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Bad Showering Moments

Published by Sula H.

Bad showering moments are those moments in which you stand in the shower, and while you’re scrubbing away, doing whatever needs to be done, slowly but steadily the water ceases to flow. Of course, even worse than that is it when you’re fully covered with soap, and the water stops coming entirely. I’ve had my fair share of such moments happening to me – and not only once. So I speak from experience.

Which is why I feel that I’m quite qualified to write about it. And it is also why I feel like I’m aptly suited to define such instants as “bad” showering moments. I’m an expert, you see. And a  man of experience, they say, is never at the mercy of a man with an argument. A statement that I have find to be quite true – except for one part, of course: I’m not a man! But I do have experience. At least when it comes to bad showering moments!

Journaling Café: Looking Forward

Published by Sula H.

The year of 2012 is still quite young, it still being January and all, so today, in our journaling corner, we will take a look at what is to come this year. What hopes do you have? What expectations? What wishes for change? What wishes for constancy? Here are some prompts to inspire your journaling:

And here’s my (somewhat messy) page listing some of my resolutions for this year:

Happy New Year!

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… at least in these parts of the world. It’s Spring Festival! Which means, little sleep, lots of fire crackers, and of course everything shuts down around here for basically two weeks (though I’m glad the big supermarkets will only be closed for about 2 days!). At any rate, I got myself prepared again, for the big fireworks display right in front of my building. And lo and behold, I wasn’t disappointed. Shortly before midnight, the guards began to set up their boxes with all the fireworks, which was my cue, too. This year, I was a little better prepared – all bundled up warmly, I seated myself on a stool on my balcony all ready to shoot away myself (shooting pictures, that is). The only disappointment: I didn’t expect the grand display to be over so soon. (Last year, it took them at least half an hour to fire up all that they had set up down there.) But this year, I was just getting warmed up with my photo shooting when it was all over already. The problem? They’d fired almost all the boxes at once instead of the one by one approach they had last year. Anyways, the firework season has just begun, so I’m sure I still have plenty of time to get tired of it!

Treasure Sunday: January 22nd

Published by Sula H.

I’ve been roaming the galleries again. The internet is painstakingly slow these days, so I’m going to keep things short today, but look what I found:

Winter Solstice by Svetlanka
Love those photos!

 

Paintmylove77 by dida1357
Great depth, and the photo is beautiful!

 

Me & My Boy by Caits
Fun composition and great clustering!

 

I am blessed by Therese
Great use of white space, and fun pops of color!

 

Winter Melody by tipou2067
Beautiful clustering with such an adorable photo!

 

Delicious Life by zwyck
Amazing composition with all the white space, the blended photo and the word art.

 

Txt U L8R by Angie4b1g
Fun page, fun photo, fun clusters! Love that banner peaking out, too!

 

See? I can be really short, if I want to. Anyways, I had fun finding these gems and I’m glad to be able to share them with you!

P2D: Autumn At Its Best

Published by Sula H.

Back to some paper to digi inspiration. I found this traditional page in one of the galleries:

 

… and immediately it inspired me to try and turn it into a digital page. What I loved about this page is how it so beautifully showcased the papers, some of them – as you see – quite boldly patterned, and yet, overall this page has such a clean and simple look and design. So, I went through my digistash to find something suitable, and here’s my take on this page …

Snow Drama

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I like snow. In fact, I’ve been waiting for some decent snow here for more than two years. Now, I’m fully aware that not everyone likes snow as much as I do (as some of my dear colleagues lovingly keep pointing out to me), but still: Snow is a fine thing. In my eyes at least. And when it started snowing these last couple of days, I was getting my hopes up: Maybe we’ll get a decent winter this year after all! But alas! While it was snowing these last couple of days, it wasn’t actually cold enough for those white little flakes to stick around. And then today as I was on my way to breakfast, I made an observation. Or rather, it was two observations that I made, to be a little more exact:

Observation #1:
It’s freezing cold outside! In fact, it’s so cold that all the puddles from the recent snowfall have been freezing, and even the ponds around campus have a beautiful layer of ice!

See the proof here:

Frozen pond

 

Observation #2:
The sun is out.

Or at least it was earlier this morning.

You see, and that is the drama of the story: It’s just all the wrong way round! The sun should shine when it’s warm outside, and when it’s freezing it should be snowing! That’s how it works. That’s how the snow will actually stick! But unless the weather takes some lessons in how to make proper snow, there’s no hope for decent winters. Not for what I perceive as decent winters at least. And that’s exactly the drama of this story.