Chinese New Year Blog Hop

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Ni hao and welcome to the Chines New Year Blog Hop!  This hop is in honor of Guan, the little boy April's family is adopting from Taiwan.  To celebrate his culture, we want to share some Chinese-inspired projects with you!

• If you arrived here from Amy's blog then you are in the right place!  If you just joined us, please go back to April's blog at www.curlsandgrins.blogspot.com to see everyone's amazing creativity!

  We have some great blog candy to offer from April Nourse and PSA Essentials.  To be eligible, you must simply comment on each blog on each day's post.  We'd love for you to become a follower of each of our blogs too.
  

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 Gung Hay Fat Choy means "Best wishes and Congratulations

Welcome back to our celebration. Yesterday I showed how we decorated and the food we prepare and eat but today I will continue our celebration.

When we are done eating, everyone is given a fortune cookie to open, read their fortune and eat.

Here is some Wikipedia history of the fortune cookie...Fortune cookies are often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants in the United States and some other countries, but are absent in China. The exact provenance of fortune cookies is unclear, though various immigrant groups in California claim to have popularized them in the early 20th century, basing their recipe on a traditional Japanese cracker. Fortune cookies have been summarized as being "introduced by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately ... consumed by Americans."

 Once the cookies have been consumed, the elder, which was me because daddy was away on business, hands out red envelopes called hong bao or lai see to the children. Each pack has money in it, usually a dollar at our house. The red envelope represents good luck. The amount of money should end in an even number to bring good luck but should never have a four in it such as 40 cents because the number 4's pronunciation is similar to the word pronunciation for death.

 I used Inkscape to make the red envelopes for the children and the children saw what I was making and asked if they could decorate them. The lines and stars represent firecrackers being lit off.

 Finally, we end the night by handing out candy filled poppers. It's illegal to light off fireworks in Tucson so we stick to the poppers. I used the New Years Party file from SVG attic to make my poppers.

Then the children and I curl up in a chair to read a book dealing with something Chinese. The kid's favorite book is "The Seven Chinese Sisters."

Since it is the Year of the Dragon, I had to make this card because I love this stamp and have been wanting to use it since I bought it from a friend.

Last bit of info...The Drangon Dance is done to bring good luck and prosperity for the coming year.

Thank you so much for celebrating with us this year. I love to have company visit and share in our traditions and it's always fun to break out of the mold and share a tradition that is of another culture.

Hugs from Lorby's World

• Thanks for stopping by!  Your next stop is Shannon.
  
  
• April - http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
• Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
• Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
• Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
• Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
• Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
• Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
• Maria - http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com/
• Janet- http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
• Dena -  http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
• Jennifer - http://jenrubio.blogspot.com/
• Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
• Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
• PSA Essentials - www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com/

Glitter and Bling Blog Hop

For the Chinese New Year Blog Hop clink here 

Welcome!!!

Doesn't every girl love some glitter and bling in her life? This hop is about those things that include glitter and bling.

Our hostess is Gill and she is the lady to start with.  If you've happen to my blog by chance, please head back to Gill's blog and start from the beginning and if you are where you are suppose to be - Yay! and carry on from here.

Gill is giving away bling so make sure you go to her blog and check out what she has to offer.

My glitter and bling is a special card due to the fact that it is mostly made from things that I won from Gill in a previous hop. The paper and bling stickers were part of my prize. I added the glitter glue and heat embossing and that's it. Enjoy...

Please leave a comment letting me know what you think and I love new followers so that would be a plus for me. Thanks for stopping by and Hugs from Jearise in Lorby's World.

Your next stop is Ashley at the glamorous side of scrapping

Here is the complete line up if you're lost.
1.  Gill - http://creationsbygillm.blogspot.com
2. Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
3 - Ashley- http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com
4  - Lynne K.-- http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
5 - Lisa T - http://bitbythecricutbug.blogspot.com
6 - Kari - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/
7 - Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com
8 - Michelle - http://craftychelle.blogspot.com/
9 - Zenita - http://www.scrappinwithz.blogspot.com
10 - Leslie-Rahye - http://leslierahye.blogspot.com
11 -Linda Dale - http://www.thefruitofmyhands.blogspot.com

Chinese New Year Blog Hop

Glitter and Bling hop click here

• Ni hao and welcome to the Chines New Year Blog Hop!  This hop is in honor of Guan, the little boy April's family is adopting from Taiwan.  To celebrate his culture, we want to share some Chinese-inspired projects with you! 

  
  

  If you arrived here from Amy's blog then you are in the right place!  If you just joined us, please go back to April's blog to see everyone's amazing creativity!

  
  

  We have some great blog candy to offer from April Nourse and PSA Essentials.  To be eligible, you must simply comment on each blog on each day's post.  We'd love for you to become a follower of each of our blogs too.

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 Gung Hay Fat Choy means "Best wishes and Congratulations

I am not Chinese but we love to celebrate this holiday at our house. I began celebrating it about four years ago when I organized a moms' play group and even though the group is no more we still continue to celebrate it.

Cleaning the house is part of the preparation for Chinese New Year and this gives me a good excuse to get my children to help clean. In preparation of our Chinese dinner this year, we finally took down our Christmas tree and Christmas decorations.

Once the house is clean, I decorate with Chinese paper lanterns that I designed in Inscape and the children decorated after I cut them out using my Sizzix eClips.

Red is used in decorations for good luck.

I try to make Chinese food but some of my food turns out to be Japanese since we like both food types. Food served during the new year celebration represents health, abundance and luck. I'm not for sure if my food represents any of those things but I know it does represent yummy.

 The sticky buns (sweet pastry filled with bbq pork) was bought but I made the chicken fried rice and egg drop soup from scratch. I would post the recipes but I've been doing them for awhile and sort of just add this and that now so I don't follow a recipe any longer.

These fortune cookie place cards are from the New Year file from SVG Attic. 








Head back to my blog tomorrow to see what we do after we eat in celebration of this wonderful cultural holiday and to learn a little more about it.

Hugs for today from Jearise in Lorby's World.

 Thanks for stopping by!  Your next stop is Shannon's blog.

• April - http://curlsandgrins.blogspot.com
• Lynne K. - http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com/
• Ashley - http://theglamoroussideofscrapping.blogspot.com/
• Amy - http://www.lovetocrop.com/
• Jearise - http://lorbysworld.blogspot.com/
• Shannon - http://www.purplelionpaper.com/blog
• Inga - http://mommahobbit.blogspot.com/
• Maria - http://www.mdcraftcorner.blogspot.com/
• Janet- http://www.createatdreamscrapbooks.blogspot.com/
• Dena -  http://missdjones.blogspot.com/
• Jennifer - http://jenrubio.blogspot.com/
• Theresa- http://www.thescrapbookingqueen.com/
• Ellen - http://cardmonkey-business.blogspot.com/
• PSA Essentials - www.psastampcamp.blogspot.com/

DT Monday for SVG Attic

I made this pretty little heart box for my daughter for Valentines Day. Now I have to find a place to hide it for a month.

This box is from the set Be Mine. Head over to SVG Attic to find this set and all the sets. 

This week's newest release is Sweetheart Captions and is free with a $9.98 or more purchase.

Boy Oh Boy Hop Winner

Hello Sunday blog hoppers,

I would like to announce the winner of my Blog Hop entitled: Boy Oh Boy.

Drum roll please: Marg0006 from http://marg0006.blogspot.com/ was number 27 picked my random.org

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 27 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

 

Thank you to everyone that participated in the hop by either displaying something or just hopping through. 

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This month we are raising money for the
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Pay through paypal no later than January 20th at creativekuts@gmail.com and your items will be mailed within 7 days after payment. Please remember to mark your payment as a gift so no additional fees will be charged with shipping information included. 100% of purchase prices will be donated to Women's Crisis Center.

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Newest File from SVG Attic

 smooch card

I made this card using the newest set "Sweetheart Captions" and the card from "Be Mine."

I used glitter Modge Pog on the neon (yes, neon) green background.

 "Be Mine" set I used the card from.

Newest file "Sweetheart Captions"

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