Wow! Where has the time gone!! Since retiring from teaching ESL here in the UAE I thought I'd have so much more time for writing on my blog and researching for my book but although these things are important to me it seems that my time has been spent in more creative, hands on pursuits, and it's been great. I've been working steadily at setting up and running my Hanji classes, designing worksheets for more complex Hanji projects as well as creating ideas for and making new items of my own design. These last few weeks I've been putting together some items for a 'Christmas' Craft stall. I say that tongue in cheek because for anyone living in the Middle East we all know that Christmas isn't celebrated over here but because the UAE population is made up of 80% expats from all over the world it's an important time for us to think of family and friends back home. It's a time for sending off our Christmas cards and p...
A traditional Korean paper craft .....