mostly crafty. mostly.: china

dreaming in moon lake

"dream" in Chinese, pronounced "meng"

I took this off a pillar surrounding Moon Lake, which is a large lake in the very middle of Ningbo, China. I don't get to sight see much, if at all, on my work trips in China, but this was too close to our hotel to pass by. We walked all around the lake- it turned out to be a very warm day- before heading off to Shanghai.

The rest of the pillar. I have no idea what it says!

craftiness spotted in shanghai

I could have stayed in the Shanghai market area all day. It's mostly a tourist trap, but there is some fun stuff to be had. We found one booth where they wrote your name in Chinese characters, but this one was so much better than the other dozen in the market. They made the kanji into colorful animals, fish, trees and whatnot.

We each took turns getting our name done. This booth also had fantastic paper cutouts- you can see Obama in the picture below.

They cut them out of one piece of paper- so unbelievable to see them do it. I bought a pack of ten bird cutouts in red tissue. I am going to frame them for my house, along with my name in Chinese!!

nihao...a month late

I just got my photos from China uploaded onto Flickr. I've had them uploaded on my work computer since I got back (mid-November), but I have no Flickr/Blogger access from there. I had to wait until I got my super-ghetto card reader (aka my old camera, since my mac doesn't recognize my new camera) hooked up.

I went to Hong Kong, Shanghai, and mainland China for work.