A view of Venice

Here's a few pics of (rainy!!) Venice.

Kit: A tour around Europe - Caroline Kaiser
Frames: Worn Photo Overlays 2 - Something Blue Studios
Wave template: Happy Scrap Girl Designs

Team Spirit

Kit: A new Day - Mel Hains
Wave templates: Delicious Scraps

In love with Europe

Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy

Kit: Summer of Love - STI designers
Template: Template Challenge 11 - bySine

This is life - Piazza Navona

Journaling: I spent an entire afternoon at a cafe in Piazza Navona, just relaxing under the fine mist, enjoying a glass of wine and watching the people go by...That’s life!

Kit: The Simple Life - Mel Hains

Template: The New Dawn - AE Designs

Island Mainau, Lake Constance

Island Mainau, Lake Constance, Germany.

Quote: Don 't hurry. Don't worry. You're only here for a short visit. So don't forget to stop and smell the roses. -Walter Hagen

Kit: Fairytale Summer - STI Designers
Templates: SOBubbly 03, SOUsable Fadeouts 07, SOSwirly 03 - bySine

Moulin Rouge

What an experience to watch a real Moulin Rouge show! We went to see Féerie when we visit Paris in June 2010.

Kit: Forbidden Love - HollyAnn
Template: Off the side - J Yurko
Torn Paper Action - Atomic Cupcake
Sparkle: Into the twilight - Flergs

Gotta love starbucks

Journaling: After a day of missed flights, trains and busses, a starbucks coffee and muffin was the biggest treat!

Kit: Good morning! - Mel Hains
Template: Scrapstrip 2 - Scrapping with Liz

My journey

Journaling: Ah, the travel bug... It has bitten me and bitten me solidly! This picture was taken on my second trip to Europe, in June 2010. Admittedly, it was totally different from my first trip (in 2008) but just as exciting! I could just wander around in another country for ages, experiencing and observing their way of life. Although I've just finished paying off my poor credit card, I hope the next trip won't be in the too distant future!
Kit: Wanderlust - Mel Hains & Vicki Parker
Background template - Scrapping with Liz
Frame: Worn photo overlays - Something Blue Studios

Stitched with love (Forever Love)

My ouers, toe ons in Brussels was, in April 2008.

~My parents, when we visited Brussels in April 2008.~

Quote: Our lives are like quilts - bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched with love.

Credits:

Kit: Forever Love - Mel Hains

Template: My boy template - Mushy

Stitching: Bluish Dream - Lively; Mix of stitches - Pillow Girl

Fonts: quote - BlackJack; LOVE - Home Sweet Home; date - 1942 report

Where to?

When travelling, it is easy to convince yourself that you can go anywhere you choose...

Credits:
Template: Template 156 - Andrea Gold
Kit: Just Jo - Ambowife Designs
Font: Rage Italic

Flowers Everywhere

Credits:

Kit: Bliss - Mel Hains
Template: Template 154 (Classic Bundle #4)- Andrea Gold

Doodle: From Foliage Swirls brush by Obsidian Dawn

Staple: Brass Bits - Christy Skaggs
Font: Pea XOXO from Karen

Obnoxious Manneken

Journaling: While visiting Brussels, we had the pleasure of experiencing a “dressing ceremony” for the (in)famous manneken. While the crowd had their eyes trained on the real manneken, this little guy was busily squirting water at unsuspecting people! And just look at his obnoxious caregiver...

Credits:

Kit: Golden Sunset - Mel Hains

Template: Template 168 - Andrea Gold

Font: Vaguely Repulsive

Dover Beach

Ek onthou ons het op skool die gedig Dover Beach behandel, en ek kon nie help om terug te dink daaraan toe ons op die ferry oor die Engelse kanaal gegaan het nie.

~I remember we studied the poem Dover Beach in high school, and I couldn't help thinking of this while on the ferry across the English Channel! ~

Poem: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold (1867)

The sea is calm tonight, The tide is full, the moon lies fair

Upon the straits; on the French coast the light

Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,

Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

Come to the window, sweet is the night air!

Only, from the long line of spray

Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,

Listen! you hear the grating roar

Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,

At their return, up the high strand,

Begin, and cease, and then again begin,

With tremulous cadence slow, and bring

The eternal note of sadness in.

Credits:
Kit: Kick Back & Relax - One Memory At a Time

Template: Template 132 (Classic Bundle #3) - Andrea Gold

Other: Text Cracked Paint - Atomic Cupcake
Fonts: Poem - ValentinaJF; Quote - Scrubbold; Dover Beach - Stamp Act

Irish homes

Credits:

Kit: Discover - Andrea Gold

Template: Classic Bundle #4- Andrea Gold

Early Parisian Spring

Journaling: Today the Notre Dame reminded me of a bride on her wedding, shrouded in spring petals. What a beautiful sight! 09/04/2008

Credits:

Kit: Pretty Please - Ambowife Designs
Template: Template 121 (Classic Bundle 3) - Andrea Gold
Fonts: Journaling - Monotype Corsiva; Rest - Cheri

Crossing the road (Boys Only!)

08/04/2008

Journaling: How did the chicken cross the road? ...by using the underground walkway from the Champs-Elysees, of course! Only we didn’t know about that.. We stood there pondering how to get across the road to inspect the Arc de Triomphe a little closer. After a few minutes we already decided that everyone under the Arc were surely going to sleep there, because traffic wasn’t letting up. But then we found the walkway...luckily...

Credits:
Kit: Boys Only! - Mel Hains
Template: Template 124 (Classic Bundle 3) - Andrea Gold
Fonts: Title - Pea Ink and Post; Cross - 4YEOstamp; Journaling - MS Serif

Arriving in Paris (Pretty in the City)

Ons het die oggend van 07/04/08 per trein uit Duitsland vertrek, en die lang pad na Parys aangepak. Selfs sneeu langs die pad gesien! Ons het so half 10 die aand in Parys aangekom, en groot pret gehad opsoek na en op die ondergrondse treine! Ons het afgeklim op Blanche stasie, wat uitkyk op die bekende Moulin Rouge! Wat 'n gesig... Ons hotel was ook net so 'n blok of wat vanaf Moulin Rouge.

Ek het hierdie bladsy vir 'n speedscrap by Stuff to Scrap gemaak, met die lieflike Pretty in the City van Christy Skaggs.

~We got on a train in Germany on the morning of 07/04/08, and started the long journey to Paris. We even saw snow along the way! We arrived in Paris at about 21:30, and had a lot of fun searching for and on the underground trains! Then we got off at Blanche station, overlooking the (in)famous Moulin Rouge! What a sight... Our hotel was also just a block or so from Moulin Rouge.

I made this page using the lovely Pretty in the City by Christy Skaggs, in a fun speed scrap hosted at Stuff to Scrap. ~

Credits:

Kit: Pretty in the City - Christy Skaggs

Font: Pea Nic Script

The Blue Bag (Kick Back & Relax)

Ons was baie opgewonde om Heidelberg, Duitsland te sien, aangesien ons in Heidelberg, Suid-Afrika bly. Weereens verkluim, maar dit was lekker om te sien! Ons het daar by 'n schnitzel haus geeet waar jy kon kies uit 101 verskillende schnitzels! Die grootste grap was die blou handsak.. My ma s'n, wat so swaar gelaai was met waterbottels, kamera's, serpe en ander dinge, dat my pa dit meestal moes dra.

Journaling: We visited Heidelberg, Germany today. Once again a very cold day, but the main joke of the day was...The Blue Bag...And especially the fact that my dad was mostly caught carrying it! To his big dismay I might add...

~We were very excited to see Heidelberg, Germany, because we live in Heidelberg, South Africa. Nearly got frostbite again, but it was nice to see! We ate at a schnitzel haus, where you could choose from more than 101 schnitzels! The biggest joke was the blue handbag. My mom's, filled to the brim with water bottles, cameras and scarves. It ended up being so heavy that my dad had to carry it most of the time! ~

Credits:

Kit: Kick Back & Relax - One Memory At a Time

Template: dtemp56 - Andrea Gold

Other: Rough Litho action - Atomic Cupcake

Fonts: Blue Bag, Heidelberg - jailbIrD JenNA; Rest - Pea Jeannie Script

Hollywood and beyond...

Hier is twee nie-Europa LO's en nog een van Rome wat ek so tussendeur gemaak het...

~Here are two non-Europe LO's and another Rome one that I made in between...~

Hollywood A & B - Ek het in 2005 die voorreg gehad om LA (en daarom Hollywood) en San Francisco toe te gaan.

~In 2005 I had the privilege to visit LA (and thus Hollywood) and San Francisco.~

Credits:

Template: Double Template - GDS Collab Dec 08 - Andrea Gold

Kit: Hollywood & Vine Collab- Divine Designers

Fonts: Starry - A Star is Born; rest - Ravie

Journaling:

I had so much fun running up and down Hollywood Boulevard. My favourite star of all was obviously Marilyn Monroe’s and needless to say, I had to pose with it! I couldn’t believe that I was actually in Hollywood,seeing the Kodak theatre with the hand-and footprints, Walk of Fame and Hollywood sign.

Credits:

Template: Double Template - GDS Collab Dec 08 - Andrea Gold

Star shape: Template 221 - Andrea Gold

Font: Journaling - rhino dino

Hier is die uitsig oor Rome vanaf Janiculum Hill.

~Here's the view over Rome from Janiculum Hill.~

Credits:

Kit: Ciao Italia - Darlene Haughin

Font: Susie's Hand

Rothenburg

Journaling:

05/04/2008 Today Hannes and Ina took us to see the old city of Rothenburg. What a lot of history! I loved the half-timber buildings that could be seen everywhere. We even went to the war museum, where we had a look at the “folterkamer” - scary! But all in all it was an enjoyable day!

Credits:

Template: Squares template - Numbbumm

Photo masks made with: Clippings Brushes - Lori Cook

Kit: French Market - Syndee Nuckles

Stitching: Shabby stitches - Christina Renee

Font: Pea Murphy