On the Camino

As with many of my crafts what makes this card camino-y is the use of the blue and yellow of the Camino signs and the star from the 'field of stars'. The star could be replaced with the Camino shell if you want For this card I drew a straight line in black pen and placed a star sticker at the bottom. Then I wrote 'happy new year' in french, Galician (which is also Portuguese) and spanish as these are the countries I have walked the camino in. The card took me less than five minutes to makeso have fun maling it and happy new year!

Britain's had some snow over the past two days so, after all of the snow over the Pyrenees two years ago, I gave my walking boots a quick try out in the snow and they were ok Some of the snow at Roncesvalles

Happy Christmas everyone and buen camino!! (I'm afraid a Portuguese Cockerell was the best I could find this year for Camino related decorations)

I've been getting a bit more creative with my wrapping paper recently using brown paper and decorating it. A few can be easily Camino-themed and could be used for presents for people who are going to walk the Camino (backpack, guides, a spork etc). Stars on strings - this is in two shades of yellow but could be blue and yellow easily    Bunting made with felt - I drew the line with black pen and then glued the triangles onto this line.

Canterbury was, in the mediaeval era, the most visited site of Pilgrimage in England and so there are a few interesting sites to see there for anyone interested in Pilgrimage. The Cathedral

We visited Lincoln recently and went to see the Cathedral where there is a carving of a Pilgrim. I thought that this was inside the Cathedral and so did not even look for it but it turns out that he's outside on the south side of the Cathedral. There doesn't seem to be a legend about him as there is with the Lincoln Imp though. I did buy a small charm of him though - this isn't a great picture of him but I think that you can make out his staff and he has his wide-brimmed hat on his back (I guess because the Pilgrimage to Lincoln Cathedral wasn't as sunny as that to Santiago!).

I went recently to an art day run by my local Council and learned how to do Lino printing, I'd seen this before and liked the way it looked but hadn't known where to start so when the chance to do this came up for only £15 (including all materials) I couldn't resist! The day ran from 10-4 and we all enjoyed ourselves so much that we almost forgot to eat. The teacher taught us the basics and then left us to try things out but wandered around giving advice, answering questions and always aware of what everyone was doing and whether anyone needed help. I had time to do six different designs half of which were Camino-inspired. I started with a simple scallop shell - a chance to do some lines and curves as well as a bit of patterning