Let’s continue the pictures of my journey…I told you…you will have to go through this- hahahah ;)

After two days in Sydney I finally met up with my friend Sherry Mendoza who had organized the whole trip and workshop tour- and let me tell you – she did an outstanding work. We went to her favorite Junk Yard first ! Boy that was fun! I have actually never been to a junk yard and after a short hesitation I digged right in and found loads of fun stuff.

Sherry also lives close to a cemetary that looks way older than it is. Perfect setting for some late night Halloween photos. I tried day time first…too many spiders and snakes- LOL

And then the workshops started- it was so much fun! I loved that all the students created something different and that they all enjoyed freeing their Creativity :) I had a blast. Here are a couple pictures from Workshops at different stores I taught at.

Here is a picture of me where the Dog sits on the Tuckerbox – 5 miles from Gundagai :) Apparently there is a song about this:

We drove a lot and I loved the landscape and the very intense colors. Here are drive by photos ;)

What I will never forget and was one of my favorite in Australia- is the shapes of the trees- I loved it – I think if I see a movie now with just trees shaped like this- I know exactly :)

More to follow :)

Nat

Wow….just wooowww…really- it was such an awesome event. Elina from Cherry Nest and her wonderful helpers did an outstanding job organizing this event and their hospitality was just out of this world. I felt so welcomed and spoiled it was amazing. Actually everybody I met in Greece was just plain wonderful – I’m back…for sure ;)

Wow…einfach nur wooowww …echt -war das ein geniales Event. Elina von Cherry Nest und ihre grandiosen Helfer haben dieses Event herausragend organisiert und die Gastfreundschaft war einfach unglaublich. Ich habe mich willkommen und verwöhnt gefühlt- war sooo schön. Und eigentlich war jeder den ich in Griechenland getroffen habe, einfach nur wunderbar – ich komme wieder…ganz sicher ;)

The first evening we had a gorgeous time with Bruna, Roberto and Helena from Rome, Lydia from Luxembourg and Zeffy our wonderful amazing tourguide from Athen. We went shopping and had a great dinner together :)

Den ersten Abend verbrachten Bruna, Roberto und Helena aus Rom, Lydia aus Luxemburg und Zeffy aus Athen zusammen. Wir waren shoppen und hatten ein wunderbares Abendessen zusammen :)

Friday we went up to the Acropolis. Zeffy was our amazing guide with a great knowledge of all the details- thank you so much sweet girl! It was a wonderful sunny warm day and the flowers added to the beautiful scenery.

Freitag machten wir uns dann auf zur Akropolis. Zeffy hat uns begleitet und wusste ganz viel zu erzählen -es war super. Es war ein wunderschöner sonniger Tag und die Frühlingsblumen machten die Umgebung noch reizvoller.

Odeion des Herodes Atticus

Parthenon

Erechtheum with the Caryatids (Porch of the Maidens)

After this we went to the Acropolis museum – amazing – I loved it and then we went to the old part of the city – Plaka.
Danach waren wir im Akropolis Museum – grandios – und dann waren wir in dem alten Teil der Stadt – Plaka.

The workshops were on Saturday and it was a big and fun group – I loved how versatile the group was – Mixed Media girls- Scrapbooking girls – oh wait…men too:) It was awesome. As always I forgot to take pictures- here is one by Eleni – thank you girl!

Die Workshops waren am Samstag und es war eine großartige und witzige Gruppe – Ich fand es klasse wie durchmischt sie war – Mixed Media Mädels und Scrapbooking Mädels…oh moment – Männer auch :) Es war super. Wie immer habe ich völlig vergessen Photos zu machen- hier ist eins von Eleni – danke !

Elinas beautiful and sweet Mom, Katerina cooked us an amazing authentic greek dinner after the workshops- it was soooo good- I couldn’t stop eating- look- she is checking if I eat enough ;) LOL

Elinas wunderschöne und liebe Mama, Katerina hat uns dann abends ein leckeres griechisches Abendessen zubereitet – es war so gut – ich konnte gar nicht mehr aufhören zu futtern – seht, sie schaut ob ich auch genug gegessen habe ;)LOL

Thank you my sweet girls for such an amazing time :) Love ya and miss you already!
Vielen Dank meine Lieben für alles :) Vermisse Euch schon jetzt!

Nat

I had such a blast at the Papirfest workshops,event and during sightseeing. Thank you so much Grethe and May Lis and all the numerous helpers for taking so good care of me and making my stay super special!

The whole journey was sourrounded by…in retrospective funny stories- LOL – beginning with my flights. From the school class – including a young girl that never flew before and her stupid boyfriend telling her all about planecrashes next to me – I was about to say “hi pretty girl- you so deserve better, dish him” – LOL – to the members of a well known motor cycle club where one had a special discussion with the steward why an economy class ticket means economy even when you are huge, tattooed and not really comfy in the small seat. And then at the airport how I was witness how said members of the club were instantly greeted by a huge bunch of police and arrested.

Linda Brun, who is the sweetest !!! – picked me up from the airport and we went to the beach right away – so wonderful and beautiful light!

The classes were so much fun – the girls were all amazing and I loved how different again all layouts and minialbums turned out :)

I crashed into bed and was all of a suddent awake at 2am when I got a phonecall by a dear friend who forgot the time difference from Australia to Europe- LOL – and then at 4 am – when I thought – wowsie- my cell phone alarm is REALLY loud – I realized- no …it was the firealarm. Great…everytime I’m sleeping at a hotel there is firealarm. Makes you think…hum? So I told the girls in the hall way that I don’t care- I stay in the hotel room (that is sooo wrong I know- but I tell you I was sooo crashed). As the alarm did not stop and I was in floor 14 it dawned on me “I don’t wanna die”- so I ran down the fourteen flights – met all my jammy girls – LOL – and we stood there for an hour until the firemen assured us it was indeed a false alarm. Back in the room some neighbors unbeknownst to me thought it was a good time to celebrate their survival by being extremly friendly to each other…so it was it with the sleeping- LOL.

After an amazing yummie breakfast Ingvild Bolme picked me up- it was so awesome to finally meet her and we had a great time together in Stavanger.

Beautiful white wooden houses in the old part- I loved them so much!

We went to a Sardine Cannery museum and learnt a lot :) especially how you could recognize back then which worker handled which machine when outside the cannery ;) – and I figured that they painted the little silver plastic fish with Glimmer Glaze to make them look smoked – If I have to guess…Cowboy Glimmer Glaze-  snigger

We had some yummie Cheesecake and chatted even more

And the end of the sightseeing was the Hafrsfjord – Swords – a national monument – very impressive!

I was really sad to say bye bye to Ingvild- but I know I will see her soon again :)

The second round of classes was wonderful too – I had so much fun – but I forgot to take pictures- really bad!

We all were pretty tired when we went to the hotel…only to realize, that right next to the hotel was a huge Techno party going on -I could hear the beats till 3am on the 14th floor- crazy. At least no firealarm- LOL.

The flight back was …interesting- LOL – since the same mentioned passengers from the flight to Stavanger were brought to the airport by the police and accompanied into the airplane.

As said it was awesome! I love Norway – or at least what I saw so far – the roughness, light, the people- wonderful country! I’m sure I will be back one day!

Nat