I’ve officially been a day behind for at least 3 days now. Oh well. I’m posting daily, which is quite a feat!
Yesterday, I printed out one of those Chinese New Year paper box templates from HP. My printer doesn’t print magenta/red anymore, so I decided to color in the red. It was going well, but I got tired and didn’t finish. So, my thing for Day 7 is only half complete. Finishing it will be another thing!
Title: Rawhide
Description: Rawhide print stuffed rat
Inspirations: Today the Chinese New Year “Year of the Rat” begins; Blues Brothers’ version of “Rawhide”
I really used to take Chinese New Year for granted when I was younger. My family would have all manner of activities and festivities to ring in the New Year. It seems like we celebrated for an entire month. Since I moved away from them a few years ago I’ve really started to miss and appreciate all the fun and lively decorations and customs we had. This year I’m trying to do make sure I carry on some of the traditions of Chinese New Year and also make some New Year’s crafts. Since 2008 is the Year of the Rat I designed some mouse paper tonight:
so I could make some very simple paper lanterns with them:
They kind of turned out looking like aliens, but they were fun 
Happy New Year!