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Hybrid Hub: Card #62
Here’s another card I made with some papers from my older scrap stash.
For this one, I found a quote with which I created the little sentiment using various fonts. I printed everything with the Silhouette Studio software, cut and assembled this card, added a ribbon, and voila! Another card done. Here’s a detail:
Kingly Manor
Well, it wasn’t always always a place for royal offspring – the castle in Eutin. Originally built by some bishops, only later it began hosting crowned heads of European monarchy. Residing not far from Eutin ourselves (though in much plainer circumstances), we decided to visit the castle and see for ourselves the splendors of the place.
Of course, we completely missed the signs that say you have to pay extra if you want to take pictures (and despite us having our cameras out in the open, even the friendly person at the register failed to inform us about the fact). So, we almost got ourselves into trouble when we were caught taking pictures without the respective ticket permitting us to do so. But fortunately, we were able to avoid greater disaster by simply paying the small fee and so no harm was done. And of course, now having paid for the photos, it’s only right to share them with you …
Oldenburg & Viking Museum
As in Days of Old
We’ve been seeing a lot of different things these days. Today, we decided to explore life in this area as it happened in the days of old. There’s an open-air museum not far from here, in a little town called Oldenburg, that’s where the journey took us today. We saw the ways in which people lived more than a thousand years ago, visited their houses, and learned quite a bit of life in these parts of the world before the middle ages.
Of course, Oldenburg, too is worth a little visit, with its little streets, and neat pretty houses.
Bike Tour Grömitz – Damm
A Lighthouse Tour
I’ll admit it! I like lighthouses. There’s something to these structures that (used) to serve hundreds of seafarers as navigating guidelines. Today, we decided to visit that lighthouse, which is closest to where we’re staying. We didn’t even have to go very far. In fact, the lighthouse Dahmeshöved is so close to our whereabouts that we decided to take our bikes and ride along the coast.
Journaling Café: Places 2
Let’s talk a bit more about places in our journaling spot this week. Though it’s just been a couple of weeks ago when I prompted you to write something about places, there’s still so much more that you can talk about. Take a look at the prompts for today:
And I’m always happy to show you a page I created based on this prompt:
Fehmarn (Baltic Sea)
Fehmarn for One Day
Fehmarn is just a small island off the Baltic coast. It’s not even very special except for the fact that the majority of the traffic going to Denmark, Sweden, and beyond has to cross Fehmarn to get to the ferry (and in the past, I’ve done that quite a few times). Today, however, we decided to make Fehmarn our destination, thinking there must be more to this place than just that famous major transit route. And right we were! After visiting a large underwater world, we ended up in this tiny town, which is nothing more, really, than a pit stop for sailors on their way to some place else. We’d just stumbled upon that place, after we’d taken a wrong turn, turned around, and then reconsidered, turning yet again, curious where that wrong turn would take us. And it took us to the quiet little harbor of Orth, where we spent a perfectly tranquil afternoon.
Finally, we moved on, and on our way back decided we’d like to make a detour to a tiny little lighthouse we’d heard about before, only to discover that it was even tinier than we thought, though quite pretty, and therefore worth the visit.
