish for student-less campuses. But then, of course, what with our jobs and all, right? So, I’ll have to get my muscles back in shape …

Inspire Me: Shimelle

  I mentioned it last Saturday already, but one website with tons of amazing inspiration is “pretty paper.true stories” by Shimelle. Shimelle is one of the great paper scrappers out there, but you can find a lot of stuff that will help you work on your digital pages as well. She’s got great style, a wealth of knowledge, and it’s certainly a place you would want to keep sticking around for …  

Hibernation Mode

It’s that time of the year to come out of hibernation again. I realize it, because I’m out in the classroom again. And I’m out shopping on campus again. And I’m out eating meals with students and friends again. And though I love being in hibernation mode (because it’s that welcome break from a rather busy life otherwise), I just as much love being out and about again.

Back to Business

It’s back to business again, and that means work is waiting for us. Work as in, planning, teaching, but also studying and the likes. And while I’m happy to get among people again, I also really enjoyed my weeks of quiet, and having time for the things you don’t usually have time for. Now it looks like time is going to become a rare commodity for me again … Welcome to the spring semester!  

Journaling Café: My Day

Today, in the Journaling Café we’ll be focusing on our daily routine. Project Life being all the rage at the moment, it is about recording what seems to be neglected in our memory keeping so much: the mundane, the simple life. Take a look at today’s journaling prompts, and see if any of these could inspire you to put some of your thoughts to paper …   Of course, I gave myself the task of recording something very mundane, and here’s how my page turned out …

scrapbook layout, book

P2D: Reading Again

I have another great source of inspiration for you (though some of you may know about Shimelle already, of course). But if you’re someone who doesn’t go there all too often, or someone who is always looking for more inspiration, you don’t need to look any further … for now. Take a look at this fun paper layout: What really caught my eye about it was the fun boldly patterned papers, which were used on this layout, and so when I was doing my own page, I looked for the same … a combination of bold patterns and bright colors. So, here’s my page …

The Big Return

  After weeks of campus being pretty much dead, I made a discovery today. Life has returned. In various, ways of course. Now, you can see two-legged creatures crawling around again, and then there are those four-wheeled creatures, too. It also means that work is about to begin again, and that soon our campus will be buzzing like a busy bee-hive again. Soon, as in tomorrow! Not sure, which way I actually prefer …