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Chinese New Year Facts and FUN

Chinese Year of the Sheep/Goat  


Best Colors: Red, Purple, Brown         

Best numbers: 2 and 7
Best Months:  August and November        


Best Flowers: Carnations and primrose



Year of Birth: 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967,     

1979, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2027
We have lovely International collages for your creating. We do have a Year of the Goat Collage, made just for 2015!


          


What is your Chinese birth animal?


See our Asian KITS and Stamps


Celebrities Born in the Year of the 

Sheep / Goat / Ram

 

Michelangelo, Mark Twain, Thomas Alva 


Edison, Rudolph Valentino, Rachel Carson, 
 

Pierre Trudeau, Barbara Walters, 

 
Orville Wright, Nicole Kidman, Julia 


Roberts, Amy Lee, Bruce Willis, Benicio 
 

Del Toro, Claire Danes, Jamie Lynn 


Spears, Matt LeBlanc

How to be Fortunate in 2015


Chinese people believe that, as the 

Spring Festival is the start of a new year, 

what you do then will affect your 

fortune in the coming year. There 

are taboos for the Spring Festival. 


Some Chinese people believe that they
mustn't do cleaning or wash their hair
in the first three days a that
will sweep/wash away any good luck.
 
Red underwear. You will see
red underwear sold at Chinese supermarkets
and street markets.
Red is believed to ward off misfortune.
 
 
Happy Chinese New Year as you visit 

our Blog to see the amazing art created 

by our Design Team using AlteredPages 

products and DecoArt products.




Comments

  1. Love all those Asian papers and coin envelopes. Yummy!

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  2. Very interesting. Like the red envelopes♥

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  3. such fun information - and I just love that Muse Asian Ambience rubber stamp plate!

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  4. Love all the fun information- great new collage sheet

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