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Monday Highlight & Back to Normal

Published by Sula H.

It’s been a crazy week, with lots of work, even more preparations and a weekend full of Christmas parties. Lots of memories to keep, so make sure you check out today’s Monday Highlight for another dose of Christmas Cheer! Today, I’m featuring Julie Billingsley’s “Better Not Pout” …

Back to Normal

The holidays are over and this means, everything goes right back to normal. Especially here in China, where Christmas isn’t much of a big holiday at all. The stores never close, constructions never end, and if it wasn’t a weekend, classes would have just continued as normal.

Now, with the weekend, we got at least the feeling of a holiday and for me, this has been the best Christmas I had since coming to China. Three days packed with celebrations – there isn’t much time to miss family and friends back home. Now, I’m just tired and glad that the winter holiday has already begun for me. So I get to wind down and relax a little and hopefully spend some extra time with my students.

Monday Highlight: Better Not Pout

Published by Sula H.

I hope everyone made it well through the holidays, and since things finally are somewhat getting back to normal for me, I’m bringing you the Monday Highlight on time.

With the holidays just past, I still want to stay on the Christmas side of things and therefore present you with another Christmas themed kit today:

Better Not Pout

by Julie Billingsley

It’s a bright and merry kit, that makes the Christmas happiness jump off every page. I love the bright greens and reds that make it perfect for any traditional Christmas pages, but it also comes with a blue and black color scheme included, making this kit very versatile. Better Not Pout is jam-packed with cute Christmas themed embellishments and the clean alpha included is just a cherry on top!

Look at what I created with this kit:

Going, Going, Gone Sale

Don’t forget that the big holiday sale is still going on this week, and if you haven’t checked it out yet, hop on over to the Sweetshoppe to make sure you’ll get your share of the cake!

Here’s What I Got …


Treasure Spotting: Christmas Cuties

Published by Sula H.

This week was a tough call, because I found so many beautiful gems in the galleries, but I finally narrowed it down to this page:

“Christmas Cuties” by Paula

I love her clustering, using all these different elements, the evergreens she used, the layering is great, I love how she used the “wood” background paper for a mat behind the photo, and aren’t her shadows just amazing?

Saturday Feature: The School’s Christmas Tree

Published by Sula H.

Let me tell you about the school’s Christmas tree. It was set up in the main shopping square of campus about a week ago, and the decision as to whether it’s a pretty sight to be seen or not, I’ll leave up to you. However, what’s most interesting about this Christmas tree is it’s decoration. At the time it is being set up it usually doesn’t have any decoration, but this usually changes very soon afterward as students start flocking around the tree and hang little cards and papers with wishes on the tree. Not quite the traditional Christmas tree decoration, but the same thing happens every year. So, instead of the Christmas tree, it becomes a “Wishing tree”! And if you look very closely, you might even catch a glimpse of Santa Clause!

Merry Christmas then y’all!

CT Spotlight: GGG Holiday 10

Published by Sula H.

Merry Christmas, fellow digi-scrappers!

I hope you’re all enjoying a wonderful time with your families.

Today, I have a very special surprise for you in this week’s CT spotlight. There are no new releases this week over at the Sweetshoppe, but there is the great Going, Going, Gone sale of the year, and you don’t want to miss out on that. There are tons of products that are about to retire, and you have a chance to get them at half price!

Check it out:

Merry Christmas!

Published by Sula H.

To all of you a very merry Christmas, pleasant holidays with your families with lots of peace and joy!

Here in China, Christmas is quite a curious thing!

First thing to note is the apple: everyone here associates apples with Christmas, thus Christmas is a heyday for fruit sellers! The reason? Part of the word “apple” in Chinese has the same character as “peace” which is part of the word “Christmas” in this language. Therefore apples are the most common gifts on Christmas!

Secondly, as we are talking about gifts already, let me tell you how Christmas gift shopping works here in China. While in the West, everyone tries to get the Christmas gifts before the holidays, in China, the day of Christmas-gift-shopping is just that: on Christmas. So, on December 24, everyone rushes out in search for some nice little gifts and the streets and stores on campus go crazy, especially the later it gets in the day!

For us Westerners, though, we get to celebrate with our friends, and so we get to enjoy our own, merry, little Christmas!

Happy celebrating everywhere!

Freebie Friday: Time Changes

Published by Sula H.

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you all will have a very enjoyable and peaceful Christmas Eve.

It’s been a while, but today I finally managed to have another freebie for you.

Click HERE to download.

Comes in a psd file. Simply open in Photoshop and clip your papers to the template.

Please don’t re-distribute this template in any way (you may share the link to this template) and when you use this template, please make sure to credit it to Misty Hilltops Designs.

Enjoy and happy celebrating!