You would think that with the arrival of spring you’d actually feel something of it, too. But like I told you the other day, sunshine and warm temperatures have an awful hard time these days getting their act together. At least the trees and bushes know what to do, so now you can actually discover a hint of spring here and there when you see a little something budding …
I hope – as we all do – that the spring weather will take notice and follow suit!
I found myself another pretty scrapbooking page that was created using the traditional ways of paper scrapping:
I loved the overall composition of this page, and the whimsical play with papers, brushes and flowers, and that’s what I tried to reproduce on my digital layout:
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Credits:
Spring Awakening by Kristin Cronin-Barrow & Sugarplum Paperie
Template from Set 138 by Cindy Schneider
Font: DJB You Make Me Blush by Darcy Baldwin
I was in for a surprise today. No, no! Not what you think: of course we knew about the foreign faculty photo appointment a couple of days ago. The surprise, however, was how quickly everything was over again.
You see, trying to get a 100+ people to one place at one time, and even on the same picture can be a daunting task sometimes. It may take up to 20 minutes of arranging, re-arranging, and then re-arranging the re-arrangement in order to ensure that a decent picture will turn out. And on top of that, we’re dealing with photographers who usually don’t speak English at all – so there’s usually a lot of motioning and hand clapping (though I haven’t been able to figure out what that means, yet).
Today, however, was rather different. Within fifteen minutes of leaving my house, I was back in the comfort and warmth of a cozy home, and glad that both, photographers and all the many models, had managed to get it over with in record time.
Great job, dear colleagues!
Yes, friends of the digital scrapbooking guild, it’s Friday again, and that means we’re up for another treat. Today, you’ll receive part 4 of my current scrapbooking kit “A Tender Love” – the first set of elements.
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Maybe that can get you started on scrapping with this kit. If you haven’t picked up the older freebie kits yet, they’re still available. Just check out the freebie tag to find them.
As always, my terms of use (which means products are for personal use only and should not be shared by any means except referring to MistyHilltops.com) apply.
Now, I’m off to work, and you’ll have fun playing.
Happy Friday, scrappers!
You’re right! It should be getting warmer. After all, it’s the happy season of spring. Or so it is said. And in due time, the heaters were turned off on March 15. Like it happens every year. Except that in the last couple of days spring decided to give us the cold shoulder. Brrrrr! We don’t like that. I’m just glad that with friends like big old A/C (who also has remarkable heating abilities), my home stays warm and comfy.
Off to put on another layer …
PS. Keep your feet warm, friends!
I finished this photo book a couple of months ago, and now I finally get to share the pages with you. I decided to split it into several parts so as to not overwhelm anyone. So, here you can take a look at the first part:
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I guess, I never realized that one of the blessings of where I live is that you never have any ads in your mail box. Well. Hardly ever. Because there are those rare occasions in which you actually find a student or organization kindly offering their services and generously placing some info paper in your mail box. But as I said: those occasions are rare.
Unless you count the services offered by the kids of our dear foreign faculty colleagues. Ever since I first got here, a few of them have advertised their services by placing posters around the foreign faculty residences, offering to take out your trash, water your plants, do your shopping, dust your home, and clean your floors, etc. Until recently.
A short while ago, they got smarter. Now they don’t limit their advertising to posters, now they’ve found that a new method may actually be more effective.
And so recently, I keep finding little notices sticking on the door to my apartment, notices that you can’t just ignore.
I guess, someone really is in need of some little extra money. And I’m left to wonder who’ll offer their services next …
Credits:
Measure of a Man by Julie Billingsley & Meghan Mullens
Alphabitties 4 by Traci Reed
Font: DJB This One Is Called Dana by Darcy Baldwin
The routine goes as follows: you find something is broken in your home. You inform the front desk, who in turn informs the workers. You give a time frame for when it’s convenient for you to have the workers come. You wait. And when everything goes properly, the workers will show up eventually (though most likely not at the time you specified, or the time you’re waiting for them), and the problems get solved. That’s when you’re lucky.
But then, things always change. These days, I find things rather reversed. These days, it’s the front desk calling me on my way to breakfast (it’s 7 am in the morning). They tell me, “You’ve got a problem in your home.”
“I do?” I say.
“Yes. A Leak.”
“Nothing’s wet in my apartment. Though I had a leak a couple weeks ago.”
“Yes, but the office underneath your apartment has water coming down the walls.”
“Oh. I see.”
“So, can we send in a worker to fix this problem?”
“Sure,” I say, and quickly tell them that I’ll be home pretty much all day, but that I’d appreciate it if the worker comes before 4 pm (because this girl also has plans and other things to do).
“Ok,” they say. “We’ll send someone before then.”
So, I wait. And wait. And wait even a bit more. Nothing all day. Then suddenly, it’s mid afternoon the following day, when without warning a couple of people show up at my door, demanding to take a look around my bathroom. And they even scratch the plaster off my wall in the hallway. And they promise they’ll be back the next day, 9 am to basically take the wall apart.
Of course, next day 9 am comes and goes without nobody ever showing up (as was to be expected), and here I am, slightly annoyed, wondering what exactly these people mean when they say “today” or “tomorrow”. Meanwhile, the walls still need fixing and I’m still waiting …
… to be continued …
