My husband is Chinese, so we get to celebrate the year of the rat come February. Our son is a Rooster, I am a Monkey and my husband is a Dragon. Do you know what your Lunar zodiac sign is? One of my favorites foods besides sushi is dim sum. Today, we took my sister Allison, her husband Dave and daughter Sarah to the airport... they moved to Japan and will stay there for about 3 years. It was a pretty emotional trip to SFO. I cried like a baby when we said goodbye. After, my family, my parents and my husband's sister and her husband met at Yank Sing at the Rincon Center for Dim Sum in S.F. It's the best ever dim sum. I ate like a pig!! It was delicious!
In honor of Chinese New Year's my mother in law makes a wonderful dinner for our family (she's an awesome cook!) and my husband's side also meets for a fun gathering. My husband's family is super close and we get together often for dinners and holidays. It's really fun especially because everyone makes me feel like family...even tho I'm the outcast! So here's the last of the asian cards for the asian January class. There's no rat stamps that I could fine...so I made a dragon card.. my husband says dragon's are year round for chinese culture.. so I made this one.
I used gold stardream paper and stamped the balls of fire in color box chalk warm red. Then I used the kodomo inc. dragon set and stamped it in enfore gold and embossed the image in gold powder. The happy new year sentiment is by a muse art stamps.
Oh Stephanie - the samples for the Spring Cards Class has just made me MORE anxious for the class itself (and aside from owls, I'm not really "into" birds). I LOVE decorative paper (always great for a fast & easy card) and wow - PAPER Garden certainly has a ton of it and so much of it is very "Springy" in design & color. Ooooh and Outlines stamps are great...looks like there are new designs to add to my collection.
Dim Sum, huh? YIKES it's not even 8:00am and I'm starving and good Dim Sum is so divine. We'll try and keep you busy so you won't be missing Allison & her family too-too much....and remember, 3 years will FLY by!!
Posted by: Kathy K. | January 09, 2008 at 07:48 AM